Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-01-27
The Centerpiece
New Things, Old Things, That Give
the Table . Look 81 Distinction
and Add TO Its Charm
and Character.

r YYACTNTH blue Is one OF the
~ smart colors OF the late winter
= = and ~early spring. Sometimes
II Is combined with mauve.
Blue hyacinths are one OF the
flowers on which fashion looks with
favor az the moment. Sometimes
thl& ~ pfased n violet enameled
baskets. and sometimes in purple
glass or mauve fat bowls. upheld by
turtles or ducks or fishes with
pierced backs.
So. il you would have one o. thu
loveliest Imaginable table decora-
lions. have purple hyacinths massed
in the center OF the table, IN a
basket, a bowl or a vase showing
purple in the flicker OF tho CANDLE
light.
Glass Bowls.
Fruit Is still considered a good
table decoration. and IL is always
effective. One idea is TO use an
antique fruit set, consisting OF big
fruit bowl for the center. and four
smaller dishes, compotes by name.
TO stand at the four cornersNof the
table or grouped around the center
bowl The big bowl holds a pile OF
fruit. and the little dishes hold each
a little fruit. For instance. the big
bowl might hold tangarines. pears.
black and red and green grapes,
red bananas and red. green and yell
low apples. One little dish then
might hold a perfect bunch of red
grapes and q tangarine; one might
hold perfect bunch of black grapes
and red apple; one might hold a
red banana and a pear. and the
fourth might hold yellow apple
and a Margarine.
Then there are glass fruit dishes,
modern productions, though. to be
sure, they are reproductions of old
Italian colored glass. TO some ex-
tent. Anyway they are altogether
lovely, and they, too, are made in
J sets with a big dish for the center.
J and smaller dishes 20 surround IL.
with either fruit or candies in them.
) Or there Is a big center fruit dish,
: and candlesicks to match II. in the
same color and design.
5 Artificial FruitN
2 For these fruit centerpieces there
5 is artificial fruit. which many
women prefer TO the real sort. 1t is
$ now made so beautifully that IL is
/ quite as attractive as the real sort.
And il has. OF course. the advantage
= that it never grows stale. Real
!, fruit must be kept on the Ice when
!, it is not "in USE Otherwise 4,
+ loses its freshness with startling
quickness.
q Some OF the artificial fruit Is
: made as much as possible like the
. fruit it represents. Some OF il is
. made, quite frankly. not in imita-
= ton, but simply to take its place.
There are. for instance. punches
of little black and yellow and greer
grapes, not like grapes, really, but
charming nevertheless. They have
. tiny green grape leaves. also Of
:. glass These are suitable for the
y smaller dishes. For the center
g there are larger fruits. Some are OF
u black glass-grapes. apples, peaches
pears. There is also a smoked glas,
g that is used for making all these
o fruits.
S, Pierrot Candles
sc There are some of the most ador
able little Pierrot candlesticks, mad
n, OF white and black china the Pier
pr rots holding their arms sncircle,
Of about the black candle that is use'
Of with them. These same little chin.
S. candlesticks come In other designs
m shepherdesses, little black boys an
Or even birds. They are decidedly ef
L. fective for giving an unusual touc
to the table.