The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-21
What's in Fashion?
New Occasional Tables
By AMOS PARRISH

NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-By coca
~ sional" tables, we don't mean
that you use them only occasionally.
To the contrary, they're some of the
most useful as we'll as decorative
tables there are in the home.
The dictionary has two definitions
of the word occasional" that could
well apply to these tables. One is
happening at intervals" and that's
exactly right for occasional tables.
They're the kind you can place here
and there all through the home.
The other definition is "of or
belonging to some special occasion"
And certainly these tables do. They
belong to the occasions-Which are
many-when you settle down to
read and want a table handy to
hold a lamp and cigarettes or
candy. Or to the occasions when a
group gathers round table for a
few hours of poker or rummy or a
round of sandwiches and coffee.
Period Style Fashionable
Most fashionable tables of this
sort are definitely of period styles
even though we don't always think
of them as such. The popular
gateleg is one example. Prob
ably few people who buy this
goodlooking, useful occasional ia
Bile remember when they buy it
that it has come to us practically
unchanged from the day Of Oliver
Cromwell.
There are many other styles with
equally interesting historical an
cestries. Take the Mollie Pitcher
table named for the heroine of our
own Revolutionary war, who took
her husbands place at the gun
when he was shot.
It's a real American table-one
you can use just as you would the
gateleg-but the legs are the grace
full full Queen Anne type with club
foot. It's Sketched at the bottom of
the column of pictures.
Size May Be Changed
Smart in either walnut or ma
hogany, it's a table especially use
full in the living room that's used
as dining room, or the living room
where the size Of the table may need
to be changed occasionally.
The Duncan Phyfe sofa table goes
back to just after the Revolution
when that famous American de-
signer lived This, as you know,
has pedestal and drop leaves
which can be extended to form
larger table when needed. It's often
shown in crotch mahogany, one of
the most beautiful of woods.
The Sheraton table illustrated
has something Of the same lines
and feeling and goes back even
little farther in the eighteenth
century than the Duncan Phyfe-to
England. This, too, is an adequate
substitute for the gate-leg, if you
want something different.
Good Lamp Tables
The drum top table shown is a
splendid lamp table and has useful
drawer space besides. 1t belongs to
the eighteenth century in England
and for long time has been avail
able only in high priced tables.
Now, however, it is being made at
such reasonable prices that it can
fit into most any furniture budget.
You've been hearing lot lately
about Biedermeier furniture. Papa
Biedermeier" was the subject of
German cartoon the middle 1905
and furniture in vogue during
that period took on the name. Now
it's being revived. A Biedermeier
type lamp table is sketched.
This furniture is too newly ar
rived to have the fashion impor-
lance the older period styles receive.
But if you do want something very
new and different from what most
people are using, here it is.
A table or two of these period
| types-old in ancestry but newer
than some others in modern fash
ion-gives a tone" to any living
room.
tCopyriGht. 1891. by Amos Parrishl
Next: Amos Parrish gives some
suggestions for new ways Of dress
ing the hair.