Evening star., 1936-04-28
Charming Arrangements
Use Odd Combinations
Of Color and Material
Grandmother's Crescent Shaped Salad
Plates Return to High Favor
in Modern Version.

formed like baby chicks and painted
in a most realistic fashion. Great,
half-opened white water lilies, with
green pads and golden hearts, stood
ready to act as finger bowls or as
containers for fruit salad, sherbet, etc.
WANDERING on, I ran across a
" brand-new type of Lazy Susan"
resembling nothing so much as a
great wheel of chromium and crystal.
Three heavily ribbed crystal trays
are removable. and the whole thing
is as smart and useful for late Sum
day brunch" as one could wish.
Nearby this contraption stood a tall,
slender thermos shaker, which has
two central tubes for ice, one permit
ting dilution and the other not. This
could be used for iced tea, beer or any
beverage, either in the house or out
of doors on picnics. And my old
friend. the thermos ice bucket has
popped up in a brand-new dress Of
chromium, instead Of wood, with
streamlined lid and handle.
In another shop white roosters,
somewhat similar in design to the
turquoise ones, stood at opposite ends
of a long table. filed with purple
lilacs. Between them was a lovely
shallow bowl of amethyst glass. hold
ing graceful sprays of white lilac.
The cloth was lace, the glasses and
plates of amethyst crystal.
Salads get another "break'-and 1t
might. at that!-in the very new bowl
of heavy clear crystal incased in
wicker basket, that is loosely enough
woven so that plenty of the bowl may
be seen through, but the crystal is
more or less protected. This should
be excellent for the out-of-doors meals
that are so soon to come. A very
lightweight wood fork and spoon ac-
companies this model. A plain crys-
tai bowl, of beautiful lines and pro-
portions. is welded to servers of heavy
crystal, mounted in chromium.
A ND if you really want to create
sensation, and change the entire
appearance of your table at your next
party, by all means get some of the
large. perfectly clear crystal dinner
size plates, have them monogrammed
in enamel in a bright color and serve
salad with their course in the cres-
cent-shaped crystal salad plates! You
remember the old china ones at
grandmaS, which later on were put
away as being too old-fashioned to
use anymore? Since then We have
all been struggling with either a sep
arate salad course, or with putting
salad on warmed plate, when we
wanted to eat it with chicken or some
other special meat. Now we can do
the job properly again-have our
salad with OUR meat on its own cool
dish! These crescent plates Of crys-
tai are becoming more and more popu-
lar every day-one shop said that
they had been sending dozens of them
to brides as wedding gifts this Spring.
H* * X
RLACK-AND-WHITE table arrange
ments are always arresting, and I
saw lovely set of center bowl. candle
sticks, salad bowl, fork and server,
and plates, in cleaning black, with
modernistic landings of white. There
were either black glasses to go with
these pieces, or milky white ones, that
are so delicately lovely.
One table that caught my eye was
done in deep blue glass-a long mar
row plaque down the center, heavy
candlesticks at the ends, and a circle
of prim, severe little pink wax cherry
blossoms sitting precisely in the mid
die of the blue plaque. Pink cello
phane mats, and blue glasses, of
course.
And there are corn sets, asparagus
sets. lobster sets-all gayly decorated
in the spirit Of the thing usually con-
sisting of one large blowl and dozen
plates. Any one of these would lend
novelty and charm to some particular
course on your home table.
It's good thing haven't much
I'd have so many of these
new, fresh things In my house that
we'd all have to move out to make
room for them! They are just as hard
to resist as the first Spring hat!