FOR THE TABLE NEVER was there a time when tastefully decorated china could be procured at such reasonable prices as now. The English makes are by far the most beautiful and popular-Copeland, Caulden, Minton, Coalport, and Wedgwood taking the lead, with the French Haviland in the less expensive grades. Band decorations in colors, heightened with scenes and leaves in gold, are fashionable. The colors preferred are Empire green, ruby, turquoise, Dubarry rose, and yellow; in the more elegant porcelains there are jewelled dots in raised gold, enamel heightening the general effect. The place plates, or those which are first set upon the table, are of larger size. These and the soupplates usually match, while the entrées, game, salad, cheese, and dessert courses are served with plates and dishes in a different color and decoration. The covered vegetable dishes are low, and of the oblong or round casserole shape. Chop-plates are also round. Fish-sets are most elaborately painted, either with the various species of the finny tribe or in feathery sea-weeds, sea anemones, coral, and shells. Roast-beef sets accentuate the taste for everything English. This does away with the array of small plates used in this country. With this style of serving the vegetables are placed on the same plate as the meat. Goblets are proper for dinner and tumblers for luncheon. The Louis XIV. and rococo styles are preferred, the decoration being flowers and garlands executed in gold. The Baccarat and Webb glass is the most expensive. Champagnes are shown with high close bowls, or in saucer shape. These may be in etched glass, Bohemian or cut crystal, the latter being the most expensive and elegant. For hock the glasses come in assorted colors. Crême de menthe is served in glasses with flaring bowls, and other liqueurs in tinier ones. Decanters usually match the glasses. After-dinner coffee-sets are exquisite bits of fine porcelain elaborately decorated. Among the handsome ones are those with gold and jewelled decoration. Turquoises and other opaque stones are executed in raised enamels. Flower vases are seen in the tall, slender shapes in cut and fancy crystal, with branched centre ornaments, each topped with a small vase for containing individual bouquets; they are exceedingly decorative, being often set in a gilt or silver framework; other fancy shapes are lyres, harps, and miniature bridges, in white glass, sometimes enlivened with a touch of color. Candelabra of Dresden china, crystal, or silver are used upon the dinner-table. Fairy lamps are set here and there in the shape of tulips, pink, yellow and in the shaded natural colors of the flowers; they are held upon slender glass stems. The rose-bowl in the centre of the table is placed upon a gold-framed mirror, set on feet and in oblong, circular, or heart-shape. In glass the metre and bull's-eye cut is the latest thing. The Eulalie, a chrysanthemum decoration, combined with a cord, leaf, and bended scroll, is among the newest cuts. Bohemian glass, with rich gold decoration, and in ruby, amber, green, lavender, etc., is much liked for luncheon, where a certain scheme of color is carried out. Claret-cup pitchers in cut glass, silver-rimmed, are elegant in cut and shape, while punch and lemonade bowls show elaborate decoration. Misspelled words in advertisements are intentional. See prize offer on another page. 1 CARRIE. You wouldn't think I would give Ripans Tabules to a child like Charlie, would you? ELSIE. No, indeed. He could not swallow one, and it would be too powerful. CARRIE. They are all right for him. Of course, he don't need one very often, and I used to give him a quarter of a one, afterwards half, but now he takes a whole one, and they seem to be just what he needs-once in a while, you know not often. ELSIE. And he swallows it without any fuss? CARRIE. Yes. He don't mind it at all-but I can't swallow one, though. I'm the only member of this family that don't take Ripans Tabules. Misspelled words in advertisements are intentional. See prize offer on another page. "FROM OUR GROUNDS TO YOURS" is our new business slogan, and one of its meanings is that as our Seeds are No Longer Supplied to Dealers, we are enabled to sell all consumers direct, the BEST SEEDS IN THE WORLD at lower prices than ever, and in most cases deliver them Free to any part of the United States. obtained Peter Henderson & Co.'s Seeds may be either by direct purchase at our stores in New York, or by ordering from our New Manuel for 1898, which will be sent by Jan. 15th without application, to all patrons who bought from us direct in either 1896 or 1897. 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If such pictures are made once in twelve or twenty-four hours, one can be said almost to see the development of the plant. From the seed to the fruit one may take pictures which will prove of great interest to the flower-lover. WOMEN UP TO DATE Lady Cook, née Tennie Claflin, declares that morality among working-women depends upon wages. In pursuits where they receive fair pay she declares that their moral status is as a rule good. It is their pecuniary distress which drives them to crime. Miss Cisneros, the Cuban refugee, has been adopted by a wealthy woman. Her seeming misfortune was a stepping-stone to opulence. Mrs. Florence Buckingham Joyce is an exceptionally fine accompanyist, and is endowed of fine artistic instincts. This accomplished woman is also a writer of delightful songs, which find favor with the public. Miss Emma Komlosy, the celebrated Hungarian flower-painter, has made some charming studies of American wild flowers. 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While many of the Northern devotees of the wheel house their silent steeds for the winter, the Southern girl goes out on her daily spin. In the South one can ride almost every day, perhaps two months being excepted. When the lamp flickers and burns dimly, it is said a little salt put in the cup will accelerate the brilliancy of the light. Servant-girls have become such rabid patrons of the wheel as to stipulate for certain days of exercise. Women in Western towns are beginning to taboo the sisterhood of cycling servant-girls. Handle-bars covered substantially with pigskin, silver-mounted, are among the newest things. Vitrified brick is one of the newest materials with which to pave a cycle-path. The members of the Mowbray Association, of England, are the exponents of dress-reform on the wheel, and advocate bloomers. Even the gypsies are taking to the wheel, and now prefer that mode of locomotion to the raw-boned pony. There seems to be no fixed place for the bell. The average cyclist places hers near the end of the handlebar, the scorcher in the centre, and the raw rider manages to place it in the most inconvenient place. Common-sense teaches that it should be attached where it is most convenient. New pedals are made with an extension at the back, made so that it will fit into the hollow of the shoe next the heel; this prevents slipping. It is no uncommon thing nowadays to see women shopping or in the street in abbreviated costumes without the accompanying bicycle. It will be to the bicycle that women will owe their emancipation from the long and trammelling skirt in rainy weather. The short skirt is the only sensible thing at such times, and is gradually becoming popularized. THE very latest idea in a cycling costume intended for park wear is one of ivory broadcloth braided in brown and finished with a band of otter. It is made with the inevitable blouse and a basque stiffened and standing out from the hips. A boa of fur encircles the neck; the jaunty toque is of the cloth with a fur brim and a military cockade fastened with a jewelled ornament. The boots are of cream kid and reach half way to the knee, with scarlet hose above. Gauntlets of cream suède complete the costume. This is called the Russian costume. Misspelled words in advertisements are intentional. See prize offer on another page, |