VARYING THE TABLE DECORATIONS.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 576, 30 May 1925, Page 2

VARYING THE TABLE DECORATIONS.

No woman cares lor her dinnertahlc to wear the same aspect on all occasions. Here i.s a common-sense method of achieving variety with a minimum of ouLlay.

hirst stock your glas.s cupboard with the essential vases, bowls, sweetmeat dishes and eaiidlcsLieks of white cut glass. Then think out a few colour sell ernes that will accord well with your loom, and consult your chemist as to the simplest way of tinting water to the .shades you have selected. Cochineal will give you little lints ol pink in degrees corresponding with the amount used, fdafl’roil will produce any shade from primrose to orange, and a packet of Beckitt’s blue, will provide various tones of its own particular colour. Fill your vases and bow I.s with the tinted water, and. so far as possible, select the rest of the table decorations to mutch. On the night that the saffron wafer is in evidence idle sweet dishes might be filled with yellow sugar-almonds, flic caudle ‘slicks could be fitted with candles ol a dearer hue, and the. flowers might shade from palest yellow to deep orange finis. D’oylcys ami silken runner should complete (he saffron scheme.

On the evening of the pink watershed bowls, there will be no difficulty in selecting the lit Mo pci it-fours covered in blush pink icing, trails of pink flowers and pink menu cards to carry out the scheme. A few electric light bulbs connected to switch and bidden among the trails of foliage will accentuate the effect.