FOR THE HOSTESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 76, 26 February 1938, Page 12

FOR THE HOSTESS.

INFORMAL CARDS. Informal invitation cards have a festive air. “We are throwing a party,” reads one, and is illustrated with cocktail glasses and shaker, and an old charlady sailing from one corner of the card to the other. Another for a cocktail party is decorated with an outsize in cocktail glasses with a man and woman in evening dress pictured inside the glass. For bridge, a card party of the eighteenth century is chosen as the decoration for one corner.

Little place-card holders in the form of unnatural looking birds to perch on the rim of a glass are popular with some hostesses. The birds are in many hues, and mostly of the parrot variety, though parrots like these have never been seen in any zoo. They hold the place cards in their beaks. Also amusing for place cards are brightly painted little wooden grasshoppers a.nd frogs, all playing musical instruments. These stand up, and each is fitted with a groove to hold the card. “Alice in Wonderland” characters are painted on the glasses and decanter of a modern sherrv set. Novel little wine glasses are similar in shape to an hour glass. In the lower half is a cluster of little coloured hells, the idea lieing that you ring the bell when your glass is empty! Even those who don’t like early morning tea might suffer it from a set in glass, painted with flowers. Even the teapot and hot water jug are in glass as well as the cups and saucers.