In the universal search for something new, dinner givers are beginning to abjure the plain white damask cloth, in favour of more costly materials. Mrs. Nay lor Leyland had, says the Table, a green velvet cloth at her last dinner party, with wrea.ths of Alpine poppies, and the same blooms placed in glasses. Mrs. Dennistoun, of uolfhill, a few nights ago had a white satin cloth on which were placed large sacks of white satin, tied with silver cord, from which a wreath of white flowers seemed to be tumbling out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9150, 4 September 1888, Page 5
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