TABLE DECORATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15718, 19 September 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

TABLE DECORATIONS.

SOME UNIQUE IDEAS,

At this time of the year many hostesses are busy entertaining, and a few new ideas upon the matter of table decoration will probably be acceptable.

A striking and original idea is to have a tablecloth of coloured linen, instead of the ordinary white damask. An all-white china dinner service looks beautiful in. conjunction with a scarlet linen cloth. Candelabra in white china containing red candles and shades, and white china vases filled with scarlet geraniums and white narcissus with sprays of maidenhair fern, complete a most distinctive table decoration. Silver receptacles may be used for the flowers and candles if preferred, but the white china is much more uncommon.

Some lovely reproductions in old china, are procurable in an exquisite shade of green, with a white centre and burnished, gilt markings and handles of the same on the vegetal lo dishes. A dinner service of this description with vases to match, filled with double pink anemones and smilax, looks exceedingly well. Trails of smilax tied here and there with pink ribbon should be twined round the table- appointments, while pink candles and shadeu should be placed in candlesticks matching the service.

Another scheme, with a pale, lemoncoloured cloth, strikes a novel note, especially when pale mauve china bowls are used as receptacles for dwarf daffodil:? allied with Parma violets with their respective foliage. These should, be placed down the centre of the table t and lemoncoloured candles with shades to match should be placed in mauve candlesticks, matching the bowls.

Mats instead of a. tablecloth allow the gleaming silver to bo reflected in the mahogany, the latter also enhancing the beauty and colouring of tho flowers used for decoration. When these mats are in pale green linen, edged with Cluny lace and embroidered with pink, green, and uittarnishablo silver thread, they form an effective background for the display of silver. Those who possess beautiful silver should fill bowls and vases with pink tulips. Pale green candles, the delicate shade of the tulip leaves, should decorate the silver candelabra, the former being crowned with pink silk shades tied with silver ribbon.

A quaint table scheme for a room which is furnished in old oak is carried out in the following manner: Coarse, cream linen strips cover the sides of the table, leaving the centre of oak showing, the linen is worked in shades of Prussian blue and tangerine. The old-fashioned pottery dinner service has a design in which these colourings are reproduced. Wrought iron candlesticks tilted with tangerine coloured candles without shades add to the oldworld effect.