THE WETTING TABLE.
The most up-to-date stationery is larger than ever. Notep&par and envelopes are double the size of the more common sort, and make a most imposing, as well as gaily tinted pile, in the morning mail. For the envelops lining to he several shades darker in tone than the outer side and the notepaper is still popular. Crashed strawberry,, lavender, fawn or sage green are usually chosen, and while some paper is quite plain, the more special is very slightly mottled all over. For writing* table and bureau furnishin£s„ ink pot, pen tray, and blotter o! dull black are an idea of the moment. Since everybody nowadays uses a fountain pen and an ink pot is really superfluous, these are made merely decorative objects, filled with umall shot to support a gigantic and vividly dyed quill. Those who are lucky possessors of real antique bureaus and eighteenth century escritoires search the antique shops for old-fashioned ink wells and sand boxes, snuffers and other etcetera* of a bygone age, when the art of letter writing was .cultivated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19550, 1 February 1927, Page 7
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