TEA OUT OF DOORS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 15

TEA OUT OF DOORS.

Pottery and 'glassware for use in the garden during the long summer days, when lunch and tea ban be al fresco meals, is becoming a specialised department, and a highly attractive one. The modern afternoon tea meal covers a wide range of tastes. The inexpensive, but most artistic-looking sets of coloured glass jugs s and goblets will be required for the cooling drinks that are often preferred to tea. Glass bowls for fruit salads, ice-glasses, and plates come into the teatime requirements as well as china, or rather pottery, for delicate china is not suited to the garden meal. Pottery tea services" are to be had in a wide range of good garden colourings. The best plan is to choose a flower shade, one that is bright and clear, and to match up the accessories in raffia and embroideries on table line and cushions. Several interesting teatime adjuncts have novelty as well as artistic merit to commend them. A sturdy little doubledecked table in teak is useful for cakes and sandwiches. Carved wooden “waiters” gaily coloured and equipped with trays for summer drinks are amusing. A raffia tea cosy in natural, red, and blue shows the- fashionable oblique line. The linen tea cloth of coarse peasant weave may be in oatmeal colour, blanketstitched in red round the edges, and embroidered with lines in the same shade, and a large basket filled with blue and yellow flowers and green foliage.