FANCIES IN TABLE WARE.
The London Figaro contains the following : —A Avell - known societylady has started a new fad hy having miniatures of her dear friends in medallion on the plates of her dinner service. Anything in worse taste it Avould he difficult to imagine. Fancy finding the detested features of your most cherished enemy staring you stonily in the face as you are finishing your soup. Your only satisfaction would lie in distorting his countenance Avith particles of food during the other courses, and calling on your neighbour to observe the effect. This idea of portrait plates reminds me of an old Dutch mug AA'hich belonged to a family I once knew. At the bottom of the mug was a life-sized frog in
china, highly' coloured.. , This mug'... formed the basis of countless • practical jokes . On one occasion, at -a children’s 1 party, it was filled . ‘with milk and ’ givep' to a little girl of about; six yiears of,. age. When the poor child came to the frog she dropped the mug with ’a shriek, smashing it to atoms: Ever since then that youngster has been a gibbering idiot.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 16, 15 July 1893, Page 10
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190FANCIES IN TABLE WARE. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 16, 15 July 1893, Page 10
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