New Notion for Table Tops

Southland Times, Issue 21648, 9 March 1932, Page 3

New Notion for Table Tops

A novel and interesting idea for luncheon cloths comes from across the ocean, where smart Parisians have suddenly started the vogue of lunching on the world, so to speak. The new French luncheon and tea cloths have maps of the world embroided in coloured silk on their damask nurfaces. The woman who sews may easily utilize the idea, tracing different countries on plain linen cloths and then embroidering them in a simple outline stitch. In some homts the work of outlining might wisely be saved for rainy afternoons when the small daughter of the

house could thus learn geography lesson?, and be provided with amusement at the same lime. Sampler, or cross-stitch, designs in gay reds, blues, yellows, and greens on white are popular for breakfast sets, in England. The tablecloth and napkins of coloured linen repeat the design, and the handles of ihe knives and forks are of coloured composition to match. For the nursery there are now' octagonal shaped plates, meat and pudding plates with deep rims to prevent food sliding off into laps or on the tloor, and mugs or beakers in each service, the beaker for the younger child whose grasp is not yet very firm, and the mug for Ihe elder brother or sister.