CLASS TABLE DECORATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)

CLASS TABLE DECORATIONS

Flowers will never be superseded altogether as table decorations, but just now there is a decided craze for glass ornaments for both luncheon and dinner tables.

A luncheon scheme is naturally less elaborate, and many hostesses are content with a tall vase, or a bowl of simple decoration in itself—not a new idea, by the way, but one that is popular just now —and fruit can be arranged in fascinating ways. Fruit and Fish. A flat glass tray as a centrepiece is often used by the hostess who wants some novel decoration. Sometimes it is silvered at the back and throw’s up the reflection of a collection of objects which are arranged artistically upon it. Glass replicas of fruit with an electric bulb hidden in the centre may be chosen, but more often than not, since beauty is often sacrificed to humour, one finds all kinds of quaintly-carved animals or grotesque little figures sGt in groups upon the tray. Fish—the like of which were never brought out of the sea—are placed to give the impression that they are floating in a pond, or ducks or swans of every kind may bo used instead of the fish. Glass Trees. Ai dinner-table which I saw a few nights ago had a glass bowl in which flowers were floating to form the centre decoration. It stood upon crossed streamers of orange ribbon, and where the streamers ended there were four little crystal orange trees in green glass tubs, each with beautifully cut sprays of miniature orange flowers and foliage, and tiny oranges, hanging on the branches. The effect was very dainty.