BRIGHTER BRIDGE TABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 8

BRIGHTER BRIDGE TABLES

Green baize on the bridge table is giving way to American cloth — American cloth with a shell pattern <tretehed over a padded lining which provides just enough “give” to make the gathering up of the cards a simple matter. So now it will not matter if one’s husband does upset his coffee 'during the after-dinner game, or score with a leaky fountain pen which spatters ink broadcast. The stains will wipe off with a damp cloth. These tables allow for an almost limitless variety of colour schemes, for the legs, are usually painted in a contracting shade. And. of course you ••an have the usual baize tables in colour. appearing in red. browns, and emerald greens—the last named with scarlet legs. A new way of flipping the legs when the table has been set up makes it possible to dispense with the usual contraptions. and at the same time makes the smallest table so firm that a man can sit on it quite safelv. And if the bridge table has to art as a dining-table as well, even that can be simply managed. Square tables with pedestal legs have reversible tops — merely a square of baze-lined wood which is lifted off, turned over, and dropped into place. Tn the pedestal beneath is a small cupboard to hold the cards and score*