HINTS AND IDEAS.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17704, 7 May 1929, Page 5

HINTS AND IDEAS.

WOOD IN THE BREAKFAST ROOM. Breakfast table utensils of wood are the latest things designed to lighten the lot of the housewife and to provide a happy setting for the first meal of the day. In a collection of small articles of this type, I came across a really delightful toast-rack, capable of holding half a dozen slices; the design was much better than that of many silver racks, because the dividing hoops were tall enough to hold the bread securely in place. To match this were napkin rings and cruet set of equally attractive oak and, in the case of the toast-rack, there was a neat finish of brass-headed pin-nails. To hold the fruit which is usually served at breakfast, there was a fiat platter of unpolished elm slightly raised at the edges; and with grape fruit there was a bowl of unpolished cherry wood, Horn spoons, beautifully in keeping, were sold for use with grape fruit. Various other bowls and plates in a variety of unpolished woods looked most tempting, and there were spoons suitable for porridge or stewed fruit to go with them. As for the / tchen, there was a tiny book-shelf to hold cookery books,, and a wall mirror with a ledge wide enough to take a vase- of flowers. A decorative frame, to hang on the wall, held a whole set of kitchen woodware; spoons, rolling-pin, vegetable presser, forks and so on.