Show NOVELTIES FOR FORTHE THE TABLE TABLEA A New Hew Asparagus Dish With Other Charming Details There is no longer the least awk awkwardness awkwardness found In handling the asparagus asparagus asparagus gus course because the silversmiths have taken the difficulties usually at attending attending attending tending the severing of o this delicious vegetable under careful consideration and have hae invented a dish for it that would he ibe hard to Improve upon The dish is a graceful shallow silver shell supported on balls and its hol hollow hollow I Ilow low Interior Is overlaid by a series or of silver bars on which the savory boiled stalks are laid No toast that will act as a sponge and accept the superfluous moisture from the asparagus is needed with this new dish for between the sil nil silver I Iver ver bars the water left from the boil boll bolling boilIng ing lug drains readily into the hollow of or orthe I Ithe the shell and the small silver sauce sauceboat sauceboat boat baart swung handily on silver supports at the side of the dish dizh enables the diner to help himself to the course of ot asparagus complete instead of 01 wRiting waiting for the sauce to be handed on later by bya a servant that follows the progress of ot the main platter Recently R at smart dinner parties the asparagus brought in on one of the new dishes has been even more moie handily arranged for the guest by bunching it itin Itin itin in pretty silver rings These rings are silver ribbons that open pen with Hh a hinge and catch like a womans bracelet and andare andare andare are finished off oft with a jaunty upstanding ing silver ribbon bow Now when the cook prepares the asparagus dish she encloses six or eight stalks In each nil sil silv sHyer v yer ver er binder and piles them like sheaves of wheat on the bars of the silver ilver shell When the asparagus appears at a 3 guests elbow no tongs are offered be because because cause by the stiff loops of silver ribbon a sheaf of stalks must be neatly lifted off and laid on the plate Pinching inchIng 1 the two loops of the bow together opens I the silver ring and spreads out the as asparagus asparagus asparagus over w which the sauce sa ce may then be poured The makers of handsome table fur furniture furniture furniture who are always on the look lookout lookout lookout out for valuable novelties seem to have filled a long felt feU want with their hand handsome handsome some champagne jugs To pour the sparkling liquid from a pitcher in this day of incompetent servants overcomes one of the difficulties and dangers every hostess dreads when giving a dinner Only one man servant in a dozen knows how to broach a bottle noiselessly pour it gracefully and tid tidily ily U and keep it ice cold and this ac is unknown to waitresses waitresses wait waitresses Now Non the cut glass jug obviates all the trouble for before dinner in inthe inthe inthe the pantry the champagne is decanted into the crystal body bod a well fitted with cracked ice lee Is slipped sUpped into the pitcher I the top of the tall tail jug is screwed on and when the fish course arrives any waitress is equal to the task of turn turning turning ing ins the tre knob on the pitchers top twice thus opening the lip of the jug through which the liquid runs cold sparkling and without waste into the shallow glasses For the breakfast table or an in invalids tray the silversmiths have in invented invented Invented vented an invaluable little egg steamer that is fitted inside with a frame that can hold four eggs The Tue lower por per portion portion tion of the steamer holds enough water to cover coer the eggs and beneath the bowl bowlis is an alcohol lamp lami fh the flame of which can be reduced or enlarged at will willOn willOn willOn On the top of the steamer is a little I heat hea t gauge by which lJ h the th e amateur cook can tell teU at a glance the state of the eggs and shut off Or r increase the flame accordingly I Hardly less convenient than this I breakfast friend are the pretty spun glass oil and vinegar jugs of Venetian model These The e have haye silver ball baU tops oops ps on which the names of each bottles contents are respectively ly engraved and they solve the question of how to tomake tomake tomake make cruets eructs at once useful and yet jet ct as ornamental as wine decanters S FANNY ENDERS |