Show BARE BOARDS Mahogany Is No Longer Hidden Under Damask Draperies If white Is for brides it is also the most fashionable decoration for dining tables and all lovers of fancy work I who not long since were covering yards of linen wilh colored floss and filo silk are now giving their energy to the perfection per-fection of SwIss embroidery Plain whIte linen embrcldered only in white Is the character of all the best new tea cloths and center pieces though white lace has not lost one whit of its popularity From the inexpensive renaissance to the most exquisite duchess duch-ess and rose point dinner tables are resplendent re-splendent and some of the point lace center pieces are splendid enough to serve as the bridal handkerchiefs for royal lirlncesses They are rather small and the lace is set flat on a round or scalloped center of finest French batiste ba-tiste that is embroidered In a wreath of whit flowers In consequence of this lavish use of lace nearly all the most format dinners of the past spring and of the present autumn have been served on bare boards The lace center piece accom panled by plate decanter and candla bra doilies is laid on the brllliantly polished naked nmhogan or dull black oak In order to achieve the best effect and show just how beautiful your lace set Is The same scheme is followed fol-lowed where the board Is ornamented w ith a set of Mexican dan work and though the rUle IS all for white some women gild refined gold by embroidery in colored floss sprays and bouquets I I I both on renaissance lace and on drawn work The consequence Is brilliant I certainly but scarcely so refined in appearance ap-pearance as the pure white Luncheons suppers and middaY I breakfasts arc now so universally served on the boards with dollies only that the handsome damask tablecloths I are loklng for jobs on bargain counters and the smartest little breakfast cloth one can use informally and en famille I fsn a large square of hemstitched linen that is damasl all over but not in figures and then rIchly wrought IIi w Great ie embroidery attention is given to the designs de-signs done In this new needlework It would require too much pace to describe de-scrIbe the Jacob an Egyptian and II iti l i HenrI Deux patterns that are stamped I on these squares for working and that emanate from able artists In London and Paris Quite as hlghl esteemed as the beautiful Mexican drawn work Is that which comes from Russia It is I different from the Mexican being done on heavy home woven linen in the natural na-tural or half bleeched tints of the flax I From Russia is brought over also the almost forgotten art or doing cut work The patterns on the handspun linen squares are first embroidered and then cut out until the finished niece resembles re-sembles a sort of superb lace With all these articles the owners initials are worked 1n one corner of the narrow hemVomen Women who find pleasure In introducing intro-ducing novelties in the arrangement of their dinner tables are using candelabra cande-labra and candlesticks In the form of vases A tall or short crystal or sliver vase with a rather wide lip and slender slen-der stem Is so arranged that when filled fill-ed wIth flowers a candle can be fixed 11 the midst of the blooms while a most unique and more expensive decoration is an illuminated ice castle Caterers freeze these In any form desired and some are most exquisite i miniatures of tfI fc1 6 Clmantilly Warwick time Wartburg or Hohenschwangln in Bavaria In clear or pale tinted ice the castle is frozen and aIL its towers ornamented wIth M small candles Not only Is the castle an odd and pretty ornament but it keeps the room at a very pleasant temperature i tem-perature in spite of candle heat and the presence of many guests Among the lesser items of interest at the dinner tables this autumn are name I cards at every cover inthe form of tiny i slips of very thin glass The edges I are beveled and the names are engraved on or laid on in gIlt Souvenirs and I menu cards are just as much ignored as ever and it is no longer considered I In good taste to lay bouquets and boutonnieres bou-tonnieres beside the guests plates Those however who do not keep avery a-very wary eye on the march of Im fstg t Drovements in the way of table corn forts will be surprised to find several i new sliver utensils this winter beside their covers With the fruit course is I now served an odd looking knife that I has a sliver handle and the narrowest narrow-est of steel blade This is accompanied accom-panied by a rather deadly weapon that appears to be a silver corkscrew mount red on a straight silver shaft handle I In reality these new arrivals are designed signed for time better mastery of oranges l estefheo anges apples and pears The corkscrew I cork-screw Is drIven by a daft rotary motion mo-tion into the fruit which is thus firmly firm-ly I held during the removal Of the s1ln and the paring off of slices Good form I dictates the having of the screw in the I fruit when all that is desired is eaten I from the heart or core I Another additIon to the deft handling I of food Is a pretty pair of scissors with sawlike points in place of a knifelike knife-like edge along the blades Between the saws the tough ends of asparagus are caught and held fast and the tender ten-der head can then be neatly elevated f < + I and nipped off by the teeth These same little scissors are employed In I eating artichokes artichokesFANNIE ENDERS I |