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Show Tablecloth and China. The days when milliners' trimmings in tho shape of scarfs of plash or satin decorated the center of the table have gone by. A plain white tablecloth is preferred to any colored cover for dinner, luncheon or breakfast. There is also a fancy for the white and gold china of years ago, and some dinners have been riven this season at which all the decorations deco-rations of the table, china, flowers, candles can-dles and shades, were snowy white, and the dishes served were masked m white sauces wherever it was possible. There is more freedom of colored decoration allowed al-lowed at the luncheon table. Where the hostess possesses a table with an exceptionally excep-tionally beautiful top of polished wood the luncheon cloth is often dispensed with, and white crocheted mats are strewn about, or squares of hemstitched linen, decorated sometimes in drawn |