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Show THE TABLE IN SUMMER. Hostesses at Newport Discard the Accepted Ac-cepted Covering. "We don't use any tableclothB In summer," Bald a clovor housekeeper tho other day, "and you can't think what a saving of work it is. The laundress laun-dress has ho ma.iy tub frocks and shirt waists to do up each wcok she Is qulto overwhelmed as It Is. Rather than tumbled cloths I prefer a baro table. Besldo, oven for dinner at night, tho polished table, with Its handsomo centerpiece, cen-terpiece, Its flowers and its silver anil pretty china, Is attractive. It seems to mo quite as elegant as a tablo with a whlto cloth, over It, and It Is Infinitely Infinite-ly moro nummary. Through tho summer sum-mer wo try to llvo in a summer-like way, leaving for efold weather tho amusements and customs of winter and civilized llfo. Wo find It lends variety va-riety and zest to oxlstenco not to eat and do and wear tho same things all tho year round. Don't you think thoro's something In It?" Nowport Nows. |