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Show UP-TO-DATE TABLE SERVICE More Favorable Comment From Daintiness Dain-tiness Than From Amount of Solid Food. The hostess who would be smart and modern must keep up with all the latest notions anent table service and food garnishing. A square meal well cooked is well enough in its way ; more important vastly more important impor-tant is the service thereof, and a few light edibles perfectly served will give that hostess a higher reputation among her women friends, at least, than any amount of good so'M food minus the little touches that bespeak up-to-dateness. For instance, the butter knife is an obsolete affair; almost as obsolete as the ancient soup ladle no more seen on the modern dinner table. J5oup is served in plates by the maid no tureen or ladle are in evidence. As for butter, the little squares or cubes now much smarter than roly-poly roly-poly butter balls are taken up with a dainty silver two-pronged fork, or "butter pick." The same little fork may be used at tea hour for picking up lemon slices for the teacups. Small silver butter spreaders are still correct at the individual places and the smartest butter plates now are of silver, plain and rather flat, about the size of a saucer and engraved with a monogram in the center. cen-ter. No housewife now is completely happy until she has coaxed a set of silver vegetable dishes from her better bet-ter half. And if her cup of happiness happi-ness is to be full he will provide also one of those stunning silver plate meat platters with a gravy "tree" grooved out in the center, like the old Sheffield plate meat platters. In solid silver these table belongings belong-ings are rather costly; but silver plate is not to be despised and meat and vegetable dishes of good plate are found in many well-appointed homes. Dinner napkins are not the mammoth mam-moth affairs that they were perhaps because linen became so scarce and precious during the war. But the really handsome napkin, of moderate size, has an inch-wide hemstitched hem and a beautifully hand-embroidered monogram or initial across one corner. Sometimes the embroidered motif is in the exact center of the napkin, which is folded by the laundress laun-dress so that the monogram comes in the center of a square. |