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Show j DAINTINESS IN YOUR DINING ROOM ty r HEN you're getting ready for j R Pr,v do you think up odd and pretty schemes for the set- I ting of your table? From the begln- nlng of a dinner party to the end. perfect appointments make for a sure success for !f dishes nre served I daintily half the bottle is won and I people are sure to think the cooking I Is delicious. i There Is nothing like a first in- I presston one matron was told when I he n-ni i noosing between goblet and after dinner coffee spoons for a w-eddlng gift You see the goblets would be a factor In making the tablo I a success the nioaient when It first j burst upon the lew of tho guests whereas the coffee spoons would be . a mere drop in the aftermath, and 1 J there would be a fair chance of their I not bein- noticed at all And If fou j could see the goblets she did bin' She calls tnem soap bubble affalrs- f very thin, beautifully shaped, with i wide flat rib and radiating from the r clearness all those fascinating opule- cent tints so marvellous In a sonp bubble floating toward the blue sky I Two dollars apiece thc were but worth the price, for they would fitly j serve a queen Other things can be bought with J an honest effort toward permanently j setting a beautiful table. Handsome i silver, hardly more expensive than ? really rood machine things: tea- ! spoons costing about $1 75. plain. In I the shapes of the old Colonial days, a romantically gleaming, pewter, new. I made, with the soft 6heen of sit. z ver In bowl", plates and candle- sticks: .ustreware In wonderful color j combinations white lined with aoft . blue, with the adorable soap bubble r 1 IlKhts soft gray lined with a toned orango. all opaleecent- Plaln damask tuble covers rather than figured ones ore most attractive: attrac-tive: round and scalloped If the table la round, still plain and hemstitched If the table Is square, and linen runners run-ners for the Informal times L'n shaded candles In stately candlestick? candle-stick? substitute well for those pink and silver shades that savor of more public places. Kochl pottery' In yellow, yel-low, blue, ted, black or white makes a p!euant change from pink flow- ? ered china Japanese turquoise lined f bowls In the largo size are smart i vegetable servers Instead of the over- worked vegetable tureen, and In the " smaller sizes use them for Individual I salads Instead of the usual dessert i plates When once you begin to plan for I the truly effective daintiness your J r eg will be opened to a new and j beautiful world and vou will abolish I our cut galas. ' I |