Therefore it may, quite properly, be seen in certain houses and look well under certain conditions, and that it will never be wrong for hostesses, who know when it is appropriate, to please themselves by using beautiful lace on their tables. Among distinguished people individual taste rules: in such matter For instance, for summer 4 quite heavy, rather' coarse lace spread over a bare table for dinner, Fi rounds of Inca, such ay you general ly see at luncheon, used under the plates and the centre ornament on a bare table are pleasing.
In artists' houses one sees all sorts of strange materials and vivid ed fabrics under glass are used. There a nothing you can't an yourself by combining if you ha both taste and authority, particularly in the country in summer, or studio surroundings at any time. But for the ordinary dinner, large er small, from 80 to three, no one can set the table with any more Eeuutiful cloth than a fine damask, with napkins to match, You can have the cloth fringed or heminee you can have it monogramed crested; you can have it of any of a dozen time-honoured patterns and of any size you choose. Silver, gold and china look their best on it and you have the assurance that it goes with any surroundings where a riner cloth goes at all,
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