During the months when flowers age doarce it is well to make full use of the decorative value of fruits as a means of brightening the table at meal times. The effect may be greatly enhanced by a careful choice of the bowls and dishes in which the fruit is served and by the way it is arranged.
For instance, a bowl piled up with apples, bananas, figs, and grapes, looks far better than four dishes each bearing one kind of fruit only, while on the other hand a bow] of oranges, especially if the bowl be of transparent amber-colored glass, seems almost to light up the table. It is a good plan to vary one's arrangement and one's fruit bowls as much as possible, and even to make use of one's treasured old China bowls.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.