Until very recently the uso of wooden utensils in the English middle-class household was. practically confined to the bread platter. Thanks, however, to the many for-shops and the shops that sell howls and plates, spoons and forks for salad, and so forth are being T'bave heard of one atic mansion which has late-Jy instituted soup-bowls turned from ebony, and many nurseries now have returned to the ancient fashion of wooden porringers, with or without binding of siver. To my mind such binding entirely spoils. the harm of the bowl, which should lie in its perfect simplicity. Moreover the metal complicates cleaning more ways than one. Wooden salad bowls and other implements of wood should be washed after uso with cold water, using a rough cloth or brush to remove any superfluities of all that are left upon the surface, Much hot washing is bad for the wood, and it is improved by a trace of oil being rubbed into the grain, becoming thus always more polished fand impervious. The same is true of soup-bowls and butter-dishes and vessels for porridge. Soap or soda should never be used, but if the utensils are of white wood they will be kept in good condition with an rub over with lemon and scouring with ver sand. baked scones served hot for tea never Jock more tempting that when served, wrapped in a napkin, in a capacious wooden bowl. One members with joy the doll's dinna: sets of one's childhood made from tinily turned wood that came the Black Forest, and one wonders when there will be put upon the market just such tureens and vegetable dishes with lids, all of wood Dut in a size for real' use. Could anything be more suiled to the checked table-cloths and the gaily coloured stone-ware of the modern weottagy" houre?—C. in "Glasgow Her
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