Useful and Add (Gay Nolo to Tea Table and Buffet Little flags for sandwiches have enjoyed a long and well-deserved popularity, adding as they do to the decorative side of the tablé'or buffet well as warning the guests whether their favourite or most disliked mixture be inside, Sometimes, if one is feeling luzy, these little ' flags can be bought "ready made, but most of us prefer to make them' at home, This, as everyone knows, i a simple business, the only things necessary being bundle of cocktail or orange sticks, some round-headed paper clips or drawing ping to give a finish to the top, and semic strips of paper cut pennant-wise, to be fixed to the stick and form the fldig. So much for the usual Inbel, but with the revival of the cocktail parties and dances of the, autumn one wonders whether could not be made a little more original and amusing, and give a certain. novelty" to the Whatever happens to the rest of the apparatus, the orange stick will still remain the flag-post, since no ficient substitute has been found, but a very simple change can be. made by cutting out the actual flags {in a colour to match the sandwich they are labelling, thus providing 'a mier clue to the filing without too obvious_an examination of the wishes would be given a green flag and an emerald pin, shrimp or pate de fole gras would have pink pennant and pink top, while a scarlet pin and lightly lighter label would blazon [wishes of tomato. The' ditferentcoloured tings would go a long way towards the "brighter buffet"
ut If one wished to carry the ing to extremes, the actual tan ith. "Generally speaking, how:
iting Could also be done in inks
fever, leter'ng of uniform Dive, or, better ati, of Indian ink, would probably. look better and. be very much more ditinet.
By the artist or possessor of a miniature stencil set the ordinary white Inbels can be decorated most charmingly with tiny birds, flowers, silhouettes to match the china, table decorations, or menu cards Rubler stamps of different flowers can be bought very cheaply, and pressed on to the paper the decorating of a dozen or so labels would take only a very few minutes. Further schemes for decorating the flags on special occasions naturally suggest themselves. The little silver slippers and horseshoes which can be bought in packets could be pasted on to-the flags for a wedding buffet, while at a christening party the labels could be adorned with tiny cradles or dolls.
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