BRIGHTER MEALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 12

BRIGHTER MEALS

NO BIG OUTLAY NEEDED

Everyday meals become more interesting when they are served against a colourful background. The best part of it is that, to produce such a background no big outlay of money is needed. . .< .

You might start by dipping an old white tablecloth into pale gold dye. With it, use green glasses from the hardware store. Add green glass plates and a shallow glass bowl of floating pansies, and your summer luncheon will look different and appetising even if the food is the same kind you had yesterday.

Woven runners, picked up at so many sales, make the foundation for a different type of table setting. Often these inexpensive runners have all the charm of hand-woven peasant designs.

They are large enough for individual places, or they may be stitched together by hand to form a larger cloth. Their bright reds and blues call for the same colours in glasses, flowers, and dishes. The pottery type of chinaware is particularly suitable with such cloths.

Even summer dress materials may be used to give character to the table. Checked ginghams, striped linens, crepes, and even dainty, organdie may be bought in remnant lengths, hemmed, or edged with bias tape repeating one of their colours, or fringed. Completion of the picture requires that one or more of the colours be repeated in the glassware, the dishes, the flowers, or even the food.