HINTS AND IDEAS

Shannon News, 2 October 1928, Page 4

HINTS AND IDEAS

EVERYTHING TO MATCH. PLATES IN SETS. Everything matches'these days. Not only our frocks and handbags, our gloves and stockings, our shoes and handkerchiefs, remarks a Melbourne writer, but our pretty household things as well. Wine glasses, tumblers and glass dishes are bought to tone with the colour scheme of the sitting room in which we take our meals. Tablecloths go with curtains, and, if wc have not succumbed to the charm of the dainty coloured tablecloth, then we have raffia mats or painted cork ones to match our cushions. \ No longer are we content to use the plates -irom tea or dinner service for "odd" occasions. If sandwiches are being served after a visit to the theatre a set of special sandwich plates may now be obtained, with a dish to match. The dish i 3 oblong in shape. The plates arc small and square. Sets of deep crystal plates are offered in the shops now for stewed fruit. They can be had in plain glass or tinted ruby, bottle-green or honey colour. . The newest fruit plates of ordinary decorated china have a rim' round the edge to accommodate stones. The fact that stones slid back into the fruit left in the bowl was one of the drawbacks of the old type. Now it has been done away with. Sets of coloured "sundae" glasses are often used for fruit salad. You can get a bowl to match them. The plainest "sweet" seems more attractive when it is nicely served, and these "sundae" j passes add a picturesque note to any table.

Salad plates to match a silad bovri and cheese plates which tone in colour and pattern with the cheese dish are other attractive sets which the bride would welcome or the ordinary housewife would delight to add toNhcr china closet.