FOR SUMMER TABLES

Shannon News, 25 October 1929, Page 2

FOR SUMMER TABLES

A means of cutting down the laundry and at the same time effecting a very pretty change for the summer meal table is to use two long strips of hem stitched linen instead of the ordinary tablecloth. They should each, be about twelve inches wide and overhang the table at the ends for about the same number of inches. This style is most effective on a refectory or similar narrow table, the small space of polished wood down the middle being dotted painted washable mats for the dishes. Fadeless coloured linens are most suit able for this purpose, and the painted mats should, of course, match the linen in colour. The strips are very quickly washed and ironed, and, moreover, the table is quickly set —much more quickly than if small luncheon mats are used.

This idea looks particularly well on a long table of unpolished oak. The runners were of pale mauve, a bowl of pink and mauve sweet peas decorated the centre of the table, and water-jug and goblets were of leaf green. A luncheon so set would tempt the, mosl jaded appetite on the hottest of days