A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 24

A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

AVOID “ OVER DOING ” TABLE DECORATIONS

There is a place for everything, and the hostess who wi s h» decorate her dining-table tastefully should remember that, now 1* *° the place for preponderous clusters of blooms and greenerv the centre of her table-cloth. * **

load them with a minimum of Kir-, and sprays. D,o °Bii The good hostess makes a nob. seeing that no tall lloral arn A„ 1 M on her dinner-table obstructs th. . m of vis-a-vis. Nothing is more L!*" mg than to try to conduct a pi-,?/' conversation across a miniatnri r !u of foliage and tail-stemmed There are so manv prettv hci”’ the market these days, and such l ning devices to secure artistic cltZl' that decorations can he ken! ",i without the least loss of charm. Glass or lead “hoMe^ * the interior of the howl permit of tily graduated effects. 9r *lStalks can be cut quite short aim out the flower disappearing benaft the surface; and if some nf them . kept just moderately long the sary graduation of height can k> . cured.

Everybody who has suffered the experiences of a social meal at a table that is over-loaded with floral decoctions will welcome the changing custom that is gradually bringing about the abolition of this stupid table appendage. In the meantime, table vases are becoming smaller, and it is correct to