Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1911 — THE BOUDOIR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BOUDOIR

MAKING TABLE PRETTY DECORATIONS MUST FOLLOW y DICTATES OF FASHION. iSsl av - v -Sait- •-VrlSflLrJg vj}-- ■ s. ' ~ r±* ■ *•** yy 7 -* Grouped Bases Are Just New Much In Favor—Combination Flower Holders In White Dresden Charming for Summer There are fashions in table decorations as in everything else; just now grouped vases are in favbr. While these were introduced- last season, there are interesting changes. Instead of too smaller vases for toe corners of the table connected with the large central one by long chains, it is newer to have the set more closely grouped, so as to stand on the eenterpiece or glass plaque. One' handsome -set has a tall een- : tral vase of cut silver with four small matching vases joined to it by curved openwork guards.

Another new set has a larger glass basket overlaid with silver with four small baskets held to the central one by short silver links fastened to the handles. For cheaper effects two sizes of wicker baskets can be gilded and joined by raphia ringß, also gilded. Watch sales, and get fonr small vases to match and a larger one In the same design. In this way a stylish table decoration can be had at sihall cost. If you want the vases linked, fine nickled chains 'can be bought and joined to the standards of thb vases, but they are not especially new and the floral effect Is equally good without them. The glass chains are more artistic with glass vases than the ch’lna ones, or pretty effects can be had with chains of crystal beads. These combination flower holders are* charming for summer cottages in white Dresden or bellique. They come in novel shapes, many of them connected by a low fence-like arrangemet in the bam* ware. One in .Greek design had all the bases shaped like a Doric column, with the tops hollowed to hofil flowers. Very hew and artistic, with corresponding cost, is an oval floral arrangement for the center of the table. It has a mirror about three-quarters of a yard long, bordered with a narrow silver rim. This holds in the center a low oval vase of rock crystal, supplied with a wire netting for keeping the flowers erect At each end of the mirror are semicircular sections to hold shortstemmed flowers, with a tall, slender vase to cap each section. At ton sides, filling In the intervening space, are two other low sections rectangular In shape. Wonderful floral combinations can be arranged in these.

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