Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1912 — STAINPROOF TOP FOR TABLE [ARTICLE]

STAINPROOF TOP FOR TABLE

Suggestion That Will; Relieve Hostess of Much Worry While Presiding at Tea Table. "At a formal afternoon tea,” W marked the woman wbo keeps bachelor hall, as she put the kettle on and Ailed an oval plate with cheese straws, “whoever presides is generally fairly on guard against spilling tea on the embroidered cloth: but when one baa it every afternoon, as I do, it doesn’t pay to use fine white linen and delicate needlework te array the table. Yet one likes to have it attractive. I had had two of my prettiest drawnwork • tea cloths badly spotted before I had the inspiration I wanted. Then I deliberately stained a bit of white linen with the kind of tea I generally use and let It dry so. Then I took that tea stained bit downtown and searched until I found a heavy linen of that precise tint. It was the old, twilled weave that you see, and I found the silkß that harmonized with it for the simple drawnwork edge that you were admiring on this one, for a scallop with a design of maidenhair ferns above on a secqpd and for a little running pattern of clover leaves and an occasional blossom that secures the deep hem of my third ohe. The dull gray-green of the material and the clearer fern and .clover colors make a thoroughly artistic setting for my white china and bits of old. silver, to say nothing of the antique candlestick, and I have no more nervousness when somebody’s hand shakes while lifting the freshly filled teapot”