Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1912 — NEAT AND NOVEL MENU CARD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEAT AND NOVEL MENU CARD

Idea Which May be Elaborated on by Hoetese on the Lookout for Something New. jQne of fee housewife's pleasantest duties is the decoration of the dinnertable, and any new suggestions for floral and other decoration are always welcome. ~ In the accompanying sketch may be seen an original and pretty idea for a menu card that may be very easily carried out either with white

cardboard or cardboard in some dehflate shade of pink or Use, possibly chosen of a color to harmonise wife the dinner service with which it is to appear. - The cardboard is cut oat in fee shape of a miniature palette and on

he front the menu is written. & t» supported at the back by a wedgeshaped piece of Cardboard binged oat with a piece of stamp paper, in the same manner as the support of an ordinary photograph frame is fastened in its place. In the thumb-hole of the palette some flowers can be prettily arranged in the way shown in the sketch, and a little damp cotton wool wound round the stents will keep them fresh ae long as they will be required. .The shape of the palette should he carefully sketched upon the cardboard and then cut out with a sharp pair of scissors, and after one pelette has been cut out it can be used as a pattern for others and laid upon a piece of cardboard and a line drawn round it with a pencil, and in this way a number can be made in a very short time. ' - j. ......