Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1913 — DESIRABLE TEA TABLE [ARTICLE]

DESIRABLE TEA TABLE

HOW CLEVER QIRL EVOLVED PRETTY ADORNMENT. Bmall Initial Cost and the Expenditure* of Comparatively Bmall Tims Brought Its Reward In Something Worth Having. A novel and most economical way* to make a pretty tea party was discovered by a girljrho is very,clever with her wits and her fingers. She first purchased for 40 cents a large oval picture frame from a second-hand store, securing a very good bit of natural old woodwork. Then with a bottle of stain, some sandpaper and a little varnish she polished up the wood to look like new, then screwed on two brass handles, one at each end, afterward cutting a size as the glass, and pasting it smoothly where the picture would ordinarily go. Covering it with the boards, that belong to the frame; tacked securely into place, the entire back then being covered with a piece of felt, she found herself possessed of a most fetching tea tray, which in the shops would coßt from $5 to SB. If afternoon tea sets continue to get more attractive, the services which were considered lovely a few years ago will be relegated to the nethermost corners of china closets. All in palest green porcelain is a very dainty set comprising a teapot, sugar basin, cream pitcher and a halfdozen cupß and saucers. It sets upon a square tray of green willow. Quite as dainty and only a trifle more costly, are tete-a-tete tea Bets of white china banded with dark blue or red, edged with a gold vine and standing on an oblong matching tray. Among the four-piece service are sets of another porcelain so thin that the beverage seems to color it. These sets stand upon trays of amber crystal having projecting handles of gilded metal, set with genuine amber. Exceedingly pretty tea sets are of silver, a teapot of silver, sugar bowl, cream pitcher and cups and saucers of silver deposit-veiled white porcelain.