Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1913 — Of Interest to Women [ARTICLE]

Of Interest to Women

Cut OUum Table Decoration — Low Centrepiece* for Flower* Now High In Popularity—There Are Two Leading Btyiee—-The Rat and the Branching.

Tbe new out glees centrepiece# foe the table show a variation from the deep all over style of cutting to a‘ cut nearer the surface which leave# more plain epaoea thua bringing out more dtettaotly flower*, leaves, vines, etc. But after all it is the shape and mounting of the newer pieces which are their greatest attractions. Speaking generally, there are two leading styles of these centrepieces, the flat and those of branching effect. The most stylish of the latter are not more twelve indies high and have slender, vlneilke silver or gold support Half a dozen or more small horn shaped or cup shaped projections radiate from the support at different each designed to hold flowers. The variations of this style are many. In some designs there is a larger centre bowl from which branch out smaller receptacles shaped like elongated tulips, orchids or wide open water lilies, with in some cases cut glass leaves to match. Filled with flowers the effect of this holder is charming. One design shows four receptacles shaped like long calls lilies with long stems, the ends of the stems rooted in a out glass placque. Almost any sice may be had in these designs, some spreading out horizontally eighteen or twenty inches. A variety made of tinted glass is Included, but the pure white out glass designs are the most beautiful.

The very latest models Include large flat round or oval dishes about six Inches deep, with or without several tulip shape projections from the rim slanting outward and having a gold or silver wire lattice cover designed particularly to use for short stem fine flowers. This cover removed the dish can he filled solidly with larger flowers, the projections of course being filled to match. Other very beautiful cut glass pieces for the centre of the table are shaped like tall French baskets with a bowed handle, the shank of the basket made hollow to hold water. More costly than any of those described are oblong and round cut glass centre pieces which rest in skeleton gold holders raised on standards one or two Inches from the table, the top of the holder reaching about to the middle of the dish or a trifle higher. Most of these dishes are fitted too with a lattice wire top to use for short stem flowers, and there Is a variety of sizes shown. One of the oddest and best liked of the cut glass table flower holders is a comparatively small flat bowl resting on a very large plaque which projects seven Inches or so all around the bottom of the bowl, tbe glass cut In a leaf design. The bowl has a silver wire removable top. Another form of cut glass for table decoratlons is the candelabrum topped with antique silver; that is an Inch or two of each branch Is silver, the remainder of the branches and all of the shank being of elaborately cut glass. In line with the candelabra, although njd; designed for the dinner table, are wonderful lamps of cut glass Illumined by electricity. . The dome, which conceals the electric bulb, the body and supports every part of the lamp In short, is of heavily cut pure white glass which scintillates charmingly even when not lighted up.—New York Sun.