Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Evolution of the Table. [ARTICLE]

Evolution of the Table.

The beginning of the nineteenth century saw the disappearance of the “hundred-legged” dining table, and the plllar-and-claw table made its bow, as the most comfortable of tables; and with this the modern table has arrived. Of the strangely uncomfortable, clumsy types evolved during the Victorian period, the least said the soonest forgotten. They came with the glass flowers, the haircloth furniture, and the marble tops and twisted, spindling legs and veneer finish. Today the beautiful in all that is past Is being reproduced lil the “American renais-sance-of art," to suit the rapidly growing demands for greater beauty in form, color scheme and line in the Interior of the home.