Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — The Silver Table. [ARTICLE]

The Silver Table.

One of the most charming whims of the season is the “silver table.” ing-room. The table itself is low, rather broad, has a light railing of darkish wood about its top and is covered with dark red plush. It holds everything in silver —odd, or quaint, pr historic, or unusual—upon which my lady can lay her hands, and, of course, takes rank in her affection very much according to the rarity, the picturesqueness or the interest of tne collection it displays. Clasps, girdles, sword hilts, buckles, buttons, Objects of art, souvenir spoons from all sorts of un-heard-of-places, all sorts of spoons and cups and bottles from which historic folk have drunk, odd coins, broken shillings, bangles from India and from Alaska, silver lace, boxes, brushes, bottles, silver dagger sheaths, filigree caskets, thimbles with a history, besides all the thousand elegant trifles of the jeweler’s shelf, furnish forth this “newest thing” in tables.