The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1900, Page 15

THE SUNDAY CALL. $ cECH BRUNNERS FOR A TES Folk PEDESTAL -2 BE H/\MEER SMAHTARLE| SWEET PEAS Ho BARTS FoR THE DINNER. TABLE selves seem to be good for a long time vet. They are steadily in & in fa- with them for a vor. Dress your hou: party a e the them 1 er your gone. pse them to we a and they will till be fresh at the ing's end, There is no other flower that can ride a lapel in 80 swagger a fashion. The mirror decoration is casily carried out in carnations. Time was when it was sufilcient to decorate your long drawing- rcom mirror in entertaining: now ladies must find flowers to welcome them in the dressing-room, where they go to remove wraps. The bamboo rods cut between Joints to recelve flower stems may be fas- tened up one or both sides of the mirror, and a stunning effect is gained by alter- nating scarlet and white carnations the length of the bamboo.. Many other flower holders can be bought to answer the same purpose. 1t matters very little how much your drawing-room mirror is concealed, let the flowers drd®p over it and be re- flected until it looks like a carnation-lined cave. But in the boudoir be careful to leave enough mirror space for your guests, remembering that they care more for that th#n for how many dozen car- nations you can afford. A hall mirror s bordered with ced ana white carnations and banked with paims and ferns. A Kentia palm rises at one side, and near it is a basket vase contain- ing more carnations. Asparagus vine winds about. This is a good design for a carnation lunch, giving the keynote to the decorations when the house is first en- tered. It is worth while to remember that it is not only artistic, but practical, flowers in tall jars or vases of the stem tha n wate better,” is a florists’ rule. One of them adds: “While the stem may absorb but little except through the cut end, the im- mersed part is at least prevented from transpiring part of that taken in through the end.” This is sound reasoning, and if it be forgetten the law will not be. PRESENT YERR. ,/ the wi 15 DEQRRES OF GOCD TRSTE FOR THR r the most their nights surround. f the porcelain they anions for the next are once more back to first principles; make the Howers for- get that they have been picked. They are used, at ho . b dark nights, not to the heated glare of rooms. Be a kind host and you will have happy guests, you day. Am