Examples of household taste . that our thoughtstake color from our surroundings, is true, the fortunate possessor of suchwriting appliances as these should have flights of fancy such as the Arabianromancers might envy. The Glassware of Lobmeyr, of Vienna, which we illustrate on this page,is both useful and ornamental. One of the pieces is a crater vase with handles,and is probably intended merely for ornament. But all the other pieces are INDUSTRIAL ART 109 suitable for table furniture, either as card-receivers or as receptacles for daintyand choice confections at dessert. And in this connecti
Examples of household taste . that our thoughtstake color from our surroundings, is true, the fortunate possessor of suchwriting appliances as these should have flights of fancy such as the Arabianromancers might envy. The Glassware of Lobmeyr, of Vienna, which we illustrate on this page,is both useful and ornamental. One of the pieces is a crater vase with handles,and is probably intended merely for ornament. But all the other pieces are INDUSTRIAL ART 109 suitable for table furniture, either as card-receivers or as receptacles for daintyand choice confections at dessert. And in this connection we may say that wetrust the time is rapidly approaching when people generally will open theireyes to the fact that it is within the power of every one to make the dinner-table something more than a board from which to feed,—to beautify it so thatit may be aesthetically attractive. The sooner the absurd custom of putting down upon the table onlycertain dishes of a conventional shape containing certain meats, and removing. Enameled Casket: Emile Philippe, Paris. them as soon as they have done their purpose—the sooner this absurd customis done away with the better. There is not a household so poor that has not some ornamental dish orvase in china or glass that would answer a far higher and better purpose ifused to grace the board at meals than if left upon a mantel-shelf or behind aglass simply to be looked at. Our good grandmothers and, in some instances, our mothers washed thecups and saucers themselves after the evening meal, and the guests sat by andchatted while the sweet housewifely action was going on. But now, becauseservants are careless, we are told that we must be content to look at the oddand pretty bits of china that we may possess as curiosities too precious to be no THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. used, and take our meals off sets any piece of which can be replaced if bychance it gets broken. All this should be changed. With a little care and trouble the
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