CONCLUDL;  REMA RAS.

serve the purpose of vegetable dishes, nor the latter of a
capacity sufficient for an ordinary soup tureen. The in-
creasing refinement of our modern civilization rebels
against the continued use of the capacious and clumsy
utensils of pre-Centennial times. While the quality of
our domestic table wares is not inferior to that of the
foreign, the commercial element in design and workman-
ship must be made secondary to the artistic before our
manufacturers can expect the more cultured classes to
abandon, to any great extent, the imported for domestic
manufactures. We are progressing rapidly in the right
direction, however, and some of the designs of a few of
our more progressive potteries have been copied exten-
sively by English and German factories. The modelling
of pieces for services is receiving more careful attention,
and underglaze decorations are gradually superseding the
inappropriate and unsubstantial overglaze work in table
ware.
One of our acquaintances, who is greatly interested in
American china, recently conceived the idea of giving a
series of mid-day entertainments to her lady friends,
which she christened " American Luncheons," for the
reason that not only was the bill-of-fare distinctively Ameri-
can, but the china ware used on the table was entirely of
American manufacture. As this suggestion may be fol-
lowed by others with profit, we subjoin a sample
MENU.
BLUE POINTS ON HALF-SHELL.
(Oyster Plates of Mazarine Blue, made by the New England Pottery
Co., East Boston, Mass.)

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