Dinner Cards

These dainty bits of pasteboarfl can e charmingly qualm ana original, or else (as we often aee) absolutely without omamentation, or. what ie worse, decorated In tbe poorest manner, says the Phüadelphla Press. There te 00 reason why the Ingenulty and art expended on ay the other details of the able should not be extended to these cards. Many a time one sees a llttle scène or flower In water-colors which ïas all the appearanoe oí belng cribbed from a Christmas card. Pen-and-ink sketches are seldom notlced and yet here one has scope for orlglnallty. Some llttle. bit taken from a funny paper, or, if cleyer enough, out of one's own head, has all the attraction of novelty. Ouplds, flowers, love letters and' slippers for women;' pi pea. horses and dogB for the men. A clever idea is to sketch In fanoiful letters the wordj: 'Who the (then draw a devil) slt lere?" If the hostess desires to toucli UP the llttle vanlties and Weaknesses !or her guests here Is her opportunity, Upon the author's card may be drawn a figure wrltlng in tbe book of fame; (or the musiclan, a muse playing on the lyre; for the man who talks too much, a parrot, shrleklng: "Words! Words! Words!" and for the colleg girl, Cupid, tn cap and gown, etc. AnOther source of comfort to be derived from the artistlc cards would be th final death of that most awkward pause when the women are rorlng their gloves and the weather and the opera have not yet become the subJects of dislnterested conversation. With these merry bits of pasteboard at each plate an occasion for laughter and Jest would be given.