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It came when they were "ushered into the dining-hall," as our paper so grandly put it, and saw in the great oak-beamed room a table laid on the polished bare wood a table laid for forty-eight guests, with a doily for every plate, and every glass, and every salt-cellar, and here the mosque fell on the heads of the howling dervishes forty-eight soup-spoons, forty-eight silver-handled knives and forks; forty-eight butter-spreaders, forty-eight spoons, forty-eight salad forks, forty-eight ice-cream spoons, forty-eight coffee spoons.
He was chewing a straw and he kept on chewing it while he looked solemnly at Anne. Anne laid her book aside with a sigh and took up her doily. Conversation with Sam was really out of the question. After a long silence Sam suddenly spoke. "I'm leaving over there," he said abruptly, waving his straw in the direction of the neighboring house. "Oh, are you?" said Anne politely. "Yep."
In the middle she put a large doily which matched the others, and added one or two smaller ones, one for bread, one for a dish of olives, and so on, arranging them evenly on the table. She put a dish of ferns on for a centrepiece and a tray for tea for her mother at the end.
The most fashionable method is to have a large lace or embroidered doily in the center of the table, and smaller ones indicating the position of the guests. A centerpiece of glass, china, silver, is usually used, over the doily or without it, and on top of this, flowers. When the center ornament has been adjusted, it may be used as a mathematical base for all the rest of the table appointments.
Macaroni as often prepared is another dish which it is not easy to serve neatly. Always break or cut it into pieces less than two inches long, before cooking, or before it is sent to the table. In serving sweet corn on the cob, provide finger-bowls, or a small doily to use in holding the ear of corn. One ladleful of soup is sufficient for each plate.
A neat bouquet of sweet peas stood exactly in the center of a snow-white doily, which was exactly in the middle of a shiny, round table. The very door-mat was brand new; Agatha would never have thought of wiping her shoes on it. Agatha's ring was answered by a half-grown girl, who looked scared when she saw a stranger at the door.
The round doily is most used, and offers a delightful field to the worker in over-and-over embroidery for the display of her skill. Linen lace combinations are also used, but they are rather for dress-up than for daily use.
They talked for a while longer, but of other things, the discussion of woman's influence having been dropped by mutual consent. After John's departure she suspended operations on the doily, and sat for a while gazing reflectively into the fire.
The plates were laid with a coarse red doily in a cocked hat on each, and a thinly plated knife and fork crossed beneath it; the plates were thick and heavy; the handle as well as the blade of the knife was metal, and silvered.
Gertie carefully stuck her embroidery needle into her doily, rolled up the doily meticulously, laid it down on the center-table, straightened the pile of magazines which Carl had deranged, and rose. "But I'm glad you could drop up this evening. Come up any time you haven't anything better to do. Oh what about our tramp? If you know some place that is better than Bronx Park, we might try it."
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