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The Germans to-day eat wild boar, head-cheese, pickles, goose's flesh dried, sausages, cheese, and salads for supper, and wash down with beer. The French, under Louis XIV., began to make the supper their most finished meal. They used gold and silver dishes, crystal cups and goblets, exquisite grapes crowned the ,pergne, and choicest fruits were served in golden dishes.
The baskets of flowers and the adornments of the ,pergne for a dinner are very apt to be all of one flower. If mixed, they are of two sorts, as yellow roses and red ones, or white and pink, or, may be, half of lilacs and half of roses, or purple pansies and bright yellow flowers. Some tables are set with scarlet carnations alone, and the effect is very fine.
This is a mere fanciful adjunct, and may be used or not; but it has a very pretty effect over an openwork, white table-cloth, with the silver tray of the ,pergne resting upon it. In many families there are silver ,pergnes which are heirlooms. These are now valued for old association's sake; as are the silver candlesticks and silver compotiers.
The mixed-up things trimmed with velvet or satin or ribbon, which are occasionally seen on vulgar tables, are detestable. The butler then lays the red velvet carpet, or mat, or ornamental cover whatever it may be called down the centre of the table, to afford a relief of color to the ,pergne.
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