1885 New Guide Hotel Bar Restaurant

THE NEW GUIDE FOR HOTELS, ETC.

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Other but vile travesties on nature should be shunned by the cook and table decorative artist, as by the student of canvas, pencil, brush and paint. From toneless dinner tables, from mild forms of single plant decorations, as ericas, tree ferns, myrtles, &c., we are being drifted into a loud style! but resist it mes amis, it is vulgar, outre, harsh, and our aim ought to be to cultivate the palate, the eye, the senses, in short, in all that is beautiful, chaste and refined : following in colour- ing and style the beautiful and graceful in nature, so that men may know the cooks art is indeed, an art of high rank, one requiring refined thought, beauty of idea and culture of mind. large handsome natural got up foilage,