What about colored glass? There is much of it about, some of it the frank imitation of the old stuff and some of it the real old thing. It is very popular. The reason it isn’t epidemic is because one has to have all the fixings with it to use it well and to be _au fait_. Unless one has center pieces and side dishes and flowers and, to go even to extremes, old chairs and antique refectory tables, colored glass gives a vagrant restless spotty cast to the table! You know what it means to have everything _en rapport_, in the way of expenses and fussing these days! ... to the majority of people anyway. And so when colored glass is used, even if one has all the articles necessary, real vision must be employed and discrimination exercised in massing everything to give the ease and grace (the basis of beauty) necessary. One of the most interesting things about glass to-day is that a firm in America has been taking the _Grand Prix_ and the Gold Medal in a competition with the glassmakers of the world in Paris! And some of the best glass is made in little old America! Talk about American prowess! And too, because the foreign markets have not been able to make the rather staple enamel and gold glass, America has again stepped in, and has been engaged in making this sort of glass too, and making it well. Some very old and exclusive dealers say colored glass is not in vogue because these firms have in their clientele very selected people who probably do not buy it as they have inherited all they need. Furthermore, many of their clients don’t want to be bothered with it. But from the way colored glass has been selling in some places it is certainly safe to say it is very popular. Yet on the other hand many dealers are afraid to stock up heavily with it because they fear a slump. At any rate, the manufacturers can hardly keep up with the demand for their excellent reproductions of the old Scotch, English, Irish and Venetian glass. But many hostesses like it because it takes such taste and skill to assemble a table when it is used. COOKING GLASS No other utensils on the market combine as these do, beauty, durability, economy and cleanliness even if the initial cost is more. You see they save fuel, because they cook food more rapidly, they save the cook’s time and the waitress’s time because they save the cooking time, and because they are easy to clean, collecting no burn to be forced off and no food to be laboriously scraped away. Besides all this, the food can be served directly from the stove without putting it into another dish for the table. This saves more time and insures hot food. It doesn’t crack in the oven, it comes in many styles--it is not inexpensive but it is worth the outlay. PLATE-GLASS Of late, plate-glass has been taking an important part in the household.