Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-21
CHRISTMAS IREEs.
How 10 Plant and Decorate Them Moss
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Plant your tree in q small wasn,tuo!
filed in with briekbats or nod OF narw
coal, or anything that Is heavy ana WIZ ~
keep 1t in place-fiat-irons WIN 90 u
there Is nothing else at hand-anocover
over the tub with a gayly striped aIgnan,
ON fur robe, or flag, and upon TINS
base many of the larger articles, suc1 IS
books, desks, etc., can be arrahge1. In IL
children can manufacture many oeauti-
ful decorations for the Christmas tree,
i'm which they will take quite as mucn
pleasure as If they were from the nancy
shops. With few sheets OF gut, Diue,
scarlet and silver paper cut INTO tiny
strips four inches in length ana nan an
inch in width, you can make long cna II
TO entwine from bough TO Dough Oh tne
tree. With q bottle OF muciiage Past.s,
the two ends of the strips together uhtu
half of them are made into rings then
make UP some more by slppih8 one
through two rings and joining them 10
pether. Let the three rings become 9ry'
and Join them into long garianos. ous-
pend around the outer branches OF tne
tree from top to bottom. Twenty yarus
will be needed to trina large Tree.
Twelve for a small one. These paper
chains. when once made, can be Kept
for wears, if carefully handled. Parch q
large pan ofpop-corn, and string them
into chains with a needle ana coarse
thread. Entwine them also about the
branches, and after the presents are
distributed, break up the chains INTO
necklaces and throw around the necks
of all the guests.
If Won possess broken lOoking-glass,
carry it to a glazier and have it cut into
bits three inches by two. Paste bit OF
brown paper over the back of the glass,
and bind the edges with strips oil CUNT
or scarlet and blue papers, and paste
bit of ribbon or paper at the top to sus-
mend them from the boughs. You can
not have to many tiny mirrors. Purchase
a Mound or two of English walnuts, and
cut them into halves and take out the
meats. Save them to put into the mid
die of each small frosted cake. Purchase
also a DOund of sugared carawayS, ana
fill half of one of the nutshells with
them and paste on the other half. Use
common glue or gum tragacanth for
paste, Insert bit of narrow ribbon III
any color in the top of the nut. Cut a
small round of gilt paper and cover IL
with paste, and wrap 1t carefully ABOUT
the nut, letting the folds oft lie evenly
about the bit of ribbon.
Make as many as you can OF these, lor
they are the prettiest of rattle-bOxes,
and everybody likes to possess such
trophy. .,.. ,.oo
Little lace bags made of bobbinet lace
or wash-illusion, by running them to-
gether with scarlet, blue, and gold-color-
ed worsteds and using bit OF 1t for
string to draw them together, are also
very pretty and desirable when filled
with nuts, raisins and sugar-plums for
the children. .
Small apples closely stuck with cloves
are also nice to perfume bureau drawers,
and a dozen or more will not come
amiss upon this most wonderful tree;
A Christ child or angel, made by
dressing doll in laced orsilvered wings.
is very decorative when fastened to the
topmost bough of the tree. Small candles
can have bit of wire thrust through
the lower end by heating it, and then
fasten it securely to the boughs OF the
tree. Apples and oranges can also he
suspended with thread wires.