Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-21
CHRISTMAS TREES.
How to Plant and Decorate Them Most
BecOmingly.
Grom the Ladies Floral Cabinet.

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Plant your tree in a small wash
tub, filled in with brickbats or a nod
of hard coal, or anything that is
heavy and will keep it in place--fat.
irons will do if here is nothing else
at hand-and cover over the tub
with a gayly striped afghan, OF fur
robe, or flag, and upon this base
many of the larger articles, such as
books, desks. etc, can be arranged.
The children can manufacture many
beautiful decorations for the Christ
mas tree, in which hey will take
quite as much pleasure as if they were
from the fancy shops. With
few sheets of gilt, blue, scarlet and
silver paper cut into tiny strips four
inches IN length and half an inch in
wild h, you can make long chains to
sntwlne from bough to Dough of
the tree. With bottle of mucilage
paste the two ends Of the strips
together until half of them are made
into rings; then make up some more
by slipping one end through two
rings and joining them together.
Let the three rings become dry, and
JON them into long garlands. Sus~
pend around the outer branches of
tree from top to bottom. Twenty
yards will be needed to trim large
tree, twelve for small one. These
paper chains, when once made. can
be kept for years, if carefully han
died. Parch large pan of pop
corn, and string them into chains
with a needle and coarse thread.
Entwlne them also about the
branches, and after the presents are
distributed break up the chas,ns into
necklaces and throw around the
necks of all the guests.
If you possess broken looking
glass carry it to 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 of gilt or scarlet and blue
papers, and paste bit of ribbon or
paper at the top to suspend them
from the boughs. You cannot have
too many tiny mirrors. Purchase a
pound or two of English walnuts and
cut them into halves and take out
the meats. Save them to put into
the middle of each small frosted cake.
Purchase also a pound of sugared
caraways, and fill half of one Of the
nut shells with them, and paste on
the other half. Use common glue or
gum tragaceanth for paste. Insert
bit OF narrow ribbon in any color at
the top of the nut. Cut a small
round of gilt paper and cover it with
paste, and wrap it carefully about the
nut, letting the folds of it lie evenly
about the bit of ribbon.
Make as many as you can of these,
for they are the prettiest of rattle
boxes, and everybody likes to pos-
sess such trophy.
Little lace bags made of bobbinet
iace or wash-illusion, by running
them together with scarlet, blue and
gold>colored worsteds and using
bit OF it to string to draw them to-
gether, are also very pretty and de-
slrabie when filled with nuts, raisins
ana 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 a doll in laced OF silvered
wings, is very decorative when fast
ened to the topmost bough of the
tree. Small candles can have a 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 be sus-
pended with thread wires.