The daily Republican., 1902-12-12
NOVELTIES IN
TREE TRIMMING.
Marked Departure in the Decc'
sration ::of the Traditional
Christmas Pine.
ELECTRICAL NOVEL TIES
Some Designs That Are Wonder
fully Beautiful and Attract
i've. A Unique
Idea.

the common in trimmln. the Christ
mas tree Is the demlud of the mo-
ment. Everybody tries now and
then to have something different
from the traditional Christmas tree.
They do not desert the tree. but
they want change for Que wear
at least. There are plenty OF sug.
gestions for novelties IN this direc-
ton, if we would Judge from the
conversation overheard when moth
ers congrcgate to plan Christina as
arrangements Here are few OF
the newest tree suggestions recently
proposed.
The chief essential is to get some
thiog that will shine and sparkle
in the light. You can load the
boughs with artificial snow, hang
them with glass icicles, put EsQui-
mauX dolls here and there and
make wintry scene of It. That
has been done, an l is wonderfully
| beautiful.
Or you can fill it with cobweb bbv
tiusel aud hang Wll-o'-lhe.wisp
lights on the branches. anl put
fairies among them. That makes
a fairyland tree which sets the
children wild.
Or you can hang it with several
dozen dimnutive Japanes. lanterns
and have the little Japs walking
around under tiny parasols.
Or you can have a Brownie treo.
In that case you must have the old
fashioned popcorn and cranberry
strings, because the Brownies must
have something to eat
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON.
A novel idea is to make . Swiss
Family Robinson tree, Cut out
some Of the branches halfway up
the trunk, but not too high for the
little folks TO SEQ in. Be sure, too,
to set your tree on the: floor and not
on the table.
Make platform thore, and build a
staircase around the trunk reaching
up to it. Put in partitions Of pieces
of wood or pasteboard which you
can paper yourself. Then add the
furniture and the dolls. Hang the
tree with lanterns; make lookouts
here and there, arrange rope and
pulley for raising and lowering
from the ground That is the idea
il tho rough. I'll wager it would
turn the little folks crazy with
delight, ana especially would please
older children who are past the tin
sci and gcwgaw age.
AN INGENIOUS SUBSTITUTE.
An ingenious substitute has been
tried by one mother, which is 80
satisfactory that she threatens to
make it regular thIug. She had
4 platform about three feet high
and three by five feet on the sur face.
Here she had a small tree in the
background, the house, barn aud
sta ables; the clothes-linc, the vege.
table and flower gardens, walks,
shrubbery, trees and fence The
nurse was wheeling the baby car
riago on the front walk; the coach.
man was driving out OF the barn;
the mad was hanging out the sclothes.
Everything was complete, and by
doing the greater part Of the ar
Of things herself, having
bought them separately, it was not
30 expensive as oae would thluk,
One Of the most beautiful aud
trees ever seen was light
ed by incandescent electric lights
If different colors. They we're strung
through the tree, aud it needed bu
, twist Of the switch to turn them
III on or off. tnguestionably the
Christmas tree Of the future will be
lighted by electricity. but at pres.
mt that method is only for the fav-
'red few
UNIQUE IDEA.
A unique idea fora Christmas tree !
$ one tenanted by animals alone.
This would prove an expensive ar
if it is necessary to buy
I'll the animals fresh for the o-ca.
ion. But after many years of tree
trimming such quantity Of orna-
nants and toys accumulateS that it
5 impossibleto choose certain kind
ach year, to give individuality to
he tree. If it is to be an animal
rec this year. and there are
lumber of animals already on hand
rom the little toys Of early baby
lood to the mammoth dancing bear
+ mOoing cow or bleating sheep
With real hair and natural as pect,
hey can all be made useful The
insel ornaments should show ami
mails instead Of angels. with strings
f corn and cowbells and tinsel