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purposes by sticking them with tiny
crepe paper flags. They should be sus-
pended from the boughs by braids of
red white and blue paper.
Walnuts, hickorynuts, peanuts, pine
cones, etc, will help the decorative
scheme also. If they are gilded. The
best thing to accomplish this result is
smalt, which is kept by paint dealers.
and comes in gold, silver and all the
metallic shades
First dissolve a cake of glue in boil
ing water place a tack in the end of
the nut or object to be immersed, dip
in the liquid glue, roll in the smalt
and dry. Later. when ready to sus-
pend from the tree, attach bright red
ribbon to the gilded tack, and hang in
some of the places that look bare.
Another novelty which will please
the children is to take the shells of the
walnut, split so they will be intact, re-
move the meats, gid or silver the
empty shells. then place tiny doll.
candy or motto inside. and tie with
bright colored baby ribbon.
1t it almost impossible to have too
many objects for trimmings, as the
tree is like yawning chasm-hard to
fill.
Little Cinnamon, dangling by their
queues, and Japanese lads and lassies,
peering furtively out from among
green boughs, will create a great deal
Of amusement for the Occidental boys
and girls whose eyes are eagerly fixed
on the tree. Milkmaids, Jack Hor-
ners, Brownies, gnomes and fairies will
also be an attraction, and they may
serve as bonbon receptacles as well.
To make a milkmaid, for instance,
use bristle board, and shape in an OBJ
long round box. Fit a bit of paste
board for a bottom, and make a cover
likewise. Fill with candies and nuts.
Then take an ordinary bisque doll,
which may be purchased at any 10
cent store, break off the legs and glue
the body to the box. Next proceed to
dress the little cripple in a diaphanous
crepe paper gown of some dainty color.
One of the latest novelties for these
doll bonbon boxes is to dress them in
evening gowns, en- train and decollete,
adding a picture hat. a wrap and boa
in some contrasting shade. Black ac
ceSSOries are very fashionable for
these midgets. Another pretty idea is
to make tiny closed parasols of crepe
paper, glued to a toothpick and fast
en- in the hand of little milady--a sim
pie matter, as a trial will convince.
Plumes for the hats are made by
slashing a strip of folded paper. curl
ing the fringe over a toothpick, and
plating on the hat. Muffs, too, are
beautifully fashioned out of paper,
with bunch of tiny violets added for
trimming. With long coats, boas, and
picture hats, these bonbon dolls are
quite stunning, especially the golden
haired. blue eyed ones.
A useful gift which will help TO make
the tree look pretty is the Irvine doll,
dressed handsomely in crepe papers
pink and black. red and yellow, yell
low and black, or blue and black. with
hat to match, and white paper petit
coats. Quite a god sized doll viii be
needed for this novelty, al least a IA
inch one. Break the legs of close
20 the body and glue the body 10 a
Irvine receptacle IN which is a ball OF
Irvine. The costume will, Of course,
need 70 be voluminous
Little pixies can be made 20 peer out
Of unexpected hooks on the tree
They, too. are made Of small bisque
dolls about six inches long. fastened
on an oval piece Of cardboard three
inches IN diameter for standard
ghia eaEdb1aEd should be covered