The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
To Trim the Christmas Tree.

Stockings of bobinet, very airy in effect
to show the goodly Commensurate covered
bonbons, small toys and picture cards
come ready for % cents a single stocking.
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For holders for the slim waxen tapers
there are little tinsel cups or iridescent tin
holders, the latter ingeniously arranged to
clasp on the branch and hold the candle out
two or three inches beyond.
Bell-shaped bits of brightness are filed
with what seems to be liquid fire, though
it Is in reality only a pretty effect Of light.
These are among the cleverest of the new
Christmas tree fruits and cost 5 cents
apiece.
Fruits there are. too, apples, pears, peach
es and clusters of grapes. green or purple,
which are good to look at. Strands of pink
and red cherries and one or two other varie-
ties OF fruit are shown for the trimming of
the tree.
Christmas trees are blooming already
down town, though the home grown variety
will not be in blossom for a full week vet.
To judge from indications the bouquet OF
blossoms will be bigger and brighter this
year than in previous seasons for there will
be all the old familiar blooms and beside
a number of new ones. The things are all
inexpensive anu IL IL really dSIOQlS0lnR
what a fiourishing Christmas tree a few
well-expended dollars will produce.
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Small angels, which anywhere else might
be only tiny dolls, but which hung by their
rubber strings to the Christmas tree become
nothing less than cherubim and seraphim.
hang from downtown counters waiting for
purchasers. Angel pictures, Santa Claus
cards. even figures of the old saint himself
are ready to be mounted on the tip-top of
the completed tree and the prices of the lat
ter things depend entirely upon the size and
the completeness of Santa's get up.
Gold and silver tinsel sells by the yard
for 5 cents the yard. Newer than the tin
sci. though not so fascinatingly glittering,
are the small pennants connected by a lat
tice work of red, white and blue tissue
paper, which sell in goodly lengths for %
cents. Tassels of tinsel, tinsel flowers and
r~osettes and a multitude OF glittering tinsel
bloom, such as never grew in any but
Christmas gardens, are shown in brilliant
array and all cost but a few cents apiece.
The glittering balls, without which no
Christmas tree is ever complete, are shown
this year in astonishing variety-round
balls, oval balls, cone-shaped balls, some
of plain silver or gold. some flame colored.
some with little indentations which are filled
bouquets of lowers scattered over them
and some are covered with tinSel-and
almost all of them cost 5 cents, though a
few are 10 and many are but ).
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Very up TO date is the idea of connecting
the Christmas tree with an electric battery
and instead of the usual candles to have it
shine with the light of tiny electric bulbs,
| white, green and scarlet. The idea is an
efrectfye one and the bulbs have the adj
vantage OF the time-honOred candles In that
they do not go out after an hour or so of
service, neither do they have to be put out
because they threaten confiagration. But
| on the other hand the glowing bulbs lack
the delicious excitement attendant on dan
, ger, so the desirable qualities of candlelight
| and electricity as a means of lighting the