The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-11

rations-SOme New Candle Shades
Appropriate to the Season.
BY NJ. LIE Mont.
8 (Copyright, 1904, by 7. c. McClure.)
At Christmas time every one wants
the home to be the most attractive
place upon earth, for if ever home
sentiment and home feeling sweep
over the land it is at Yuletide.
At this season of the year ground
pine and crowsfoot are to be found in
masses under the dead leaves by road
side and forest, or even under the
snow, if that lies over the ground.
They make the prettiest of decora-
tions for the home and the table.
mantel drapery of either, with fes-
ICONS about the pictures and table
garlands of these lovely evergreen
vines is newer than the evergreen
wreathes with which all are familiar,
and which shed dry spikes long be-
fore they are taken down.
In milder chimes sumach can be
gathered, in all its scarlet beauty. and
used to make brilliant the house at
Christmas time, while along the Gulf
coast branches of shining magnolia
foliage make a beautiful green decora-
ton which may serve as background
for color of a lighter and brighter
sort.
Ferns and Poinsettas.
Nothing makes more effective
Christmas table decoration than maid
enhair ferns and poinsettas, whose
spreading scarlet leaves seem particu-
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with the delicacy of fern sprays. A
single poinsetta laid here and there up-
on the cloth, with loose sprays of green
as background, makes a brilliant
table, and the idea might be carried
out by having candle shades of green
foliage with a single poinsetta on the
outer side. Holly decorations combine
very well with these magnificent flow
ers but the blossoms are more striking
when used with foliage alone.
Chrysanthemums form an effective
decorative scheme for Christmas
adornment, and when the frost has
not yet done its work, the small out
door variety, which blooms all winter
where snow does not fall, makes the
most fascinating candle shades and
garlands for the dinner table, in gold
or in copper red or in many lovely
shades of pink
Many people press bright colored
autumn leaves and sprays of leaves in
preparation for holiday decorations.
and good results are secured by pin
ming leaves over candle shades and
sprlnkling them over the table cloth.
oak and maple leaves are particular
ly pretty Quaint little dinner cards
may be enriched with a leaf or two
thrust through one corner and tied
with bronze or red ribbon.
For Young Peoples Dinner.
quite an original idea for a young
peoples Christmas dinner illustrates
the sentiment of having all the nations
OF the earth Joined in celebrating the
great festival day of the Christian
Church, by dressing a doll to represent
eacn prominent acknowledgement to
having a cunning Filipino and a Sand
witch Island belle. an Iceland maiden.
little Laplander, and so on, gather
ing all that would be picturesque.
When all the dolls are dressed thew
are tied to candlesticks so as to con-
ceal the standard. and each doll holds
In one hand a strand of evergreen or
mowers that is fastened in turn to a
large Christmas bell of holly, mistle-
Toe. or some Christmas foliage, high
ABOVE the center of the table. Or a
tall Santa Claus doll may hold the
bell alott and be hung over with small.
bright cornucopias of candy, sewed to
narrow red ribbons, for each child
The candle shade above each doll
should be decorated with a Star of
bethlehem. Children love Christmas
story and sentiment, and some such ta,-
Die decoration would delight them.
For the Middle of the Table.
If an overhead decoration is un-
desirable, looking glass in the mid
die OF the table might be so covered
with evergreen as to form the points
OF shining star, the whole edged with
flowers.
The boy or girl who comes home
from school or college for the HOLIDAYS
is always pleased if some compliment
Is paid the college which they attend.
a dinner in which the shades for can
dies are made of panels emblazoned
with college flags and pennants is sure
70 De success among the young peo-
pie; Small college fans are useful in
making these shades when one has not
tne time nor patience to paint the dec
silk. "a
II Is pleasant to depart from usual
customs at Christmas time and have
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