The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-11

dolls and Brownies and odd conceits
of any kind to supply the place Of
stereotyped candlesticks and candle
labras, and to decorate the table, in
stead of merely lighting it. as side
lights upon the wall often do.
Hothouse flowers are lovely and dec
orative at all times. but where it is
possible to get home-like blossoms and
foliage it is better to do so. The SEN
timent of Christmas is away from the
ARTIFICIAL of any sort and toward the
sweet simplicity of nature and child
hood.
Putting Up Gifts.
1t is always easy to select a pretty
gift, but not every one thinks of an
attractive and decorative manner in
which to put it up. bouquet of rare
mowers in jeweled or golden holder
is a simple way out of the difficulty
for the rich. but the great mass of
people are not rich. and to these the
question of how to put up gift at
tractively is an important one
A few bits of holly tied with scar
let ribbon are always pretty and cheap,
ana a small bunch of flowers with a
holder of tea-matting, bound with
wide band of ribbon at the TOP and
bottom, to resemble a golf case, hold
ing also diminutive golf stick or two,
is dainty when fastened to a gift box
with ribbon band and bow
Red ribbon is a most useful article
at Christmas time. 1t can supply the
place of other colors on the dressing
table the library or den, and where
ever a bit of red will give more of a
holiday appearance to the ordinary
things of life.
1t lends a cheerful look to even the
plainest Christmas box. and makes a
delightful glow amid evergreen
wreathes.
Decoration for a Doorway.
A real holiday decoration for a
doorway is made of any sort of ever
green frame procurable, tied to wires
or string and tackled in place at the
corners. If holly or rnistletoe ber-
ries are added, the effect is all the
prettier. Across the top of the door
way a chime of bells, made of paper
covered inside and out with green or
flowers. and having a yellow flower
OF small orange for a clapper, forms
a real Christmas welcome, while
stars or Bethlehem might form a
pretty decoration for a bank of ever
green or growing plants before a fire.
place.
Ivy makes most attractive Christ
mas decoration, and is strong enough
TO act as very graceful festoons with
out any aid of wire or string. There
is, TOO, vine whose leaves grow red
and copper colored and remain upon
the stem up till Christmas time.
which is most lovely as an adjournment
for the home at Christmas tide.
The Christmas Tree.
A Christmas tree is decoration
always enjoyed by young and old
alike, and in a city is easy to adorn
with the usual bright tinsel finery:
out IN small towns and country places
one has to manufacture decorations
Tor the tree that is intended for the
holidays and not for one night onlv.
Bright-colored fruit is pretty hung
amid the green branches and Christ
mas bells can be made of any flowers
that happen to be at hand or of
bright berries, sewed upon a little pa
per foundation. These, with bright
little silk bags, containing presents.
give touch of color.
ODDLY enough, one of the best
plants for house decoration at Christ
mas time is the Chinest lantern. a
graceful green plant hung over with
lanterns shaped fruit of a, bright red
and yellowish-red color. whose ex-
terror surface or pod is as thin as
paper, and whose interior fruit is a
glossy, bright-colored ball. Such a
plant, rising from a plat of green is
perfectly lovely, and the more at
tractive for it's oddly.
The Christmas Bag.
/ The Christmas bag is an innovation
planned by one housekeeper. The
breakfast table is to be decorated with
a mirror in the center. outlined as a
star by holly sprigs, and with slen-
der cut glass vase in the center hold
ing red chrysanthemums. Long
slammed al
central star with the blossoms toward
the plates of those for whom the flow
ers are intended. Every napkin lies
beneath a Christmas card with a sprig
of holly tied upon it with red ribbon.
and to the back of every chair is tied
bag with a big red satin bow. The
bags are of all sizes, and each is full
of individual gifts. One is an opera
bag; another a shopping bag in black
and gold; still another in brown le2th-
er and gold nailheads; another a bag
for collars and cuffs; another a gay
laundry bag; one is suggestive of the
scraps grandmother will put into it.
and the other of books that small
girl will carry to school. All are as
dainty and fine as careful workman
ship and good materials can make
them, and there will be fun ernptying
the contents of the various bags.
A Basket Decoration.
A basket decoration can be planned
by having baskets for all sorts of
purposes hung with ribbons to each
chair and filled with Christmas pack
ages.
Christmas bells are very effective as
decorations for the home. and can be
made in any size of stiff paper, with
the covering of foliage, flowers, leaves
or berries. In the case of table gar
lands, little gilt bells are purchased
and hung amid the flowers and leaves,
or little paper ones are covered with
tinfoil and supplied with a berry for
a clapper. They are cunning and add
a touch of novelty to the decorations,
while suggesting those Christmas
chimes which ring out across the
snow"