Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-29
FETES AND FESTIVALS
JAPANESE LANTERNS REPRO.
DUcE ORIENTAL CARICATUREs.
Carnival Flags and Yards Of Vari-
Colored Paper Cut to Look
Like Balls Of Flowers
Written FOR The Star.

| Written FOR The Star
With golden rod blooming IN all its wealth
| of yellow glory, berry festivals and lawn
| parties reach the height of their existence,
and matrons are busy ransacking shops and
! attics for new and old fairy-like decorations
| with which to transform trees and grounds
| into magic gardens Not that the golden
| rod IN itself Is not more than luxuriant
! decorator. but the question of light after
shutdown Is an important factor in all forms
| of outdoor entertainment.
| To the Japanese lantern with its aIluring
! fantastic light lawn fetes have long owed
| much of their attractiveness and popularity.
| This year these same lanterns have taken
| unto themselves such wondrous shapes that
they are more fascinating than ever. Gro
| tesque heads of Cinnamon or Japs are per-
feet reproductions IN outline and markings
of oriental carfcature. Weird dragons and
dogs, such as are seen on mosques and
eastern temples grin or growl from the
lanterns like Alice-in- Wonderland creatures.
And more picturesque than all the rest,
queer forms of deep-sea fish are reproduced
in the gay yellows and greens and reds OF
Japanese lantern paper with paper wings
hanging from them and looking for all the
world like gauZy fields.
Less elaborate lanterns in the shape
or Jardinieres or representing fantastic mos
lens of eastern countries. These come in
shades of pink. blue. green, etc, and are
made from paper which is sheer as a
butterfiy's wing. A set of twenty of medi-
UNI size can be purchased for the very rea-
sonable sum OF 81. Tiny decorative Ian
terms come to hold the very smallest
dies, while larger ones tall and
shapely as huge porch jardinieres.
A String of Daisies.
very effective way of employing these
lanterns for DECORATION Is to have them
strung picture wire in the form OF daisy
petals, the wires all centering at big cir
Gle of stakes surrounding a tree and each
stake topped by paper parasols. For an
evening fair or festival, tables may be set
inside these lantern petals, and there is no
prettier method of lighting the stands them
selves than by hanging four or five small
lanterns on cross sticks supported in a
tall vase. For the heart of the daisy an
enormous paper umbrella may be suspended
from branch OF the central tree. Hanging
on the myriad wooden ribs OF the umbrella
should be odd-shaped lanterns giving the
effect of canopy OF light.
At a fair where this scheme of decora-
tion was successfully carried out a scarlet
Umbrella with great white gulls spreading
inside of it formed the canopy of the cir
cular central candy booth. Miniature lam
terms lighted the stand and the sides were
covered by paper panels showing Japanese
scenes. Massive punches of daisies filled
the spaces between the panels. Vases of
golden rod however. would blend even
more effectively with the yellow and red OF
japanese color combinations.
Where a great number OF lanterns are
not available. all sorts of flower and petal
designs may be outlined on the lawn by
means of paper flags Various marine and
national flags of different countries come
already strung, an inch or two apart, on
fine wire which Is long enough to stretch
from tree to tree. These yards of fiut-
tering, vari-colored flags are inexpressibly
decorative amidst the green OF trees and
grass. They are sold in various sizes, from
four to twelve or sixteen inches in length,
and are marked with mikado insignia or
str ange heather embems.
il the lawn decorations extend from
porch, strings of lanterns hung In festoons
Z from piazza pillars to tree trunks may al
| ternate with festoons OF fancy paper. The
| latter are cut in five and ten-yard lengths
| and look like strings OF full-blown roses.
| If pond or lake is near, the effect of this
evening Illumination Is doubly enhanced,
| and row of lanterns hung on sticks around
| the edge OF the bsnk will seem 10 be two
| rows because of their reflection in the wa
ter.