The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-03
THECHR|STMAST TREE
HOW TO TRIM 1T MOST EFFEC'
lively AND EASILY.
Il 10 Usually the Last, But by No
Means the Least Important OF
the Holiday Preparations.

When all the other Christmas work
Is done, there remains the important
task of trimming the Christmas tree.
Color and effect are the most impor-
taut requirements, the materials en-
ployed being secondary. The souvenirs
or gifts form part of the decoration OF
the tree. These may be wrapped in
tissue paper of bright hues, and tied
with narrow ribbons. If the gifts are
small, pretty idea is to imbed them
in artificial oranges. Make these OF
orange-yellow crepe paper, wrapping
the gift In soft paper, and I'LL the
orange out with tissue paper. Hang
by tWo-inch lengths of ribbon or strips
Of braided crepe paper. These look
very pretty among the dark green
boughs.
Buy the loose tinsel and cobweb the
tree with it and with strings of pop.
corn. String the corn on coarse threads
about fifty inches long; make tassels
Of the corn on each enS, then tie a
knot in the long strand, a little below
the center, after doubling the tassel
ends even. This forms unique neck
lace.
Little stars, hearts and other figures,
cut from heavy paper, given coat OF
glue, then dipped in mica or metallic
flock, make rich decorations, also
chains made of paper and treated in
the same manner. These chains, looped
from bough to Dough, are quite daz'
cling, holly berries, threaded to each
link, make them more effective.
Plenty of red and green apples
small ones, of course-help the dec
orative scheme; and tiny potatoes
stuck full of wee flags, look we'll. Make
the banners of various colors, using
crepe paper with long sticks.
String all the fallen holy berries
and garland the boughs with these, OF
spear each berry with a pin and stick
the pins into corks or pieces OF potato
The best method of gliding the nuts
is to buy the loose smalts from some
dealer in paints and oil (house paints)
One can obtain the smalts in gold
silver and brilliant metallic colors
Obtain also one-eighth of a pound o.
glue. Place it in a bowl, add a pin
Of water, and set the bowl in another
vessel OF hot water. Let boil until thu
glue is thoroughly dissolved. Before
gliding the nuts, hammer tack int
the end to suspend by. Take hold 0
the tack, dip the nut in the glue, thel
r0l in the flock and lay aside to dry
Little pine cones can be gilded in
like manner.
Little bonbon baskets are Quickl,
made by forming a strip of cardboar
I'VE inches long and two inches wild
into a circle. Fit in a disk of caro-
board for the bottom, then line insid
and out with paper gluing it in plac
Make handle from a strip Of braide
Grape paper and sew securely in place
fastening it on the outside, as this i
70 Do recovered: to do this, take plec
OIL Grape paper four inches wide an
hSe inches long. Fit this around tn
little box, Slashing top and bottom I
form a fringe. Others can be covere
with rows OF braided Grape paper; oil
ers, again, may be dipped in the liQui
siue, then busted with sage and 81
Vered or gilded.
Again, one can take two squares {
ssuhds of Grape paper Of contrastin
shades and about five inches In dian
stef' Place two together, slash tn
soses to the depth of an inch and