The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-13
FEW YEARS DAY furnishes an

AYEw TEARS DAY furnishes an
 IN excellent excuse, If one be need ed, for those who like to enter
 tain, while Twelfth Night, com monly called Little Christmas" which falls on January 6, provides another op- portunity for the hospitable hostess. A luncheon or a dinner Is the most ft- ting function for New Years Day un- the especially appropriate entertain ment for Twelfth Night Is supper, because of its informality and latitude in frolic and fun.
 Decorations for the New Year affair, or. for that matter, any day in Janu- ary. should be flowers, fruit and favors in season. There is nothing more beau. tiful than a low gilt basket filled with poinsettias. but one must remember to cut the stems as soon as they come from the florists, or they will wlther before the feast be over. By the end of January these beautiful flowers are gone. so they should be used as long as it is possible to secure them. Another pretty table decoration, and one much used this year, is winter scene. A frozen pond can be made by using a large oval or oblong mirror and frost ing 1t over with a sponge dipped in bath of epson salts and beer; as much of the salts as the beer will take up in solution. The edge of the mirror may be concealed by evergreens, diamond dusted. and if one wishes to go so far polar bears, seals and perhaps Eskimos from the toy store may be placed on the frozen lake and snowy banks. Of course, with this there should be favors and place cards to match the winter scene. The ice cream may be a biscuit tortoni packed in small pasteboard or paper sleds; any handy boy can make these sleds, although they, too, can be found in the shops.
 For the Twelfth Night decoration <~I- T. -A a in the centre of the table. The star foundation could be made of tin with turned-up edges, so that it would hold water, or wet moss, which is far better. The flowers could be scarlet geraniums if procurable, or red immortelles.
 pretty candle decoration for the January supper table is an arrange ment of ordinary sized red candles in glass, silver or brass candlesticks sur rounded by a circle of small red candies, This arrangement Is obtained by mak- ing for each candlestick a cardboard disk from five to six inches in diam eter. to be used in the place of the or- dinary socket. There should be a hole in the centre for the large candle and tiny Christmas tree candle holders around the edge. six or eight of them for the small candles. These rounds may be covered with red paper or with green. and dusted with mica. If the latter. a number of glass icicles of diff 1erent lengths could De fastened to the edges.
 Among the flowers suitable for the January function we find roses, carna- tions and a hothouse variety of bach elor buttons called Centaurea. These arc in white, pink or lavender, and are little less ordinary than the roses and carnations.
 Much of the food for these January affairs Is undoubtedly expensive, but the wise hostess will select from the following suggestions only those that are seasonable and possible in her To- caIty. It Is usually the forced prod ucts or the inaccessible that are an ex- travagance. Undoubtedly the January hostess will use game as long as she can get 1t, for although the season closes January first, all dealers are al- lowed ten or fifteen days to sell that which they have on hand. As long as it is possible to secure partridge, grouse or prairie chicken would advise cook