The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-30
Ew YEARS DAY furnishes an

lew YEARS DAY furnishes ar
IN excellent excuse, II one be need
ed, for those who like to enter
tain, while Twelfth Night, com
monty called Little Christmas" which
falls on January 6. provides another op-
portunity for the hospitable hostess
A luncheon or a dinner is the most fit
ting function for New Years Day un-
less one holds a private reception, and
the especially appropriate entertain
ment for Twelfth Night is a 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-
AIRY, should be flowers, fruit and favors
In season There is nothing more beau
tful than a low gilt basket filled with
poinsettias, but one must remember 70
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
II 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 II over with a sponge dipped in a
bath of EPSON salts and beer; as much
pf the salts as the beer will take up in
Iolution. The edge of the mirror may
be concealed by evergreens, diamond
busted, and IL one wishes to go so far
polar bears, seals and perhaps Eskimos
from the toy store may be placed on
lhe 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 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
here should be a star of red flowers
m the centre of the table. The star
foundation could be made of tin with
.urned-up edges. so that II would hold
water, or wet moss, which Is far better.
The flowers could be scarlet geraniums
Z procurable, or red immortelles.
A pretty candle decoration for the
January supper table is an arrange
nent OF ordinary sized red candles In
glass. silver or brass oandlesticks sur
rounded by a circle Of small red candles,
This arrangement is obtained by max
ng for each candlestick a cardboard
iisk 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 busted with mica. II the
latter, a number of glass icicles of diff
ferent lengths could be fastened to the
edges.
Among the flowers suitable for the
January function we find roses, carna-
tions and hothouse variety of bach
elor buttons called Centaurea. These
are 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 10.
cality. 1t 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 thai
which they have on hand. AS long as II
is possible TO secure partridge. grouse
or prairie chicken would advise cook