Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-03

l said to the other, Well, circumstan- 1 ceS will Ob1ige me to curtail many things that I would otherwise have carried out;" and in telling one way she was to economize, she was going 1 to dispense with the annual Christ mas tree.
 This saying touched my heart and made me feel sad, as I am the mother of little ones myself. and know how dear to children's hearts is their Christmas tree; especially when they have always been accustomed to one. I longed to tell her how I intended l to have a. tree at the cost of one dol- lar, and thinking it may be of benefit to others, I am going to tell you how I arrange it.
 It is not always the lavish outlay of money that makes a successful Christmas tree. One. that is handy may prepare all the little ornaments at home. Several sheets of glazed and , tissue paper, in two or three bright tints, a bottle of gliding, a few balls of tinsel cord, some coarse Swiss mus lin one pound of English walnuts, or 3 quarts of cranberrieS and quantity of popcorn will be required. You can collect pasteboard boxes of different sizes, colored pictures or picture cards bits of worsted, half a yard or more in length, fragments of materials suitable for dolls clothes and as many wishbones as you have
 
 The boxes can be broken up and the smooth pieces laid aside over the small pieces with tissue or glazed paper and decorate with pictures of buds or flowers. The larger pictures are pasted upon the cardboard and then cut out. They can represent fig ures, etc.
 Swiss muslin may be made into TO- settes and a figure pasted on the side of each; finish your rosettes with loops of tinsel cord.
 The popcorn can be used white as it is: or coIored if desired and strung with a needle and thread into long strings. Do the same with the cran- berries and loop them gracefully from branch to branch of the tree. Perhaps the most difficult part of your work will be in transforming the wishbones into dolls. Make the heads of peanut shells. These, if carefully selected will show possibilities in the way of faces, and many will be found to need only few pen strokes to make them look quite natural. Some may be dressed as old ladies, having plaid shawls about the shoulders with old-fashioned bonnets, others as in fants and others as old men. If any wishbones are left over they may be gilded and tied to the tree with tinsel cord or any bit of bright worsted or baby ribbon that is at hand. After 1 the walnuts are opened and emptied of their contents and gilded they can l be glued together after inserting tin l sel cord loops by which to hang them on the tree. Crescents stars and l hearts may be cut from cardboard and may be gilded or silvered or coV- cred with bright glazed paper. From the Swiss muslin cut baby stockings diamonds or squares, sew l two of the same shape together, but l tonholing them with bright silks and use them as candy bags, running mar row ribbon through the tops of each. l Balls may be made from gilded emp ] ty eggshells. Homemade cookies cut ! in the shape of animals, with black entrants for eyes, are attractive. Pa I per corncucOpias may also be made for | the tree. As last touch give the tree a liberal sprinkling of white cotton 1 pulled Into flakes, and sprinlIled with l gilt powder. 4 MOTHER. 1 Norwich.