The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-21
/ lew YEARS DAY furnishes an
" excellent excuse, If one be need
y ed, for those who like to enter
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IN excellent excuse, If one be need
ed, for those who like to enter
tain, white Twelfth Night, COM
monty called ,1ittle Christmas, which
falls on January &, provides another OPP
portunity for the hospitable hostess.
A luncheop or 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.
q Decorations for the New Year affair,
or. for that matter any day In Janu-
airy, should be flowers, fruit and faYorS
In season. There is nothing more beau
tiful than 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 wither
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.
! frozen pond can be made by using a
! large oval or oblong mirror and frost
ing II over with sponge dipped In a
| bath OF EPSON salts and beer; as much
of the salts as the beer viii take up in
solution. The edge Of the mirror may
be concealed by evergreens, diamond
! busted, and II one wishes to go so far
polar hears, seals and perhaps Eskimos
from the toy store may be placed on
the frozen lake and snowy banks. or
! course, with this there should be favors
and place cards TO match the winter
I scene The ice cream may be a biscuit
torteni 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 there should be q star of red flowers
in the centre OF the table. The star
foundation could be made of tin with
! turned-up edges, so that 1t would hold
water, or wet moss. which is far better.
The flowers could be scarlet geraniums
IL procura Lle or red immortehes. m
pretty candle decoration for the
January supper table is an arrange
ment ofsordnary sized redNaaadlesa In,
,ssias-,~r rtfvpr or brass candlestiaks sur
rounded by circle of small redcandles,
This arrangement is obtained by max
ing for zach 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 hole
in the centre for the large candle and
tiny Christmas tree candle holders
around the edge, six or eight of them
lol tHe SindH Cus4IteS. Hcse iOuuNS
may be covered with red paper or with
green. and dussed with mica. II the
latten ainum sea or glass fctcles Of dill
ferent lengths could be fastened to the
edges. Mg
Among the flowers suitable for the
January function we find roses. carna-
tons and a hothouse variety of bach
elor buttons called Centaurea. These
ara In white, pink or lavender. and are
little less ordinary than the roses and
carnations.
{ Much Of the food for these January
Faffairs is undoubtedly expensive, but
the wise hostess will select from the
following suggestions only those that
are +seasonable and possible in her To-
cality. 1t is usually the forged prod
ucts or the inaccessible that are an ex-
travagance. Undoubtedly the January
hostess Will use game as long as she
can get It, 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 1t
Is possible to secure partridge. gronse
or prairie chicken | would advise cook