Evening star., 1915-12-23
The Christmas Table.

do you want to know how our
Christmas dinner table is going to be
decorated?" asked Mrs Happy Home
maker.
TT is going to be the very prettiest
one in the world and will cost hardly
anything.
I'm the first place there is our pop
corn centerpiece. We pop the corn our
selves SO that every kernel.is like a
big. soft, white snowflake.
This is heaped into a fiat dish in
the middle of the table and surrounded
by a wreath of evergreen, into which
holly berries have been stuck. From
out of this snow mound of popcorn a
tiny tree grows, covered with tinse
and sparkling powder, which makes the
tree and the popcorn glitter as if they
We're covered with hoarfrost.
"On the four corners of the table
are pine cones 1--WE collected them this
summer and brother followed them out
and fixed them SO that they would hold
Candles) with four of the big, fat, self
consuming candles in them. (By the
way, these candles are worth the slight
difference in price, for they obligingly
eat up their own wax and don't go
trailing it about in long white trains
after them.)
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and with a wreath of powdered ever
green at the base light up most effect
lively.
The nut boxes are made of small.
bright red apples, followed out and
the hollow lined with waxed paper.
Into these are stuck two or three sprays
of holly.
The candy boxes are made in the
same way. except that they are made
from the biggest. reddest apples which
can be found, and there are only four
of these arranged in the middle of the
| table. while the little nut boxes are
individual.
Everything on the table will be
placed on little mat of evergreen
and holly-that is, the cranberry jelly,
! the celery, the picked peaches, the candy
candy boxes. etc.
around the table, just above the
holly-studded evergreen, and over all
the dining room lights shaded in red
Will cast warm, CHEEKY glow.
our Christmas dinner menu is al
ways simple. 1t has always seemed
| to me that to prepare an abnormal
| quantity Of things to eat detracts from
the enjoyment, and is not only foolish
but dangerous.
1.-The turkey, made as delicious as
skill and care can compass is the
chief dish: with this are served white
potatoes, mashed and Drowned in the
| oven; boiled onions or stewed toma-
toes, apple and celery salad and pine
apple ice with the Christmas cake"
Making Toy Cookies.
This year the children took com
plete charge of the cookies. 1 did
not even go into the kitchen to see
if the oven was right, and l must
show you what they have done" said
Mrs. Happy Homemaker, proudly.
The Christmas cooky baking has
always been great event with us.
1t began when sister was not a year
old, so you see it is an ancient in
stitution of over fifteen years stand
ing.
That year we heard of a young
couple who were in the hardest luck,
SO we decided to pack basket for
their Christmas dinner. They mad
baby just about the age of ours,
so the idea came to us that 1t would
be fun for our baby to send this
other baby something special, SO L
made simple little cookies, shaped them
to look like cats and birds and stars
and things, and made it an especial
gift from baby to baby.
There have always been people TO
send Christmas baskets to every year
since, and every basket has contained
it's box of cookies, which first one,