The Elbert County tribune., 1916-12-22

stnctlveIy pause and make ready for fair new
start in life, even though we know that neither
life nor time has any pause in its onward sweep.
II is probable that there many more New
Years resolutions broken than kept strictly
through the year. Even so, there is good value in
the making of them, In spite of what somebody
has said about the downward road being paved
with good intentions.
q, od new resolves good for any time,
and backward glance will not hinder for
ward march. We cannot make too many efforts
to prune off bad habits and such other dead wood
find in our lives each year. All who have no
faults, please standi
However, it may be that the best New Years
resolve we can make this first holiday of 1917 will
he to start the good habit of beginning new every
morning.
After all the mistakes and disappontments and
business battles that leave tired and sour and
Sick there comes new day, so that we can begin
over again and do better. If we start such plan,
the coming year and those following it will be
happier new years.
New Years Entertaining.
New Years is occasion of big celebra-
ton all the country, every man and woman
having Il desire to speed the old year and well
the with some form of festivity. In
tho cities the hotels and restaurants make big
feature of this holiday and each and every one
advertses special supper, with dancing, etc.
This is all very well for those who do not have
to count the pennies when seeking pleasure, for
entertainment New Years comes high
Everyone wants to be amused to greet the incom-
ing twelve months with jollity and song
and the consequence is that the restaurants de-
mand and get high prices for entertainment on
that occasion.
There are end of enjoyable ways of enter
taining in ones home New Years
eve, and the woman who wishes to give pleasure
TO the family and friends on this occasion can
do at very little expense. All she needs is to
ask n jolly crowd, to think out IA clever scheme
of table decoration, to arrange some forms of
amusement and all will be well.
The woman who has fairly large rooms in her
house will do well to select dancing the chief
form of entertainment for the evening Dancing
has lost none of its fascination for the majority
of folks, and If 1t is made the big feature of the
party it is safe to say that most of the guests
will be well pleased. A small dance need not be
expensive affair. If you have phonograph
all is well II not surely you have some friend
from whom you borrow instrument for
the evening. Dancing to phonograph is just
good fun as dancing to an orchestra, provided
ones partner is skllfu at treading the Eight
fantastic"
When giving a New Years party where
dancing is to be the chief attraction of the eve
ming it is good idea to ask ones guests to come
TO the affair masked. This will lend mystery and
excitement to the party and there will be great
fun when the guests unmask the hour strikes
twelve and the year is ushered in to the
tune of many happy voices wishing each other
Happy New Year"
After the usual Fluctuations over, supper
should be served. This may be simple elab-
crate Just us the hostess desires.
As for table decorations, pretty centerpece
is to have star made from brilliant red poin-
sctta. In the middle of the star place a tall
cnndlestlck with long white candle for the new
year Each point of the star should be marked
by low candestick holding n shorter white
candle At the left of each plate have a spray of
poinsettia. A pretty way to ice cream
this occasion would be to have 1t nodded in the
fern of candle and candlestick, the candle to
be the v"nilla cream and the candestick to be
of ristachio green. tiny wax taper may be in
serted at the top of each candle" and lighted
Just all are brought in.
A simple supper menu for New Years eve
might consist of hot bouillon Ga thin soup) served
In cups that II is easy to hand around, chicken
salad sandwiches, Ice cream, cake and coffee
The supper should be OF the buffet order, the
men guests helping the girls to the food they re-
qulre. On this way the need of extra help is
dispensed with and no additional expense is IN
Cured on this