Evening star., 1928-12-23
Trimming Your Christmas Tree
BY BETSY CALLISTER.

@WO days 70 Christmas: One
working day left, and that one
probably crowded with tasks
i enough to fflistWo days.
But still there Is, time enough
left to attend to hegciristmas table
decorations II they have not already
been arranged for.
you can get hold Of some ;red crepe
paper and some green blotterse or card
board, few tiny bottles of perfume or
some cigarettes, some little. dolls and
some ribbon, you can make all sorts of
pretty things that are illustrated in
! today's sketches. Sis
| If you can't spare much time, but
| can borrow or buy small toysAirplane
| and can find Santa doll to put in it,
you can make lovely Jack Horner pie
Ito hang over the Christmas dinner ta-
BILE. Paint the words Santa Claus" on
the hull of the airplane, tie little
| favor for each diner in white paper
with red ribbons and hang them all
| from the plane. You can pierce the
| hull Of the airship to faSten in the
ribbons II you wish, or you can have
all the ribbons come from the cockpit
where Santa sits.
The easiest favors to get at this time
Of hurry are small boxes Of nuts or
candy, which really answer the purpose
very well.
Lovely little ladies may be made from
small dolls with ballooning skirts of
| crepe paper In figured design-you
| can use paper napkins II you wish
| and jackets or bodices of plain color,
trimmed with bit of cottonwood fur
| The paper lady Is made taller than the
| little doll, so that she seems slender
and graceful, and her stiff paper skirts
hold her up as well as legs. The skirt
| Is gathered with needle and thread, but
| most Of the costume is pasted securely
in place.
An easily made Jack Horner Is q big
/ basket. Use square box for the foun-
dation. Cut squares or circles of PASTE
board to cover the sides, Of the box.
cover them with crepe paper in red
with a smaller circle of green pasted
on medallion fashion. and big red
| poinsettia seal pasted on the green disk
Make handle Of strip Of pasteboard;
Put individual favors inside the basket
thus formed. Tie each with a ribbon
and arrange the ribbons to go to the
appropriate places. Little baskets of
the same sort make attractive salted
nut or bonbon holders for the individ-
ual places.
Butterflies perched on spirals of wire,
each with a bottle Of perfume or a
| cigarette for the body, are attractive
and very easy to make. You will need
piece Of crepe paper about four inches
square. Fold 1t crosswise of the grain
through the center, and cut the edges
in a way to suggest the outline of
butterfly wings! Gather along the
crease with coarse double cotton thread,
pulling the gathering string up to about
an inch.
Fasten OF securely and then sew to
the end Of green wire spiral, arranged
so that it will stand on the table
With bit of wire fasten atiny bottle
of perfume over the shirred section like
the body of a butterfly. Cigarettes may
be used for the mems butterflies. II they
smoke. If you don't want cigarettes
you can use those little chocolate -cov-
cred crackers that are shaped like little
loaves Of Vienna bread.
If you have no time to make any
thing you can use little buncbes OF
holly tied with Christmas ribbons at
each place, or a chocolate Santa Claus
that you can easily buy, or tiny toy
Christmas tree, or a little red candle
lighted and burning in half walnut
she'll, to which 1t Is fastened securely
by melting And Christmas cards
always make easy and pretty place
Copyright. 1927