The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-30
Everything's Aloud At This New Years Party!
By JULIA BLANSHARD NEA Service Writer

Now York.--This is the perfect year to give very merry New Years eve party.
 The host and hostess who arr range things so that every guest faces 1892 with head up and heart full of cheer is making a contribu- ton.
 "Yet us be gay" should be the motto for any New Years eve or New Years day party more than ever before. What the country needs this winter are cheerful souls who still feel that life IS happy experience.
 Decorations make more differ ence at 6 New Years party than at practically any other. You can still use Christmas trees and nBhts and mistletoe. But if you want to do something else again, silver ana blue or the all-white party can be
 made ravishing.
 Make it n White New Years If 1t is an all-white party you
 wish to give, let your guests know | 1t too. The black-white silhouette party really is simpler, for that lets men wear their black suits and American men arc not given to getting rigged up In fancy costume more often than they have to. This kind of party frankly tells the wo- men all to wear white, which IS an easy thing for all women to do.
 The silver and blue party calls for decorations in that color scheme. Crepe paper can trans- form any room and blue Christmas trees are to be had; let the guests dress as they like. If you mean to make 1t really scrumptuous affair, you can have balloons by the gross in silver and blue colors floating to fill the entire ceiling, ar- ranged on strings so that when the old year goes out and the new year is rung in, all of these balloons fall down on the dancers and reVelers. Favors play Q tremendous part in New Years parties. Whatever they look like. they must not be mute. Checkers, horns, bells, any thing that pops or rings or sings or whistles or makes a noise, Is in or- der as a favor.
 "Fnther Time". always has lot to do with New Year. It Is most appropriate to use him in some form for decoration. If you hap-
 pen to be giving the kind of party where you sit down to refresh
 ments. there are available hand-
 some centerpieces which play up the old man atop 0 clock that turns
 out to be hollow and to hold fA-
 vors for each guest, with strings
 running out to each place from the clock. If you want to do yourself
 proud, you can have cigarette | lighters for men, vanities Tor wo-
 men, cute favors. Let Party Hats Be Good Looking one good way to start things go- | ing right at a New Years party is to furnish guests with those litlle snapper favors that turn out to be fancy caps. Do get becoming ones There arc hats and hats, ana no.
 body wants to look like .pertect
 idiot; yet one one could obJect to wearing n Jaunty, hattering. coior. full headpiece. Along with the nat should go noise maker. Mercy knows there are enough kinds To get variety into the party. You could easily have Q noise band with inc different species available. Newest and possibly the cutest arc the fake champagne bottles that turn out to be only loud noise. The neck of the bottle is Q whistle. Among other cute favors for buffet tables, supper tables or to
 give the guests at small tables, are Champagne coolers, made of choeo- | late, tiny baskets of small choco;,
 late champagne bottles, actual
 musical horns and real COW bells,
 tied with gay ribbon in your color
 schemes combination. There are
 some very decorative little wood-
 en soldiers. fin exquisite color com
 bination, that makes noises enough
 to rouse the dend to greet the New | Year,