The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-18
Bringing Home the Christmas Spirit
Use Of Eve,green Drapes Candles GiOcs FestiUe Air
RY IIrI.IA RT.ANsHARD

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 New York Merry home Christmases arc among the hap piest memories of adults.
 There's nothing like the glow ing red, rich green and snowy white of old-fashioned Christ masses when it comes to decora- tive Yuletide plans. However. # you are completely modern, blue and silver can be carried out. You can even get blue Christmas trees. with silver hangings. silver snow, silver angels to top them.
 Use Evergreen Eiberally
 If you want a regulation old fashioned Christmas, then ever green garlands should be fes- tOoned above the mantel. around the walls, across doorways. Since evergreen is hard for city folks to get, there are crepe paper festoons in the regulation green that do much to decorate the mixed with them. Holly wreaths are almost a Chirtsmas necessity. If your budget won't allow, then those paper Christmas bells or little Santa Clauses should hang from your curtains, in your door windows, outside your door. And of course there must be a piece of mistletoe hanging somewhere!
 Outside the house, your home should exude the Christmas spirit, too, Stringing electric lights about fir trees in the yard is still one of the incest of American customs.
 Candles for Windows
 If you want this a particularly lively Christmas, you can take down your regular hangings and put up Christmas drapes made of cheery red cellophane, red tarlatan or red crepe paper. And whatever else you do, be sure that on Christmas eve, every sim gle window has it's Christmas can dle burning. Anyone who has ever spent Christmas eve in Bos- ton and seen those miles of houses with a candle in every window knows just what mellow, 'cheery atmosphere they create.
 Trimming the tree is one more place where every member of the family, down to the baby, should take a hand. There's no thrill equal to that the children experi- ence when the old box of Christ mas tree ornaments (saved from year to year) is brought in and each child rediscovers his favor ite ornament and has the joy of hanging it on the tree, just where he wants to see 1t.
 Wrapping up the Christmas packages is another part of this Y,uletide festivity. With the whole family together. everybody mysteriously concealing certain gifts from certain members, there's an anticipatory pleasure mutually shared that heightens the thrill of the holiday tremendously. Even if you haven't fireplace, there should be stockings "hung with care" somewhere in the house. And don't forget those little amusing "toe" presents that should be slipped in to the toe of each stocking, funny little figures, or puzzles or something that. will make it worth while to go clear through the nuts, candy, fruit and gifts to the very bottom. With Christmas morning dawn ing bright and early and every- body up for the stockings and tree, Christmas dinner many seem JuoC A0dlihCs 4NVt oI SkhAs Dy 0AhkAOA time everybody will have thorough ly recovered from early-morning thrills and the tables appearance will rouse them once more to hol- iday pitch. Round Tables Best
 Christmas tables. If you are us- ing one. you can so easily find room on it for everything al once, a distinct advantage. But any table takes on a regal ap- peararlce when laden with MT Turk and all his accessories.
 For an old-fashioned Christ mas, have your cloth snowy white and stick to your red and green trimmings. The center piece may be made of little fir sprigs, combined with holly, bay berry and mistletoe. A low bowl, with one of those flower holders in the bottom of it into which you stick the various sprays, is the right container. Or you can scat ter pine cones among a heap of green and berries, right on Q mirror or dolly for a centerpiece. Make it a low centerpiece, how ever, so everybody can see every body else. And light your table with candle, alternating red and green ones, no matter if you have to pull the shades.
 There are gay Christmas dishes