The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16
GAY TRAPPINGS ADD SPARKLE TO EVEN HUMBLEST PRESENTS
Soft Blue Leads In Newest Paper
 For Christmas
BY MARIAN YOUNG NEA Service Staff Correspondent

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 New York, Dec 16-Blue, in softer shades than formerly, and wine are the most popular colors in new pa- pers and ribbons in which to wrap Christmas packages. Bold stripes, solid colors and clear, easy -to-dis- tinguish prints are more in demand than all-over prints or tiny patterns so often lacking in character.
 As always, traditional berry red and Christmas tree green are great favorites. This year, however, these often are combined with 8 touch of blue or gold or both to produce any number of wrapping papers that ex- press the old-time spirit of Yuletide in designs unmistakeably up-to- date. On one, gayly wrapped pack ages in red, green and blue sail over bounding sea of green. On anoth- CT, wide variety of bright colored animals climb aboard Noah's ark. And a brilliant paper with peasant type designs makes further use of this effective color scheme. GENTLE DELFT BLUE
 IS OUTSTANDING SHADE
 Outstanding among the papers in the all-important blue is one in a muted, almost delft shade which serves as a background for a de- sign of gold bells interspersed with the word greetings" in gold script. Another new paper of Pa risian inspiration combines blue with soft rose, gold and white.
 A heavy, shiny surfaced wine paper cries for plain, but wide and handsome white satin ribbon A brown one of the same de luxe quality would be stunning on a box tied with wide gold ribbon with a small cluster of gold lac quered pine cones in the center of the bow. Smartly sophisticat- ed is the idea of wine paper with a soft, dusty bow and wine with both yellow and blue ribbons.
 Among the wrappings for de luxe gifts there are a number of striking metallic effects, in solid silver and gold and in figured pa- pers. One of this type uses gold as a background for green and white Christmas trees and gold | stars circled in white.
 LOTS OF ANIMALS
 FOR CHILDRENS GIFTS
 Seals and stickers range from amusing bears and kittens, ele- phants and showmen to lovely re- kpousse plaques of gold or silver which give new dignity to the packages they arodn. Christmas trees of gold or silver are very popular. It's still smart to use stars, sticking several, one over the other, to form a multiple star
 Name tags and enclosure cards achieve greater distinction this year. Many booklets have, all the formality of regular Christmas cards and appear in beautiful Florentine designs or photographic reproductions of out-of-door scenes Holly sprays and poinsettias, in red and silver on white, will be widely used. One effective enclosure card shows three poinsettias in silver on white.
 For money gifts there are spe- cial enclosure cards with designs keyed to a lighter vein than for merly. The pack of a jolly Santa Claus is split to hold bill or check A beaming colored Mammy's snowy white apron has pocket into which money can be tucked. And another money card takes the form of a puffing engine driven by a laughing St. Nick. This unfolds to a Santa Snow Train Special" one car of which holds a folded bill.