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Center Pieces for c #^5 The happiest dinner of all the year' Is that in which all the members of a family join on Christmas day. Preparations for this joyous feast are go^ ing on two or three weeks before Christmas day, or even for a longer time. There is a lot of fun in making them, especially when all the family is interested and every member of it takes some part in the work. In addition to the usual Christmas greens?the pine and holly?so dearly loved and always used as a background for other things, some new and unexpected decorations add to the interest of Christmas celebrations. For the dinner table, the sideboard, the Christmas tree, serving tables and i mantels some things are to be newly made each year, adding the spice of variety to the charm of old-time favorites. Among these are centerpieces for the Christmas table. To replace tile miniature Christmas tree or the decorative Christmas cake ? which ha~? done long and valiant service as centerpieces, there are a number of new things that are easy to make and cost next to nothing, which have been brought out lately. Among them "Christmas pies" are featured. They are boxes of some sort that simulate a house, a chimney, a figure of Santa Clans, a sleigh or any receptacle that will hold small packages, and they are filled with little gifts, usually things that provoke a laugh, that are to be distributed before or after dinner to the people seated at the table. A centerpiece made of cardboard, cotton, powdered mica and crepe paper is shown in the picture above. A , very heavy cardboard is used for the foundation and this is about thirty Inches square. A box twelve inches squar2 will serve for the house, and It is either covered with red paper or T' -4-V uniaiiiciiig iasi iii ?#####<#**/#???########??###?####< Id order that the high cost of living may not fall ~"ve a blight upon the Christmas tree, we must begin to consider its decoration right now. Quite a number of things are more expensive than they used to be, and candy is among them, but there are plenty Of ornaments that cost next to nothing, and homemade candies?which are better than others?will partially s, replace the confectioners' wares. Some of the inexpensive ornaments that will adorn this year's Christmas trees appear in two groups above. At the left are a few of the new and inexpensive celluloid toys that have Deen produced in great variety unu abundance and can be bought for ten or fifteen cents each. They include very pretty little jointed dolls, all kinds of domestic and wild animals, ducks, fishes and swans and very vividly colored horns. They are very light , and will float, so that the waterfowl, the tiny battleships and fishes can be floated in a basin of water. In the group at the left,there are three celluloid animals, besides a doll and a horn. They are all nicely colored and the doll is large enough to dress easily. The horn is a very vivid red, has a silk cord and tassel and will delight the small vounesters to whom noise is mu sic. In the group at the right, just a few home-made ornaments are shown. They include a butterfly and a robin, with a plain horn of tin, having red gauze ribbon wrapped about it and tied in bows at the ends. Also one of those long candy snappers, wrapped in bright red paper. A face is painted on it, with hair and whiskers indicated bjr cotton, to look like Santa Claus. The butterfly is cut from crepe pa Christmas Tables ?> painted red, with windows and doors sketched on. In the printed papers niptnrpa r>f hnnsps micht helD OUt in making the house. When the box has been glued or tacked to the foundation small pine trees may be made by cutting green crepe paper into narrow fringe. This is wound to moderately heavy wire, using thread or tie wire to fasten the fringe to the heavy wire. By trimming the fringe in different lengths the short and long branches of the trees are simulated. The next step is the placing of cotton to simulate snow op the foundation board, on the roof of the house, on the trees and below the painted windows. It is fastened down with little dabs of mucilage. The roof of the house can be lifted off when the time comes and small packages that have been placed within distributed to those about the table. Little figures added to the scene help to make it attractive. Santa Claus and his reindeer, cut from printed paper and | pasted against thin cardboard, are s?t in the snowy scene pictured. Finally powdered mica?"Santa Claus snow"? is sprinkled over the whole piece to give it a frosty sparkle, and this finishes a fine centerpiece for the Christmas dinner table. Nearly all these center pieces arc made of a 'low pasteboard box?either round or square?containing small gifts and having a flat lid. This iS covered with cotton or crepe paper aDd a Santa Claus, chimney, or tiny Christmas tree, is mounted on the lid. tA/fcs ie Christmas Tree ? per, which may be bought with many butterflies in various sizes and colors; painted on it. It is then pasted against | a thin piece of cardboard or a heavy! writing paper that is cut out to con- j form to it, and mounted on a short wire. By brushing a very little mucil-. age on the wings (in lines or spots),! powdered mica sprinkled over them will give the glitter that is expected on the Christmas tree. The birds are made in the same way. Mosquito netting, in white and red, makes fine ornaments in the form of little mittens, stockings and bags, that hold mixtures of popcorn and candy.1 These are cut out and sewed with red yarn along the sides. A drawstring of yarn, run through the top, closes these candy bags and serves to hang them on the tree. Tinsel, that is bought by the yard 1 for the tree, will rfiake sparkling sil- ; ver stars. The stars are cut from thin cardboard and the tinsel sewed to ! them. They will take the place of glass balls at less cost. Gold and silver paper make the prettiest horns of plenty, cut in small triangles that are pasted together at the longer sides. The open end can be finished with tin- j sel and the horn is hung to the tree ! with narrow red ribhon, tinsel or plain red or green cord. Small balls of pop- j corn, suspended on threads, help fill in i wherever decorations look thin and, j being white, are sure to help set ofC j all the gay trinkets that make up the glory of the Christmas tree. { ? I I I j Home-Made j Ornaments for the i i Christmas Tree I i ' 1 ^ > j , i ! i By A. NEELY HALL ! i ] L ! (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.) Suppose that you prepare some homemade Christmas-tree ornaments , like those in the illustrations, to go ' with the ornaments which you have, | fer this year's tree. They will help | to cover the tree, and, not only that, j they will make your tree more InterI eating because they will be different j from anything you can buy. The pretty spear top ornament in i Fig. l is made of & sheet of letter! paper rolled i^to a cornucopia, with a | thread spool glued in the open end I (Figs. 2 and 3), and & small silk-spool | slipped over the small end (Figs. 3 j and 4); then all is covered with tinfoil, and a tassel made of pieces of red, white and blue paper, slashed Into fringe (Fig. 5), Is fastened in the apex, unroll can oe oDiainea irom a florist. Unless you can hare electric lights, it is better not to light the tree at all, than to run the risk of its catching lire. But unlit candles make pretty ornaments, so I hare shown a home made holder in Fig. 6. This la made bj wrapping a clothespin with tinfoil so the upper edge of the tinfoil projects to form a cup for the candle (Fig. 8). Wrap the end of the candle with tinfoil to make it fit the cup (Fig. 7). The clothespin sets down i over the tip of a branch, as shown in j Fig. 6, and the weight made of a ' marble or piece of clay, wrapped in &L ? fcj lAiH ' I ^ E/K SLO-JSimL-J i tinfoil (Fig. 9>, is suspended by thread I from one leg of the clothespin (Fig. I 6), to balance the holder. Little Santa Claus dolls like that ! shown in Fig. 10, to straddle the tree branches, are pretty and easily made. The bodiefe are clothespins, with trouser legs of red paper (A, Fig. 11) slipped over the ends (Fig. 12), & red paper coat (B and C, Fig. 11), glued close to the head of the pin (Fig. 13), cotton whiskers (D, Fig. 11), a red paper peaked hat (E), and eyes marked with ink upon the clothespin head, j The airship in Fig. 14 has a bal loon with ends made of the halves of an egg-shell (A, Figs. 15 and 16). The ends are connected by a cylindrical piece (B) rolled out of cardboard, to PQ B Ml ?_n__ g C===3~~7@ ^^=004DCf^ i which they are glued; and a strip of j cardboard (C) is glued along each side. 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