Show christmas areena it is best not to put up the decorations until the afternoon before christmas the halls sitting room dining room and library are the kioh appropriate places for the holly place large branches over mantels and sideboard and some of the pictures fill the fireplaces with large dishes containing holly and laurel unless you are to have a fire at once have lotic sprays of english ivy in small wido mouthed bottles which can be bang behind picture frames twine the ivy around the supporting wires and the frames do not hang the greens near a fire or over a register they curl and wilt very quickly when exposed to dry beat at least a week before christmas get at the florists about fifty cents worth of the green stuff called wandering jew this will fill several bowls and vases arrange it gracefully in the various dishes and fill with water after wiping the of the receptacles peri factly dry place on the corners of man aels bookcases etc change the water every other day to do this do not dis the plants simply hold the vase under the faucet and let the fresh water run until all the old is displaced in a weeks time the vines will have grown into a graceful luxuriant mass and with care they can be hept in this condition for months smilax asparagus fern and other delicate vines can bo used for pictures and statuary but the expense puts them out of the reach of the majority of people there is a hardy wild fern which all florists kap now and sell for about ten cents few dozen of buy a a dozen sprays these and place them 01 the cellar floor sprinkle Bp well and they will beep for weed A large owl filled with these and a few flowers will mackean effective for the center of the t he dinner table pace or ae bowl can be placed on a low fable iu my of the rooms these suggestions are for people with modest purses la d ta home boumal fitins hith at pyne v hs rug kift w varv over system vv i it for catarrh f th stomach dyspepsia dy and iQ build up the system it certainly wonderful merit when all nak ao well |