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Show DECORATIONS ARE EASY TO MAKE AT HOME The joyous Christmas atmosphere atmos-phere in our homes is not all spiritual. Part of the festive and gay air is due to the Christmas decorations with which we deck our houses at the holiday season. We all love to make our homes more graciously beautiful at Christmas time, and if the decorations decora-tions can be made at home, and well made, we will take particular joy in them. An interesting treatment for windows and doors is a small cutout cut-out of some Christmas scene sil-houtted sil-houtted against the wall above the door or window. These cutouts are made of cardboard and lighted with small colored lamps. Such combinations should be fastened to a board that rests along the frame and fastened at each end by a small brace. Here are some suggestions for decorating the dinner table. You can make lovely little "trees," by setting small twigs of evergreen in empty darning cotton spools colored bright red. Fill the holes with green tissue paper and push the twig down Into them, then decorate the trees with colored beads, bits of gold and silver string and tiny icicles cut from tinfoil. Set the tree on a card lettered with the guest's name and you've a place card everyone will carry home. Interesting lighted decorations, such as cutout evergreen trees, are made of two planes of cardboard or wall board and illuminated. Colored lamps are used to give light and beauty as well as novelty to your Christmas decorations. The surfaces of these trees are painted white, then with clear shellac and dusted with artificial snow which produces a sparkling surface. And here's a useful idea fasten your Christmas tree light bulbs to the tops of clothespins the spring kind and you can clip them on the branches just where you want the light and they'll stand up instead in-stead of hanging down. Our old-fashioned wreaths of Princess Pine or Holly tied with bright-red ribbons are still great favorites, but we have accepted new combinations such as orange Bittersweet and silver ribbons. A great favorite for lovers of the woods, is Fir Balsam with natural cones 'tied with bright-scarlet ribbon rib-bon with possibly a few silvered cones added for effect. |