| Show i for fer 5 i Something Decidedly Decided NoveR Will Be Found In n This Patriotic Table Fable Decoration tr b i ir r r 4 p pr 4 r f t C T rd 3 v c ce e s s r rK rr K r Si r e o l I 1 y t t t r f f f Y r r Orly r d ys k tf t t lv Yr I I r yip 1 AI r O F ra icy sll r f yf Q G a 7 k n r s 11 ANY hostesses would really like to Introduce novelty In tho way ot of table tabio decorations Into their of oC February entertainments but are do de deterred from lack of oC time or perhaps ot of origInality A scheme for tor a George Wash Washington ash ington dinner table decoration Is to ho be seen In the illustration which Is sym symbolic symbolic bolic ot of the tha bIrth of oC our infant Ile The sword which a na nations freedom and the pen wherewith her Independence was teas declared arE crossed to together ether above n a flower wound hoop Within the latter is 15 suspended 1 a star the universal emblem ot of hope and Ind one ot of the lead leading In devices In our national Beneath tine the hoop isa Is IsI I a portraIt of oC the Father ot of His Bin Country resting upon a softly draped scarf or of bunting buntinA or striped crape paper In the tho national colors The portrait Is 18 re repeated Dented on a smaller scale In the tho place cards Stars decorated with the tho na national national shield adorn Ice Ico cups and candle Every detail ot of tho decoration can be easily executed at home Tho slant giant pen Is cut from cardboard slashed at atone atone one end to resemble a feathered Quill If a real sword is 15 unobtainable a card cardboard cardboard board counterfeit may be made the tho scabbard being covered with black pa paper paper per and tho sword hilt gilded The Tho hoop can be purchased tot for n a few fens cents at nn any wound with white crape paper and IId wreathed with real or artificial flowers and smilax I The rho large star Is fashioned upon II a I foundation of oC cardboard If IC preferred a wire frame can be obtained n at the ed fre florists o or constructed c by a o oer er The front and back ot of the tho star are I covered with white crape paper and andI Ithe I the sides sIdell with national blue decorated with slit gilt paper stars whIch can be purchased ready cut and summed gummed Ends Each point Is decorated with a small shield cut from patriotic crape and the Hio edges are with II a paper cord twisted from Crom strands of red white and blue WithIn tine tho star are concealed small gifts OCt ot of appropriate character which a athe at atthe the close of oC the dinner are to bo be drawn forth Corth by means of oC the narrow trI trl colored which fall Call to the clout and anI are r attached to the tho place pines cards The latter r are aro strips of oC fine bristol board ore one Inch wI wide do by six inches In length with either end bent back at rl right ht angles to make them stand The cards are arc outline with gold bronze I and upon each ench near lear one end Is moun ed a small blue shield bearing an oval I portrait ot of Washington In the center canter f The Ic ice cups are ara raised on wire standards wIh shaped bases and adorned with gilt edged cardboard stirs The shades are ot of the tho round flaring type covered with nn blue crape and sImilarly deco deeo decorated rated |
