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Show Page DECEMBER 22, 1951 SATURDAY, THE JOURNAL 10 WOMAN'S WORLD Gay, Festive Tables Highlight Holiday By Ertta Haley YOU can have as much fun your tables for holiday entertaining as watching the results. This is a season that offers a wealth of material from which decorations can be made, and the colors and effects can be most glorious. At most of the other seasons you need flowers to carry out the theme, but not so during Christmas and New Years. All types of paper decorations, candles and common greenery can be used effectively. Some of the simplest decorative effects can be most dramatic. There are no hard and fast rules to be followed as there are In certain flower arrangements. Whatever is appealing to the eye can distinguish the simplest occasion on which you entertain. Take, for example, the invitation to some friends to drop in for a cup of eggnog or holiday punch. If you have a chest of drawers in the living room or in a large entrance to the home, this might easily be set for refreshments. Extra branches from the tree can be held together with wire or in a low squat container to make a miniature tree. Hang small bulbs on the branches and set the punch bowl in front of this "tree. Punch bowl and cups may be decorated, if desired, with stickers such as are used for gift wrapping. Simply paste these on, and then wash them off after using. You will have had a typically seasonal decoration without any expense other than a few cents spent on the stickers. Another simple way to treat the festive bowl is to use it on its own or a plain white or silver tray. At the base of the bowl, circle sprigs of holly or other greenery, with or without some cranberries or artificial holly berries. Use Interesting Centerpieces For Dinner Tables children will get to them, is to hang artificial flowers on them, especially red ones like carnations from your last summers hat or dress. Children can be presented with cranberry and popcorn chains to hang around their necks when they arrive at the party. Its a good icebreaker for all and especially those who are a bit shy. Indoor 'Snow1 Show Creativeness In Table Decor Youve heard of people taking a few twigs and bits of green and holly berries and making spectacular decorations out of them? It can be done easily if youll use imagination. Twigs, bare and dry though they to Treat your Christmas tree be, can be dipped in white paint a coating of snow ingeniously and then sprinkled with glitter. Arrange these in a needle holder provided through using some shaving cream, easily applied placed on a bright and shiny tin conpush-butto- n cookie sheet. Add a lacing of short the through tainer. The lather will hold up green twigs and some red berries to peep from them. Against the twigs nicely for several days to a week without dripping or causplace a few mounds of pine cones. not To this may be added a few reinDo mess. household ing any too deer figures, if desired to make a on the apply generously forest scene. branches as the cream will puff A red cellophane bell can make nicely and cover any bare spots on the tree. an attractive centerpiece if its decorated a bit. Tie a huge bow of from apples, grapes, blushing pears white or glistening green to the and cranberries. top. With cellophane tape, attach For childrens parties, you can sprigs of holly and berries to the be informal as well as clever. One bell. This can be set against a white of those discarded wagons that the cloth in the center of the table. To welcome the New Year, youll kiddies have discarded can be painted red. Paste some stars on it to need two or three white paper bells cover dents or defects. Fill with for this centerpiece which is espesmall gaily wrapped gifts and place cially good at a buffet table. Tie a toy animal or small Santa Claus bells to a branch of pine or greenon top of the gifts. ery which has been nailed to a If you have a cake platter on a board to make a firm stand. Brush stand, spread the stand and plate the bells with paste and sprinkle with green oilcloth or felt. Pile the with confetti. String curly confetti strips over plate high with red and green decthe bells as well as from the greenorated cookies ery and let them come down to the table. Bells can be flanked with fat red or white candles and colorful noisemakers. Centerpieces for holiday dinner tables may be decorative or edible depending upon the kind of party you are having. As long as the colors and theme are in keeping with the holiday, you cannot go far wrong in choosing an appro- Let Table Appointments Be Immaculate centerpiece will be effec- tive as well as inexpensive. Using plastic-coatefiber, cut red and reflect the spirit of the season. green poinsettia leaves. Draw in lines to represent their veins for a Childrens Parties realistic touch. Tuck the green Call for Color Santa Claus represents Christmas as well as presents, so he makes a much appreciated decoration for many a childrens party. d If youre having youngsters over for a gift exchange, make a big Santa to hold gifts at the party table. Shoulders for Santa can be repcircle of resented with an red paper. On top of this place a lard can painted white, with the face painted in red nail polish. Tuck the gifts inside and cover with a Santa hat made of red crepe paper and cotton. Another idea for Santa as a centerpiece uses papier mache Santas. These can be whitewashed, and then filled with holly or cellophane wrapped candies or cookies. If youre worried about tables getting scratched, you can cover them with colored metal foil paper. These are decorative enough in themselves, and dont need much else unless you want to put a simple decoration on them. Odd branches from the Christmas tree can be placed in containers for centerpieces. Hang these with small ornaments or cover them with small toys such as cars, planes and trucks which the youngsters can take away as their favor from the party. Another idea for trimming these branches, especially if you want to be economical, and know that the party, start planning your table service several days in advance, just as you do the food and decorations. This will give you an opportunity to get linens, silver, glass and china in good condition, if its necessary. Youll want to use your very best for the big dinners or buffets, and if its seldom-use- d china, silver and glass, check all these for cleanliness as well as sufficient quantity. Linens, such as tablecloths and napkins may require laundering There should not be the slightest hint that these have been in storage. If they smell clean and freshly washed, theyll make the party glow in a special way. 18-in- Let your holiday table . . . leaves under the red ones. Now place several small squat candle holders at the very center, with their candles. Four holders provide a nice setting. Another simple decoration ap- propriate for the holidays uses a blue mirror such as is found in many homes. On this can be placed small wax figures to represent a Christmas scene, or, several of the figured candles which may represent Christmas or winter. Sprinkle with glitter. Attractive fruits can be arranged on any white platters large enough to make a good centerpiece. Use plenty of green (grapes, lemon leaves or holly) and then, too, red . Happened... exOfficials at an hibit discovered why the show was drawing so many small fry. they were doing then homework on the adding machines. 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