Show do aa A christmas Is rather an unusual thing at christmas tido tide mind Is in bot sat on something other than and to havu one thou almost liko like an interruption 0 at tho the juat just mirth which the world over writes muriel falkland in tho the Muse housekeeper kopper tho the writer goo on to describe how flow tho the idea of a christmas boddin waa prettily carried out in faor ol 01 ono one of a group of twelve arl irl friends who had planned to havo have distinctive celebrations of thia this greatest event of their live lives tho the ceremony was a homo home one of course and as Kith erino has a hont hoot of bothers buth cra and sisters and another host of at young nephews and nieces ther was every reason for as genial a timo time the occasion and the season warranted our first move when wo we arrived to get things in order as to tn co er e aery ery boor floor in tho the bouse house alth crash ihas gave the wh te to tail wo we had wished and afforded bejes bejos a splendid facility for the luxurious fer er green trimming which we hap hae planned to inako make tho the spirit of christmas ein gon orally felt every picture and every doorway and window triune frame was out lined ith evergreen the spicy odors filling tho the house ere we ie were ere halt through th holly we used only to wreathe the chandeliers and bank the window and mantel pieces long garlands of evergreen wie wite hung in festoons along the upper aldo side of the alt all from tho the ceiling cel ling twined around the balustrade and put in loops and cirvice wherever wall space offered at each window a beautiful holly wreath tied with joisting il streamers amers of ot carlot scarlet ribbon was hung and on the end of oah of the chandeliers hung a R great ball of ot poinsetta mingled with a tw few feathery green ferns and tied ti edIt ath carlet this was in the halls and chambers I 1 it the drawing room bore boro the ceremony would bo be performed a i uba jal tul ful archway of terns ferns and poinsetta waa erected by the florists under elizabeths direction and from tho middle of the arch a cluster of bells also of 0 scarlet waa was hung in position liko like a R chimo tho the wedding was planned to occur at fit half past seven and just at a quarter past tha the chimes of tho the church at tho the corner comer began their hour of 0 music so that we had this sweet accompaniment to the ceremony promptly at halt hait past paRt reven we emerged from the room upstairs ups taira where wo had hall been dressing since the 1110 early five dinner and could ibee u for ourselves na as wo went slowly down the broad that tho the ocena was a beautiful one I arst arst in the procession walked the four smallest and nieces of the bride two by two the girls wearing frocks of whito white with scarlet ribbon in their hair and anti carrying baskets of holly the boys in red each with mb a branch of evergreen then went katherine Kath erino dressed in white gleaming fatin satin with a R bunch of mistletoe fastening bor her veil vell and anti a white vellum prayer book in her band then wo we girls six of us walked two by two each dressed in white but wearing crowns of fronted holly and carry carrying lug a great armful of poinsetta pol poi nietta blossoms from which ions long streamer of scarlet ribbon hung to tho the edge u ut our go gown na prom from the foot of the stair stairs to tho the sides of the file archway to uther nieces also sed in buhite alte anil and scarlet stretched lines of glistening whito satin ribbon in which leall bunches of holly were knotted at luter intervals vals and through this enclosed pathway the bride walked to the improvised altar leaning on her brother brothers arm daring during the ceremony the sound of an organ playing the sweet old christmas hymn adeste fideles penetrated the room and continued while the sol edema berds of the marriage jo ervIce were spoken making 2 most beautiful accompaniment for the scene when it was over there thero was a ri p r ry clash of bells apparently coming from the very air us and wuen we looked in astonishment to sec see tho the reason we found trat an older boy had begged and rind borrowed all the belle bells ho could of overy every kind and had set them going in tho the various rooms of the 0 o house as as the ceremony cei emony was flints bcd ard the merry eions had begue the noali wedded pair did not intend to leave leao tho the city that night so tho the gayest of christmas wedding ilar par flea ties wai in full progress within a f few ow moments after tho the darlage mar mairi lage age words concluded supper was served fl 1 st and tho the merriment enhanced by the fact that in the bunches of holly composing the centerpiece which the bridesmaids drew to our plates at the conclusion of the meal wo we found each an ex little locket showing a branch of holly with green enameled gold leaves and bite bits of coral for berries berr lea aa as souvenirs from our bride dancing came next to the music C of a stringed orchestra stationed some where out of sight and through the drawing room balls halls and dining room wo e whirled counting tho the moments only by oui out bine footsteps it was half past eleven before we topped and then only at a signal from the band hand this was no less than a march or rather the christmas hymn played in manh marth time and stopping our waits waltz suddenly wo we wondered bat it meant until katherine and her husband taking tho the lead beckoned us to follow in proc islon wonder ing a little we did so and found our solves selves led through the hall ross to the library doors which had been religiously closed all evening rather to our surprise sinco since wo we needed the extra dancing place katherine Kath erino flung open the doors and a moment of amazed silence ensued there in the middle of the room stood a magnia cent christmas Christ max tree hung from root to top with glittering emblem emblems of at the season and aglow with myriads of fastened to its bran cuce at a signal from brother the electric lights in the hall ball and dinong room went out and we found ourselves our bursel seles es with nothing to detract from the radiant picador of the symbolic tree |