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Show WOMAN'S WORLD Let Home Show Holiday Spirit in Festive Decorating Slim Black Velvet covered with wrapping paper and paste them on or use thumb tacks. You might cover a large-sized black-board black-board with red or green paper and use that on a wall which was cleared for the purpose. Even large picture frames can be utilized for card displays. Place a mat in them to which the cards can be tacked. If you want to make them more decorative you can tack red or green ribbon with small bells or sprays of greenery to the frame. Hang on the wall where the cards can be properly displayed. The glass in French doors can be used for cards, too, and this will take no space at all. You might use a mirror in the hall as background for them, and then they would be seen as soon as someone walked into the house. Another idea is to attach them into large albums to be kept open for display in the front hall during the season. They will be then attached at-tached as a permanent record if you want to keep the albums. Use Greens Generously For Decorations You may purchase Christmas tree branches by the bundle if you want them for decorations indoors or out. When combined with gaily colored bulbs and ribbons, they add a festive fes-tive touch hard to duplicate. Sprays of various sizes can be tied with bells and bulbs, red, green, blue or silver ribbon and attached to hang from the windows or door tops. You might also make cornucopias cornu-copias out of bright metallic paper and use these as containers for some of the branches. It's very festive fes-tive to attach one of these to the front door as greeting for any who might pass by. If the greenery is attached where it is near an electric plug, you might even work in some of the colored Christmas lights to highlight high-light the greens. If you have an old coal scuttle in the cellar, clean it out, then paint with white and decorate with silver glitter or gilt. Let greenery overflow over-flow out of the scuttle which is a heart-warming sight placed at the front entrance. Heap the Tree With Decoration You may not always be able to get a tree that coincides with your desired specifications, but mrst trees will lend themselves to a bit of surgery. If there are too many branches and the tree is extra heavy for the foot you have, trim off some branches carefully and use the extra ex-tra greens in decorating the house. Should the tree lack branches, or have them poorly distributed, cut some off the bottom, where they won't be missed, and attach them with needle type holders to places where they're essential. If the highest point is scrawny, trim this down until you get to more firmness and attach a star or other decoration to it. Don't be too concerned with a tree that looks lacking in branches. Decorations heaped on what greenery green-ery there is will usually make this fault less recognizable. By Ertta Haley TS THERE A Christmas spirit In your home as the door opens and you step in? Do the decorations spell a warm welcome, and are your nostrils filled with the pine odor from the trees? It's wonderful fun to decorate the home for the holidays, and it should be an integral part of family life for every member to take part in this rich and warming experience. The home that bids welcome and stay as you come in, the home that has warmth and laughter in it as everyone mills about decorating the tree or putting up Christmas cards, holly wreaths and candles is the one children will remember.' Here's an experience that requires little outlay because most people already al-ready have old and sentimental decorations de-corations that will se-ve as the tools for decorations. You can use your Ingenuity In putting together many things for decorative effect. Take stock of what you already have before you set out buying bulbs or candles. Make at least a rough plan of just what areas you want to decorate, and then work accordingly. It's a good idea if the family Is let In on the decorative plan and give each one some idea of what he's to do. Make these plans flexible, though, because some may want to change jobs In the meantime. mean-time. Children can be kept amused on long afternoons before Christmas making and stringing popcorn and cranberries for the tree or doors. Other jobs you can set them to doing do-ing is putting new strings on tree r'1-W$i.&&&'$&W'! 1 f. - f V ' ':' 1 liiiiiliii: For the careful spender, there's nothing more practical than this New York, dress of black velvet, slim In front and pocketed on the slant below the waist. The skirt is finely gathered gath-ered across the back while the bib of white spun linen is pleated, then buttoned with tiny rhinestone buttons and tied under un-der the collar with black velvet ribbon. cover the screen, temporarily of course, with some colorful gift wrapping paper. Bring Yule Cards Into Display Most people get a lot of cards for Christmas, and as they open each one they exclaim how lovely they are. But what happens to them? Most of the time they get stacked in a heap and you have to leaf through 50 or 100 or more to find an 1 ..!2 Make it a warm, old-fashioned . . ornaments, making placecards for the dinner table, or even making candles. Let them plan to their heart's content, con-tent, and it will be even more fun when actual decorating time comes along. Clear the Room For Christmas There's nothing more discouraging discourag-ing than to be crowded in the living room when it's holiday time. It's best to clear the room as much as possible, and there are things which will not be missed if cleared out for a week or two: the magazine rack, several flower pots, two or more chairs. This will give you room for the tree and presents. You won't miss the chairs because it's easy to sit on the floor near the tree. Clear the mantle, if you have one, and plan to use this for decorations. You may want to remove some pictures pic-tures off the walls just In case these will be used for decorative card displays. dis-plays. A folding screen may be moved into the room, and this, too, could be utilized 'for the cards, if you first Christmas by plentiful decorations. especially nice one to show off. Show them all off! Anyone who has never made a card display during dur-ing yuletide will make one again because all your callers will enjoy looking at them, and they add so much to the festive spirit. You may utilize the folding screen |