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Show Same Old Christmas Tree But Bow Different! j In the fifty years tetween 1888 1" 1938;' the'- Christmas Tree has grown-up more rapidly than in all its previous centuries of existence. The old candles, flaming and askew, have given place to brilliant little electric solar systems, the decora-! decora-! (ions have become simpler and more Itreamlined. Most modern and streamlined of all are the Christmas presents nestling nest-ling at the foot of the ancient tree. Whole villages and plants, ready-cut and fitted, waiting to be erected; electric trains flashing through and over minute models of the most famous tunnels and bridges, a host of streamlined presents, ranging from the most subtle and delicate applications of electricity, to the fully automatic electric toaster, long- established at - the center of the modern breakfast table. : The well known' artist, Virginie Fowler, has shown above, two halves of the Christmas Tree:, one bearing the decorations and presents of 1888; the other, those of 1938. And the young woman of the earlier picture, is the grandmother of the Uteri |