Show iab ia 6 decorating the christmas tree mim 66 on out and help build n fort johnny cant im busy replied the boy standing in the door come in n and see what were doln baille came and found johnny and his two sisters gathered around the library table on which reposed many piles of tissue paper bits of ribbon walnut shells paste paints and shears lithe was sitting on tile the floor beside a large pan of popcorn helen was cutting gold stars over tile the waste baskit basket while johnny yielded a brush full of gold paint taken all together it was it a scene beccne full of 1 delightful possibilities ties billie decided you see helen explained hospitably we always decorate our own christmas christinas tree und anti were making lots of new thin things this year its more fun to string popcorn and cranberries anti and gild walnuts and make butterf butterflies lien than it to Is to buy lent cm downtown ethel you give atye billie another needle and he can string cranberries easiest to on oil have you children discovered yet that it Is more fun full to make things with your own hands than it Is in to buy them with money if not you have hav missed a lesson which every child 0 should learn the tree decorations w which johnny and tits his sisters were ft ere waking making may be made by any child first on oil the list conns comes popcorn and cranberries those these may giuy ile be strung separately or alternately if yellow field corn coni Is soaked until softened it t may also be strung A small tren tree was once trini trimmed med with a lattice work of strul strung ig popcorn covering till nil the top toll of the tha tree with tiny red ml tissue bells at al a t the end of each string nearly every 1011 has learned to make dif different Terent kids af paper clu chains tins packages of colored paper may inny be obtained lit it almost any Or printing Inting office I 1 thes 11 iny be cut into shoat ji mabs when the ends lire are hulsted together vr with one looped into the lie next tile the loop clinen Is the lie result tills this may inny UP be varied in ili many ways by combining roni bInIng different 11 ari rent colors color and joining other chains chain onto the original tit nt various angles the gold paint which johnny was using was changing walnut shells into tiny glittering Mitter ornaments 0 nt 9 A tiny hole bored in ili each and they were really ready to he be litif from froin the brunches branches on oil bits of glided gilded wire keall balls may be made from tinfoil or the tinfoil used to cover other ornaments A sheet of gold and oil one of silver paper present many luany possibilities stars may be cut from cardboard and coveri covered with the paper match boxes may be covered with tt it and used to hot hold cainoy and nuts cornucopian cornucopias produced by rolling one lie corner comer of an oblong piece of paper toward tile opposite 1 corner and pasting the edges i together way may be cut from froin gilt paper or decorated with strips of it these ar very useful for holding popcorn bu ure not strong enough for cit candy hily tiny butterflies may rest on oil the topmost brandies branches of the christmas tree cut oblongs of colored tissue paper in various vailous sizes alz oa rounding tile the corners so they will give the appear apical bince of whigs if the paper Is thin severn pieces may be put together cru crushed sheI at the center and black silk floss flose tied in two places so asto as to form the body or of the butterfly As it a finish for the top of the tree a small doll may be garbed to represent santa claus A few pieces from tin nn old red flannel petticoat will produce the coat trousers and cap cotton butting batting the fur trimming and tilt an old k kid id gl glove ove will make inake tile the boots the lighting fighting 01 problem connected with a christmas e f tree la IS alays 11 I 1 I 1 1 serous serious one L tec jec trie are al ways best wherever possible if candles candled are used they fe hould he be p placed I 1 a c e it securely on the tree and as for far ft way away from an any y decorah decorations ions as aa possible the tree should stand securely fastened in a box on a piece of canvas or old matting the candles candies should not be lighted except when the older members mim bers of the family are I 1 present presen tto to watch them successful farming fanning I 1 |