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HUM tMO^ TO wot Or HO very well » «• Mr It always II 41 til* MOM. aa# *» I wait'd Or madam* t* io t» tO o»4t | at«*4i**S Or at-gatM, Tmi «mM toot Mt* MufiM foat Or t«n*t tot to 'amitv chateau Iw Hntt*ar ••• mortgaged within tw—tbtr4* at tt* ral -4* to Ot dainty. well <"*«< 04 *3j* wee# a fatv at trtd#ace*»t f*til*»t • Ilk !•• Maiiatry »»nO diverging fr m a faat Ait if kurkM of b.llt.nf At mt •v*a traveled down to her *»w « • 004 that It aft«*r alt of aatoer Mirk rtntti. Hi krtakt totr*** hc*"g 4a* t« to fart that to rt«th ho eta bo r*t*l> cut nut over yellow «Hn on tha shoulder*. I«dto* and *hin flout)-e, A •yuan- yak* at t>fatlt*4 whit* satin was cmbro*d*T*d with mm* on tO revera. At Or throat wit a full bow nf uhlt* chiffon TOr aar that Oft* nf fh* lead ing mod let *a on to bouleva rrti map fit *• mi dam* with Or wardr- Urn tar l to# glory aO feta out of It. but of course thii may b* over* maitetoua goaMp. Ai any rat-- many great la4»** a* well »» g oat ii-inv* *ST n»» avitat to •<- r#{ tin* such favor* «h* dressmaker or mW it*r r>r«fttn« hr to recommenda tion r»ln*d hr clothing th* queen* of f tahum or hoautr "Tour countrymen ini rouutrywom *n ***m to to* much f*teJ. midomol icllr,” aald th* groat lady r»»o-l«M«*r.d- I sfty. 'Thoy *n*#riain with much mag. rlflronr* *o ! am told “ -It may b* tru* madam*.' - laid I nudevtly. HOW TO DECORATE YOUR HOPVE AT CHRISTA\ASTIDE. Christmas would not cheerful without decoration*. Some year* ago v.he interior* of houses were neglected. *o far a* ornamenting them w ih holly and pine and mistletoe was concerned. Now there la scarcely a window on any pro*peroua residential street that is not prettier and brighter for a wreath of y listening leave* tied with a bow of f-arlet ribbon. Week* before Christ ina* men are *< outing the northern Mountain elopes for the fir, the spruce, the pine and the balsam tree*. In more southern state* the bluer. faced auntie* and uncle* and even the little pickanin nies are busy all day cutting the most nourishing spray* from the holly bosh es, to be packed and shipped to the Christmas market*. In the orchard* and the woods hundreds of little boy* and Kiris are peering, bright ey*(l, among the branches of the tree*, louk ing for the white berried mistletoe. When it reaches the market, it Is tak en out and displayed on stalls for sale, II nd for weeks before it is needed peo ple Who are anxious lest the stock of greens should fall buy them up and pack them away In damp, cold cellars to keep until Christmas. Evergreens used to be bought und then made up into wreaths, but for house decoration they can be had front the florists and the other dealers so cheap that it Is not worth while to make them up at home. In most homes the decorations consist simply of a few wreaths of hoi ly hung about the walls, a spray of holly and mistletoe on the chandelier and a tree trimmed for the children and kept carefully hidden until Christmas eve Yard* of evergreen may be bought in the shops, and this, with a cluster of i cily or mistletoe shining here and t here among its folds, serves admirably to decorate archways. Palms ; *vd ivy rre serviceable in decorating, but nei her ivy nor mistletoe should be used i.i churches, because ivy the plant tacred to Bacchus and was used In the i id heathen celebrations. Mistletoe was used by the Druids at their ceremonials ; nd is therefore out of place at a Chris t an festival, as it. as well as the ivy, is t }o closely connected with the religion* of the past. The. Christmas tree is one of the cus toms that we owe to our Scandinavian ancestors .and is due to the old story in Norse mythology of the world tree ydgrasil. When the missionaries 66n verted the savage northern vikings, the tettlval of •!!•' tree was continued under I -"TOr at* Ntawto to Aorwvo j Xmn to Mli 4 'li'4» «* 44 4Mat' '■ *4O Ml 4* Han aa •IHMMB*' r * . IMI as torn ##• kat tr*4h **4«k •- . <44 *—* *1 — m 4 *drt» a hr 4 iota lam r*4t' _ , Ah ail o tnata oi . {*»4*t*d I Hot to 1«441»QM aod Mi representative* are of lh# moat wealthy famines of the republic. - * **ti n.ay lie true, nutdame. but only their tmnkrra will he able to give you reliable Information on that point." And like a flash It occurred to me that I madamr'a eldest aott had been more * than a little attentive to Ihe daughter a different form, the bishop* making the pine tree, with it* eveigreen leaves, the symbol of the eternal life which the Christ had come to bestow and the giv ing of presents hung upon its green houghs the type of the good gift* that Clod give* to men. The tree I* in many houses the real center of the Christmas interest. The gift* of the entire household are placed upon it for distribution on Chrb ima* eve. All sorts of bright ornaments are of course hurg upon the tree, with no other object than to beautify It. and the quantity of these used determines It* expense. A tree may tie trimmed f«c any price from *1 to tIOO. A* a rule, the price of a tree is about 12. Trees cost, however, all the way from 25 cents to $5 and are of pine, hemlock balsam, cedar and spruce. Most families Who have small chil dren to be interested In a Christmas tree pack away the nonperlehable orna ments from year to year. These Include the Kilt I lulls and tinsel figures that do so much to brighten a tree. Year* ago candy ornaments were used almost en tirely, the gilt ornaments being few and expensive. Candy hearts gorgeous with sugar laeework and well plastered with silver and gilt paint, figures of St. Nicholas, of fat candy cherubs and crosses painted with holly berries and green leaves were universally used. To trim a tree strings of colored pop corn festooned from limb to limb are pretty and Inexpensive. The top of a tree always looks well ornamented with a figure of the patron saint of the Christmas season, St. Nicholas. Small figures of this sort can be bought for 10 cents at the dealers In Christmas goods. Bits of cotton fastened all over the tree make a fine imitation of snow. A yard of tarlatan costs but a few cents and may be ctlt up to make dozens of little boots and hearts, filled with bright col ored candies and stitched together with bright yorn. Tinsel paper can be cut into cornucopias, the interiors of which are lined with lace paper to cover the candy and protect, it from the dust. plenty of tinsel should he displayed upon the t-ee. It costs little and can be saved to use again next year. The shops, too, have a pretty Imitation of snow, mad* of fine tissue paper. The gHt bonbons; which can be Bought In the shops hv the dozen. nSt only make -the tree look bright,' but affcrd'the Chil dren a lot of amusement. Sprays of red berried holly tied her- and there on the THE ATJC3-TJSTA. 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Ml** l*orter. daughter or lieneral Por ter. the American embawador. wore a gown of red cloth brylded In Mach and tree tend to brighten tt. Gilt stars do noi coat much. They may be ev. n ina-*' 1 „t home, cardboard being cut nu’ to form the star, and cov Ted with gold or i iir*» at night oo*t about 6 n duk> t*. taittlf* mttillic c*a«uiH*»tlek» to *Uu**h to tt*»-lion from flr»\ Tb<* box that holdo tht trw my hr* I covered with thick mo**, bits of broken [ minor being Intersp.ised to represent V,. a . j water. A box of tin soldiers, a Noah’s ark or a wooden village, a gift for *>no of the children, might find its first use ; In populating this miniature landscape ;at the foot of the tree. In the shops, ! castles and toy fountr inn.ali sorts of de vices to add interest to the moss cov ered foot of the tree, may be purchased. Iron bolder* for the Christinas .tree may •also be had irt thewltops. A box weight ed with bricks, however, wilt do-Just ea well; a hole the size, dr the trunk'of the I tree being burned through the thick IH ' l o f th box -ith a r-dho*. poker. 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Since the day* of the »limit univet• sally to-* omin* norfoik Jo- ket I hav* se> n nothing for bou*«wcar that ap In deooratln* the home many fnmillo* want «* dc*oirii tfcut will bt noi wnty i>r* t ty, but untqu#'. Here in «n«* U»*t * New York uitint tried ln»t year in tit* sub urban home: From tht* < hainlolb r* In evergreen* to euch corner, tt wreath of mifttleloo encircling them at tin* chan delier. From the wood* a quantity of -,j n*. ..ones n«»d been gathered* the cone* . |f) ,, | n ('jugteiw with cherry col ored ribbon and hung here and there -: mhf 7>.. I ff from the evergreen*. The doorways were - bordered with evergreens and hdng with clusters-of cones, and the windows and marstsipieces were 'out lined'.with Itae sarae.o. "■ The stairway in the hall was a dreath of artistic tfre oration. From each stair 040# O 04 O O *o*o *»• tfoao I *#• t*a As MV JT. 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Tkwae f»w*W wtwnaot meet at tke nnlel. wide*, gradv* oily and twnrh Hearty <« th* *44# 4f the ahtrt, TV* •■**•** tmrm a *k4r* angle, and Ihe erd* are then atngaV up* ward The trimming whtek mtgwg tha IMM front a la ewntimted round tha •htrt. gr»du#lty rmiiui hluker m tt Pkk* -mb toward the hwrh Th» I- -omta* ' m of cord p*.**eme»Merte nr r»p4« k«vM#a s ItHf ititi i»v#t «**lt*fTh*| Mill nf thr aHU -warmwrwt velvet of ***** r-.ntrait* ! ing ordor Min through H TurgmUgg • toil., on totnr k indin cn*htnerw looks far* itcatoldy welt, *nd orange ta need ef* 1 f-ctlvely on gray, dark green Ult 4 "«Ty. One of the hon-lanmewt w ..Iking goWHU I ae. ri lately - onatuted wf • skirt of Hiyr* tie green velvet «nd a p<drmaM» Of *a*wl . IwncwllHc. The upper half of the iktr# titled as rtomete a* l’-**lb*e. Th# lower half wa* very full. < irept .Iwet la front. The trimming wa* rlntyle. hut iwbl #f« fe« tfve. It comtMged of nil Inch *144 bund of bl««k »*(r.<hh*t:. on whtek oartly ranted a row of ot»*n black bmM •,llg an Irregular looped edge. TMIOV* me an alm- rl Invnruhlr rul#. the nfcirt w a* Vinb-red with *lm!tur trimming. The fleece* «nd wide revem were of velvet; ao atom wa* the celniure. which «% a* arrange.l In a windmill bow at th# hark. The faney for combining two or threg row* of different trimming eotttinu- *. Among the 100*1 effectlv# WHO 4 -A.r. i-r Inch row of bln. k and ateet beftdn lid above a half Inch frill of gathered black *a!ln ribbon. Thla adorned a down of gray bengal'ne. but would have 1, joked equally well on black. Ok 4 brown uov n a narrow twist of - henilln in tv-» different rhadca of brown wgg ; headed by a single row of brongc bend* er of the household. This served a* a holing place for bants Claus and hia p4i k. The chimney was of i-ours* built on u ligltt wooden frame and had a quantity „f fi.-e, y cotton tacked upon the top to lisik like MOW. From Abig chimney rtunta Claus dietrtfcMM *h« Christmas gift* when the ib»ova VMM thrown open I" admit the family to Gw glittering, candle crowned irve. Ovef lhe chimney, which Stood Just In front of the flrepluce und served as a screen for the same, allowing rtanta to scram* hie down without observation, was tha motto "Merry Christmas" In evergreen mid mistletoe. The motto was made on a foundation formed of laths tacked together to muke the letters and then wound about with the evergreen* and filled In with bits of holly. ANTOINETTE SHERMAN WOOD. To Keep Kond lie*. A very large majority of people keen things hot by merely putting the dish away In the oven, nnd every one must know the consequence—namely, drlan up meat and gravy. Now, it often occurs, if your liusbana is* a business man, that he la unexpect* eilly detained at his ofllco until long past the hour you have prepared his evening meal for him. This is very an* noylng for you, and yet you know youg husband i» not In any way to blame, and you must make the beat of it- Al* low iiiin half an hour’s grace, and then have your own meal. After that cut ofl as nice and tasteful a portion as you cun. Add potatoes, vegetables, etc, Tell Mary to put a saucepan of wate* on the fire (or oil stove), and when tho water bolls place the plat, with your husband's food upon the top of tho saucepan and cover it with another plate. Do the same With flic pudding, and at whatever tine- your husband reaches home there will bo an appetiz ing and hot meal ready for him. This mod* of keeping things hot Ih one of th« best "tipa" for tho kitchen. After Wnsliing the Dishes. Women who are obliged to wash their own dishes and at the same time wish lo preserve the beauty of their bands should remember that after taking them out of the dlshpan they should be Immediately rinsed in strong t'-Um water. This will prevent the nails be coming soft and the skin getting rough from the repeated contact of the hands with hot dishwater. Before beginning to dry the babe* they should dry Bielr own hands thoroughly. The busy house wife is too often careless lr» this re spect and the result is rough, red and unsightly hands. For Invalids and children no bettor food can be found than good milk, pro vided they can take it. A few peoplo have a great .prejudice against milk, and to these, it, would ;dp moje harm than good,. E.vpr, tjiose With whom 1* agrees rboUUV W XmttfL: «<& %9 ***• more than a quart “ day. ' -