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Victorian Christmas
Trees
Decorate your Christmas Tree in a truly Victorian
fashion with instructions from an authentic
Victorian
magazine featuring a variety of holiday themes.
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A Red & White Christmas Tree
A red and white Christmas Tree may be made by tying
all the packages in white tissue paper with red
ribbon, or red tissue paper with white ribbon. Use
white and red candles. Take single grains of
popcorn, run a pin through and stick on the branches
of the tree. Fill small white tarlatan stockings,
buttonholed with red worsted, with popcorn. Decorate
the tree with red and white peppermint candy canes
and red and white paper flowers, and drape the walls
at the back of the tree with red cheesecloth. |
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Tree Full of Icicles
A tree full of icicles giving the effect of a thaw
makes a glittering delight! This effect may be carried out by many
short strings of glittering beads, gold, silver,
opaque, and of popcorn draped. To have a
silver-white tree, cover the branches of an
eight-foot spruce tree with cotton batting,
simulating drifts of snow. To the ends, and here and
there on the branches, suspend glass icicles. Hang
frosted silver balls upon the tree. When it is all
finished scatter over it four papers of silver
shower. |
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A
Tree Good Enough to Eat
A tree good enough to eat may be made by trimming it
with oranges, bananas, lemons, grapes, apples and
nuts. Little figures made of raisins and prunes can
be
wired then also hung upon the branches. Do not
hang any presents upon the tree, but fill a small
tub with sawdust, and in it place the gifts wrapped
in mystifying bundles securely tied.
On Christmas morning give each member of the
household a fishing-rod and let each one in turn
take a chance at the bundles with it. The parcel
hooked may be opened, unwrapped and given to the one
whose name is inside. |
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Real Christmas Tree
For a real Christmas tree choose a symmetrical young
tree in as sheltered a place as possible. If it is
near shelving ledges of rock so that some rugs or
blankets may be arranged for the guests to sit upon
so much the better! Arrange to have your
guests assemble immediately upon their arrival and
see a Christmas tree under the wintry sky. The
invitations might read "Wear warm wraps and come
promptly." Candles may be hung thickly over the
tree. Should there happen to be a light snowfall on
Christmas Day the tree will be sufficiently
beautiful to repay you for your desire to treat your
guests to something entirely novel. |
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