The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1931, Page 30

R DDLU LT T T e ey RRANGING decorations at ' Christmas time affords great pleasure in the planning and execution as Z= well as in the beholding. This Is especially true in the home, but the mer- | chant takes pride in his displays and strives to outdo his | competitors. 3 Decorations to be most effective must be in perspective—to allow | | | | Christmas Tree in the Home. for the di and the ¢ | For instance, an intimate view | permits the use of small objects or small units of objects, as for a Chri as tree in the home, where- as general decorations to be viewed from a greater distance—say, across the street—should be composed to allow for the diminution of the ob-| Ject by the greater distance. In a general way, the longer the v th the object, or the " of small objects of the , as in a store window A large number of small s scattered haphazard over a ea, when viewed at a dls- tance, lose effectiveness, while the game objects grouped as to size, color or shape, with proper spac- ing, render the display much more | striking and effective. In a large hall or room, strings of lights give a finer effect if all th. lights of one strand are of a uni- between the object | | For the Holiday Season. form color, the contrasts being be tween the strands a: whole rather than between the wvarious colored lights on one strand and all strands alike. Alternating colors of a strand -serves - to neutralize the value of all; while the strands of solid colors give the contrast de- sired by the heavier weight of color in proportion to the room's dimen sions. Many cities and towns of late years have done considerable street decorating for the hollday season. These decorations often. include strands of colored lights at the in- tersections, crossed fromycorner to corner. The natural thing'is to an | range the strands with a red globe, then white, then blue. Looked at as (a single unit at close range the ef- {fect is not bad, but as the general {view is of several blocks, having Shoppijng J | i HE biting cold of a zere day, coupled with finding merchandise stocks badly| depleted, filled many last minute shoppers with s B0od resolutions to de- their Christmas shopping | early next year. Marion English was one of those caught in the jam. It was now late in the afternoon, the next day would be Christmas, and there still was Uncle George, Cousin Essie and 01d Mrs. Brighton unchecked on her list. What in the world could she get for them? Helples she wan- dered up and down th sles. Why | hadn't she heeded all the warnings to shop early? Well, they just would have to be satisfied with anything she could pick up now. Yearningly, she looked up toward the balcony of the big store, where several persons were occupying comfortable chairs. And then an idea flashed through her brain. Ten minutes later, she was walking through the crowded aisles again, but the worried look had left her face. In the short time she had taken to rest and think she had tried to put herself in the place of three persons for whom she was ing gifts, and now, instead of t taking anything, she had a very definite idea of what to get for the amount she had to spend, She re- membered that Uncle George had a pet weakness for fancy socks, that Cousin e liked nothing better than new fiction, and she felt sure that Mrs. Brighton would welcome a pair of bright-colored bedroom slip- pers. By 5:30 her selections were all made. This was the way to do Christmas shopping, she thought, not the haphazard w; she had been doing it for years. She re- membered now, with a pang, the rather inappropriate gifts she had chosen sometimes. Never again, she vowed, would she wait until the last minute to make selections From now on, she would heed the many warnings to shop early, and 80 bring an added share of happi- ness to herself and others. . | e e ety FRANCE GRADES FROG LEGS Amiens, France — Vintage frog legs, their origin as carefully certi- fied as that of the finest wines, are becoming a staple article of French merchandise. The best qual- ity come from the upper reaches 'all the lights at one intersection |of the Somme river. {red, at the next white, and the next RS. VAN DUSEN sat wall- ing over a letter from her son. “The poor, dear boy! How frightful for him! ¥l How dreadful! Maroonéd 8 up there with all those horrible people!” A bad storm had prevented him from taking the weekly boat to the mainland. There would #e no way of getting home until affs er Christmas, In the meantime the subject of her despair was yelllng the loudest of fourteen lively boys. They swarmed up a steep hill dragging sleds. w “Hey, Mr. Van Dusen ... bet I beat you this time! Say, my ripper s the fastest on the slide! Bet yer a herring T'll touch the goal first!” Down they went again, sleds skim- ming like birds upon the lcy tracks. Feet gulding them from behind. s fastened on the tricky turn at the bottom. Ransome Van Dusen (seventh in line by that name, son and helr to an old name and vast fortune) . .. saw that someone was bound to have a nasty spill. He was directly abreast of two youngsters. There was room for two to squeak by ... if they had good luck. Never for three. Van Dusen had tobogganed {in Switzerland, and ridden surf-boards in Hawaii, and climbed a few Alps in Italy, but it is safe to say that he had never suffered a keener mo- ment of fear than he experienced in this faraway village of Newfound- land . .. sliding down hill with fous- teen village children. Van Dusen was keen, but Sandy Galt was keener. He, too, saw the danger ahead, Somebody had to he squeezed. You couldn't stop the sleds now , ., they were going too fast. “Look out yourself!” shrieked Andy, and kicked out with a foot, spilling the man sideways from his sled. Andy himself swerved to the inglde. Two more boys crowded with a crash! Ransome on top ... with- out his sled. That evening he sat by Sandy's bed and told him stories, so that the boy partly forgot the pain in his broken leg. It was Christmas eve and Ransome said he was nevér happier in his life. “I've never had a better friend than you, Sandy,” he said, “You're some fine little sport. Don’t worry . . . things will be all right for you. I'm going to keep you for a friend . . . all my life! Too bad mother has to miss this, She doesn’t know what it 1s to have a good time. Have an apple, Sandy, old fellow?” And thus two frlends werd@ made the day before Christmas in & far- lwq_il!nge of N@mflm&__ CUBA STIFLES HAWKERS HAVANA.— Octavio Zubizarreta, secretary of the interior, and Ern- esto Onmetti, secretary of public works, have agreed on measures to protect tourists from the insistence of street hawkers. | blue, gives an almost incredibly finer (e | effect. Keep Harmony in Mind When Giving Presents T IS not unwise around Christ- mas time to reiterate one's-color seheme. Members of a family who have no color scheme should be giv- en one. Bring joy to your family by planning to do over the hit and miss rooms, And before you tie up the six or ten rolls of new wall paper for its place under the tree, in- ’ - form all other members of its tones. H(, ll lee 8o that the pincushions and pic- ’ tures and even the dressing gowns and slippers may be chosen to a . harmonize. And when giving your best friend a vase, remember her wall paper. A blue jug may be love- 1y in the shop but terrible against her black and red walls, Not only should one remember a color scheme in choosing gifts but the period me- tifs and price scale as well. Too elegant a sofa pillow might throw a friend's living room entirely out of tune.—Chicago Daily News. Yule Candle and Holly Foretell Good and Evil *HERE are many odd supersti- - ‘tions connected with Christmas | efindles and holly. One Is that if a igirl puts three leaves under her 'pilluw, giving each the name of a | possible husband, the one that has | turned in the morning will reveal | her marriage destiny. The Christ- | mas candle is still lighted in some of the old Yorkshire farm houses, and is carried with great ceremony | all around the house and into every room. The bearer must be most careful to shield the flame as each door is opened, for it would be t \worst of luck should the candl happen to “waff out” in a draught. | Bspecially must the Yule candle be Meld over the churn. This is done 1in. order to evict that malicious lit- 'fle sprite, Hob-o-the-Churn, whe \bides therein and spofls the butter. gars. rrrrree Good Smoke BUY THEM BY THE BOX After the feasting is over, he’ll get his great- est pleasure when he sits back and takes his first puff of these ci- Great smokes, of finest tobaccos, and most reasonably priced! BURFORD’S CORNER o = £ = g £ = 1= | = g g - Perpetual Calendar Udeful If you get a perpetual calendar Zor Christmas, preserve it careful. 1y. It will be fine to pass on to somebody twelve months hence, s STz oSS How to Make Old Santa’s White Beard Fireproof NEVER a Christmas passes with-| out accidents from fire. Last Christmas a schoolmaster who had dressed up as Santa Claus was bad- ly burned through the cotton-wool of which his white beard was made catching fire. It Is not ‘easy to find a substitute for cotton-wool, but it is not aiffi- cult to make cotton-wool fireproof. Dissolve an ounce and & half of powdered alum in hot water and | soak the wool in it. Then dry the wool and fluff it out again. Cotton- | wool treated in this way will smoul- | der, but not blaze. Even tissue paper can be made quite safe by dipping it in a solu- | tion of ammonium sulphate, boracic acid, and water. It must be dipped quickly and dried at once, | Canvas or simllar material used for stage decoration may be fire- proofed by a solution of ammopi- um sulphate, gypsum, and water. Zake four ounces of each and use Jjust enough water to make a liquid about as thick as thin paste. Thea spread it on the fabric with g brush, { Uncle Sam Now Leading | Germany in Toy Field | ERMAN toys no lomger flood | the world markets at Christe | mas time as they did before thé war. | Germany's world monopoly in the manufacture of toys has been defi nitely broken, statistics showing that she now produces only one- | third of the world's entire supply. | The United States has taken Ger- | many’s place as the greatest muker‘ 3f toys, with Japan as a formidable competitor, One of the reasons for the huge | drop in Germany's production is seen In the high tariff walls which | have been erected against foreign | competition by those eountries which made theémselves independent | of Germany during the war by cre- | ating their own toy industries, An- | other is belleved to be Germany's | slowness to adapt her type of toys | to the continually changing market denmends BUDAPEST. — Admiral Nicholas de Horty, regent of Hungary, has bestowed honorary command of the third infantry, known as the St. Stephen regiment, upon Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg, president of Germany. [9 The Bergmann Hg MRS. IRVING, Propr}etress THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, DEC. 20, 1931. If We Could Meet You and Greet You in Person! We would surely appreciate the opportunity to meet you all— Qur Customers—Our Patrons— Our Friends, and tell you face to face how glad we are to know you and work with you in this game of living, but this being impossible we can think of no better way in which to extend the Season’s Greetings than in the same manner in which we tell you of other things — by advertising. LEE ROX GENERAL CONTRACTOR BUILDING —and— WRECKING CHRISTM AS GREETINGS TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND PATRONS.-- We are unable to meet you all personally. | We can’t clasp you by the hand and wish you \ the Season’s Greetings, so we \ \ take this means of saying N MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Frye-Bruhn Meat Co. AU Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes It would be nice to clasp your hand and face to face greet you—but this cannot be done so we wish you, with the same sincerity as we would if we were to personally greet you - THE SEASON’S BEST H el % ¥z IT'SIN THE AIR IT’S EVERY WHERE l ¢ This Spirit of Yuletide Cheer which makes any load a bit lighter and any heart a bit brighter. We have tried to the best of our ability to make your Holiday Season better, | we failed we are sorry. and wish to know about it,.if we have succeeded we ate glat and trust that we may haye the pleasure, of serving :you tyhroughout the coming, fi;flw ear. Bk < JUNEAU MELODY " HOUSE "} /¥ i ¥