Christmas Tables and Favors 1

The snow white damask cloth, regarded by many as old-fashioned, is still my choice for the Christmas dinner table. It serves as a fine background to the well-browned turkey, the dark red cranberries, the burning plum pud­ding, and the mixed candies and nuts.

Gay colored cloths and table coverings can be made for Christmas Eve, Christmas breakfast or supper and the many holiday parties. For these occasions, innumerable ideas can be carried out with red sateen, ribbon, cello­phane, brocade, metal-cloth and materials of different colors to blend with the color scheme of the room or china. The cloth may be weighted at the corners with bells and tiny ones fastened in one corner of each napkin to add to the gaiety of the table.

A distinctive effect for the mahogany table top between meals may be created by arranging broad bands of red or green satin ribbon as if tying a package. Where they cross there may be a large bow, an arrangement of greens or candles.

The main points to remember with tables are to keep the decorations in proportion to the size of the table and the room and to carry out a definite color scheme. Clut­tered, poorly proportioned decorations without definite color schemes lack distinction.

Much of the food we serve on the table can be made more festive with little additional effort. The fruit cup, garnished with a red cherry, can be placed in grapefruit baskets made from the shell of half a grapefruit and tied with red ribbon. (Drawing 24) Salads and cookies may star-shaped. Favors add interest to the table, especially for children.

Every child looks forward to Santa Claus. For weeks before Christmas children write to him, talk about him, go to department stores to see him. He is their character of the year. Santa favors are as popular as any and chil­dren like to make them. It is as much fun as carving a Jack-O-Lantern at Halloween.
 

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