Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — A Christmas Church Idea. [ARTICLE]

A Christmas Church Idea.

If the platform of a church or Sunday school room be deep enough to admit of it an artistic Christmas arch can easily be made by an amateur carpenter, writes Florence Wilson, in the Ladies’ Home Journal. The upper part should have wires stretched across, to which may be fastened small hemlock boughs, thus forming a solid mass of green. The framework should, of course, be wound with evergreen, the whole placed about two feet from the wall, so that behind it may be hung the Christmas bells of ;-ed and yellow immortelles at different lengths by ropes of evergreen. These pells may be made to hang at different pngles by using fine picture wire. Let each bell be worded, so that they may peem to ring out their own song of “Glory to God in the highest.” For a Sunday school festival, a postpffice where each child upon inquiring might find an envelop addressed and pealed, containing a pretty Christmas card, is a unique feature. Then there is the huge snowball made of cotton, besprinkled with diamond dust and filled with gifts for the infant class, whjch may be rolled through the window with an appropriate letter from Santa Claus.