Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — Autumnal Glories For Thanksgiving [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Autumnal Glories For Thanksgiving

_ - | autumnal glories left to us in the fields and woods in Novemrtbr in many parts of the United States furnish mar terial for charming and seasonable table decorations for the Thanksgiving ! dinner. In addition, of course, the florist may lie called upon, especially for the chrysanthemum, always a seasonable ami favorite bloom. While the smoked bamboo basket is well liked as a fashionable centerpiece table basket, the woman who is not fortunate enough to possess one may substitute a wicker basket tuul carry out a pretty scheme. This is to fill the basket with a mixture of oranges, late pears, apples and other fruits. Twine a mass of the silvery clematis around this and bring it over the edges, putting alternately red. browu or yellow oak leaves mixed with scarlet bittersweet in the decoration, extending it well out over the white cloth. To

brighten add berries and leaves wherever taste suggests—in trailing lines of clematis and leaves or Irregularly. The table lights should be of candles iu mahogany, glass, brass or silver sticks, shaded with autumn colors. .To make these use a silvery gray paper and stencil or paint on the shades tiny autumn leaves or shape the four sides of each shade like a maple or oak leaf, tinting them with autumnal colors. A spray of bittersw r eet berries at each plate, with place cards to match the candle shades, completes the decorative ensemble.—Philadelphia Record.

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM MAKES A FAVORITE TABLE FLOWER.