The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 29 November 1972 — Page 3

Make Your Own Holiday Candles

Candlemaking has gained in popularity over the past few years and this holiday season will see more people than ever turning out their own wax and wick creations. You can find everything you need to make candles at your neighborhood hobby shop. Besides a block of wax, you’ll need molds, coloring and wicks. But instead of a commercially made mold you can fashion your own out of milk cartons, tin cans or anything else that catches your fancy. And you can make a wick out of cotton string, twine, even an old shoelace. Your coloring can come from shaved crayons or food dyes. Before you start your project, there are a few simple safety steps you should follow: 1. Always melt the wax in a double boiler. 2. Allow the wax to cool until a fine film forms on the surface before you begin pouring. 3. Prepare your wicks in advance by soaking the string or

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twine in a solution of salt, borax and water for about two hours. Mix two tablespoons of salt and four tablespoons of borax in two cups of water. To make candles harder, longer burning and more opaque, add one to three tablespoons of stearic acid or stearine per pound of melted wax. You can find them at most drugstores. One of the simplest candles to make cones from a regular milk cartop. Trim the top of the carton square. Reinforce the carton by wrapping with masking or plastic tape. Coat the inside of the carton with cooking oil so the candle can slide out easily. Then punch a small hole in the center of the carton bottom and slip in waxed wicking, tying a knot in the end. Draw the wick tight and secure it to the center of the open end of the carton with a pencil or metal rod placed across the top. Be sure to covw the knot and hole at the outside bottom of the carton with tape to prevent leakage. Add your favorite coloring to about 2 and a half pounds of paraffin wax. Pour a half inch of wax into the carton and let cool and harden. Then slowly add the rest of the wax. Let the the carton cool overnight. Cut the knot from the bottom of the wick and slide the candle out of the mold. LAKELAND LOCAL Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown of Milford had their children home for Thanksgiving. They are Becky, Fort Wayne, David, Purdue university, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Brown of Sullivan.

mH- Decorating hr Christinas

Indoors, outdoors, all around the house —Christmas is the season for decorating, and what a wealth of decorations there are! The tree seems to be just the beginning. Its ornaments and lights become continually more varied and delightful. Wreaths and greens, plants and bouquets, table centerpieces and window adornments appear in the home. Outdoors, decorations range from a string of lights and a wreath on the door to manger scenes to such creations as Santa, sleigh and reindeer up on the roof- top. Some of the yard and roof embellishments are real works of art —no wonder communities give prizes for outdoor decorating and lighting. A diversity of designs for decorating are ready-made, offering welcome help during the bustling holiday season. Still, it’s fun to use personal ingenuity and creativity in making unusual Yule decorations, suggest the editors of the Grolier Universal Encyclopedia. One thought might appeal to bird-lovers: Place a wreath, ready- or hand-made, outside a window. "Decorate” it with foods tasty to birds, such as

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HER PRINTS CHARMING — This amateur decorator selects advertising calendar prints of original art for framing. When the out-of-date calendar and advertising portions are cut off, many calendar illustrations rival expensive prints as decorator pieces. Art prints are becoming increasingly popular for covering bare walls. Aware of the trend, advertisers are reviving the use of high-quality art calendars, according to the Specialty Advertising Association International. Featured are the works of wellknown artists and designers. Subjects range from turn-of-the-century nostalgia to pop art. Advertising messages and calendar dates are tactfully printed on easily detachable borders.

peanuts, popcorn, cranberries and bits of suet. Simple, personal touches make a difference. For instance, greens, ribbons and glittering balls can be attractively arranged on a table or shelf. Just putting some colorful ornaments and pine cones in a big glass bowl brightens things up. Set the kids to stringing cranberries and popcorn in the good old-fashioned way. It’s surprising how pleasingly they blend with the modern marvels of tree ornaments. Every area of the home deserves some holiday accents. How about fastening candy canes to a broad, bright ribbon and draping it around the kitchen bulletin board? For the more ambitious, there’s the kissing bunch, an old English tradition. An easy way to makeoneis to buy a ball of plastic foam. Greens—red-berried holly for color, mistletoe for kissing—can be inserted in the foam ball. Then a gala red bow and length of ribbon to hang it by are all that’s needed. Too late for this season? Much of the joy of Christmas is planning for the next one.

Ordinances — Continued From Page 1) Dogs Board member Forest A. Smith, Jr., asked for stronger enforcement of dogs running loose about the town. Police officer Dale Sparklin advised that 54 dogs had been picked up by police so far this year. Town board member Darrell Grisamer informed the board that work is nearly completed for lighting at the dog pound. Prickett informed members that Harley Conrad, street-water and sewer commissioner, had hired three high school youths through the distributive education program, one working the afternoon shift and two working mornings, and that he has been quite pleased with results to date. Prickett praised the local Chamber of Commerce and firemen for recent work of installing Christmas decorations for the town with the remainder to be placed this week. Appreciation also went to the business women’s club for a breakfast prepared and served the workers. Planning to attend a meeting at Indianapolis on December 6 is town board member Noble C. Blocker, Prickett and Mrs. Dust. The meeting regarding the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns will share information on revenue sharing. Some of the officials attending will include members of the state tax board of commissioners, the state board of accounts and a revenue coordinator. The next town board meeting will be held on December 19 at the town hall. Decorate Windows WEST LAFAYETTE — Children typically clamor to decorate the windows for Christmas. And mothers — just as typically — register little enthusiasm for the project. After all, when the holidays are over, the window cleaning chore will undoubtedly fall to them! If this is the situation in your house, take heart. Miss Sandra Westall, extension housing and home furnishings specialist at Purdue university, has developed for the children to decorate windows without causing extra work for mom. “You can fill your windows with colored paper snowflakes that can be wished away after Christmas,” Miss Westall says. What’s the secret? The flakes are attached to the window with clear kitchen plastic wrap! Miss Westall suggests you let the children make snowflakes from squares of lightweight tissue paper. “Children can fold the paper in half again and again, then cut out little sections of the paper. Unfolded, the tissue square becomes a bright paper snowflake.” Tear off a piece of dear plastic wrap and place it on a table so it is as smooth as possible. Then arrange several snowflakes on the plastic. “By overlapping the flakes, you will come up with a variety of designs and colors,” Miss Westall points out. When the design is the way you want it, cover the flakes with a second sheet of plastic wrap. “Hie plastic may wrinkle a little,” the specialist notes, “but it won’t matter. The design will still look great on the window.” Now you’re ready to let the children press the plasticcovered snowflakes on the window. “If your window and the plastic are both clean, the snowflakes will cling to the glass,” Miss Westall says. “And once the holidays are over, you can wisk the plastic off the window, and presto, the clean-up is done.”

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Yule Card Greetings Span The Centuries

“A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to You.” This favorite greeting of today was the wish on the first known Christmas card, sent in 1843. A Londoner named Henry Cole conceived the idea and had an artist friend, John Callcott Horsley, design the card. Scenes are of customs still practiced in 1970. In the center of the card is a family gathered at Christmas dinner, the adults raising glasses in a holiday toast Panels on either side depict the feeding of the hungry and clothing of the poor. Os the 1,000 lithographed copies of the original card, 12 remain. Two are in the Hallmark historical collection and replicas are offered for this year. The lasting popularity of the old wish and old themes suggests that Christmas cards have changed little through the years. Other cards in the collection prove otherwise. Fitting the season, Christmas greetings also have reflected the moods and events of changing times ova* the past 127 years, Ed Clatworthy, a Hallmark director, reported. And, in this year’s vast variety of cards can be found reflections of all of the styles of the past. A change in postal rates occurred in England shortly before the first 1,000 cards were mailed. The penny post was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1840, putting postage within the financial reach of many. By 1850, the sending of cards had become an established English custom. During the 1860 s, when the first commercial firms began publishing cards in London, Kate Greenaway became the favorite artist. Her designs, featuring darling children exquisitely dressed in Victorian fashion, were widely imitated. On 1870 cards are many charming children, some of them little girls in inflowing skirts, bonnets and muffs. In the 1870 s, holiday motifs gave way to greetings illustrated by landscapes, flowers, birds, animals and fish. The same subjects will go through the mails this year. Cards sent in this country were imported from England until early in the 1870 s, when Louis Prang of Boston set up the first American greeting

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card firm. It was he who perfected the lithographic process of multicolor printing and was the first to make religious interpretations of Christmas popular. The popularity has remained steadfast, as other trends enjoyed only temporary peaks. As the last century neared its end, penny postcards made in Germany dominated the American Christmas card market, overshadowing Prang’s colorful creations and holding their lead until the beginning of World War I. The postal cards used today by many who have the talent to design and reproduce their own original greetings.

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America began taking hold of the industry around 1910, with the emergence of major greeting-card publishers. It was a time when more people could afford better and fancier cards. Elaborate designs of this period are reproduced for this year to present nostalgic illustrations of snow-covered streets, horse-drawn sleighs, carolers and Christmas trees. “During the depression, cards spoofed being poor," Clatworthy ' pie seemed to be apologizing for their condition, but they never lost faith in tomorrow and the cards reflected this feeling.”