Winter Decorations.

Late berries and tinted foliage are eagerly gathered by the woman who loves beauty. In arranging your treasures, remember that nature herself is not scared of mixing her colours or her types.

Use a large jar, a pottery bowl, an earthenware or copper jug, and in it arrange your foliage and berries. Any lingering flowers in your garden, or the frail early blossoms of spring, may be added. If you have placed a crumpled-up piece of fine wire-netting in your vase, the stems will stay just where you want them to, and you will be able to attain that balanced effect which is necessary. The result should be haphazard, unstudied and careless, but behind all, arrangement is the sense of balance.

For a buffet, and for the diningtable, a glowing bowl of fruit is effective—and easy. For a “special” dinner-table, add the rich glow of grapes to your fruit bowl or basket. For a fairly large table, the centre-piece may be flanked by two small bowls of dainty flowers.