Foil Festooning Stays Beautiful For More 
Than One Year. See Pages 9-10. 
HOW TO SELECT YOUR DECORATIONS 
To get the most for your money, you must first 
consider your city planning carefully before you 
buy. This means everything in the result you will 
get. Following are our suggestions for planning 
decorations which will do most for your city, 
LIGHTS — This is the first item to be con- 
sidered. If you do not have them, this is the first 
item you should buy and you should get as many 
as your budget will permit the first year. You can 
add to these each year until you have enough to de- 
corate your streets the way you want them, 
EVERGREENS — This is the backbone of all 
decorations. Unless you have the Evergreen Gar- 
land, your other decorations will not show to ad- 
vantage. Evergreens are inexpensive; a small quan- 
tity will go a long way toward decorating your city. 
Consider first the part a tree plays in your home. 
If you took the most expensive ornaments, in quan- 
tity lots, and hundreds of lights and decorated sev- 
eral rooms in your home, would your home even 
then have the appearance of Christmas, if you did 
not use a tree or some other Evergreens? No, it 
would not. BUT, you could take a plain tree, a few 
evergreens, add a few simple ornaments and your 
home would have more of Christmas in it than 
you could get by spending five times the same 
amount for the other decorations, leaving out ever- 
greens. It is the same in decorating your streets. 
Evergreens are a valid part of Christmas; in the 
days of long ago before the day of plastics and elec- 
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tricity, people had to depend almost altogether on 
Evergreens for decorations. So be a wise buyer. 
Whatever else you use, be sure to include the Ever-, 
greens. Take the roping and wreaths or sprays, as 
a background for your decorations add lights and 
plastics if possible, and what do you have? A beau- 
tiful, balanced, and perfectly decorated city, No mat- 
ter what you plan to use, do not leave out that most 
important item: EVERGREENS. 
PLASTICS — This item is most worthy of 
consideration. Expensive? Not very expensive 
when you buy a few items each year, adding to 
these each year. Our plastics are the best and can 
be used indefinitely. We have chosen plastic de- 
signs that are symbolic of Christmas and regard- 
less of how long you use them they will still be an 
inseparable part of Christmas. Spend as much as 
you can afford for plastics this year, and use them 
to provide illumination for the beautiful Ever- 
greens forming your background, 
We will be happy to help you plan your decora- 
tions to fit your budget and beautify your city. 
To do this we require a sketch of the area you wish 
to decorate. Then we must know approximately 
how much you feel you can spend. This is most im- 
portant, since it will enable us tou know if we should 
spread them out and cover as large an area as possi- 
ble for the amount you can spend, or we ean plan 
more elaborate decorations and more attractive ones 
for what you are able to spend. 
How To Prepare For And Put Up Roping And Lights 
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how to put up guy wires 
and cables before at- 
ga taching the roping. If 
strong cables are extend- 
ed across the street, an- 
chored to buildings and 
wire as heavy or heavier 
than telephone wire is 
strung up and down and 
attached to cables, then 
roping may be attached 
to the cables and wires. 
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