Mrs. Orbit had tacked twisted red and green
streamers of paper at intervals all around the picture molding and drawn them
together in the middle of the ceiling, with just the right and artistic
pendency, and hung there a honeycombed red paper bell. Red paper bows perched
like feverish butterflies upon every picture frame. The fragrant Christmas
tree, now seen to be standing in the corner tastefully trimmed with popcorn
strings, gilded walnuts, pasteboard cutouts and numerous candles, could hold
its own with any tree in Zion. And what was this innovation? Mrs. Orbit had
used soap and drawn with it in grand style upon the mirror a ghostly holly
wreath and the head of St. Nicholas. Also she had printed M E R R Y
X M A S.
--From The Peaceable Kingdom
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