Are you already for that inevitable question from your family when you arrive home for Christmas vacataion? Or perhaps your family doesn't say patronizingly, "Well, what did you learn at college this quarter?" But if they do, you can be all ready for them this time with something of practical value. When you pack your bag to go home, pack along these suggestions for table decorations. And then ask mother if you can have complete charge of the Christmas table, for there are so many original and smart ways of decorating the table this year.

Last Christmas morning I found, under the coniferous tree that decorated our living room, several ties, several shirts, a bathrobe, a pair of gloves, a scarf, a billfold and a traveling set.

And thick and fast they came at last and more and more and MORE . . . . . . . What, weekends? Yes, and they are FORMAL weekends too. December brings Santa Claus to good little girls and boys, snowflakes to everybody in general, and the opening of the formal season to Iowa State students.

A girl, intense-eyed and quick-witted, stood behind the miscellaneous assortment of merchandise on the counter of her father's general store. She sold tobacco along with the dry goods and groceries, but she fairly hated the stuff. One day a knot of the small town loafers took their purchased tobacco and their pipes and sauntered over to the stove to smoke and gossip while they tipped back their chairs and stuck their feet up.

Party time is breezing in with the gay Christmas season. Now is the time for you to give that party that you have wanted for so long.