Colony South Hotel Newsletter

[L Verge]

My daughter still uses tinsel, as did I when I did a tree. This sounds childish, but I love to squint my eyes and see the tree and lights shimmering through the tinsel.

I actually have an original package of tinsel from Germany in its paper sleeve with a drawing on the front of a girl (ca. 1880) placing tinsel on a table-top tree. My daughter inherited family ornaments dating from 1874 (my grandmother's first tree), late-1800s, 1914 (my mother's first tree), 20th century vintages, and 1943 (my first tree). The latter, of course, is glass with paper cap for hanging since WWII usurped metal.

Roger, every cat I've owned (except one) ate the tinsel from the tree. They usually threw it back up within a few minutes and never got sick. I had one, however, that the tinsel would pass right through her digestive system and emerge intact. Lots of times, however, it was up to me to pull out the remaining piece that would dangle behind her. There's a Christmas yucky for you!