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1 Avalon Garden Club got a glorious day for its house tour — a break for tourists and hostesses alike. Nobody likes to go from home to home in a drizzle or downpour and people who are justifiably proud of their Christmas-dressed abodes can't like opening them to dripping raincoats. As we said, it was crisp and the crowd wearing fluttering tour tags enjoyed both outside in inside displays. We started at Mary Jane Lea's. She decorated her dining table and breakfast bar for the event. It was done in varying tones of blue with a deep shade of velvet ribbon crisscrossing the lighter blue banquet cloth. GLEAMING silverware flanked sparkling crystal plates and long-stemmed glasses holding frosted green grapes gave the effect of a setting in a tiny ice palace. Teddy Vinci's entrance patio was decorated X with a small tree surround- | ed by toys, books and dolls, *| ostensibly left by Santa. In ■la darling antique cradle lay a bisque infant. The Raggedy Andy standing guard was Teddy's own toy when both were younger. Florence Staab admitted us to her home overlooking the bay. saying "Don't give me credit for this, I just got back this morning." Peggy Borkland, Ginny Wire and "9IIIIIIIIIIIII

Martha Barb did it while I was away." What a perfectly swell Christmas present! A huge green wreath encircled a large one made of enough cranberries to feed China. Under this himg two bulging hand-quilted, supersized stockings. Florence was color-coordinated, not with the Christmas decorations but the pink and cream of the gorgeous new kitchen her husband, Jack, designed and installed for her. Wait 'til you see the fold-away kitchen fan, just simply too much, that's all. LOUISE CLERY has an outside display. It's the quintessence of Victorians. An artistically spotlighted Eicture window holds a irge wreath of entwisted boughs and greens, an exquisite partridge nestled at the bottom. Subtle shades and feathery greens dusted with snow, lend this a dream-like quality. The Robert Nilons* Christmas tree is Victorian in flavor but their home is a superb blend of the contemporary and carefully-col-lected antiques. Mary Nilon is an eclectic, as evidenced by her home. At the top of the stairs is a collection of paintings, a gallery really. Beyond that one finds an Adam mantle (discovered at the Antique Architectural Exchange in Philadelphia) holding a Nativity scene. Illlllllllllllll

THE TERRA COTTA figurines are grouped under a molded wreath of the same clay. While we were there the Nilons' daughter, Kathy, was apparently packaging mushrooms — only they weren't. They were realistic replicas, fashioned from meringue. Kathy learned the art at Hyde Park Culinary Institute, of which she is a graduate. At the Donald Benders' home one can easily imagine the aroma of turkey. The table is set for Christmas dinner with claret and clear patterned pressed-glass goblets on quaint place mats of a deeper shade of red. The centerpiece is of natural dried flowers of a similar shade. Mrs. Bender's hobby is ceramics, and a home-fired creche is arranged on a cherry sideboard. Last home was Betty and Councilman Dick Light's elegant jewel box of a Victorian home. Betty was dressed in attair of that period and their tree was filled with earlier-Amer-i ican ornaments. The whole house sang of Christmas, every room we i saw had a holiday flower arrangement and the front ■ door had a bibelot in each i section of its multi-paned i window. i The tour ended with a tea (Page 19 Please) IIHIIIIIIIIIBi

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