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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 21, 1950 £hristmas ^fossword Rjzzle aaoss L Cwkcttw I. %. hi'on (mL) It Mow, 1) Mot ». Ckriitnw (h.) It CKoom 11 PodiJ. If. OiM tl. Skill. XL kkoUl XX. Pial ) X4 t*rh l^>bi ) It MiuiU Xt. Doctor I.Shr) XI. Till tk.hr.d XX. Rom.o Dumer.) 14 Not* ol tk. icol* 35 Product ol tk. h.« It Pol* 37. Two-tood ilotk XI. Ei.*.t*d roilrood 3f. Otkonruo 41. Not out 4L Heoltk, 44 Dm owdl. tod tkrt^ 45. AIm 4t D«.,i 47 Mi out 41 lod 51. Sod, ol ««t.i 52. Ckhil i kutkpUc. 55 Toul 57. Oat ol it, I* 51 !*,'• to, 5f Pruil.i ■ Bunt* 51 Slit, lokkr 1 5. Cirl'i to, 5. Put ol . buildia, 7. Pit I Rowt II bclu.tioii ol coatoatxot II Slwltor IX Ski, 14 l.a,lk« 15 Pal*. SoaU i koa. 17 Put ol « builds, XI. CnotM XI Put ol . church 15 TW, *pp.ucd to tk. ihephcrd. 17, In ikop. ifd I 21 Tn. lr.*Bi07> 2f S<«*r XI SuU'i BOtiw p«« 11. E,. 14 fint p.rM. piatol 41 Um, 42 lo^a. 41 Nmi 45 Wb« 45 l.ptaow ■owr. 41 Mwaiaf 51 Sul. lokkt.) 51 DtracHoa 52 Motkor 51 Wktlo 54. )*«al 55 Nook i Mo, 5t A ,r.b. 1 ! c4merican Chriltmal aJ Old aJ C olumbuS The celebration of Christmas in j this country has deep and perma- j rent roots, although at one time its observance was nearly extermi- | nated. The first Christmas observance was shortly after Columbus dis covered America. The Santa Maria beached on Christmas Eve and all Christmas day Columbus and his men worked to free her. When it was found hopeless, she was stripped and as much gear as pos sible taken to the Nina. However, the Nina was unable to carry all the men, and some were left behind in a fort, that in honor of the season was called Le Navi- dad, the nativity. 0 Come Let Us Adore Him i CHRISTMAS EVE IN 0LDT1ME FINLAND The Christmas Eve bath was quite a tradition in Finland be fore the advent of modern plumbing. The oldtime Finnish bath-room was usually a three-room hut; one room was used for steaming and scrubbing, one for rubbing, and one for dressing. The hut was warmed by a stone oven, heated for hours before the scheduled bath, and the “bath room” was really stemming. After bathing came the rub-down and the switching of the body with birch twigs to increase the circula tion, topped off by a roll in the snow, supposedly to whet the ap petite for Christmas Eve supper. For supper there was usually stockfish and prune tarts to be en joyed, plus the traditional barley porridge in which cream and sugar and almonds were mixed. After supper the boys and men matched their strength: while the girls—garbed in the men’s work clothes—blackened their faces and stole away to visit other homes in cognito and “see Christmas.” The €irls never spoke nor accepted food, but went from house to house merely to watch the festivities. And when the evening’s festivi ties were over, the smaller chil dren made their be4s in the clean straw spread on the floor in com memoration of the Christ Child. Indestructible Mistletoe The flame-thrower and atomic energy — lethal instruments bor rowed from modem warfare—are out to kill that ancient symbol of peacemaking and love, the Christ mas mistletoe. The unusual battle front is A us tralia where too many valuable trees each, year have been receiv ing the kiss of death from the harmless looking shrub. Despite mistletoe’s popular reputation as the Yuletide promoter of romance, it is a public-enemy parasite in the woodlands, killing off the treef that play it host. Australian foresters have finall; resorted to the flame-thrower as i quick executioner for the plant and are using radio-active tracers, furnished by the U. S. atomic en ergy commission, to study how the mistletoe saps the water and mm I eral salts from the trees, starvin; I them to death. pc? i 'IktA DIRECTOR 15 ExpoMion land $3375 MISS AMIftKA 17 J«wels Snaka Chain IracaUt) $3375 money buy... BULOVA America’s Greatest Watch Valve TREASURER 17 Jaw* ACADEMY AWARD ”N” 71 bmdk *49* ■m' ,-vS^ ROMA IrocaM Choice r ■*> MAXIM Cxpan$ion land ACADEMY AWARD “S' 71 iowoh S49» '-a: PHOTO WATCH "A" 17 Jowoh *5500 VIOLET 17 Jawoh Expansion Iracokt *5500 a P'faoui j. iS DUO-WMD “6“ SEir VIRIINS 17 Jowots Swoop Socood-Hand Expomion land *5950 mmrn; V / o Peifed Timepiece ACADEMY AWARD “W II Jowoh i on»loo Ion $7P» $7X50 Take All of Next Year to Pay A . J. C. THOMAS, petuele* M U f s Time That Counts”