The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 21, 1950, Image 20
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BEST WISHES
At- you celebrate the Christmas Holidays
we want you to accept our
sincere Christinas Greetings and
our heartfelt thanks
for your friendship and patronage
Joe’s Esso Service
Joe McDaniel — Charlie McDaniel
Christmas Greetings
TO EACH OF YOU
TO THE FINEST
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
“OUR CUSTOMERS”
A Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year
Thank you for your patronage and good-will in the past.
Hoping to see you in 1950.
Ruby’s Beauty Shoppe
Phone 453
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It is our sincerest wish that the spirit of
friendliness and good fellowship will make your
Christmas a merry one—and that the New Year
will bring to you a full measure of good health,
success, and happiness.
Thanks for your consideration and patronage
in the past.
WE WILL OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY
From 4 P. M. to 1 A. M.
Roddy’s Drive-In
And
Motor Court
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Roddy
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 21, 1950
‘Qrandpa 3ro5t * J4elp3
(Russians Celebrate
M-idwinter 3estival
Although Christmas is no longer
a holiday in Soviet Russia, a non
religious midwinter festival is
celebrated and children receive
gifts from "Grandpa Frost." •
In Czarist Russia, it was custom
ary to well-to-do families with
large homes to entertain lavishly
on Christmas day. The invita
tions were extremely formal and
begged the invited to consider that.
‘ ... for thousands of years it
has been so; with us it has not com
menced, with us it will not
cease. Do not, therefore, disturb
the festival; do not bring the good
people to despair. Without you
there will be no maiden festivaj at
Anna Karpowna’s."
In planning these houseparties,
hostesses gave particular attention
to the selection of partners for the
young ladies. The selection was
sometimes very satisfactory and
sometimes left something to be de
sired.
Arrival of the "fair maidens,”
each with her mother and retinue,
bringing cake and sweetmeats and
gifts for everyone, proceeded ac
cording to prescribed ritual: the
guests sooner freezing in their
sleds before the gate than to alight
before receiving the greeting of
the host and hostess.
Having been Ceremoniously wel
comed, the guests offered prayers
before the icon (sacred picture)
and then proceeded to the feasting
and festivities arranged for them.
Santa Claui <Mit
Al 'SuCfGA ^baAAif'
On&teaA oj Saint
Assailing the Santa Claus myth
1 as ‘foolish fiction' and rival of the
' Holy Child,-the Rev. John S. Mar
tin, editor of the Catholic Review,
declared in a 1949 editorial that
Santa the saint has been lost in
Santa the sugar daddy—and that
the whole idea is bad psychology
and bad pedagogy.
"Our children learn about the
reindeer, but have never heard of
the ox and the ass," Father ^fartin
continued and recommended that
we:
"Leave the man in the red suit
to those who have nothing better
... for whom life must end in
disillusion and despair."
Father Martin’s sentiments are
reminiscent of Martin Luther’s I
vigorous campaign against neglect I
of the central idea of Christmas,
which is the birth of Jesus. So, i
German children have been taught
that the Christkind brings the
presents—Christkind being depict
ed as the messenger of the Infant
Jesus sent earthward at Christ
mastime to bring happiness to
good children.
The modern conception of Santa
Claus is, of course, 99 per cent fic
tional and strictly American. But
the spirit of generosity and
thoughtfulness as typified by San
ta Claus is neither sugar daddy-ish
nor essentially American. Unfortu
nately not all children who await
Santa have learned from their
mothers’ lips the story of the Holy
Child.'
Santa's Requests
Santa Claus still gets letters from
youngsters with the same cherished
requests—bicycles and dolls. But
last year a child wanted a live cow.
He told a department store Santa
so.
Another kid wanted a new daddy
because hers was "wearing out on
top."
"ALL HE WANTS” . . . Young
Edward HospUa of Now York
makes known to Santa his
Christmas wish. Ho said, to
sola a phrase, “All I want for
Christmas is my two frost ia-
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