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# ' j i Thursday. December 24. 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Fire INCERE apprecia tion of congenial friendships and pleasant associa tions come to you with the Season's Greetings and all • * -r— ■—-l / good wishes for a C4f2f SIMAS BURRISS-H ARR1SON FURNITURE COMPANY West Pitts Street As one neighbor to an other, we would like you to know how much we op* lV preciate your friendship. We wish you o joyous season. CLINTON SERVICE STATION GULF PRODUCTS Carrol, Mason and Charles Young to our Friends ami Customers RUBY’S BEAUTY SHOP RUBY RAY Tfcte is the time of the yeer to which eU oi m look iorwerd end we’re happy to expreee to you THE COUNTRY MARKET Christmas Card Idea Originated By Englishman Christmas cards are ao much „ part of the modern Yule seasoi that one seldom stops to wonde how the idea originated and by whom. This simple idea of wishing youi friends a Merry Christmas brought honor and knighthood to the orig inator, Hetiiry Cole, a middleclass Englishman. Cole mailed his cards on a De cember day in 1846. The cards de picted a Victorian family assem bled at the festive board and the traditional Christmas custom of giving to the poor. They also bore the now-classic greeting: “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you." He had a thousand of the card- struck off by a lithograph The> were such a success that p'ain Henry Cole subsequently became Sir Henry Cole. The cards we send today, how ever, a far cry from those mailed by Cole. The cards you send and receive this year will be designed by famous names in contemporary art. An American shopping for cards this year may select scenes painted by such famoua people as Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister and famed amateur artist, and Grandma Moses, one of America’s most famous artists. The demand for cards is so gres* thst many companies spend their entire time in designing and pro during them for the holiday sea son. That Reindeer Is Becoming a Tradition That reindeer is becoming an American tradition Once upon a time there was a reindeer with a built-in flasnli ’ ” bulb for a nose You know. Ru dolph. the red-nosed reindeer From a small beginning in 1938. the little animal with the built-in beacon has become as familiar as Humpty-Dumpty and Cinderella to youngsters everywhere. First invented as a sales give away promotion for Montgomery Ward by Robert L. May, Rudolph was featured in many free booklets before he became associated with Christmas. Songwriter Johnny Marks liked the title "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer,” so he wrote a song about it. He was so sure he had a success that he start ed his own Publishing company, using "Rudolph" as his first re lease. Gene Autry made the initial recording, and that one record sold 2.000,000 copies. Last year, there were 16 differ ent recordings of the song for sale, ranging from boogie-woogie by Sugar Chile Robinson to Bing Cros by. and cowboy singers Most Beloved Carol Is 'Silent Night" The mo*t beloved carol of the many that are nmg In all parts of the world is "Silent Night" that simple and tender German song. Its origin was unknown for many years. Recent research, however, disclosed that it was written by Joseph Mohr, an assistant priest in Obemdorf in South Germany. The melody was composed by a schoolmaster. Franz Gruber. The poet and the composer were part of the choir that sang the carol for the first time on Christ mas ’Eve in the Obemdorf church in 1818. The night it was sung the small church’s organ was out of order and the choir sang to the accom paniment of a guitar. Since then the carol has been sung to the tune of almost every musical instrument in the world and in the languages of nearly all men. Christmas Tree Industry Is Biq Business in U S. The C hristmas tree industry Is big business in the United States —better than $50,000,000 an nually. The majority of our trees come from New England, N'eu York and Pennsylvania, the north Middlewest, and the Northwest Pacific regions. In recent years. New Jersey h>s amittalh marke*-i around I I. 000 trees Most of the trees (or Ch-i-t mas salt s are tut early in [lie fall and the trees are kept green with plenty of water until shipped to distribution renters. Some mass prodm ers, how ever, rut trees early in the new year, and treat them with pre servatives and coloring solu tions for storage in chilled warehouses. Miriam Alvarex and Sally Loesch, employees of the New York Telephone Company, are surrounded by the dolls the workers dis tributed last year to 95 of New York's charitable Institutions. It was one of the largest collections in the annual affair's 35 year history. CRIMSON SALAD PAINTING CEILING NO. 1 GRANDCHILDREN . . . Grandchildren of President Els enhower get a lock at Christmas dolls. They are (left to right) Susan, Barbara Anne, and Dwight David. The children spent last Christmas with their grandparents at M Mornlngsidr Drive, New York. Dr. Clement Moore Was Ashamed of His Famous Poem Dr Clement Clarke Moore was ashamed of his famous poem. "Night Before Christmas" and would not acknowledge that he wrote it for more thaw 20 years Today, the poem which begins— Huss the night before Cbritlmei. when mil through the house Not s creature was stirring, not even a mouse;— is one of the most beloved of all Christmas writings. Dr. Moore was an aloof profes sor of Greek and Oriental litera ture in the Episcopal Seminary in New York. He wrote the poem on Christmas Eve 1822 and read it to his seven children. He had not planned for the poem to go further than his own family, but a relative who was visiting the Moores put a copy in her diary The next year the relative's father sent it to a newspaper. Other newspapers printed the jingles and they quickly became known all over the country. The dignified Dr. Moore was embar rassed and considered it beneath a man of his scholastic standing to be the author of children's jingles. Twenty-two years later, how ever. he finally publicly admitted authorship of the jingles and it was published in book form under his name for the first time. Make Gilts Attractive Make your Christmas package attractive because half of the pleasure of the gift is the wrap ping and opening a beautiful pacii age. Use plenty of ribbon and gay colored paper. Add bells an i Christmas ornaments to the bows.. Tie ribbon about the corners a’.d put the bows off-center to maku the packages distinctive. A li' tie disguising by putting smal' boxes in larger ones before wrap ping adds to the mystery of th gift , Stuff cinnamon apples with cot-1 When painting the ceiling, buy a tage cheese and arrange on salad; large hollow rubber ball, such as greens for a Christmas salad asj children play with, cut it in half pretty as any you may wish lo| and slip one half over the brush 1 serve. ' j handle to catch the paint drippings.' T —- Our sincere aPpreciotion of fh« congenial friendships and pleasant associations comes to you with th« Season's Greetings, CLINTON CLEANERS E Carolina Avenue ... and „. A HAPPY NEW YEAR Rose’s 5c, 10c, 25c Store A One tbigg that alw-avs gives the Christmas Season tr ' a warm and happy glow is tne opportunity \ of saying to our friends Z 7 > / j < 4 uvu /c</ : i c HAMILTON’S