Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1941 THE NEWBckwt Bun The Christmas Saint By JAMES P. KELLY Christmas eve. Streets white with swirling snow flakes. Marionetta, behind the counters of the five-and-ten, peered into one of the little ten-cent mirrors it was her business to sell. Marionetta was crying because there was no Santa Claus. More than anything she hated to go back to the tiny basement flat that she and mother and Jim called home, and tell Jim the truth. Jim, or Jimmy, as Marionetta al ways called him, was crippled. Mari- onertta insisted that he was too little yet to know about Santa Claus. She had gone without her lunch for days and days and saved her nickels and dimes to buy the things Jimmy wanted. That very morning she had started out to work, her precious savings tucked away in her purse, her heart all but singing out loud. Then, when she got off the car, someone in the motley crowd bumped her elbow and her purse was knocked from her hand. Marionetta dived for it, but another dived at the same time and when she straightened up a small, flying figure was crossing the street. That was why her feet lagged' on her homeward way. Her hand on the door of the base ment flat, at the dirty tenement house where she lived, she noticed a big automobile drawing up at the curb, and an elegantly dressed lady slumming. Showing off! She turned her back on the picture, flung open the door and stepped inside. “Hello, Sis.” Jimmy looked up brightly. “Tonight’s the night!” Cl y V u&twui& etuta^ AND FOR THE C\lew L ji-ti t Ralph B. Black ^1/1} !• v L/Llkiu I) miiurnmiii autt cC-llIn the CvevCLjeti’c Oil Claude W. Sanders Marionetta looked dully at her mother. “I lost my purse,” she said tone- lessly. “Some kid snatched it this morning. It looked just like that one who plays with Jimmy so much but he ran so fast I couldn’t be sure." “DonU cry, honey,” her mother said. “We’ll make out, somehow.” There was a knock. Mrs. Clancy went to the door and opened it. There stood the lady of the big automobile, her arms piled high with packages. “Is this where Jimmy Clancy lives?” “Yes, ma’am.” Mrs. Clancy step ped back. “Won’t you come in?” The lady stepped inside. She kept smiling at Jimmy, whose eyes were wide and bright. “I met Santa Claus down the street this afternoon, Jimmy,’ she said, “and he asked if I would bring these things to you. He said he was going to be very busy tonight.” Jimmy was feverishly tearing at the packages, which the lady had dropped into a big chair beside him. As his heart’s desires emerged from their tinsel wrappings Jimmy shout ed with delight. Under cover of the excitement Marionetta drew near the pretty lady and whispered: "Tell me how you knew about Jim my?” “Why, my dear, it’s such a strange sto/-y! This morning I saw a little boy snatch a purse that someone dropped, and when he ran away I had my chauffeur to follow him and bring him back to me. He told me he wanted to keep the money to buy some toys for a little crippled' friend whose folks were too poor to buy things for him. I promised him I’d play Santa Claus to Jimmy if he’d promise me to wait on that corner for the girl who dropped the purse, every morning at the same hour, un til he found her and gave it back to her.” “Why,” cried Marionetta, “did you ever hear anything so like a fairy tale? That was my purse, and it really was Jerry McCarty, mother! There was such a crowds he couldn't see who dropped it. He’d never have stolen—but it wasn’t stealing. And just to think that a moment ago I was doubting the Christmas saint!” The lady laughed*. Then in that clear voice she said: “Well, just to make you even more sure of him, I’m going to bring a famous doctor to see Jimmy the day after tomorrow, and I’m going to have him take Jimmy to a hospital and cure that bad leg of his. The good Christmas saint doesn’t want to find him crippled when he comes back next year.” FROZEN LAND LACKS SNOW < FOR YULETIDE Those people who think of Alaska as a land of ioe and snow are mis taken! It seems that several of the Far North communities were noticeably —even embarrassingly—lacking in snow last Christmas, and many Al askan boys and girls who got new sleds from Santa were very disap pointed. In Seward, citizens were making plans to haul in several loads of snow from the mountains to pile around the Christmas trees on Fourth ave nue as a reminder that it really was the holiday season in the “bleak and frozen north.” A slight fall of snow came just in time to save them the trouble, however. In Ketchikan, a snowless Christ mas was celebrated, but this is not unusual for Ketchikan, Where De cember 25, 1940, was the eighteenth snowless Christmas since 1917. ENGLISH ORIGINATE CAROLS The singing of Christmas carols originated’ in England. According to tradition, this is the chorus of the very first: “Glory to God in the Highest, and on Earth, Peace, Good Will toward Men.” CHRISTfllAS GR66TMGS AND BEST WISHES FOR A DEUI VERB OF HRPPinESS Aubrey Harley NEW IDEAS FOSTER SPIRIT OF / CHRISTMAS At Christmas time ideas are more important than ever—amusing ideas to keep minds from too stern reali ties; clever ideas to make money saving a pleasure; ideas to stress the old, old Christmas spirit of joy and reverence and gay family gath erings. Get the family into the spirit of an old-fashioned Christmas with all helping—“deck the hall with boughs of holly.” Bring in the yule log. If you have no fireplace, then let the yule log become a center-piece dec oration for the table. Use evergreens, red berries, pine cones, acorns for the home-made Christmassy look. Grandmother’s festoon of cedar boughs tied with a big red bow still holds more genuine Christmas spirit than the most ex pensive artificial decorations. But if your family demands a change from the too-familiar, sug gest they invent decorations. Maybe they want a red, white and blue Christmas. Red barn paint and blu ing are still cheap. For packages, for mantelpieces— think how many everyday things are already red, white or blue, or how easily things may be enameled or dyed. Paint or dip cones, sticks and dark thinks in enamel or show card colors. Dye pipe-cleaners, lit tle fuffy feathers, dried grasses. A package with red, white and blue feathers tied in with the bow a Christmas tree decorated solely with balls of cotton, bright red 1 , white and blue—they can’t be beat. Straw white and blue stars around; decorate with candy canes crossed saber-wise and tied with a big blue bow. Make huge imitation candles of marling tubes or stove pipes or logs, covered as you please. They a re fine for out side the door or by the fireplace. Whatever you do, hide your solem nity with old-fashioned simple gai ety . . . make it a seriously import- ant,family Christmas! HOLIDAY HOSTESS HINTS A large, festive cake will confer upon any Christmas banquet a Yule- tide air that is quite distinctive. In dividual cakes help, too. When carving turkey, first tut through the leg, crack the joint, and then disjoin the leg from the turkey. Cut the breast in medium thick slices, not in chuncks. Use a sharp knife. Turnips make an excellent garnish. Cook until tender, cool and scoop out the insides. Spread with butter .md fill with cubed, seasoned beets. Re heat and surround the fowl platter. If you spill pumpin filling over the edge of the crust it is likely to bum during baking. Avoid this by pouring only part of the filling Into the crust, put it in the oven, then pour in the balance of the filling. PRESENTS OF COTTON FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS Manufacturers and stylists have worked overtime this fall to supply inexpensive, yet durable gifts. And, believe it or not, these gifts are of cotton! For every member of the family there is an endless variety of at tractive cotton articles. For moth er there are handkerchiefs, dresses, underwear, sweaters, house coats, bothrobes. For sister, pajamas, play suits, blouses, evening dresses, sports frocks, riding breeches, purses. For father, lounging robes, shirts, hand kerchiefs, pajamas, sport shirts. For brother, socks, underwear, hunting coats, clacks, sweat shirts. And for the whole family, towels, table linens, rugs, bedspreads, cur tains, auto esat covers, quilts, sheets, slip covers. So you see, your Christmas allow ance will really stretch. There’s a gift of cotton for every member of the family. To our faithful old friends and our cherished new friends, we say A MERRY CHRISTMA May the New Year be a happy and thriving one for you, and may it be our privilege to add to its success. Lominkk’s Drug Store ^Maij Ofll 3iapp [ness 3e% ours As you enjoy the contentment and merriment of the Yuletide, we want you to know that we will be thinking of you ond of the omicoble associa tions that have been ours during the time we have been serving this community It is these friendships that bind our ambitions, to be of the utmost service to oil. J. K. WILUNGHAM c i i\ [ ■ i JJ ? u \j •wmaM yj Jj L mmJ U □ It's good to come again to that Season of the year when old acquaintances ore renewed, when new friendships^are born, when the serenity of Christmas joins the whole world with one predomi nating thought — the Fellowship of Man. ,' So we send to you, our friends and neighbors,-, a hearty Christmas wish that this may be the happiest Yuletide of them oil, and that the New Year may bring with it, Peace, Joy and Prosperity. May Santa Remember You Well at This Christmastime ■:n~ KENDALL MILLS Oakland and Mollohon Plants —