The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 22, 1950, Image 19
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GNOMES AT WORK . . . Three
little ffhomes diligently pre
pare for Christmas under the
watchful eye of Santa Claus in
his workshop at Santa Claus,
Indiana. They are building,
waxing and polishing toys to
go into Santa's pack on Christ
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Commercial production of
Christmas cards in the United
States began about 1835 with
the founding and developing of
the partnership of Currier and
Ives In New York.
For more than a century
American painters have aided
the Industry by painting Chrlst-
mas themes on order or by sell
ing reproduction rights to the art
which la now conservatively
estimated aa worth $10,000,009
annually.
The favorite Nativity theme
la represented by hundreds of
interpretations. Winter scenes
are next In popularity, some of
them dating back to the Puri
tans of New England, the Ger
man forests whence St. Nicho
las emerged, and even to the
Droids of pre-Christian Eng-
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Was c4shamed o[ Jt
Everyone knows and loves the
poem which begins—
Twas the night before Christ
mas, when aU through the
house
Net a creature was stirring, not
even a mouse;—
but the man who wrote it. Dr.
Clement Clarke Moore, was a-
shamed of it and would not allow
it to be published under his name
lor more than 20 years.
Dr. Moore, an aloof professor of
Greek and Oriental literature in
the Episcopal Seminary in New
York, wrote the poem on Christ
mas 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 dairy
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.
Ironically, the professor’s ser
ious works are forgotten today. He
is mentioned in encyclopedias
because he wrote the celebrated
Christmas verses.
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New Year’s was not always a
mid-winter affair. Ancient Egypt
used the overflowing of the Nile
as a calendar and celebrated the
New Year accordingly, in June.
The Babylonians began their year
in March, and the early Romana
followed the Babylonian pattern.
Bearing this in mind, the custom
of invoking the gods of fertility
at New Year’s time—the origin of
which is lost in antiquity—seems
logical and appropriate
The Romans were accustomed
to hanging tiny masks of Bacchus
upon trees and vines, the idea be
ing to impart fertility to every
side of the tree to which the masks
were turned by the wind
In the old days, Rumanian youths
went from house to house singing
and wishing everyone a prosperous
New Year
Scottish lads always had a howl
ing good time going about on New
Year’s Eve switching the trunks of
fruit trees and petitioning a ‘good
howling crop.’
Reflecting the fear of starvation,
peasant families in various parts
of the world baked a special New
Year’s cake which they dashed
against the door; members of the
household hastened to pick up a
piece and eat It, prayerful that
neither hunger nor want should
enter the house during the ensu-
ina year.
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