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THE NEWBERRY SUN
Egyptians Made
Elaborate Dolls
For Children
No one knows for su: 2 who made
the first doll, but it can be assumed
the earliest figures were sacred—
gods and ancestor images. These
doll-like forms were not toys for
the delight of children, but solemn
religious figures that preserved the
tribe from harm.
Then, somehow, somewhere, a
change took place. Dolls became
a toy for girls and the most popu
lar Christmas toy of them all.
Dolls have been discovered in
Egyptian tombs and ruins, some
even had real hair; some were
ivory, carved by craftsmen for a
king’s daughter: others were made
of straw by an overworked mother
in a peasant’s hut.
In ancient Greece dolls were
played with and cherished by little
girls until they were ready to be
married. Then (their dolls were
taken to the shrine .of a favorite
goddess) and, often with tears,
presented to her. The Roman chil
dren played with dolls, too, but
after the fall of the Empire there
came a long period in which there
is no record of dolls.
Not until the thirteenth century
when dolls were made in Nurem
berg and dressed in the fashions
of the times did little girls again
play with dolls. They were here to
stay.
By and by in Europe, the French
fashion dolls became all the rage,
not for children to play with but as
models from which fine ladies
could pattern their owi^ modish
costumes.
In America, the Indian children
had dolls of their own made of
rawhide and feathers and wood.
Pioneer children had dolls much
like these, and some were made of
braided cornhusks, or nuts, or
corncobs, or rags, and were dearly
loved in spite of their plainness.
Much later, lifelike dolls were
imported from Germany, where
the doll industry had reached
enormous proportions. These dolls
had fine china heads with care
fully painted faces and kid bodies
that were jointed at the arms and
legs. Later there came the
Japanese-made dolls, which were
inexpensive enough for almost any
child to own. Then the American-
made dolls began to appear—the
special dolls, the kewpies, billi-
kens, Buster Browns, teddy bears,
Patsy dolls and Shirley Temples
and phonograph dolls, with all the
host of others that have followed
and which are still to come. For
dolls always will be part of child
hood and part of Christmases as
long as there are little girls and
boys to play with them, and par
ents and fond kinfolk to buy.
Burial Place of Santa
Said to Be in Italy
S ANTA CLAUS, otherwise St.
Nicholas, otherwise the one
time bishop of Myra in Asia Minor,
is buried in Bari, Italy. His body
was stolen from its original tomb
in Myra and swiftly borne to Bari
by Italian sailors, who thought
back in 1087 that a saint’s body
brought prosperity and good luck
to your town.
St. Nicholas, who was tortured
and imprisoned for his faith during
the reign of Emperor Diocletian,
found no rest in his first tomb at
Myra. Always some expedition was
attempting to remove his remains.
However, once buried again in
Bari, the saint’s body was credited
with curing 30 people of distemper
and performing other miracles. So
Bari became a place of pilgrimage,
and the legends about St. Nicholas
multiplied apace.
We owe our notion of Santa Claus
as a secret dispenser of g its to a
story that St. Nicholas once saved
three girls from a life of prostitu
tion by throwing purses of gold
through a window in Patara, thus
permitting a poverty stricken
nobleman to give his daughters
suitable dowries as custom de
manded.
In addition, St. Nicholas was
credited with restoring life to some
boys who had been slain and dis
membered by a wicked innkeeper
of Myra—hence the occasional
stained glass windows in which the
saint is shown beside three lads
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TIME OUT . . . Santa Clans
pauses In his Christmas Eve
visits sometimes to pick up a
hot dog and ice cream cone at
an all-night hamburger stand.
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PRATER . . . “O come let ns
adore him", these children pray
on Christmas eve. Their prayer
is the true and greatest gift of
all.
'Silent Night' Hymn
Is Often Called
Song From Heaven
“Silent Night” is often called the
“Song from Heaven” because the
story of its inspiration and com
position is one of the most beauti
ful Christmas stories in existence.
On December 24, 1818, in the
Austrian village of Hallein, as
Father Joseph Mohr sat reading
his Bible, there was a knock ht his
door. It was a peasant woman who
wanted the priest to visit a poor
charcoal-maker’s wife to whom a
child had been born. The parents
had sent her to ask the priest to
come and bless the infant.
Father Mohr was strangely
moved by the visit to the mother.
And that evening as he returned to
his home saw that the dark slopes
of the Alps around the village were
alight with torches of the moun
taineers on their way to church.
To him it was a Christmas mira
cle.
Later, as he tried to put down
on paper his feeling and experi
ence, the words kept turning into
verse. When dawn came he found
he had written a poem—a beau
tiful and moving poem.
On Christmas Day his friend,
Franz Xaver Gruber, music teach
er in the village school, composed
music to fit the verses.
Village children heard the priest
and teacher singing the song and
learned it. From there it spread
throughout the world. Today, it is
regarded as the greatest Christ
mas hymn and wherever there are
men of good will they sing:
"Silent night, holy night—
All is calm, all is bright,
Round you Virgin, Mother and
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Holy Infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace—
Sleep in heavenly peace."
History of
Christmas Seals'
When you see the Christmas seal
do you ever wonder how it started?
It was born in Denmark, home of
the fairy tales of Hans Christian
Anderson.
Einar Holboell, a Copenhagen
postal clerk, was sorting mail one
snowy afternoon before Christmas,
1903, when he thought of the idea
of a penny stamp to swell a fund
for children’s hospitals.
Authorized by King Christian,
the first Christian seals were sold
in Copenhagen in 1904.
Holboell’s scheme outgrew his
wildest imaginings, for before his
death in 1927, he lived to see it
spread to 45 countries.
The seals found their way to
America on letters and packages
and first attracted the attention of
Jacob Riis who wrote an article
about them. Few people, however,
were interested in the idea. ’
Then, in the autumn of 1907,
Emily Bissell, a public health
worker, concerned about the fate
of a small sanatorium, recalled
th article and sat down to sketch
America’s first Christmas seal, a
wreath of holly encircling the
words “Merry Christmas.”
With 50,000 stamps printed and
nowhere to sell them. Miss Bissell
at last enlisted the aid of a colum
nist on a Philadelphia newspaper.
The idea caught and within a'few
weeks $3,000 was collected.
The first nation-wide sale was
held the following year and was
backed by newspapers all over the
country, religious and civic groups,
and sponsored by the American
Red Cross and the National
Tuberculosis association.
AROUND THE WORLD
UNITED STATES (Merry Christ
mas)—Christmas tree, mistletoe
and Santa Claus.
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BRAZIL (Boas Festas)—A fam
ily dinner is first on the list of
festive celebrations in Brazil.
Christmas trees, gift exchanges
and other typical U.S. holiday cus
toms are being adopted in South
America.
HOLLAND (Hartelijke K e r t-
grooten)—Land of old St. Nich
olas, forerunner of our Santa Claus.
In former years, the Dutch cele
brated for-a month. St. Nick scat
tered his gifts about the floors of
Dutch homes as early as Decem
ber 6.
ITALY (Bono Natale) — Shep
herds gather in villages on Christ
mas Eve to play musical instru
ments as townsfolks sing sweet Na
tivity songs. Thousands flock to
St. Peter’s in Rome on Christmas
Day.
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GREECE (Kala Xristouyeha)—
Decorated trees, greeting cards
and gift exchanges are season
highlights. New Year’s Eve is
really the top holiday, with big
dances, parties and other cele
brations for young and old.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (MaUga-
yang Pasko) — Church services,
singing and dancing are Yuletide
favorites in the islands.
First Community Tree
At Christmas Was Held
In City of Cleveland
'"pHE COMMUNITY Christmas
tree idea was bom in Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1912. The community
raised funds to defray the cost of
the tree and celebrations through
the sale of preferred stock in
“Cleveland, the city of good will
(unlimited), incorporated under the
laws of the commonwealth of good
cheer.”
Holders of preferred stock were
entitled to “dividends payable
daily in the form of happy voices
of robust children, the contented
faces of friendly fellow citizens
and the advancement of the city of
good will.”
Sale of stock was pushed every
where, the most unique place being
the Cleveland stock exchange
where the stock was listed at the
head of other securities. The sale
brought $12,000, which purchased
Christmas cheer for 13,000 citizens,
as well as the first community
Christmas for the city.
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SNOWMEN FOR YOU . . .
Your local lumber dealer may
have patterns for these ply
wood and hardbeard “snow
men” which you can make
yourself. If not, use this pic
ture for a pattern and go to
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1962
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so long ago, be reflected in your heart today. And'
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This being.the season when happiness
prevails everywhere — we wont to join
the spirit of the occasion by saying to
you, one and all, M Merry Christmas."
You have bean loyal and Kbosol in your
patronage and we doom il • priutttge
to have the opportunity to free you.
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