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*53 ■ : * '; ■ vms fljpp THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE SEVEN i9> .<& W. H. STERLING 1708 Vincent Street May HAPPINESS brighten your CHRISTMAS and remain with you through the days of the New Year* MAIN STREET GULF SERVICE Phone 1357 Newberry pfeakmS FISK TIRE & RECAPPING CO. Lower Main St. Phone 237 x / «< May genuine happiness fill each moment of Christmas for you. Clary-Martin Feed & Seed Store Caldwell Street a % % i £ HAPPY HOLIDAY ... A parade makes it a happy holiday for children. Every year Macy’s of New York has a gigantic pre- Christmas parade. Here excited youngsters watch the gay spec tacle. They are having the time of their lives and the scene will be repeated in hundreds of towns throughout the country this Christ mas season. Christinas Card Idea Originated By Englishman Christmas cards are so much a part of the modern Yule season that one seldom stops to wonder how the idea originated and by whom. This simple idea of wishing your friends a Merry Christmas brought honor and knighthood to the orig inator, Henry 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 cards struck off by a lithograph. They were such a success that plain 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 famous 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 great that many companies spend their entire tirpe in designing and pro ducing 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 flashlight 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. i Most Beloved Carol Is "Silent Night" The most beloved carol of the many that are sung 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 Oberndorf in South Germany. The melody was composed by a sehoolmaster, 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 Oberndorf 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. Germans First Lighted Christmas Tree Here German immigrants, homesick for the traditions of their native land, were the first .to decorate Christmas trees in their homes in the United States, according to tradition. Historians believe it was about the end of the Revolution that the practice began to grow in the colonies. Before that the Pilgrims forbade Christmas celebrations on the grounds they were pagan. And a Massachusetts law in 1689 sub jected anyone to a fine who ob served the day by feasting, re fraining from work or in any other manner. Historians also believe that Mar tin Luther was the first to deco rate and light a tree. He was fas cinated by evergreen trees, glis tening with starlit-snow, pointing to the heavens at Christmas time. So he brought an evergreen into his house and lighted it with can dles for his children. Keep Trees Green If you have the type of a tree- holder that permits the tree trunk to rest in water, you will find that a small amount of plant food dis solved in the water will aid in re taining the needles on the tree, and keep the needles green. If you use a pebble or rock-filled pail to support the tree, cover the peb bles or rock with a plant food solution. Use one teaspoonful of plant food, powdered form, to each gal lon of water in the container, or use one plant food tablet to each gallon. * • ^ i s TOM LONG’S FISH MARKET ' n -'V-H . i . . Small Towns First to Lighf Outdoor Trees It was a small town that first thought of lighting an outdoor com munity Christmas tree. Four communities are believed to have thought of the idea about the same time—as early as 1913 Two of them, McDonald and Ger mantown, were in Pennsylvania. Salem, Ore., decorated a large Sitka spruce. Riverside, Calif., illuminated a large evergreen, an Aracuria. The first national Christmas tree was in 1924 and was sponsored by the American Forestry associa tion. The event is now televised every year for all parts of the country to see. The most spectacular outdoor displays in the United States are at the White House and Rocke- feUer Center in New York. The New York display is possibly the most elaborate in the world. But it was the small towns that first thought of the idea. Today, nearly every community in the land has some kind of Christmas decorations. Many com munities string colored lights across the street and decorate light posts with evergreens. Many suspend bells and stars at street intersections and have dazzling community trees. mm am, CHRISTMAS SPIRIT . . . Full of Yule good fellowship, “Single” tries to arouse some ditto in the feline heart of “Ginger.” Ginger, goodwill season or not, can’t get over her distrust of dogs. Yule Seal Idea Was From Denmark This year millions of Amer icans have received a letter from their local chapter of the National tuberculosis association contain ing Christmas seals, the seasonal reminder of the never-ending fight to stamp out the disease. The idea was conceived by a Danish postal clerk. He thought of the idea in 1903 while mailing Christmas packages and letters. The clerk was Einar Holboell. He mentioned it to his fellow work ers and they decided it would be a great help in defraying the cost of fighting tuberculosis. The idea reached King Chrisian, who ap proved, and the image of Queen Louise was paced on the first seals in 1904. Jacob Riis, Danish-born Amer ican, heard about the idea and sold it to the American public in 1907 through a magazine article. A Red Cross worker, Miss Emily Bissell, started the first American sales that year. Door Decorations In the last few years it has be come mere and more popular to decorate doors and doorways with bells and tree ornaments instead of the conventional wreath. Your door and window frames can be made bright and cheerful by framing them with ribbon and sprigs of holly. You can hang the ribbon in festoons across the cur tains and tie at the sides in wide sash bows for colorful effect. Jr ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS . . In the Children’s Aid Society Jones Center, all was calm as the call for rehearsal of carols was sounded. The little angels without wings took their places, with one moppet sporting a black eye. He couldn’t resist reaching under his cassock to be sure his treasured gun and holster were still there. O NEW if^YEAR Tf^)CHEER l- . .-v.' J- • . • .vi . : •• •-v.v’3 Svwiii •r' I m pll m ■X-'- r- y<S ■ /.t. •y' The heart of the Christmas season is friendship and we could ask for no finer friends than ours. It makes us happy to greet you at this grand time of the year. 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