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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1959
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
SECTION B—PAGE SEVEN
Outdoor Decorations
Are Very Popular
Decorating outdoor trees and
shrubbery with brightly-colored
lights is becoming more and more
an American tradition, but while
outdoor lighting is attractive and
colorful, it is also dangerous and
may cause damage to trees and
greenery.
Bulbs of 15 wattage are suffici
ent for use in outdoor lighting ar
rangements. Electrical fixtures
should be of the weatherproof va
riety, specally designed for out
door use and the lights should
always be placed so that they do
not touch the needles.
Spruce, pines and firs, if they
are not too large, are ideal for
outdoor Yuletide lighting dsplays,
although other varieties such as
hemlock, yew, boxwood and abor-
vitae are more sensitive to heat
and easily scorched if caution is
not used.
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ROYAL CLEANERS
“BEAUTIFUL DRY CLEANING”
Porcupine Balls
for Christmas
Making porcupine balls for
Christmas decorating can be
^n. Here’s what you need:
bottle corks, 8- to 10-inch
lengths of string, a darning
needle, pointed cocktail tooth
picks, a waxed lunch bag, a
half-pint of white paint and
artificial snowflakes.
First, draw the string
through the cork with the nee
dle and tie it around the cork,
niahing a hook. Then insert
the toothpicks into the cork so
rhot all sides are covered, giv
ing a porcupine effect. Drop
M’e hall into a large waxed
iuo h bag containing paint and
iaat- until the ball is well
covered with paint.
^hake the drippings off the
h i.’ and remove from the bag.
iiCt set for a few minutes be-
to-e sprinkling w|th snow or
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Put the balls in a safe place
to dry—allowing at least 18 to
‘M hours.
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Newberry County Bank
Joe M. Roberts, Executive Vice-President and Cashier
NEWBERRY BRANCH JOANNA BRANCH
L. D. Long George Rodelsperger Clyde Tindall, Manager
Martha Ann Kinard Mollie Dowd Mrs. Dick Vaughan Frances Evans
Joan Bobb
Science Proved
Our Earth Is
Centuries Old
How old is this earth of ours?
Modern researchers, using the
principle of radioactivity to
“date” wood samples, have prov
en it is at least 4,600 years old.
Atomic scientists expect to ex
tend their measurements beyond
20,000 years, long before the dawn
of history.
According to Jewish dogma and
tradition, the Day of Creation
antedated the birth of Christ ap
proximately 3,761 years. Thus,
the Jewish calendar, which the
Jews adopted during the 15th
century, reads 5720 in relation to
1959 A. D.
Use of the notation A. D. (in
the year of our Lord) was inaug
urated by Charles in Of Ger
many, who affixed the symbolism
to the years erf his reign in 879.
The system of retroactively dat
ing the years prior to the Sav
iour’s birth and dedicating the
succeeding years to His greater
Glory was invented, along with
the Christian era, by a monk
about 532 A. D. The Christian era
begins on January 1 in the mid
dle of the fourth year of the 164th
Olympiad, the 753rd year of the
building of Rome and in 4714 of
the Julian Period.
The Julian period, invented by
Joseph Scaliger, about 1583 A. D.,
was devised by multiplying the
lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 28, and
the Roman indiction 15.
The Egyptians devised a calen
dar about 4,000 B. C. and using
the Mundane era of Alexander,
estimated the “beginning” to be
5502 B. C.
THERE HE IS . . . Many a
youngster would like nothing
better than to catch Santa Claus
coming down the chimney.
About Mistletoe
One cannot help but wonder
how mistletoe came to be the
“kissing plant.” The mistletoe
is a parasite, or “thief” which
attaches to a host tree and
under certain circumstances
will sap the life out of &
healthy, sturdy tree.
Mistletoe usually grows on
oaks, mostly in the top branch
es. The seeds are probably
scattered by birds.
Who Really Sent
That Very First
Christmas Card?
What is generaDy conceded to
ie the first card specifically de
signed as a Christmas greeting—
•the card designed in England by
J. Horsley for Sir Henry Cole (in
1843)—did not meet with an en
thusiastic reception. Sent to his
personal friends, Cole’s card had
side panels which depicted the
'ceding of the hungry and the
clothing of the naked. This was
veil and good. The objections to
;he card arose from the illustra
tion in the central panel—a scene
n which a middle-class English
family raised their wine glasses
to toast an absent friend (obvious-
y the recipient of the card). The
scene so aroused temperance zea-
,ots that Cole never authored an
other card.
Still Looking
Actually the search for the
“first” Christmas card is still go
ing on. Although it bore no spe
cific greeting, the New York His
torical Society, some 30 years be
fore the Horsley-Cole card, sent
to members and friends of the
society a woodcut of St. Nicholas,
which bore a Christmas poem in
both Dutch and English.
In 1932, Carl W. Drepperd dis
covered in a Pennsylvania attic a
“broadsheet” issued about 1842 by
John M. Wolff, Philadelphia print
er. The sheet, 10 inches by 15
inches, featured a reproduction of
C. C. Moore’s “The Visit of St.
Nicholas” and as well carried the
greeting, “A Merry Christmas
and A Happy New Year.”
The first commercial venture
into the Christmas card business
was made in 1863 when an Eng
lish firm hired Punch cartoonist
C. H. Bennett to illustrate a se
ries of cards which were sold in
that year as “Christmas compli
mentary stationery.”
good in the worla, springs
from the great message
of love and peace
that Christ first spoke.
MR. AND MRS. TOM LEWIS
AND SON, TOMMY
Boundary Street Extn.
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In the spirit of friendship and good will, we extend
sincere washes that your Christmas will be bright with
the w r armth of the Holiday Season.
MOLLOHON PLANT and OAKLAND PLANT
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA