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SEC. C—PAGE 16 The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, December 23, 1965 It’s Easy Old Foshioned Christmas Tree If you want to celebrate- your Christmas in the 1890’s tradition, it’s not as difficult as you might think. For the top of the tree, you can cut a star out of gold construction paper. You can also cut chains from the same paper to string along the branches. Or if you prefer, make your strings of popcorn and cranberries. Then you should have loads of cookies, candies, and gilded nuts. Star-shaped cookies, gingerbread men, and Beech-Nut sours—hard candies that capture the turn-of- the-century flavor — any of these would do just fine. You can put the sours in little transparent bags and attach them to the tree. You can also use the candies to stuff gifts and fill stockings with. And if you want a real Gay Nineties touch, you) can just fill a dish with sours, and keep it standing on a foyer table for your Christmas guests. Also, your Gay Nineties Christ mas wouldn’t be complete with out at least a half dozen cornu copias on your tree. To make these, simply take colored con struction paper, preferably gold and silver, roll it into a cone, and attach the ends together with masking tape. Then you punch two holes in the top rim through w’hich you thread a piece of red or green string. With the string you attach your cornucopia to the tree, and once you fill it to the brim with Beech-Nut sours, you have a delightful (and tasty) Christmas decoration. Then, if you want to go all the way to make your Christmas tree an old-fashioned one, you can try to locate some 1890’s toys to put under it. Say, a hobby horse, carousel — or maybe a Teddy Bear. GIFT IDEA .... A “leave of absence” from the household rou tine is a gift most women would appreciate. You might consider it mom's own special holiday. J0 Card styles have changed, hut no one has improved upon the message inscribed on what is generally conceded to be the first Christmas card. The mes sage, “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You, ,> has become a universal greet ing. Known as the Cole-Horsley card, the “first” card is in a private collection, the Hall mark Historical Collection, in Kansas City, Missouri. The card is named for Sir Henry Cole and John Calcott Horsley. Sir Henry, director of the Vic toria and Albert Museum, com missioned Horsley, a noted London artist, to design the card, which first appeared in print in 1843. The card is composed of three panels. The center panel portrays a family at Christmas dinner, the other two panels il lustrate the Christian virtue of feeding the hungry and cloth ing the needy. Our heartiest greetings to you and yours! The State Building & Loan Ass’n 1117 BOYCE STREET NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA OFFICERS DIRECTORS Ralph B. Baker, President J. Dave Caldwell, Vice President Pinckney N. Abrams, Sec'y-Treas. Mrs. Doris S. Setzler, Asst. Sec'y-Treas. Mrs. Aliene A. Reeves, Teller Mrs. Shirley M. Livingston, Teller Thomas H. Pope Ralph B. Baker J. Dave Caldwell Louis C. Floyd R. Aubrey Harley Pinckney N. Abrams