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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.
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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