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SEC. C PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, December 20, 1967
Easy-To-Do Decorations And Punches To Brighten Yule
The time will soon be here
for hanging the Christmas
wreath to announce that special
hospitality season and best
loved holiday of the year. Long
before the bells jingle, why not
ring in the fun by involving the
whole family in Yuletide prep
aration?
Take a tip from the easy-to-
make ornaments found in holi
day cartons of Coca-Cola.
Everyone in the household, ar
tist or not, youngster or oldster,
can add something clever to the
tree, the table and other trim
around the home with these dec
orative assets. Just snip, fold ’n
paste (that quick!). Stars,
snowflakes, icicles and a host of
other festive dangles in rich
luster colors are included free
in a new series of folders con
taining twenty different decora
tions.
Ready for a second holiday
hint? The hostess who spends
much time in the kitchen misses
out on the fun. Those cartons
of Coke hold the answer to the
favorite easy-to-serve refresher
for evenings of decoration
making, the impromptu platter
party and the open house when
friends drop in.
Another timely tip sure to
transform any party into the
splash of the month is the party
E unch. Sprite is the keyword
ere to fill the bowl with good-
taste-to-spare with time-to-
spare. For a tart tempter to
liven up any happening, try
“Tingle Bells Punch." Made in
a jiffy, it makes music as sweet
as jingle bells.
TINGLE BELLS PUNCH
2 quarts cranberry juice
1 can (6 oz.) frozen lemon
ade concentrate, thawed
1/2 cup maraschino cherry
juice
6 bottles of Sprite (10 oz.
each), well chilled
Combine all ingredients.
Serve over ice in punch bowl.
Garnish with lemon slice topped
with cherry or with lemon slice,
orange wedge and cherry alter
nated on cocktail picks. Makes
about 40, 4-oz. servings.
Accompaniment: Stuffed
olives and cocktail onions alter
nated on cocktail picks. An on
ion sour cream dip served with
melba toast rounds.
“Tingle Bells" is one of five
great punch ideas tucked in car
tons of Sprite. Untuck a few for
Christmas and have a tingling
holiday!
Problem: Catch Op
With The Sun
The sun in the morning sky
is much more important to
man than the signal that a new
day has begun. Since man first
began marking time, the sun
has always posed a problem.
Leap years in our present Gre
gorian calendar are necessita
ted by the fact the solar year is
longer than the calendar year.
The problem is not new.
Sometime in the seventh cen
tury B. C., Numa Pompilius
instituted the Roman calendar.
Although it was revised several
times, by the reign of Julius
Ceasar, the Roman calendar
was some two months behind
the sun.
Ceasar put his best minds to
work on a new calendar. Thev
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came up with a better method
of keeping up, but could not
decide what to do about the two
months needed to actually catch
up with the sun. They solved
the problem by inserting two
additional months between the
months of November and De
cember, making the then-cur
rent year, which we now refer
to as 46 B. C., the longest year
in history — a total of 445
days.
What is the best gift for a
child?
Where many parents are
concerned, the "best gift” is the
most expensive one they can
afford. Maybe it is the bicycle,
because dad ’'didn’t have one
when I was young. ” Maybe it
is a new ora used car for jun
ior or sister to ’’run around in. ”
The best gift for the very
young is something to enjoy.
Youngsters aren’t impressed
with price tags. They don’t Care
whether a gift costs $49.50 or
$4.95. It must amuse them,
else they are likely to toss it
aside and play with the pots
and pans in the kitchen.
The plain truth is that, at
Christmastime, too many par
ents have a tendency to try to
make up for all the things they
haven't done for their children
by giving them expensive ma
terial possessions.
These are not always the
best gifts. Rather than expen
sive gifts, children just might
appreciate some of the intangi
ble gifts parents used to give.
Time spent together, at play,
at learning a new skill ora new
game. A bit of togetherness,
doing things as a family
group. A helping hand, wheth
er with a job that needs doing,
or a problem that needs
solving.
A bit of family togetherness
— isn't this, perhaps, the best
gift of all?
LONG SEASON
In Sweden, the Yuletide sea
son starts early, on December
13th, the feast of St. Lucy. Ac
cording to tradition, St. Lucy
went about carrying food and
drink to the needy. Among
Swedish families, it is custom
__ to choose a girl to represent St.
* Lucy and on December 13th
she rises early and wakens the
family to a breakfast of coffee
and buns.
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