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SEC. C — PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, December 20, 1967 BOY’S DELIGHT ... We may call it the Space Age, yet it would be difficult to find a boy anywhere who would not be tickled pink to find that Santa had left him an electric train set beneath the family tree. MISTLETOE KISS Ancient Druids believed mis tletoe was given to the goddess of love and therefore every woman passing beneath it was kissed. Today, it is popular be^ lief that any woman .who stands beneath the mistletoe in vites a kiss. Some even hold that a girl kissed beneath the mistletoe will be married within a year — if she allows herself to be kissed but once for each berry on the mistletoe. Mistletoe Magic Long before Christianity, pagans believed the mistletoe to have special healing powers. The early Christians used mis tletoe to adorn the altars at Christmas, as a symbol of the Lord’s healing power. Early Christians also exchanged the kiss of reconciliation before re ceiving holy sacrament at the altar, a practice which led, per haps, to the modern custom of a kiss under the mistletoe. IN NE WFOUNDLAND The people in Newfound land fish during Christmas week. Then, it is customary, they bring their catch to be sold. The funds from the fish sale are contributed to their local parish. FEED THE BIRDS Trim an outdoor tree for birds. Pine cones dipped in suet or peanut butter can be at tached to branches. Balls of popcorn and cranberries can be hung from the tree. Birds welcome bits of apple, dry do nuts and crumbs too. Wood peckers, nuthatches, warblers, bluejays and brown creepers are meat eaters. Car dinals, juncos and finches like vegetable seeds. SHINE ORNAMENTS Old Christmas tree orna ments can be bright and glossy. Spray them with clear laquer from an aerosol con tainer. The laquer also gives them protection against break age. Push button artificial snow is also very good for added trim to ornaments. TO GIVE Giving gifts and sending Christmas cards has become a part of our Christmas whether we like it or not. We should not object, because both can contribute to the spirit of the season, In the final ana lysis, we have ourselves to blame. We have become so in volved in the commercial as pects of Christmas that we for get the spiritual aspects. DICKENS’ WORK Few names are more widely associated with Christmas than that of Charles Dickens, whose memorable Christmas sto ries have endeared him to millions. One of Dickens’ greatest, and least-known works was written especially for his own children. It was called "The Life of our Lord.” Dickens left instructions that this work not be commercialized, and it was never publicized until some 100 years after his own death, and the death of his youngest child. Sir Henry Fielding Dickens. Dickens’ deep veneration for the lessons of the life of Christ upon earth are found in these words: "Everybody ought to know about Him. No one ever lived who was so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for people who did wrong or were in any way ill and miserable, as He was. "And as He is now in Heaven, where we all hope to go, and all meet each other after we are dead, and there be happy always to gether, you can never think what a good place Heaven is, without knowing who He was and what He did.” Twelfth Night End Of Season There are many ancient and modern rituals surrounding the observance of the Twelfth Night or Epiphany, January 6, which marks the end of the Christmas holiday season. Epiphany was first observed in memory of the baptism of Christ. It was first mentioned in A.I). 194 and by the 4th Century was a widely accepted holiday. Today, Epiphany has a three-fold meaning; the visit of the Wise men to Jesus; the baptism of Jesus; and the mir acle at Cana when Jesus changed water to wine at the wedding feast. In 9th century England, King Alfred decreed that the Christmas season would in clude Christmas day and the 12 days following. The Twelfth Night cake, along with the tradition of burning Christmas greenery on January 6, was in vogue when Charles II ascended the throne. Latin peoples regard Epiph any as not only a solemn re ligious festival but also the be ginning of the pre-Lenten carnival season. Mexican ob servance of Epiphany includes a march of the devout to the shrine of the miraculous Lord of Chalma in a valley south west of Mexico City. A January 6 ritual at Tar pon Springs, Florida, involves blessing of the Greek sponge divers and casting of a gold crucifix into the waters to sig nify the baptism of Christ. 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