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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.
'Unto you
is born this
day in the
city of Da rid
a Saviour,
which is
Christ the Lord'
We wish you a joyous
and holy Christmas
and thank you for your
friendship and patronage.
J. ELLERBE SEASE
Cut-off Road Newberry, S. C.
NEWBERRY RECAPPING COMPANY
1402 Martin St.—Phone 276-3731
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Everyone!
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