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SEC. D, PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thurs., Dec. 24, 1970 I am here, but once past, I can never come again. Now will you use my precious minutes? In each hour of my three hundred and sixty five days you have sixty minutes. It remains for you to fill them with sixty seconds of hope, honesty, love, endeavor, patience and trust in God and your fellow man. I stretch before you unused, without blemish, unspoiled. Each day a new leaf in your “Book of Life”. On it you will place your imprint. If you write with firm steady strokes the pages will be a joy to look upon. If your pen falters, if uncertainty and doubt should mar the pages, it will be a day, a year, to remember with sorrow. Furry Pillows Please Tough Little Fellows There’s nothing quite like the feel of fur to stir warmth in even the toughest little guys. Cover pillows in fake fur and you’ll have a friend for life. It goes with any type decor of their rooms and makes a wonder ful Christmas gift idea. You may buy inexpensive pil lows or use ones that have out lived their covers. Either make a slipcover type cover with a zipper on one end, or if you can’t sew or don’t want to spend that much time, simply hand whip the fur cloth to the pillow. Birthday Of Saviour Should Be Family Day The birthday of the Saviour is here once again, and once again we are reminded that Christmas is a family day ... a day of reunions and feasting, and a day of joyous gifting. Let us not for get the most important gifts of all. These are the gifts of kind ness, tolerance, consideration and compassion, Let us hope that this Christ mas will revive the true spirit of giving that began with the Birth of a Holy Child ... to bring peace and good will to all. It's time to wish all our friends the merriest and the most prosperous Christmas ever! Lominick’s Drug Store ‘‘One of Newberry’s Good Drug Stores” MAIN STREET NEWBERRY, S. C. Christmas Budget Best For The Younger Set Until children are old enough to earn their Christmas money, they should be given an amount to spend for gifts for friends and relatives. If they can, it is even better to make their own gifts. It is important that they be encouraged to enjoy giving as well as getting, simple inexpen sive presents. This is something that will help determine their future attitude toward money. If children are old enough to earn their Christmas money, but failed to do so, it can be pointed out that they will have to plan better for the next year. Perhaps there was no warning beforehand this year. TINSEL STORY The story about little spiders and how they helped trim the tree, is loved by children. One Christmas morning after the tree had been trimmed, is when it happened, and children were wait ing to see it. Spiders are very curious, so they wanted to see the tree too. Looking at it from the floor would never do, so they must see it right up close. The spiders crept all over the tree until they had satisfied themselves completely. Alas! Everywhere they went they left cobwebs! And when the little Christ Child came to bless the tree, He was dismayed. He loved the little spiders, for they are God’s creatures too. But He knew the mother who had trimmed the tree for the little children wouldn’t feel the same. So He touched the webs and they all turned to silver. Ever since that time, according to the story, Christmas trees have been hung with shining tinsel. L<D Pinata Fun Gets Break A joyous Christmas mas tradition for Mex ican boys and girls is the breaking of the pinata, a decorated earthen jar. Sometimes, the pin ata may be a caricature of people or animals. The pinata is sus pended by a rope that can raise or lower it. Each child is blind folded and usually giv en three chances to poke at the pinata with a stick. When it’s broken, the pinata releases a bounty of delicious fruits, sweets, nuts and toys. The children scrab ble to claim as many goodies as possible. s, * O Cookies Add Flavor To Happy Holidays C is for cookies The nicest Christmas trees ever are those trimmed with garlands of pop corn and cranberries and home made cookies. It’s an old-fash ioned idea that few mothers take time for any more. Even if you prefer your tree laden with tin sel and lights and expensive orn aments, don’t overlook the joy of making cookies for Christmas. It adds a warm and hospitable aroma to the house and gives children an inner happiness that can never be bought or forgotten. Christmas Candles Candles always have been as sociated with Christmas and many legends give them a place in the observance of the holiday In Ireland, for instance, a large candle was burned on Christmas Eve, which could be snuffed out only by one named Mary. In our country, the settlers found that the bayberry gave off a wax that would make fine candles. It was usually the task of the children to gather the berries. An old verse repeats the tra dition, that burning a bayberry candle would insure one of a long and happy life. To learn your luck for a year, they say, Burn a bayberry dip on Christ mas Day. If the flame burns bright and the light shines clear, Good-luck will be yours throughout the year. In the true and hearty spirit of an old-iashioned Christmas, we wish you the best, and thank you warmly. GLOBE FINANCE CO., Inc. 1100 Caldwell Street Newberry