Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1951 — Page 12

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Qamed [or c4ll Aiakr Jamibf Party Christmas is the time ft* family gwt-togethers. One c? *1« best ways to make these, gatherings memorable fbr all concerned i» to engage in games which the whole group can Hay. ' 1 I . A nice one to start off with would be a Sugar Plum Hunt. Hake one member-of the family hide Christmas candies ahead of time in various nooks and corners around the house. At a given signal everyone starts hunting and gathering the pieces. The one who gathers the greatest number would be given a prize. The Christmas Puzzle is another good one to get.things going. Look through some magazines, which are filled with pictures of Santa Claus at this time of year. Cut out enough of these to go around* paste them on stiff cardboard, and cut them into pieces. Then put each group of pieces in a separate paper bag. At the signal, everyone opens a bag and start* putting the puzzle together. ■' L The Xmas Scramble Contest is good for a group-with older children in X Th*’ is simply a contest to see who can unscramble a group of words the fastest. Just for fun, see if you can work out the following-— astaa, ezirecren, ehsgil, dynca, gosiknct. erte, trepesn, hupnc, alsorc, and niborb.

X. 3- I ■ B£THLEH£M ThJ Cbwrcb of the Nativity Everyone Want To See Just One 'Good Old' Yule "How I would long to see just one more ‘old-'ashioned Christmas.’ ” These are familiar words at this tirrte of the year. Before the Yuletide season is over, some member of the family, grandfather or grandmother. probably, is certain to pass that remark, as they have done each Christmas of the past. And* yet, if we search back into the records ... to the turn of the Century, say ... . we find that, even then, someone was wishing for “aji old-fashioned Christmas.” It is rthen that we realize that the celebration of the birth of Christ ha? not changed greatly with the passage of centuries,. Basically, Christmas is the same, year after year, it is onty.the world and the people who are' not the same. He may not admit it, but when grandfather first began to , raise a family, he overheard his elders musing over the changing Christmas customs and heralding the approach to "complete commercial isrri” of the Yulelide celebration. Even then they were worried. No one can deny that Christmas bag been greatly “commercialized” rince the days of early America. Yeif, so has the entire nation. In the days ~vt our ancestors there were none of the vast trading centers and commercial marts that we know today. Our, very way of life has been greatly changed with modernization. Our holidays, and Christmas is the principal one, have managed to keep abreast. Still, without reservation. Christmas is basically unchanged in its true meaning as a celebration of the birth of the Christ-Child redeemer. come to save the world. ' No •matter how great or how small the presents piled beheath the tree, each Christian heart never ceases to remember that Christmas is Christ’s day. CjaioHi 'Pirtala', \ ut Metuca, I <■ r ' \ 'V' r ■ File pinata. Christmas custom so IrAtg observed by the happy children of Mexico, is graduaUy spreading into the United States. Although it performs year-round duty in the land south of the border, the pinata is busiest during the Mexican Christian festival that lasts from December 16 to January 6. In America, it is used in various parts of the countiy only, at Christmas time. , ,' E - The pinata is made of thin, fragile clay, and is filled with sweetmeats 1 and y’h’ltefcs before being suspended frotn the ceiling. Each of the guests, not always orily just children—is blindfolded and given a stick. The object is to swjng the sticks overhead until someone shatters the pinata, sending the delicious contents pouring out. the pinata is a great aid in making the long Christmas season tolerable for Mexican children. Tradition decrees that they must wait until the final day of the 21-day Christmas season to receive their gifts. \ ,j , Christmas Was Once Holiday That Moved About on Calendar Christmas was once a movable feast. The eastern branches of the Christian church usually celebrated it in April or May, Western Europe sometime in January. ; in 337 A.D., St. Cyril, bishop of, Jerusalem, set out to make the date universal. With the permission of Pope Junius I, he appointed a cofnmission to determine, if possible, the precise date of Christ's nativity. The theologians of the Cliurcb finally agreed upion December 25, and since the year 354 this date has been celebrated. . Members of the Greek, Russian and Ukrainian, Orthodox churches in. the 20th century observed the da&e of January 7.-

Christmas 4 Quotes 4 “Christmas is the timt you decide to pay your doctor something on account. You kjnow you will need him the day after.” ’ * —Walter Pulitzer. “What do people mean by sending you a dozen Christmas cards during the festive season, and not deigning to send you three lines by way of a letter 'the rest of the year?” —J. Ashby-Sterry. “At every. Christmas party, just as things are beginning to get good, someone shiits his. eyes, puts his head back and moans softly: ‘Ah, well, this isn’t like the good old days. We don*,t seem to have any gobd old-fashioned Christmases any \ —Robert Benchley. Christmas: 'Good Time; A Kind, Forgiving Time* _ Charles Dickens once referred to Christmas as “a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.” This Is an adequate description of the Christmas spirit. Why not niake this an old fashioned Christmas? Elaborately planned parties, those great time-takers, shouH not bo a part of the Christmas scene. A homey, hospitable get-together will create an atmosphere in which everyone cah relax. Since Christmas is really "the children’s hour”, why not give them a greater part in preparing tor the day? Children will get more delight •from helping prepare and decorate , the tree than in seeing only the : finished product. I, S* ®rC: CHBHTMAS LFCTT’RE . . . "Now this to a Christinas tree,” big brother appears to be telling the toddler. "It grows in the i ving mom enly once a year, and it always has a lot of nice presents under it.”

'■ . - '■ ■' J ' ■ a <b /t (Pn« more may the ®A. ■¥ , WifN MW W & Christmas Star send its 3°Lv i‘V blessing down with the same ¥°t K Wj*' W B A glad meaning it brought to SpjF \ Bethlehem. And as we yield l|k * AsjSJ our hearts to the spirit of tenderness which pervades ? ifc o °o the ChrMma. air. may we QI ’ J ■ remember the heavenly love IF which came into thb world I S the night Christ was born. | ■ JL ’ % /IK | 3Lu.rememDer.too. that we keep Christmas truly, JRs JK Jo only when we permit the love kJ of the Christ to enter our hearts and lives. May you en- - ’■ icy a truly Merry Christmas j « and a Happy New Year. J® Ik •? J . ' ’• . ' STEFFEM IMPLEMENT CO.

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