Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1952 — Page 11

TUESDAY, DECEMBER; .23, 1952

. 1 - I ■■Uli I 1 II I ...I I 11 1 I I——■■■■■— ■ ' k ■ ■ z? A) a i v ■ > A ■ -cia '/2fa w re’s a wish to all of our hat the tqjonderfuily -exciting Ji ■ spirit o/ Christmas cgme . > to yourihouse and remain , throughout the New Year.•(• i £ uk T v-M* > v A L I . J -\ ; y . , J k kJ- r r ■ WISC ; ‘'■■ • ISB “Ww .O 8/-’ ; v '%S' Jjfi J (liristmas | i jjredinjs f / May the wondrous joy ,K 1 of Christmas remain .' V- with you all twelve, ’a\ a z -i*Wk _ 1 ' * \ \ ■■'''■■ ni ontli s o the year. I f . \U I f I y A/ 1 ' D . ■ "• ' X ' v^ z S£ li/ - i ■'- ■ A r .:,- ■' ■ ■, , i ,- -f . ' J . I k .i■■k '4 s t .2 .. .da ■ \ ... 'd - -V.- -v - /. '' ■ m PHIL L MACKLIN & CO. Ok ; , .l.nn.jr ,; ll „ l . 1| ii 1 . 11 ,,,,,., 1 , 1 ;.. 11<^W.:.>. 1 11, —j r- —.—— .—— —-—;—l 1 j.,.; x— u i. \ ' fIV 3 ' IE. 1I& Ki ‘Sa nr ' i This Christmas...« we rejoice in the -V dj g r celebration of the binh of outstanding teaching... God is love; ' ‘ * *\ love thy neighbor as thyself. ■■ f JFr MW& 4 (JMstmas to all - ; \ " [v- I 4. ■ . MAZELIN HEATING SERVICE ■■.’A..-.. I ■ I . . . ■. . V : : ■: k j 238 N. 2nd Decatur • : 1 ■ ' .- • ' . ■k‘ , . —.■ ■■ ’ ■ ■ ' 'I- !

’ . 'A' \ Christmas Trees Can Be Put to Many Uses After New Year’s k '* There are a number of things sou can do with your Christmas ;ree after New Year’s besides burn- , .ng it. . If it is a fir, for instance, it can be anthored in the back yard-—per-,j naps in a corner of the garden—and used as a bird feeder the rej mainder of the winter. Pieces of : suet and little feed bags may be iied to the branches. A container if water should be placed beneath die tree and kept filled so the birds vill have a drink every day. Or, cut off the branches and | alace them, curved ends up, over Sower beds when the ground is exposed. 'An evergreen mulch helps prevent the soil from heaving durj I : . I - T ■I, \ ■ jng alternate freezes and thaws. | Long branches may be built into ; little lean-tos to protect tender shrubs from sun scald. M The needles of a Christmas tree Can be sprinkled beneath acid-lov-» J ing’ plants such as laurel, androtneds, rhododendron and blueber- ' ties. ‘ . If the 1 needles on the tree are still firm, ule the branches in an 1 butdbor window’box. Moisten the soil in the box. Then push the cut ends of the. branches down to\ the.[. : bottom and tamp the soil firm around thbm. This will generally give you greenery all winter. If you must btjrn your Christmas tree, dontt toss it into a fireplace. Cut off the branches \and bum them safely one by one. 3 And remember, a Christmas tree tossed into the can become ■ a fire hazard if playful children pick it up and a bonfire of it in a vacant lot. ' t~' ' Select Toys to Fit Child's Age Level 3 ' A child’s Christmas tWs should be chosen with as much care as you would buy his clothes —to “fit” his age level. A- - the child is just learning to walk and climb give him play materials to stimulate these activities. He needs his first picture book when he begins to talk, housekeeping toys at about three when he begins to want to help mother, and crayons and scissors when he can begin to ! handle them. Parents, aunts} uncles and cousins i should consider what the child is j ready for as j- ega rd s physical : growth and mental and social development in selecting toys. If toys are selected with some relation to the child’s growth and needs, they will be toys which stimu- , late self-reliance. Most children, it is believed, can fare better with fewer but carefully ! selected toys. And when buying a htoy, the parents should consider its probably “life.” ■. - • n Santa's Little Helper Was Scandinavian Elf J ■ Where did Santh’s Little Helper come from? } i In the Viking age in Scandinavia,. long before Leif Eriksen discovered • America, the lijttle North Children believed that a little elf with long White" whiskers—Jul Tom ten—lived in the stable. He saw that the earth was abupdant with good food and ;hat the ' animals and birds were iaken ca're of. After the pagan Vikings became Christianized, little Jul Tomten bebame the giver of presents—like our Santa Claus today. The children left a bowl of por-1 ridge on the kitchen table for which ! Jul Tomten would exchange gifts for ;he good boys and girls. Travelers brought back the legend of Tomten and he has come down to us as the busy jolly, good little elf who 'works sn Santa’s workshop. j- A "T -a"'-' j I- 1 ..'-® . * Yaw 1 o. ; Trjr THROUGH THE HOOP . . . Flippy, a trained porpoise at Marine Studios. Fla., gets into the holiday spirit by leaping ■ through a Christmas wreath suspended over the water of his f tank. r • ,k ■

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KI. M : | li pMtn— _a.jwZ.-i r - ■■ ‘ SNOWMEN FOR YOU . . ; Your local lumber dealer may have patterns for these plywood and hardboard “Snowmen” : which you can make yourself. If not, use this picture for a pattern and go to work. _j I' :

r ■ - l- ■ ;i j. '■ --i’., ■—-!'• I. a —* —— eV VIS) # '■'* 1 '■ /ywl mmO iMk WWrOW A MmlgAssfe I S* ■ HjWln i"-'.*. 4 — r * - IS TLhe wonderful thing VY "•«' ■- kjsl t Wl about Christmas is that each ui T N^WN|''Y^'L-M K IM year, without fail, it works a wMI Y IfeJ its miracle over again. With Bi 1/BfjLr*-/ Jr the approach of the Holiday jS ■fTzri X, { X-vr "1 yj V 111 If TH Season, the spirit becomes |M| vF MFw refreshed, the heart uplifted, |ggTJ f J BL jM and the world suddenly is j full of smiling people, burst* H1 w ’Will KEQ ing with good will towards their fellow-man. 3t is in this atmosphere LJI K BuJ of good cheer and brotherly gS HOKa& JBF Kl BBjMMFj./ ¥ Bm love that we wish our friends BF-ÜBBBIBr WWr 'BMBMif flff JB BUJ a very Merry Christmas and raj —®L HL B ®J| FT a Rich and Happy New Year. ■JBv Sm fel IB i i E£| '.' t.—J UUIWU IIJI . I I — _____ I|| . | -- ... ■■ -—■ ... —- p- ■■ • . • ■ ’ . • ■ . ■ n .■ . ■ J . r . ■ . ■ ; BANK i k- : \ ✓ ex . > ■ \ • LiEstablished 1883 " ■ 1 ' ■ ' I .V • i MEMBER • ' MEMBER ? . F. D. I. C. Federal Reserve I | \' • . '; ■ \ ' ' Systom ‘ — —— , -J

Firtt Community Tree At Christmas Was Held In City of Cleveland THE COMMUNITY Christmas tree idea was bom in Cleveland, Ohio* in 1912. The community raised funds to defray the cost of the tree and celebrations through the sale of pre ferred stock in “Cleveland, the city of good will (unlimited), Incorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of good cheer.” This waj specified by holly-bordered cefrtificates. Holders of preferred stock were entitled to “dividends payable daily In the form of happy voices of robust children, the contented faces j of friendly fellow citizens and the advancement of the city of good will.” Sale of stock was pushed every where, the most unique place being the Cleveland stock exchange where the stock was listed at the head ol other , securities. The sale brought $12,000, which purchased-Christmas cheer for 13,000 citizens, hs well a* the first community fchristmas foi the city.

/W keeping W Usl CHRISTMAS b ’ Van Dyke Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance; and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow-men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book on complaints’again st the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can Sow a few seeds of happiness—are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.

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I t wwj • TIME OUT . . Sant* Clans pauses in his~ Christmas Evn visits sometimes to pick up a , hot dog and ice cream cone at an' all-night hamburger stand. •TJa I V. . ■ •■ " 1 :