Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1954 — Page 27

DECEMBER 28. 1854

interesting 3acts ofbout Xmas Vreej cdnd Season Customs "Yweitth Night." which many communities celebrate by a com, of Christmas trees, is derived from the custom of early Christians who celebrated the feast of the Nativity of Christ for 12 days, placing special emphasis on the last or twelfth day. The "Twelfth Night" tree burning is also said to commemorate the light Os the Star of Bethlehem. —I The manufacture of toys for ’Christmas gifts and other usee last year required approximately 130,000 tons of steel products from all sources. ... v>

•r-;; ' / J S\ SEASON’S GREETINGS’ \ { G^ a you journey through the coming yeir, we wish you and your loved ' ’**■*» ones a full measure of all the very best things in life. Merry Christmas! DECATUR INDUSTRIES *JB* * * jWU * p(WOS JgqWnM F.C.DETTER Metropolitan Life Insurance .■i ■ ■ ■ SSfiLit** — .'''"**■'>&? '***— w ..- < .> z '| un and G°°d Cheer and G° od Health tfie year through '' ‘ i ▼ An abundance of these i, Is our Yule wish for you! - . I LOSE’S BARBER SHOP

SANTA KNOWS . . . Boys will be boys, bet Santa warns that time la growing short. Andrea Kleexek, who came from Poland to live In U.S. with parents, talks tt ever with Santa. Nashville — Tennessee and Missouri each are touched by the bori ders of eight other states.

Memories & f A Scrapbook Compiled by Clark Kinnaird* ft I JOLLY OLD SAINT NICHOLAS | M Jolly old Saint Nicholas, Nellie wants a picture book; ft Sf Lean your ear this way! Yellow, blue and red; WL Don’t you tell a single soul Now 1 thinkl’ll leave to ft W What I’m going to say; you ft w Christmas Eve- is coming What to giyfithe rest; m soon; Choose for me. dear Stinta <S gE Now you dear old man, Claus, ft 2? Whisper what you'll bring You will know the best, ft 5 -Old Song ~ JU TeU me if you can. dg -Aft • Jy When the clock is striking n Rf twelve, ft St When I’m fast asleep,'\\ft A Down the chimney broad rrty.Jil. Jfn St and black, ft gs With your pack you'll ft sf creep; I ' mt w All the stockings you will (KX /rSly/. JfttV J 6 tind 3 Gtf Hanging in a row; , If i\r7 J/lbttn'l ft ST Mine will be the shortest J ‘ tßiir'MWi* I ft W °' ,e ’ K£ WiNiJ ft Rg You’ll be sure to know. k? Mui. U Johuny wants a pair of Vis IJ ' M '' skates; I^^—I (vU jk S Susy wants a sled; ft w St. Nicholas, of a businessman, became bishop 55 S of Myra, Asia Minor, in the 4th ceptury. His grave is in ft » Bari, Italy. This legendary representation of him is from ft W a manuscript in the Bodleian Library ih England. A H ®g r® Chris tmas A Scrapbook Compiled by Clark Kinnaird • s _- ft || /ShaRLES DICKENS wrote A Christmas Carol tn'lUi ft Vl when he was 31. If he’d never written anything else, ft he would not have been forgotten. No other Christmas ft ft’? story has come close to enjoying the enduring popularity A 5$ of the tale of Scrooge, the Cratchits and the cllmactic Jff Christmas feast— ’ W There never was such a done, the cloth was cleared, ft B- goose! Its tenderness and and the fire made up. The ft flavor, size and cheapness, compound in the jug being A M were the themes of univer- tasted, and considered per- JK sal admiration. Eked out feet, apples and oranges 5g 2? by apple-sauce and mashed were put upon the table, ft “W potatoes, it was a sufficient and a shovel full of chest- ft tIS dinner for the whole fam- nuts on the fire. Then all ft ily. Everyone had had the Cratchit family drew enough, and the youngest round the hearth; and at ft Cratchits in particular, Bob Cratchit’s elbow stood ft steeped in sage and onion the family display of glass, ft to the eyebrows! But now Two tumblers and a cus- ft the plates being changed tard-cup without a handle, ft by Miss Belinda, Mrs. These held the hot stuff ft W Cratchit left the room to from the jug, howevpr, as ft M take the pudding up, and we n as golden ft iSr bring it in . . . would have done; and Bob ft A HALLO! A great deal of ft ft? steam! The pudding was 4 ft b? out of the copper. A smell - ' ft like washingday! That was . i ft —-2 - the cloth. A smell like an Afcs* i ft? eating-house and a pasty- 4» ft ' ft? cook's next door to each ft other, with a laundress’s A js next door to that I That was x fS&BtMT “ ’ the pudding! In half a min- ■ / L ft ute Mrs. Cratchit entered— ftK yrl ft flushed, but smiling proudly —with the pudding, like a & speckled cannon-ball, so ft hard and firm, in ft M half of half-a-quartern of ft ignited brandy, and bedight ft 2? with Christmas holly. served it out with beaming ft Oh, a wonderful pudding! looks, while the chestnuts ft Bob Cratchit said, and on the fire sputtered and ft calmly, too, that he regard- crackled noisily. Then Bob ft S C<l as the & reatest suc * proposed: j 5 —2s cess achieved by Mrs. "A Merry Christmas to ft Cratchit since their mar- us all, my dears. God bless ft riage. Everybody had some- us!’’ ft •M hing t 0 say about it. but”"Which all the family re- ft 2? nobody said or thought it echoed. ... ft ' ft? was at all a small pudding "God bless us every one!" ft for a large family. said Tiny Tim, the last of ft At last the dinner was all all. > Ms This excerpt is condensed. The complete story Is In in- ft expensive editions at book shops. It was the custom of ft 3f President F. D. Roosevelt to read Dickens’ A Christmas ft M Carol to his children and grandchildren every Christmas ft M eve at the White House. ft ttCklteavQta&zi Vt z It is our pleasure / at this joyous time ■’« L 4owish all our ' f r * en<^s and neighbors a very happy Holiday Season. j J LAWSON PLUMBING, HEATING, APPLIANCES

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