The Independent-News, Volume 94, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 December 1968 — Page 6

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C urt la.lie presented her with the first silk sUh kings worn in Eur pe and even the royal du-t---man (garbage collector I came thiough with two bolts of fine linen < r the roxu! lingerie. Father C'hristmas as the English counterpart of S .nt t is called, rode high for another W years after the reign of Good Qu< • n He Then the Puritanto k ov. r Th-y abol: 4ied him md his gifts, and indeed oil Christmas celebrations, as fit only for heathen. The tern Puritan brou/ht th- :r di tr u t of ('hr 1 tin.. > merrirn-nt t » N-w Em.i.md ■ -4iores as well m 1659. the obs< rx in • of Chi; tma in M । -hu -tt b. xmi. a pen d <<- (in th- •dm i hin 1 fun-b vin I »ut< h -<' *!• r s h id air- idx .^iit Smb r K ’ t X. a A t. rd mi I>at< r, 1 G. rm n ' nx i x. d t । P-r nx be , w;‘h ' ■ . ~ if’- lr in -i. * .. * r.u lb .n wh : ,x • u t r. mi. Kri Kr.n. - (ith-r im- • ’ . ■ up nt.' ibut< d ’ ■ ■xxn < -i. 1 n d . 1 ’ m ‘n. Au 1 m isgg 1 P . t. I n d.xm.ty prof. .r n ■■ 1 C•m< nt C M ri- t <b xvn md combmed m nx ' • - < i-ment - into a r •*':< xx••'i hi. xxn p -m b« nr : ' Twa ■ th- night le f. ■ c.'r. tlh. "V. sit fi -m St X 1 • ’ de - rlbed bx Pr M -. w . m 'J— d in < >mp o; >n to >n , f St N; k lat> rt' .p All • 1 ;can .. -.v< 1 ni’ b»-n . mi. i-u Yui-t. 1givers s. m,-n u -d bring their families rare and costly presets gathered from the Orient spices, silks, china and '■ ikw kml St Nichola- wa- the patr n iint d lilors as well as

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iuW'iiMMii mow womrmkOmm* ■»»..» (>««r mO»m i>w «D«iMaMMMMMO<MW MJw MBO r I • l-~'. JI TU r**"-' W*’***’"'’ » -ww-v - <■ I£ . I Blessings i ylLrinstmas I ' ^Sir ~ • I SJ’MF* V 4'iZ 1 CIWK. ? ’ c I ; UECIs fflVafo >- uiab«i'\> '//'^i \V s'l/ ' * □ Let us rejoice in the message of the season! t g Nusbaum Funeral Home Walkerton > L

children When it comes to flowers and other gift p the ladies are not ne-gl-.ted Though florist.- are e>peciallx busy during Christm is. many of them have u sjiecial urr m.o merit whereby flowers can be sent bi loved ones once a in >nth. In thi w iv--the holiday pint can lie -nj >yrd through ut the year by those closest to you. Any imp with m FTD emblem provides this delightful -rvice Eh wers nre ju t one Item in the well . ver $27 billion a yi tr -pent on Christmas present of all kind M my ’4 the - gifts are wr .p---p-d with th. lid of Chmtmas .m iB yet few ArniTKati have any notion of When or where th< • orcir. .t-d They wi re fir t u- I in C j -nhugrn. I»-nmark. in l!»oi th.- brainstorm of a p---tal clerk nma d Holbo. I wh dre tmed th< mup a Ib< ri-fit f" a children- h pit I Th< »Ut-giving ■u‘ >n * f many 1 nds f rm an .r’. r< ' • < n’ ' ’ it xx n i, ... i r• n rustl. up ‘heir ,xx 1. . ■ ? n (’in: tii/a I' .X th-’ ■ > r 'Un i 1 < tmg ra: -in xx' 11 1..’ '.. nd >wo t In N. xx f n. . n 1 ii imp a ’ ird (• • : m - I" . ' : !.' lz "a! f. '. h f : ’h» iiu h • n <’h ; tma I • r . T natmg their cat. h to th. pan h Some countries < njoy Chri t n a g:x ng • mm h that t-d it txx. - the French 0? hang. .' * 1. N-xx Y. a I> i t. .! ’ ' children u- visited by P< r- N >-: on Chri-tmas Ex- P >ll .n < .'..1 ren receive their main pre -nt <>n January 6. but they an t th-; pa -nts draw for little gift n Christmas Eve from an r n -f Fate," And I< dander must hurry if

they want to unwrap their prem nts Chn tma morning. Almost the entire holiday must be spent in ciiun h services--for in behind there are only four hours of light on Christmas I>ay ! From STAR OF THE N VH\ HA Boris Pasternak The dawn! It swept the late of the stars lake grains of du.-t from the vaulted sky. Then Mary allowed the Magi alone To enter the cleft of the mountainside. He slept in His manger in radiant light. Th' - breath f the ox and the a kept warm Hi haul- and fe-t in the cold * f the night Th- Magi remained m the twilight cave; They wh. pered ftly, gr ,up.n for wordTb.'ii someone in darkn. ’ ‘UC .< ! the '1)1. Os ne n* ir th- m n. . to n. vhim ’.side; Beh .’d, like a gu--t ib we t • thre -hold. The Star "f the Nativity ./• ! < n the M nd. zw- ?j;' lb / A Reasons Vishing you and youn oliday happiness! Dr. And Mrs. G. R. Hershberger