Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1950 — Page 23

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1950

' Greetings Lend

Their Warmth

To the Christmas Season

By KATY ATKINS

OMETIME THIS AFTERNOON, probably before we light the candles in the windows and trim the tree . . . while our young people are at "Ava Saunders Kysar's annual Tom and. Jerry party ... we will have a moment to enjoy the Christmas

cards which are our principal holiday decoration, -

Since cellophane tape became a household item, our cards have graced the mantel shelf, hung from its edge, outlined the fireplace opening and all the doorways and bookcases. The pressing problem is always which one to hang at the very center of the mantel. It must be a Santa Claus.

“This year there was no question. Of course, it is Virginia and Bill Ansted’s. Their Santa is standing on a chimney, a cutout free:to pivot all the way around and backed by a beautiful deep blue sky. Flanking this card are Madonnas because we like to keep all sides of, Christmas. Both of these have brown backgrounds with yellow figures but otherwise are quite different-—one with an Italian influence, one French. They are from Dorothy and Jack Holliday, who are in Tucson, and Elba and George Henley of Bloomington.

THEN COME THE family groups. The Carrolls include not only Muriel

and Jim but the Allen Carrolls with two

sons and the Alex Carrolls with two daughters, Sally and Bo Mitchell were taken at their country place with Sally holding the horse and Bo by the two dogs in a wheelbarrow. Elinor and Lorenz Schmidt and the two children are on low stools before their fireplace. Cards that people make themselves are always interesting. This year we have a blockprint on a postal from Rosalie and Phil Willkie . . . and stockings (marked Alyce and

~-Dudley) hanging before a fire, from the junior

Pfaffs. Francis and Florence Dunn have come up, as always, with a poem. This year it is an ode to an olfactory Christmas, working in all the delicious odors from that of bayberry candles to a gingerbread Santa,

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Grandma Moses is with us in Lydia and Evans Woollen's greeting, a farm scene. Sallie and Jack Eaglesfield chose a hig'oblong wreath decorated with red and gold Christmas balls with a message on the inside of the folder. Elizabeth and Austin Brown's gold candelabrum with blazing red ¢andles is an unusual design and most effective, Ruth and Bill Griffith's night scene of a village, dominated by the church with the star above it, seems very real because the village stands out from the background on a stiff fold giving an effect of depth, :

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- MONG THE GAY Christmas trees is one full of birds from Marguerite Craft .-, . and Marnie and John Ruck-

elshaus’ with packages piled at its base. Gertrude and Herbert Millea of Peoria, Ruth and Henry Severin and Florence and John Jameson all chose trees of bewildering variety. Zee and Norman Metzger have sent giant match packs of attractive design. One of the most charming cards in this year's crop came from the Perry O’Neals. It shows two cardinals on the wing about to nip a berry from a sprig of mistletoe tied with a red bow. Lucy neglected to put their names on our“card but handwriting I have known from childhood is no mystery.

Jane and Hathaway Simmons say “Merry Christmas” from Florida on a white card with a stylized spray of holly. Mrs. Larz Whit. comb’s- greeting gives a white effect with. .the Madonna and child and tall tapers in raised white en a gold background. Distant friends who write notes add much to the joy of the season. From Sewanee, Tenn., and the beloved Torians, the Doctor and “Miss Sarah,” comes the following in the doctor's hand: “I spent the afternoon in our new hospital wing, given us by the Lilly Endowment, with a mountain baby who was desperately ill.

You can't imagine what a great. satisfaction it.

is to work in a hospital in which you have all equipment needed. I feel deeply grateful.” He would be grateful and he would still be helping children. Heart-warming and appropriate today.

(Greeting cards bordering the page are ones sent this season by well-known Indianapolis persons.)

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