The Mail-Journal, Volume 3, Number 43, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 December 1964 — Page 16

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Greeting Cards Chronicle Manners, Customs Events

It all began in 1843 when John Calcott Horsley, a prominent London artist, drew the first Christmas card. Harsiev’s pioneering greeting was a tryptich, a prime example of contemporary recording. The central panel showed a jolly family with, young and old tippling toasts from brimming glasses. while the two side panels gave a sobering effect with scenes of the poor being clothed and the hun-1 gry fed. ■ From that time on Christmas cards have faithfully chronicled the manners, customs and events of their times. One Christmas card, collection, j that of Norcross. Inc , greeting ’•* card publishers, fosses hundreds. of cards that eaptxhWrr posterity the fads and foihies changes and evolution n sports, j fashions. mo<ies of transportation, current e- ’ vents, filial love, amusements, even children’s pastimes and musk?

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malting. According to Miss Esther Mooney, who is a curator of the collection, many of the cards are gems of social comment. “In an English card of 1892,” said Miss Mooney, “the formality existing between children and parents in that Victorian era is quite clearly expressed by the artist. He depicts a little girl on bended knee at her mother’s feet solemnly of- ■ sering her a Christinas bouquet. Just 40 years later, a Christmas card of 1930 shows how relaxed filial relations had become with its breezy greeting that says, *3 cheers 4 a Merry' Christmas and you, ' Dad!”. ' Christmas card artists have always been quick to pick on innovations as subjects. The advent of the horseless carriage was duly recognized in a card of 19$. Cut out in the shape of a car of that vintage, it cheer-

fully puns: “You ‘Auto’ be Happy As you, on Pleasure’s Motor-Car Steer merrily thro’ Christmastide. . . Speed gaily as fun always •Auto!’” And in 1950, the early days of television were noted in a Christmas greeting which shows Santa tuning in TV. A historic eve K is frequently the inspiration for a Christmas card. When Lindberg flew the Atlantic, the artist drew’ his •‘Spirit of St Louis” flying over New York on a 1927 Christmas card. During World W ? ars One and Two Christmas cards became unblushingly patriotic. Verses like' “On Night . . . With Holy Berries Gleaming Bright, Our Thoughts fly true O’re

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Ocean Blue and take a Christmas Wish to you” on a 1917 card brought balm to homesick doughboys Personalities who were household words of their times often popped up in Christmas cards. A topical card of 1934 offered five famous faces for the price of one. It showed the Duke of Windsor (then the Prince of W ? ales), Mussolini, Garbo, Chevalier and Mae West all wishing the hicky recipient seasonal greetings in their own particular style. In 1959 Christmas cards entered the space age when Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov decorated his season’s greetings with pictures of three Lunik satellites. And after John Glenn’s space flight American card companies came out with a spate of cards that featured space ships, orbiting Santas

land rockets. In the prosperous 1960’s Christmas cards hiwe blossomed forth with a rash of current status symbols Victorian cards showed the . magic lantern or the piano every well-to-do Victorian home posses- ! sed. ( On Christmas greetings of today, it’s the transistor radio and the stereo hkfi, the set of golf clubs or the scooter, elegant ladies in furs and golden Cadillacs that mingle with the holly and mistletoe.

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Syracuse Locals Mrs. Melville Smith, Syracuse, had as her Thanksgiving day dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. Ken Harkless, Mr. and Mrs. Karl McGarvey, Robert Jones, Huston McCrea, Miss Irene Abts and Mrs. William Veltman. Mrs. Estella Swartz, Mr. and Mrs. William Pipp and son Bill <rf Syracuse, and Mrs Ada Zellinger

of r 4 were Thanksgiving day guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Betes of Lake Wawasee. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bates of Syracuse spent the holiday weekend in Chicago with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gilbert, Syracuse, spent Thanksgiving day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tague, r 4 Syracuse. Mrs. Thelma Dahl, Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar Dahl and family and Mrs. Jean Rogers and daughter of Syracuse were Thanksgiving day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Kidder of Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs William Kern and j family, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kern I and family and Mr. and Mrs. Phil( Kern and family of Syracuse, and | Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kern of Goshen * were Thanksgiving guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kern in North Webster.