The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 43, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 November 1968 — Page 21

How to Make ‘Apple People,’ for Family Fun

Fun for the family on Christmas afternoon can start with peeling an apple — and making a doll. So says Mrs. Mona Belle Fahrney of Springfield, Mo., who ought to know. From the same start, peeling an apple, Mrs. Fahrney has won renown as a designer and creator of apple dolls. Making the dolls is a family project, in which she enlists the aid and enthusiasm of her husband, Ben, and her daughter, Dorothy. Apple dolls are in the tradition of making dolls from materials at hand, and they reflect the home craftsmanship of-early America. Though craft specialists have revived the custom of making these dolls, they are still quite a novelty. And, says Mrs. Fahrney, apple dolls will always be unique, because no two heads turn out the same. * Even though the features are identically carved in fresh apples, the final result cannot be known until the apple heads have completely dried. In the Fahrney family, wire bodies for the dolls are constructed by Mr. Fahrney, while the apple heads are carved by Dorothy Fahrney Murphy, a portrait artist who is, in private life, Mrs. K. L. Murphy. Mrs. Fahrney completes the dolls, with unusual costumes made according to patterns .which she creates. Whatever the division of craftsmanship, any family group can easily make apple

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dolls, for holiday fun or yearround enjoyment, maintains Mrs. Fahrney. She offers the following instructions: Selerl firm apples — they make lhe best dolls. Peel ajfpies and earve “faces” for doll heads. Pul carved apples on sticks and insert sticks into holes punched in a coffee can or other container. Set this in a graniteware kettle. Place a lighted sulphur candle in a small dish and set it on a mound of damp sand, inside the kettle and alongside the apples. Cover kettle and leave apples inside until sulphur is burned up. This, helps preserve color of the apples, and kills any insects which might be present. Remove apples and set to dry, indoors. This usually takes two weeks or longer. To further preserve the apple color, add clear nail polish to the faces, immediately after apples are dry. Apple doll bodies can be constructed from wire and bits of wood. The wire should be sturdy, but flexible enough for arms and legs that can be bent at will, or made to stand or sit. Wire body, arms and legs are covered with cotton batting. Twist thread around batting and fasten to hold firmly. Attach apple head, still on stick, to body, securing with wire and glue. For hair, white yarn is glued to the apple head.

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APPLE DOLLS BECOME characters of olden times, as created and dressed by Mrs. Mona Belle Fahrney of Springfield, Mo. She favors old-fashioned prints for dresses, and bonnets with open crowns, to show a bun of yarn “hair.” Apple men wear dark suspender pants, bright shirts and scarves. Musical instruments were made by Ben Fahrney.

Mrs. Fahrney recommends white-headed floral pins for eyes. Cut off the point, push pin into eye socket and paint the “iris.” Arms, hands and feet can be painted with flat white tinted with oil color for flesh tones, and toes of feet indicated with a brown pencil or painted on. Then, the apple dolls are

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ready for dressing. Mrs. Fahrney likes her apple dolls to be about nine inches high, and says they are “much cuter” that way. However, she designed a special Santa doll, larger in size, for display during the Christmas season at Myrtle’s Ceramic Christmas Shop, on Melville Road in Springfield.

Singing Carols With voices lifted in harmony for “Silent Night,” “The First Noel” and other beloved songs, today’s carolers carry on a Christmas custom that originated centuries ago. In the fourth century AD., St. Basil was praised with a musical poem in honor of the fight for Christianity over the Byzantine emperor Julian. Later in Greece, legends of St. Basil were set to music and sung at Christmas and the New Year. St. Francis of Assisi led the villagers of Grecchio in singing hymns of praise to the Christ Child when in the 13th century he created a manger scene in this Italian town.

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Ask Re-Zoning Os Land Tract At Columbia City A petition by Frank Gondek and the Alfran nursing home of Warsaw seeking re-zoning of several acres south of and along the U.S. 30 by-pass, about a half mile west of Indiana 109, for the erection of a nursing home was received by the Columbia City Plan Commission at its meeting last Tuesday. The petition was held for further study. Frank Wilson, proprietor of the Alfran nursing home at Warsaw, was present and stated that it was proposed to erect a nursing home with an 80-bed capacity on the site designed to operate under regulations permitting co-operation with Federal Medicare program. The petitioners were represented by attorneys Bloom and Bloom and the remonstrators by attorney Richard Gates. In addition several remonstrators spoke in opposition to the petition. CAR HIT AT GOSHEN John B. Detwiler, 77, Goshen", backed his 1959 Pontiac into the front of a 1968 Buick operated by Mrs. Patricia R. Dean, Syracuse, in front of 122 Crescent street at Goshen last week. Mrs. Dean had stopped her car behind the Detwiler auto. No one was injured. City police investigated and set damage to both cars at S3OO. Religious services predominate in the English Christmas celebration.

Wed., Nov. 27, 1968 —THE MAIL-JOURNAL

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Pageant Has History In Medieval Dramas

As young actors and actresses of this community rehearse their roles for their special Christmas play or pageant, they take part in a custom treasured through the ages. Since the Christmas story first was told, mankind has sought and found countless ways to create it again and anew, in song and story, in art and drama. The modern Christmas pageant, a feature of church observances in communities near and far, may well trace its history to early religious dramas — the mystery, miracle and morality plays of the Middle Ages. Where did church drama actually begin? One possible source is the tradition of the Christmas crib or manger scene, but scholarly research indicates that medieval religious drama probably had other, separate origins, according to the editors of Encyclopedia Americana. Easter Plays Cante First Representations of the manger scene began with the use of doll figures, and history offers no evidence that people were ever substituted for the dolls. Living “actors” did, however, play a part in some early elaborations of church rituals. In the 10th century, special chants written to accompany church music on festival occasions began to take the form of simple dialogues. These were little more than

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dramatic inserts in the church services, but here, researchers believe, religious plays had their start. Easter dialogues and playlets probably came first, with Christmas plays developing as a natural result. Other religious dramas or mystery plays soon followed, until there were series or cycles of plays devoted to telling the entire story of the Scriptures. Covered Many Subjects Mystery cycles of the 16th century included as many as 40 dramas, which might be presented over a period of several days. The cycles developed in virtually every European country. Typical plays dealt with such, subjects as “The Creation of the World and the Fall of the Angels,” “Noah and the Flood,” “The Annunciation,” “The Passion of Christ,” “The Death of Pilate,” “The Resurrection and Ascension,” “The Harrowing of Hell and the Coming of Antichrist.” Along with the mystery cycles were miracle and morality plays. Miracle plays recounted the miracles of the saints, while the moralities presented allegorical messages of moral instruction, with characters personifying, for instance, Vice, the Devil or specific vices such as Gluttony, Pride, Anger, Hatred.

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