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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
17
A handwritten note to Santa requests gifts for Harold Kuan and Robert Gibbs. Harold asks for Hot Wheels and a Dallas Cowboys football suit while Robert lists boxing gloves a drum set a softball helmet and a rifle.
The article notes a popular secular custom of hanging kissing balls in homes. Once common in arches or chandeliers, the balls varied from pomanders to cotton wads and brown eggs. Modern versions use plastic foam, are painted or gilded, ornamented with ribbons, mock jewels, beads, and mistletoe, inviting a kiss from passersby.
Carolling persists worldwide with diverse traditions. Italy features bagpipe accompaniment. England gives refreshments as gifts. America offers treats. Groups called star-singers carry a pole with a lighted star atop.
A study of dolls showing diverse personas from fashion icons to GI figures, presenting models that span modern deities to swaggering boy dolls and grim faced war toys, illustrating wide social roles in toy culture.
The article contrasts modern play dolls with ancient ones found in graves. It notes antique dolls made of clay, wood, bone, and ivory, valued and cradled yet treated with special respect. This highlights dolls as enduring human institutions across ages.
The text links Christmas joy overseas with CARE packages including food and clothing. It notes dolls as playthings tied to saints, sacred images in aboriginal groups, dolls as scapegoats in Japan, wedding gifts in Hindu and Muslim traditions, and uses of dolls in Africa for magic rites and fetishes.
The Bible remains the top Christmas seller with annual sales estimates ranging from 6,000,000 to 25,000,000. Dickens Christmas Carol and other titles like Prayer for a Child and The Other Wise Men also show steady seasonal demand across editions and ages.
A nostalgic reflection on Christmas preserving a sense of kindness faith and joy. The piece argues the holiday shines with sentimental value and the value of a mother's kiss a friendly handshake and robin song, claiming Christmas will always exist in spirit.
Twelfth Night, January 6, marks Epiphany with safe bonfires for disposing of Christmas trees. Communities plan park gatherings where families bring trees to burn and sing carols, while enjoying festive neighborhood spirit.
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