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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1945
Page
2
Suggestions to make simple homemade Christmas cards using family snapshots, pets, new babies, or collaborative designs. Encourages all ages to participate with personal greetings, printed or handwritten messages, and contrasting ink to brighten cards for overseas relatives and veterans in uniform.
Historical notes explore why stockings became Christmas gift receptacles. Home fireside customs link stockings and shoes to warmth and drying. Some regions of France favor shoes on Christmas Eve. A tale cites St Nicholas dropping a purse into a chimney and a stocking tradition growing from luck and protection.
The article explains the authentic historical basis for using Xmas for Christmas. It notes that X represents Christ from the Greek word and that medieval scholars abbreviated Nativity celebrations as X-mass. It mentions Xn for Christian and Xty for Christianity and that early Christian art used X beside the Father and the Holy Ghost in catacombs.
Christmas planning advice encourages early preparation for office or lodge celebrations. The piece suggests using natural greens like pines holly and mistletoe plus painted pine cones gourds and three dimensional posters to create festive decor for walls and bulletin boards. It highlights traditional scenes and Christmas cards as design aids.
In Syria water and wheat await the Gentle Camel of Jesus who travels the desert on Epiphany Eve bringing presents to good children. Legend says the youngest camel that bore the Wise Men to Bethlehem was exhausted and blessed by the Christ Child with immortality near the stable.
Practical guide on choosing a Christmas tree by needle retention. It compares fir spruce pine cedar and hemlock, noting fir holds needles longest while spruces shed first. Watering the stand helps prevent needle drop and prolongs freshness.
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