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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1971
Page
8
Readers share clever holiday tips including making gift tags from two attached Christmas seals, using odd playing cards as coin holders for catalogs or premiums, and storing cookie dough in large paper cups to improve shaping and baking results.
A holiday essay urges starting family traditions, highlighting oyster stew as a possible annual Christmas Eve custom. It notes regional dishes like Tourtiere in Quebec and rice pudding in Ireland, and provides a simple oyster stew recipe with oysters, milk, cream, and butter.
A playful look at why Santa enters homes via chimneys with folklore from St Nicholas to Norse myth. The piece surveys legends of gold dowries, a goddess Hertha, and Yuletide hearth rituals alongside a brief family birthday note and a cooking tip about oyster stew preparation.
Dear Still asks where to buy marula fruit as an aphrodisiac and is told none is available in the United States with no evidence for sexual rejuvenation. Dear Chump seeks dating party advice and is urged to reflect on motives and continue hosting, ending with a booklet offer.
Mr and Mrs Jerry Don Evans welcomed a son at Decatur General naming him Jeremy Scott Evans. He is the grandson of Albert Lawrimore Trinity and Mrs James Evans and the late Mr Evans of Moulton. Weekend visitors were Mr and Mrs Thomas Doyle of Danville with the Crow family in Anniston. Their grandchildren Allen Anda and Chandra Crow joined them for the Danville visit.
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