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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
7
The article critiques extravagant gift exchanges and offers thrifty ideas for holiday giving. It suggests simple, meaningful presents for invalids, like a decoy doll trunk filled with topic clippings, and describes decorative touches such as red white and blue ornaments, Moravian Putz trees with moss landscapes, toy houses, fences, animals, and peculiar cookie shapes.
Desperate remedies for gift giving in autumn urge writing all friends a Christmas note to spare them tokens. Next year the list clears to those truly deserving, with words expressing appreciation instead of costly gifts, warming the heart of true friends.
A reflection on sharing tangible gifts with the young and needy. The message recalls a child’s plea to make Jesus happy on his birthday through giving and kindness to those less fortunate.
The passage recalls that pres ts at Christmas began with the wise men from the east presenting gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the infant Jesus. It emphasizes their act as a symbol of love and reverence for the Savior and urges keeping their spirit in Christmas plans.
The article recounts holly as sacred in ancient times and the Christmas tree’s legend. It notes Eve’s apple led to needlelike leaves, the tree becoming evergreen, and Christmas with lights and lore as a sign of Christ’s birth transforming the curse into a blessing.
The article recounts a long tradition of Christmas feasts with Elizabethan sixteenth course suppers featuring boar's head as a centerpiece, followed by brawn geese turkeys cranberry mince pies and large plum puddings. It notes wassail wine and the custom of passing the spiced drink around the table.
The piece notes Benjamin Franklin contributing a punch receipt toward Christmas observances of the late eighteenth century. It describes a ceremonial serving with a china bowl, Jamaica rum, sugar, and fruit as part of festive gatherings until a clock strikes ten.
The text celebrates enduring festal traditions passed down through centuries. It notes their charm and reverence, even when fanciful or gruesome, and suggests twentieth century readers with new ideas can still learn from these old legends' spirit of reverence.
In choosing presents for friends, the personal element matters most. Careful study of each recipient's tastes shows the donor's genuine regard and adds a compliment to the gift.
A fragment suggests quirky present ideas for children and adults. The text mentions a bag with two silk American flags, red white and blue drawstrings, and a coin collection with coins tied to a pin or item. It references a tyrose bush and bright tissue paper, plus a card with a message.
A leather souvenir postal card can become a blotter by cutting small central slits in both the card and a matching blotting paper, then tying with a ribbon. The address remains hidden, and the card image should relate to the recipient.
A simple festive craft idea uses plain glass sherbet cups filled with red jelly. Cover with melted paraffin, wrap in tissue with holly sprig, and tie with ribbon. A jelly spoon adds a final touch if desired.
A note on packing mail parcels for Christmas shows many losses and breaks from soft paper and thread. Use a pasteboard box of proper size, tie securely, address, wrap in heavy paper, and rebundle to ensure delivery even if outer wrapping is torn.
Christmas trees and their decorations fascinate the holiday season. Children see a fairy land while adults see work that brings happiness. A bird’s-eye view of homes across the country shows trees trimmed in many styles as new ideas emerge and are shared.
In one family the older children used a huge oleander in bloom as a festive display. Branches hung with ornaments and gifts piled at the base created a pretty scene that delighted the younger children.
In areas with scarce evergreens, lemon trees are used as substitutes. The evergreen crowning tree is trimmed and laden with gifts while rooted in its native soil. A sheltered nook hosts the chosen tree as guests enjoy the novel, warmly wrapped setup.
Describes decorating techniques using popcorn tips on twigs and chains of tissue paper flowers to create blossoms. Explains attaching popcorn with pins and forming petals from scalloped paper circles, then assembling blossoms at the tree apex with space between blooms. Shares color alternation and grouping as pendants or clusters.
A detailed guide describes how to craft festive ornaments including birds sewn from bright cloth stuffed with cotton, tissue paper wings, and hidden wires to create the illusion of flight. It covers fruit-based decorations, bead icicles, snow effects with cotton and alum spray, and a red and white theme using tissue, stockings, peppermint candy, and cheesecloth.
A large tree is chosen for a grand display. At the tip a gilded sparkling star sits, with a circle of small United States flags radiating from the top. The flags are dusted with diamonds and gold paper strips encircle the tree.
Centerpieces for the Christmas table wrap oranges in white batting, pile them in a pyramid at the center. Top with a spray of mistletoe and crown a wreath of mistletoe interwoven with arbor vitae as the base. Sprinkle the arrangement thickly with coarse salt for a glittering but inexpensive effect.
Select several small bright red apples of equal size. Dip them into boiling candy syrup colored bright red at the candy stage. When cooled, trim each apple with a few artificial leaves and arrange on a flat dish with bon bons for a decorative treat.
Create a table ornament by placing a chimney centerpiece in the middle of candy boxes to resemble bricks. A toy Santa emerges from the top with a candy-filled pack on his back, flecks of cotton and tinsel dust on his shoulders mimic snow, and the chimney looks snow encrusted for a festive display. Guests receive a candy box at dessert.
Mirror sits on the table with a low holly filled bowl at center. Holly sprigs frame the edge while a wreath hangs above, tied with red ribbons from the chandelier and red streamers reach down to each plate.
An old fashioned Christmas dinner favors a roast turkey and a large chicken pie. For the pie, line the pan with crust and add the chicken and broth. Instead of a single crust, top with biscuits for easier preparation and a tastier result.
The article offers holiday serving tips including boiled and pressed glazed potatoes rolled into balls, baked until browned, and sugared with a sugar-dusted crust. It suggests mini mince pies with upper crusts, celery garnishes, brandy-soaked plum pudding sauce, and orange cup desserts. A no-cook Christmas bon bon blends dates figs raisins and nuts rolled in coconut.
Nixon Waterman in Woman's Home Companion notes that gifts vary from the practical to the odd with humorous mismatches like slippers too large or too small and a tomahawk filled book. Yet the piece ends by praising kindly hearts and the enduring Christmas spirit.
A northern New York widow, Mrs. Dudley Miller, handcrafts 3000 plum puddings for Christmas, selling from Maine to California and to customers in England and Rome. She works solo with family help, starts in November, and wraps each pudding in palastine and white paper with scarlet ribbon and holly, including brandy sauce instructions.
A brief comic exchange shows Grandpa questioning Johnny's excuse for missing school. Johnny replies he sprained his ankle, prompting the Grandpa to call it a lame reason.
The piece notes that the Christmas card originated with artist W C T Dobson in 1844 when a young Dobson sketched a seasonal scene to send to a friend. The next year he expanded the idea by photographing the card to mail copies to about thirty friends, launching a new Christmas tradition.
A mother jokes that a baby's loud crying last night was caused by hearing someone say he looked like his father as Mrs. Cutting Hintz comments on the resemblance to his father.
On Christmas Day in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Santa Claus commences and completes his single annual voyage, a timeless seasonal journey spanning oceans and skies.
In a Boston Globe piece a child named Elsie and her father discuss Dolly's upcoming birthday and Christmas. Elsie hopes Santa brings a present, noting Dolly was a gift last Christmas and this season marks both her birthday and Christmas.
Quotation from Crawford and Crabshaw about fashion trends in luxury items during the Christmas season.
Readable passages describe a festive menu including oyster on the half shell roast goose and plum pudding, plus table decorations with holly mistletoe and mini trees. It offers decoration ideas using electric lights sprigs of holly place cards and violets as centerpieces. Also includes multiple recipes for soups puddings pies and fruit dishes with detailed ingredients and steps.
A collection of recipe fragments describing croquettes shaped with a cutter, a celery relish gel, a lemon dressing with whipped cream and horseradish, and methods for preparing roast goose or duck with lemon, plus baked stuffed potatoes and a mixed salad with pecans.
St Paul Pioneer Press notes over 40 000 Christmas trees will ship from St Paul to North and South Dakota Iowa and Nebraska. Spruce and balsam are favored with swamp and upland varieties. small trees sell by bundle and larger trees fetch several dollars per tree depending on size.
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