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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1945
Page
3
A home crafts feature suggests wrapping sugar and spice gifts in Christmas trappings. It lists grape jelly, apple and orange marmalade, and lemon honey jelly recipes, with steps for making, canning, and sealing. Slow cooking is advised for conserves and fruit butter.
A period piece offering instructions for DIY gift wrapping and recipes. It covers decorative wrapping ideas for fruit jars and cookies, plus recipes for Pear Conserve, Molasses Popcorn Balls, and Peanut Brittle. It also notes festive kid friendly wrapping and a Western Newswire notice about masked revelers in Switzerland.
Christmas is Christmas from one corner of the earth to the other. This year the day means something special, a period of thanksgiving for the end of a long bitter struggle. While most nations will celebrate the day in reverence to Christ, the customs vary in different countries and different regions.
For eight evenings before Christmas a religious procession in Mexico bears figures of Joseph and Mary at its head. Each member carries a lighted taper and they sing Christmas hymns as they go door to door seeking admittance. On the ninth evening a ceremony is held around the Christ Child manger.
Silly satire ridicules production of walkie talkies at low prices claiming they will flood farms with chatter. Poem and verse lampoon show gossip spreading from Maud Muller to a judge, suggesting noisy phones disrupt quiet rural life and milking routines.
For weeks before Christmas Colombian children await a grand fireworks display. In each village square men wear fireproof garments and climb into a wooden cow structure packed with firecrackers and Roman candles.
The Wigilia, the Polish Christmas Eve feast also called The Last Supper, centers the celebration with twelve distinct dishes served once yearly. After the meal, lights go out and bowls of nuts raisins fruits and sweets are shared around and eaten by the tree in candlelight.
Dutch children await St Nicholas Eve when Sinter Klaas visits to judge if they deserve presents. After his departure they place wooden shoes by the fireplace with hay and carrots for his white horse, then await a restless night.
A speaker extols sayings and maxims while claiming a fountain pen writes for two years without refilling. The speaker enjoys grumbling as part of the pen’s charm and teases about spoiling it.
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