Modern Etiquette Advice on Cards and Courtesies
Guidance on etiquette for correspondence cards invitations and social duties. It covers using cards for informal notes avoiding formal use how brides address invitations after marriage whether a widow keeps her married name proper guest duties after weddings holding umbrellas and placing packages in restaurants and acknowledging church wedding invitations.
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Mary Gilbert
Thomas Gilbert
Light Oil Pie Crust Tutorial and Cranberry Tart Ideas
A home economy instructor shares an easy pie crust using salad oil mixed with flour salt and milk rolled between waxed paper. It includes pumpkin orange pie and prune custard tarts with detailed crust and filling instructions and baking times for several desserts.
Santa's Fir Tree Legend Becomes Christmas Symbol
The tale recounts Saint Wilfred stopping a pagan sacrifice by the oak and replacing it with a fir tree. He framed the fir as a symbol of immortality adopted by tribes at Christmastime with feasting and devotion.
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Wilfred
The Legend of the Faithful Pine and Nativity Tale
The comforting Nativity legend tells how the Holy Family found shelter inside a hollow fir trunk as Herod's soldiers pursued them. The pine tree bent its branches to hide Mary and the infant Jesus, who later blessed the tree, leaving a conical imprint of a hand when cut at Christmastime.
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Herod
Mary
Jesus
Silent Night Poem Fragment
Whispered Christmas verse notes a sacred night with mother and child, hymnal lines praise the Christ child. The text references heavenly light and angelic choruses, celebrating a savior born with alleluias and a guiding star.
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