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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1952
Page
9
Youngsters can make thrifty confections for gifts or family using cereal based treats. Two recipes detail Crunch Brittle and Christmas Squares with sugar syrup boiling, cooling, and shaping steps. Includes ingredients like breakfast cereal, pulled rice, dried fruit, nuts, sugar, and butter.
A discussion of Christmas origins notes the blend of pagan and Christian customs shaping modern observances. It traces winter solstice celebrations across Babylonian, Roman, Druid, Egyptian, and Germanic traditions influencing today’s carols, processions, gifts, and mummers. An Iowa State horticulturist advises not cutting asparagus tops now, to protect next spring yields.
Handmade Christmas cards offer thrift and personal touch as snapshots of home and family become design elements. Photographers can assist planning, while artists create pen and ink drawings to be engraved and printed on bright papers for unique greetings.
For those handy with art supplies, learn scratchboard techniques spat ter painting linoleum block prints and stenciled designs to craft original holiday greetings. Find easy instructions at libraries or art stores and make shining angels from foil framed with edged paper. Use stickers tin sel doilies and other dime store items to create bold Christmas cards.
Craft simple cards by cutting lace doilies into shapes like oblongs triangles circles and squares and attaching them to construction paper backgrounds with bright stickers. Use textured metallic foils foils felt papers velvety velour evergreen tinsel and yarn for a festive look. Sign with a flourish to convey thoughtful holiday spirit.
A psychiatrist sees a colleague plodding along carrying a couch on his head. He asks why. The answer: a house call. The humor centers on the absurd image of a doctor transporting furniture as a medical visit.
Poor indoor light warmth and low humidity affect home plant growth in winter. In dim rooms with dry air plants struggle to thrive and may show slowed growth or stress without supplemental light and moisture.
Trequene person named Rees advocates careful fire use while freeing roying efforts.
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