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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1975
Page
2
A vintage recipe features sausage links with onions green peppers and apricots simmered in a sweet sour sauce from apricot syrup. Serve hot with orange spice tea and share a note to the California Apricot Advisory Board at Walnut Creek California for free apricot recipes.
Christmas Eve finds Hessian troops near the Delaware River sharing a hearth and decorating firs with found items as they await captivity. The act seeds heritage in America and inspires a Fifth Avenue exhibit of decorated trees by notable figures. In Austria, Silent Night winds the family around the tree after supper.
Foods expert Mary Sweeten of the Texas A&M Extension Service advises diabetics to choose low sugar options during holidays. She outlines fruit and unsweetened dessert ideas, low calorie gelatin treats, and notes that diabetic ice cream and candy can be eaten in moderation with proper counting. Bridge winners at St. Andrew's weekly party in Port Isabel are James and Mary DePriest and Lydia Youberg. church invites winter visitors to Thursday noon gatherings on Yturria St. and North Shore Drive.
The Port Isabel Band Boosters Club host a New Year’s Eve Dance on December 31 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Ignacio Garza Civic Center on South Padre Island. Tickets are sold by band members and Fistful will provide the music.
The article traces mistletoe’s role from Roman soldiers kissing under trees to English customs of berry tokens, Druids venerating the plant, and beliefs of fertility and disaster. It notes the high placement of mistletoe in homes and barns to ward off evil, a tradition persisting in modern Christmas homes.
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church conducts its annual Posadas led by Sisters Armida Rangel and Valentina Garcia. The reenactment features Alberto Miranda as Joseph and Lupita Sanchez as Mary with events running from December 15 to Wednesday, including a session at Harvey Courts for the Vietnamese community.
The article describes the kissing ball as a popular secular decoration once common in homes. It outlines its variations from a pomander to a brown egg or cotton ball, and notes modern plastic foam versions painted or gilded with ribbons, beads, and mistletoe.
The article notes that Christmas trees likely originated in Egypt with the palm tree bearing monthly shoots. German writers cite the tree as early as 1605, and Prince Albert introduced the Christmas tree to England for Queen Victoria as part of a royal display.
A fragment references Christmas as a sacred season in Hamlet with imagery of the cock crowing, night birds singing, and a claim that spirits, witches, and planets are restrained by the holy time. It frames Christmas as hallowed and gracious according to Shakespearean diction.
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