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Newspaper
Port Isabel Press
Location
Port Isabel, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1963
Page
6
A guide suggests using Christmas cards as decorations to enhance home styling. From wall borders and taped card displays to crepe streamers and card centers, readers can craft festive, year round displays with cards featuring religious scenes and greetings.
Elwin R. Orton of Rutgers College of Agriculture leads a holly breeding project to accelerate germination and develop hardier American Ilex Opaca. By cross pollination and selection, he aims for more color and berry-bearing varieties suited to New Jersey and the East, while noting English holly and seasonal sprigs still serve Christmas tradition.
Christmas seals began in 1904 to aid the tuberculosis fight. Danish clerk Einar Holboell proposed the idea in 1903, gaining royal approval and a Queen Louise image on early seals. Jacob Riis popularized it in 1907, and Emily Bissell launched the first American sales.
The plant served practical roles in Mexico where red leaves provided a scarlet dye and milky juice from the stems was used as a tonic for nursing mothers.
The Rust Craft Greeting Cards 1963 Christmas collection includes novelty cards such as From Our Dog to Your Dog and From Our Cat to Your Cat. The idea is to send playful messages to people in familiar roles and even family pets.
The article notes that Yule log, Christmas fires, and tree lights recall ancient winter solstice rituals. Ancestors built large fires during the short daylight to ward off the waning sun and celebrate when days lengthened, believing fires revived the sun.
The Yule log figured prominently in the inauguration of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Men selected a huge log, children sat atop it, and the log was carried on their shoulders from the forest. It was set afire and burned twelve days, then a portion saved to kindle a new log the following year.
In Italian families the Yule log is burned in the fireplace as children gather around. Each youngster wears a blindfold before the log is lit. Recitations follow and gifts are revealed when blindfolds come off, laid out on the floor.
Instructions advise repurposing broken tree ornaments by cutting cardboard into star shapes and gluing the fragments with shellac. While the shellac is wet, place fragments on the cardboard. once dry, the shellac will secure them firmly.
The first enveloped greeting card appeared with Rust Craft Greeting Cards in 1906, marking a shift from plain cards to envelopes. This change defined early 20th century holiday correspondence and set a new industry standard.
The Interior Department designated the National Christmas Tree as a giant Sequoia in Kings Canyon National Park California. The redwood rises 267 feet and is estimated to be about 4000 years old, having begun growth around 2000 years before Christ.
Hal Chadwick, a freelance Christmas verse writer for Rust Craft Greeting Cards, embraces the season in Noel Missouri. He searches for the atmosphere that inspires his festive lines and lives the holiday mood in small town settings.
Rust Craft Greeting Cards reports higher sales for To My Wife Christmas cards at 50 cents compared with To My Band cards at the same price. The Husba line is priced at 35 cents.
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