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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 23, 1986
Page
9
A genteel defense of belief in Santa Claus addressed to Virginia O’Hanlon. The famous Sun editorial asserts Santa’s existence as real through faith and imagination, arguing that unseen truths, love, and wonder are more real than visible proof, and that belief sustains childhood joy.
Virginia O Hanton an eight year old asks if a Santa Claus exists prompting editor Francis Pharcellus Church to respond with a famous letter affirming belief in Santa Claus. The exchange appears in the Sun. The letter expresses gratitude for the reader and frames the moral of faith and wonder.
The angels started carols, which rose to popularity in the 14th century as simple joyful songs in the common tongue. Emigrants carried carol singing to the New World, with many classics shaping the 19th century and later.
When the glue is thoroughly dry spray the spools and blocks with gold paint. Apply two or three coats, allowing each to dry before the next. Glue gold balls to the top of each outside spool.
Thousands visit Bethlehem during Christmas to see the Church of the Nativity and Grotto of the Nativity. A silver star marks the traditional birthplace while the Inn’s low door relates to animals in the manger story. A gift idea suggests personalized painted light switches.
The piece notes John Calcott Horsely created a three panel Christmas card in 1843 for Sir Henry Cole featuring charitable virtues and a central Christmas dinner scene. It also recounts Louis Prang’s 1874 lithograph shop in Roxbury selling cards that popularized the American Christmas card tradition.
The text suggests lighting the Yule log to ensure household fortune for the year. It advises making notes on possible Christmas presents for different people and considers gifts for Mable like a large ring and for Aunt Betsy items useful in the kitchen.
A history of holiday decor and fundraising. Evergreens symbolized immortality in ancient Saturnalia rites and later the Christian tradition. The Christmas seal idea, created by Danish clerk Einar Holboell in 1903 to fight tuberculosis, gained popularity and inspired Jacob Riis to promote a U S version known as the Christmas Stamp.
The clipping collage presents festive musings from Charles Dickens Sir Walter Scott and William Shakespeare about Christmas. The lines evoke cheer resilience and transformative joy during the season.
The Yule log ceremony dates to Saxon and Gothic times featuring a large log carried into the hall with the youngest participant astride it. A fragment from the previous year’s log was kept for use in this winter solstice ritual.
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