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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1961
Page
2
December 2 1773 Sir William Stevens records in Savannah that few people labored for Christmas due to prevailing custom. Feasting was not yet in fashion and Stevens warned his servants that there would be no eating without work.
Mistletoe linked to misty mythic powers in Britain where Druids valued it for healing and protection. An old belief tied kissing beneath berries to happiness fortune fertility and long life.
Children eager to glimpse Old Santa slip down the chimney miss him as they drift to sleep. The jolly visitor stays hidden until all eyes are closed, suggesting a quiet helper may be at work behind the scenes.
Short note explains that in old times a kiss under the mistletoe required each maiden to receive a berry, and once the berries on the branch were gone, the kisses ended. The custom highlights a playful, seasonal social rule from past traditions.
The article notes Christmas as centuries old yet still young in observance. Puritans and Pilgrims deemed it illegal. In 1855 many American cities treated it as a workday and workers who refused faced job loss.
With a mother’s help children can craft a pretty stained glass window for a holiday display. They lay newspaper on an ironing board, arrange trimmed wax paper with crayon stubs, cover with waxed paper and newspaper, and iron briefly to melt the crayons into a colorful window feature.
Children will enjoy making a Santa sleigh from a long thin egg carton. Tear the top from one end to form the seat and dashboard using the dividers. Paint or cover with red paper, add candy cane runners, place a candle Santa in the driver seat, and fill the sleigh with Christmas balls.
Thousands visit the Mount of Beatitudes in Lower Galilee home to the chapel marking Jesus Sermon on the Mount. Visitors walk from the hill toward the Sea of Galilee where the loaves and fishes miracle occurred and Jesus preached the Bread of Life. Nearby Nazareth and Cana are close by.
The guide warns against reusing old light sets outdoors and advises choosing new strings with new bulbs for high and hard to reach areas. It recommends larger individual bulbs, avoids small series wired bulbs, and suggests using multiple extension cords to prevent overloading house circuits.
Christmas tradition centers on family gatherings at mom or grannie and a turkey or ham feast. Historic menus show Saxon bord-cloth spreads and awaited peacock and boar's head as early festive specialties.
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