Courtesy When Sending Christmas Cards Etiquette Rules
The article offers practical guidance for holiday card exchanges, advising thoughtful card choices for different recipients, personalized notes, and non formal signatures. It covers using colored inks, addressing envelopes by family members, sending single or multiple cards, including return addresses, and using three cent stamps to reflect good taste and warm sentiment.
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Santa Pictured By Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast the famed cartoonist who shaped Uncle Sam the elephant and the donkey is credited with giving America its first modern pictorial Santa Claus. He first sketched Santa in 1873 as a jolly pipe smoking man in a night shirt with fur trim. Over time Santa grew taller and fuller, gaining a white beard and a red ermine bordered suit.
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Uncle Sam
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Pagan Rites Basis Of Many Christmas Customs
The article traces Christmas traditions to pagan origins including sun worship, Saturnalia, mistletoe, holly and ivy, and the oak to fir tree substitution under St Boniface. It notes ancient Germanic and Saxon practices, the Middle Ages feasts, and English Puritan bans by 1644, outlining how gifts became a Christian exception.
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St. Boniface
Germany
England
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