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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1945
Page
2
Epiphany marks gift giving across cultures with the Wise Men, Befana, and Babouska each delivering toys and treats. The legend recalls Spanish Epiphany Eve treks, Befana’s midnight journey to Bethlehem, and Babouska’s candlelit gift routine for sleeping children.
The tale of The Visit of St Nicholas was written by Dr Clem ent Clark Moore for his children on December 23 1822. He later published it anonymously in the Troy Sentinel on December 23 1823. Moore kept secret his authorship for years, suspecting the poem had reached the newspaper.
Miss Butler treasured the poem and sent a copy to the Sentinel as the Christmas season of 1823 approached.
Santa calls on many helpers to fix toys with fire departments acting as repair hubs in many cities. Boys and girls provide expert assistance knowing each child’s wish.
The essay notes Puritan New England housewives made bayberry candles for economic reasons and avoided Christmas customs. It traces anti Christmas sentiment from the Mayflower era, the 1659 Massachusetts Assembly easing the spread, and the later revival with English Restoration yet persistent Puritan prejudice into the early 20th century.
Somelike sugar and spice quivery fruit-sweet jellies citron and cherry flaked fruit cakes make wonderful presents. Wrap them in gay trappings for a gift anyone will be proud to receive. A few days in the kitchen with a schedule yields cookies cakes and jellies for many friends. Canning fruit juices last summer yields jelly now with saved sugar.
Reader Lynn shares festive handmade gift ideas. Use colored jars wrapped in white cardboard and ribbons, decorate with pine cones and holly, fill fruit baskets with grapes and nuts, and prepare grape jelly with juice sugar corn syrup pectin and spices for gifting.
A collection of kitchen instructions for Apple and Orange Marmalade Lemon Honey Jelly Baked Apple Butter Pear Conserve and sweets like Molasses Popcorn Balls and Peanut Brittle. The directions cover boiling thickening and sealing in hot jars with paraffin and provide tips for gift wrapping and wrapping children’s gifts.
The piece notes Norway with a myth of a spruce growing from bloodied ground where lovers died and lights symbolizing love faith and hope. In Naples at Saint Marks dogs are brought to church on Christmas morning and wait for their masters. Russia portrays Mary as omnipotent using her scene instead of the Christ Child.
A pattern provides actual-size guides to cut out elephants giraffes lions and clowns and trained seals from plywood or heavy cardboard. The tent fits a card table and folds away quickly. Includes directions for a muslin tent and stitching BIG TOP with bias tape. Also shows painting life-like figures and making them stand alone. NOTES: The text ends abruptly.
A field guide note explains rabbits can watch behind as well as ahead. Overlapping vision fields let rabbits spot enemies approaching from the rear without turning their heads.
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