Wednesda, D . si = vy December 23, 1959 THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE : Page 5 | Many customs built up CHRISTMAS THOUGHT id that the Christ- pardoned; it is in dying that 1 life.” U mas we are born to etern | aroun EW ear 5 a pray that ‘I must not so much Christmas is a spirit-lifting | seek to%e consoled as to con- season . . . marking the birth : sole; to uuderstand; to be of the Babe of Bethlehem... | New Year’s Day attords every-) Year’s Day, but the garment must| loved, as to love, For it is and as such it promises a one the opportunity to bring him-|be put on when you first dress in in giving that we receive, it golden blessing for all man- selt good luck throughout the|the morning. Receipt of a sift,is| is in pardoning that we are kind. year. At least that: is supposed|certain to carry luck. Wish to be true acording to several old everyone you meet “A Happy superstitions concerning the be-| New Year,” but remember when | ginning of a new year. greeting is given to cross your The “First Foot” — the first|f ngers for luck. Be sure to say son to enter the house on New| “rabbits” as the first word when s morning — plays a signifi-| you wake before anyone has had cant role in the family’s future!a chance to speak to you. | fortunes. He must be a dark ;man to bring good luck, but if he also brings a gift and “earries! Love's progress will be aided in” more than he “takes out,”|on New ¥, Day if you are then the house is assured peace| careful to put on the left stock. and plenty for a whole year. The] ing before the right. The potency most auspicious gifts as luck- of this charm is supposed to be bringers are a lump of coal and|ineveased if you do all things as a red herring. far as possible lefthandedly dur- Unmarried persons are advised ing the day. to look out the window on New = 2s. 4 _ [Year's morning. If vou see a/ To open @ bank account on _ ~ . “__|man, it is a sign that you win|New Year's Day was considered JUNIOR CHOIR AT HOSPITAL oe [man it betore the sehr ts out,|Weky in Old Bngded the were Customs of other, eins gfacto‘atns teed Ges suior | gege exchanged |" 2." ioscan em sit LOVE'S PROGRESS ained patients have a wish, and it will be real-|Whatever you do on the first land t h i m Christin von Hospital Sunday afternoon with 7 ized within the year. To see a|day of the year will be an indi. Sa rist as ee Sarols. at New Year S dog is lucky but a cat foretells|cation of what will happen dur. CT vty. ing th Many Christmas legends and worty, ing the months that follow. d ° ege i vas di s|sonrererve 4 In some parts of England and dusting 48 part an T Ifth ht t d t i d The Druids distributed branches| SOMETHING NEW e P ngland an part of the folklore we ni radiri¢nal en le the sacred mistletoe, cut with| 4 little care will make it pos-|Scotland it is supposed to be un- | of our ancestors in : . the world. Many. Of thee et Peculiar ceremonies, as New| sible to bring oneself good luck| lucky to leave a house until some or avis Year's gifts to the people and the|for the entire year. Wear some-|0Utsider has first entered it are a mixture of early Christia f I "ly Christian 0 uie season Saxons observed the day with|thing new, if possible, on New and Pagan observances which gifts and festivals. time and Christianity have given| Twelfth Night or Epiphany, is phany, or Twelfth Night. was!" phe Roman custom of taking a new meaning. marked with many customs, cere-|commemorated with plays pre- ‘ _ gifts to the emperor was intro- H Santa Claus, our aAmerican|monies and legends throughout] sented in churches. Solemn ob- Many belie S$ ‘ eae duced into England as early as Siver of gifts, is little known else:|the world. French and Swiss] servances largely disappeared in the time of Henry 111. Quee ; ae i . , ” where in the world. In eastern|children, for example, look for. Elizabethan England, and they |piizabeth is supposed to have about hell and , Southern Europe, it is the/ward to the pastry they receive| became a time for revel supplied herself with jewels and y Wise Men who arrive bringing|on that day in which a bean, coin] Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” wardrobe almost entirely from| Many beliefs are connected ; gifts. In Hungary the gifts|or china figure is hidden. Who- reflects this mood. It was prob-| these gifts, . with the Christmas holl: PILSENER... As late as 1692 the English no-| Legends relate the crown of DISCOVER come from the Angels, in Poland|ever gets a prize is crowned king] ably presented in a command per- oe eae a Greece St. of the family. prmanee at Whiteball Palace on /pitity were accustomed every year| thorns was plaited from the holly, Ss le gift-bearing patron lary 6, 160: x = of Q - whi rri ring ik see » Epiphany means “appearance”| 7#7U@"¥ 6 1601, according to his-/¢9 send to the king a purse con-|the white berries turning red like torians. ing : , . usifix- and commemorates the visit of[ 72" sings" qrvimned | nine gold. drops of blood after the crusifix. the Threé Wise Men to the infant) 7042 “kings Wned| Under the Tudors and the Stu-|ion. rp) With golden paper coronets roam arts it was the habit of all classes| It is said that whoever brings Jesus. Their arrival was proof ¢ i : the streets of Europe on Epi-|tg eive py ri i -_ ie to believers that Christ the Sav- P Pi'/to give presents to friends with]the holly into the house first, Popular tradition has it that candle we place in our windows at Christmastime is a custom or- igimated by early Christians to ior had been born Phany, singing hymns and carols.|the best wishes tor the New Year,| either husband or wife, is the one whom the candle represented the : In Italy, millions of children] Ladies received presents of| who will rule in the ensuing year. star that guided the Wise Men] The visit is told in Matthew 2:/awake to find their Stockings] sloves or pins which were then} For many years the superstition to the stable in Bethlehem. One|12; “Now when Jesus was born|filled with presents from La Be expensive. Sometimes the gifts}persisted that holly was hateful interesting legend tells of a shoe-|in Bethlehem of Judaea in the|fana, the good-hearted witeh who were wrapped in money and from|to witches. It was placed on Biessed Christmas, time of happy hearts maker who, though poor, always|days of Herod the king, behold | takes the place of Santa Claus. this practice we have the term|doors and windows to keep evil and uplifted spirits, is with us once again, placed a candle in his window|there came three wise men trom| CUSTOM “pin money.” spirits out. a F at night to guide weary travellers, |the east to Jerusalem, In France, a portion of the And, at this glad season, our wish and so inspired the villagers that 7 . |Epiphany cake is often set aside : is with you . .. the wish that your Christmas soon each window contained a|P4RLY PLAYS [as “la part de Dieu” — God's be rich in happit iendship, lasting jo lighted candle. “Saying, where is he that is|/Share. It is given to the first c / nay be vich in: happiness, frle Bee to} for —_ born King of the Jews? for we|Poor person who comes to the| Eggs absorb odors and should/have seen his star in the east, | door. be kept away from highly-flavor-| and are coming to worship him.” In Greece, three pieces of cake €4 foods, During the Middie Ages, Epi-|are cut: one for Christ, one for| Mary, and one for St. B: Twelfth Night ¢ Labatts J. Rowatt & Sons Sawmills Co. Ltd. | V-313 | This advertisement is not published or | sisplayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. mi k made with hot strong iced with nutmeg and At this special Who reaily sent that very first Christmas card? What is generally conceded to be the first card ly | McCulloch Power . s a Christmas greet- Saws De ing — the card designed in England by J. Horsely for Sir Greetings of the season from all of us to oft of you! Gordon, Ken, Al and Willie G. A. Cole - 0 wish you a and js sending your | | way, warmest if wishes for Holiday i csr ~ | j this be the merriest of Henry Cole (in 1843) — aid , i not meet with enthusiastic re- joy. May | al mess ception, Sent to his pe i friends, Cole card had panels which depict ing of the hungry and clothing of the naked. This was well and good The objection to the card arose from the illu- strations on the central panel— me in which a millde-cla [English family raised their | wine glagses to toast an absent | triena (obvious to the recip- jent of the card) The 2 so aroused temperance zealots that Cole never authored an- other card, Actually the search for the “first” Christmas card is still going on. Although it bore no specific g¢ ting, the New York Historical Society, some 30 | years before the Horsely-Cole card. sent to members and friends of the society a wood- cut of St. Nicholas which bore a Christmas poem in both Duteh and English the . Yuletides for you and yours. | _, CARSON'S Ged CHEVRON SERVICE i for wistmas jabba tas E wwe and to In Carl W D: discovered in a Pennsy An our best wishes to attic a “broadsheet’’ issued you and your family. Have a Christmas as merry and bright as the oranments : on your glittering tree. | about 1842 by John W. | = Philadelphia printer. The JOHN ISSIGONIS sheet, 10 inches by 12 inches, | . featured a reproduction of C. C. | Public Accountant Moore's “The Visit of St. Nich sincere thanks : olas” and as well carried the greeting, “A Merry Christmas| 0 (l our Jand A Happy New Year.” | The first commercial venture into the Christmas card business made in 1863 when an ish firm hired Punch car- Cc. H. Bennett to illus- trate a series of cards which sold that year as “Christmas complimentary stationary.” good Jrlends SQUIRE BIRBER SHOP Sicccomscs) CENTRAL PLUMBING 8 HEATING PAREVIEW' HOTEL time. & at Christmas the lasting gifts ‘of good health, happiness and good fortune.