young tamily. Fram Hotpoint.

A useful gift for the
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appliance you can use any-
where there is a standard
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Weighing only 60 pounds,
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kitchen chair and can be
used-or stored in a closet,
bathroom, . basement, al- —
cove, under a counter, in a
kitchen corner, or even.
mounted on the wall.

Offering the regular tum-

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including a permanent
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best. suited to the personal
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young married couple, the
Hotpoint mini dryer is a
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+summer cottage, or mobile
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_ other locales where space
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a separate start switch, and
a six-foot long power cord
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The compact dryer -is
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be put.on wheels for roll-

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Inspires Music

as popular carols, the Nativity
scene lives on. —
Handel's ‘Messiah,’
Bach’s ‘Christmas Oratorio,”
Berlioz’ “L’Enfance du
Christ” are noteworthy ex-
amples. of music performed
year after year at Chrisimas.
Moré recently, Britten’s
“Ceremony of Carols,”’ Hon-
egger's 'Christmas Cantata’?
and. Menotti’s '‘Amahl and
Visitors” have

musical treatmenis.

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Tree designated’ by “U.S, De-

Of all the customs of the
Yuletide, none flourishes
more merrily than the Christ--
mas tree. It's ‘a happy holi-
day tradition to set upa tree,
string it with lights, deck it

with ornaments ‘and “crown .

it withastar,; |. -

Legendary stiggestions
about the origin of the tree
are plentiful. Just about every
country has.one to offer.

The pine trees of the Roman
Saturnalia, the great tree of
Ygedrasil in Norse mythology
and the evergreens the Egyp-
tians used: to: adorn their

homes at the winter sol- —

stice are but a few of the
possibilities. ©
In Scandinavian mythol-
ogy, the three roots of Ygg-
drasil bound together the
home of the gods, the land
of mankind and the nether-
world. ; :
Though wherethe Yule tree
began can’t be pinpointed, it
first showed up as an accom-
plished fact in the 1éth cen-
tury. Strasbourg manuscripts
of that era describedecorated
trees as a regular, established
part of the Christmas season.
_ The custom of the tree was
probably brought to the New
World by Hessian soldiers
fighting for the British in the
Revolutionary War,

The. chronology of the
Christmas tree in America
_reveals these highlights, as
compiled b
Encyclopedia International.

1866 . First Christmas tree

in the White House introduced ©

by President Franklin Pierce.
1909 People of Pasadena,

. Calif, erected a towering tree _

on Mount Wilsen.

1912 Community trees dec-
erated in Madison Square
Park, New York City, and on

: _. the Common in Boston.
In serious music as well ° oo

1918 “Children’s Christ-
mas Tree” placed In Indepen-
dence Square, Philadelphia.

1920 Giant deodar cedars

create a mile-long panorama -

of lighted trees, on. ‘*Christ-
—mas ‘Free: Lane” in Altadena,
Calif.: ~

1923 First National Com-

munity Christmas Tree inau-.

. gurated by President Calvin
’. Coolidge. ~~ ; :

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shes the Management and Sta

We wish the
merriest . ©
and brightest

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The Herald, Christmas Supplement

"Trees Flourish

the editors of _ :

1926 ‘National Christmas ©

2.45! luermeremtyrenetenpeeetz leat ii ot

partment of ‘Interjor.’ It's “a

"Sequola gigantea,” or conif-:
- erous’. evergreen, in King's
Canyon National Park, Calif.”
1933: First Rockefeller Cen-

ter’ Christmas tree

Since. then, huge Christmas
trees—usually Norway spruce
-~have been a tradition in this
‘New York business-entertain-

“1947 Minnespotie celebrai

erected—a Pipes. served as lmibs, 1.3," *.
70-foot high Norway spruce’
‘with $1,200 colorful lights. .

Thursday, December. 23, 1971

ment complex,
was a-90-footer, in'194

ed.with a tree made of water--~
pipes, 135: trees placed in.the © -
"1950: "A Seatlle, shopping’.
center set a record for thehigh- -
-eattree, with a 212-footer.:
~- Canadiaris celebrate with a.
National Christmas | ‘Tree on
‘Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

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