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m y . ItiB NEWS^OIIBNAL S^'*: OOK my CALL TO YOU / rlatmod' #his Christinas, more folks dun ever before will be telephoning Christmas greedngs by long distance. We will make every effort to speedily complete your calls, but telephone traffic will be heavy. So will you please place your f Us eariy, and should you have a shon wait, please be padeot. Tbmk you tmd TfUwt!^ CAROLINA TEL & TEL CO. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. I I "OLD-FASfflONED ' CHRfiJTMASr WE HOPE YOU HAVE ONE, AND THAT THE THOUGHT OF SUCH A DAY BRINGS YOU A FLOOD OS HAPPY MEMORIEa 7 Raeford Furniture Co. I RAEFORD, N. C. \- A Cheery Christmas Season To All... Have Tree Base Stand In Water Christmas trees, like flowers, will respond to being kept with the base in the water. Here are two simple things to do if you want your tree to stay green and freshi Buy a tree which has been cut as recently as possible.. Cut off the end of the trunk diag onally, at least one inch above the original cut. This will expose a moist siulace which will absorb wa ter. Stand the trunk of the tree in water at once, and, if it is not to be taken into the house for several days, keep it in a cool place. Mothers, who are the official cooks of the family, will reap added praise this holiday season if they plan a special Christmas menu for every meal on Christmas day. While “something special” is expected for dinner, a minimum of attention will make the other two meals a pleas ant surprise. Here is a menu for the day which will prove popular. BREAKFAST December Dates There aren’t very many fi birthdays during December- near Christmas! However, a of history’s prominent p( were born in December an( they are: Dec. 8, Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. ' Dec. 16, Ludwig von Beethoven. Dec. 17, John Greenleaf Whit tier. Dec. 24, Christopher (K^t) Car- son. Dec. 27, Louis Pasteur. Dec. 28, Woodrow Wilson. Dec. 31, Rudyard Kipling. Orange Juice Waffles Grille Sausage Cakes Coffee Honey Milk CHRISTMAS OmNER Clam and Tomato Juice Cocktail Roast Turkey, Glblet Gravy Celery Dressing Mashed' Potatoes Buttered Green Beans Calavo and Grapefruit Salad Assorted Relishes Cranberry Sauce Hot Rolls Fruit Cake Pie Coffee Milk SUPPER Nutbread Sandwiches Mixed Vegetable Salad Fruit Gelatin Dessert Tea Milk It’s a good idea, too, to crowd a small cutting board with assorted cheeses and crackers. Place it in the living room for those who may not be able to eat candy or who don’t care for nuts. Santa Pictu^d By Thomas Nast Thomas Nast, the fembus car toonist who created our conception of Uncle Sam, the Republican ele phant and the Democratic donkey, is also credited with giving Amer ica its first modem pictorializaticni of Santa Claus. Nast first sketched his notion of Santa Claus in 1873. This Santa was a rollicking, chubby old man smok ing a pipe and dressed in what looked Ilka a night shirt with fur collar and cuffs. Since that day he has grown taller and rounder, has developed a full white beard and mustache and has acquired the tra ditional red suit bordered in ermine. Christmas Held THUBSDAT, DECEM^ Twice Yearly B. •* •> f. > 'W WHITE HGUSE DOOR ... If yon were having Christmas dinner at the White Honse this is what yon’d see as you approached it. England has two towns with Christmas names. Christmas Pie is a small village near Guildford, Sur rey, while Christmas Common is near Oxford and Henley Tinsel Old and tarnished tinsel can be made to look almost as bright as new by .vashing it in warm soap suds to' which a few drops of am monia have been added. Dry tinsel with a towel and hang it up to flnisii drying. Flowers Are Part Of Yule Legends There are several flowers appro- . priate during the Yuletide season which are connected with the birth of Christ by the legends of history. Sainfoin, or "Holy Hay,” is said to have cradled the infant Christ in the manger. The snowdrop is the flower of the Virgin Mary, and is said to be the emblem of the can dles she lighted on Christmas. ^According to legend, the Christ mas rose was divinely created. A shepherd maid wt. t at having no gift to lay before the Babe in the manger. Suddenly an angel ap peared to her. On hearing why the maiden wept, the angel touched the ground where her tears had fallen and immediately the place was white with Christmas roses, which the maid gathered and laid, in the manger. The chrysanthemum is said to have appeared first on Christmas Eve near the manger as a sign to the Wise Men that they had reached the spot where the star had bidden them. Farmers’ cash receipts from marketings during 1948 will total slightly larger than last year, ac cording to present estimates. who taKes care of the bad children while Santa administers to the good. Ihe historical background of "Old Christmas” is uncertain. It may be a throwback to the Gregorian calen dar or it may have started as a celebration of the Twelfth Night— when the wise men came to Bethle hem bearing gifts for the Christ child—that somehow got ofi^ sched ule a day. Elsewhere the Twelfth Night is celebrated on January 6. But those celebrations are far dif ferent from Rodanthe’s “Old Christ mas,” which only in recent years has been supplemented by-, the ob servance of December 25. ! Morgan Motor Co. HOKE AUTO COMPANY Phone 2301 Raeford, N. G. It Pays To Advertise In The News-Joi If children Instead of their par ents were allowed to choose the family homesite, the tiny Ashing vil lage of Rodanthe, N. C., would be come a metropolis overnight. Here’s a place they celebrate two Christmases every year. . . Santa Claus, his reindeer scam pering over the sands of North Carolina’s outer banks, makes his first stop in Rodanthe during his annual world tour on the night of December 24. Hardly have the chil dren recovered from their oversup ply of candy and wild duck when Santa returns in tirrte for “Old Christmas,” which for hundreds of years Rodantheans have celebrated on January 5. This time, however, Santa is accompanied by a menac ing ogre, known as “Old Buck,” Special Ml Oranges I Thursday through Saturday / Fresh Sweet Florida ORANGES 2Dozen29G Other nice Fruits and vegetables. Come in to see US, our fruits and vegetables ure; fresh. HUNT'S FRUIT STAND y,l • * P V I It s a real pleasure to extend these greet' I ings to you. Him HOLIDAYS! McLauchlin Co., Ine. Pg.'»ll|U gt'fie old 017 2e on-earth; f*ood IJ to nieh^^ echoes a^ain the Cliristtan. >Hd iri this happy holiday^ back to the sea.st)n. - / Carl Morris
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