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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, December 25, 1959
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Thoughts About Safety for the Holidays
There are "do” and "don't” rules
around the tree because metallic
tinsel can fall across the track,
for every season' ot me year, and
Christmas is no exception. In fact,
Christmas is such a happy time
that we are likely to be a little
less epeful about the possibility
of accidents than we are at other
times of the year.
Here are some suggestions for
an accident-free holiday season:
Don’t use any cotton, paper or
flammable material for decorating
the tree, or around the base of the
tree. Do not place electric trains
or other electric powered devices
train transformer to burn.
Safe Toys
Avoid toys operated with flam
mable liquids. Nitrocellulose (it
looks like celluloid or plastic) toys
burn with surprising ferocity.
Some imported toys are made of
cause a short circuit and start the
these flammable materials.
Select electrical appliance gifts
with fire-safety in mind. Choose
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only those electrical toys and tree
decorative lighting sets which are
laboratory approved. If there is
doubt, ask your fire department If
they are approved.
Never place lighted candles in
windows. Sentiment and flame do
not mix! Keep the curtains or any
other flammable material at win
dows pulled back at least six inch
es from any electric candles or
wreaths.
Fire Hazards
As you unwrap gifts on Christ
mas Day, put all the wrappings in
a carton and dispose of them
promptly. Don’t let them pile up
around the tree, the fireplace, or
any heating device.
Christmas costumes and paper
or cloth decorations can be flame-
proofed by dipping them into the
following solution, wringing them
by hand and allowing them to dry
3 quarts water, 7 oz. borax, 3 oz
boric acid.
The death of Christ is a great
mystery; but His birth is even i
greater. That He should live a hu
man life at all is stranger than
that, so living. He should die a
human death. I can scarcely get
past His cradle in my wondering
to wonder at His cross. The infant
Jesus is, in some views, a greater
marvel than Jesus with the purple
robe and the crown of thorns.
—Crichton
Never deny the babies their
Christmas! It is the shining seal
set upon a year of happiness. Let
them believe in Santa Claus, or
St. Nicholas, or Kris Kringle, 'br
0^ Ment
iJlap your CliriStmas;
he this calm anb hrisht’-
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&
SWAN MOTOR CO.
Extending to you
our warmest and most
sincere wishes for
THE MERRIEST
CHRISTMAS, EVER IJ
-SCOTT-
REFRIGERATION
CO., INC.
WISHES
SO GAY—
WE SEND
YOU TODAY!
Tisdale's
Florist
whatever name the jolly Dutch
saint bears in your religion.
—Marion Harland
The kindness of Christmas is the
kindness of Christ. To know that
Go so loved us as to give us His
Son for our dearest brother, has
brought human affection to its
highest tide on the day of that
Brother’s birth. If God so loved us,
how can we help loving one an
other?—Maltibe Babcock.
COME LET US ADORE HIM..,
let us reserve a part of our
foyous holiday for thoughts of Him
Who is The Christmas Spirit.
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