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En a LAURA ETON EDWIN Onl of tho Wise Men seek finil I Inly Child In same of reverence null wonder joy mankind turns your Christmas In seek find new Inspiration and guidance Let us this Christmastime ourselves In manning message of His hirlh may achieve Pence Will lo All Men JARMAIN NEWMARKET NEWMARKET The party circuit is dizzying food is abundant pay later plans put the worlds goodies within reach Thats Christmas A year of Never tarnish aluminum Christ mas trees Forcefed earlykilled blooddrained fastfrozen eviscerated turkeys mar tinis and presents for people you dont know The old timers remember a different They live now in the homes of their children or the institutions of strangers and they remember The of years ago Or 60 or Spare and cold big families around massive tables fireplaces and home made toys But good Good years and good fun and good memories Edward Haines an year old resi dent of York Manor recalls the ancient way of doing business The ancient way was cold Mr Haines remembers hitching up a yoke of oxen for the trip from his North Ontario home to his grandfathers house on Haines Lake One year the oxen ran away and careened down a hill leaving parents and kids sitting in a snow bank The temperature another Christmas Eve was below zero and little Edward froze his toes on the way to town to pick up last minute supplies Another York Manor resident Edwin Dallow spent Christmas as a young man in the west A home affair he remembers it His wife was the church organist so they walked to church but at below you dont fancy running around much If you put your nose outside it got frozen Hut the ancient way was warm too Everyone had fireplaces says 07-year- old Andrew McClure He remembers the big chim ney and wide open hearth of his childhood years He remembers his mothers long dress sweeping he floor as she bustled around pre paring dinner a turkey or perhaps a pig raised on the farm killed dressed by his father Mrs Laura of Mount Albert celebrated her 6lh birthday Nov She re members spending the long winter nights before Christmas popping corn on the wood stove and stringing il for the tree her husband cut The ancient way meant a lot of work Mrs Stapleton recall the weeks of Christmas baking the piea and made from her grandmothers Her lemon biscuits wei her daughter Mrs Carl with whom Mrs Stapleton has lived for the past five The biscuits used ammonia as a leav ing agent Mrs bought the ammonia mixed with soda in the general store and she and her daughter agree the baking of the bis cuits was a chore when the oven opened waves of ammonia fumes caused eyes to water and noses to tickle Photos Bernd Beisinger Story Suzanne Zwarun kindness and tidings of good will are what we wish you on this holy and happy holiday We send you our beat through this little message to show SANDYS Storm for tho Young Sot Fruit for the cakes was sold big bins in the store Women scooped out what they needed Mrs Mary a 94yearold resident of York Manor agrees women in days never imagined that some day fruit would come stoned sorted and packaged for cakes The ancient way was cheap Prices were easy in those days says Mr who bought a Christmas tree for cents the year his first child was born In Calgary in he says the barmen would put a whole bottle of whisky in front of you on the counter You were charged a quarter each time you filled your glass Drank it neat says Mr with a water chaser People took a drink or two at Christ mas but always had a jolly time one way or another without getting tight No squads of police blitzing the city trying to keep drunken drivers from killing themselves and other in honor of the festive season One year Mr remembers buy ing pounds of potatoes for cents No neat packages then the shot them into the basement loose through the coal hatch The ancient way meant family and friends The old timers remember big families crowding around huge tables for Christmas din- Mr Haines says the best thing about Christmas was the family get together The always had a whole tableful of people Christmas was the great day from the 1 first learned to talk It was the most wonderful day of the year Mr remem bers an oxen team arriving in King full of fri ends coming to spend Christmas Tho ancient way meant dotoyonrself entertainment Mrs smiles nostalgically when he thinks of the nice entertainment of her girlhood the church pageants with ever one taking part in the fun Mr Haines recalls snowball fights and through pastures The ancient way was spare A ball a home made bat Santas presents to a boy The first present Mrs Stap remembers was a china hen sitting on nest In the Haines family there were too many of us and not enough money for an ex travagant holiday Mr Haines and his two bra there rummaged ahead of time one year and discovered their hidden presents drinking They each chose the cup they liked best and were delighted to find on Christmas morning that Santa had distributed them cor rectly Then toy prices may have seemed expensive but a modern parent looking at Eatons catalogue of would be delighted Sleds ccst to cents Boys velocipedes a type of bicycle were expensive at But the ancient way is long gone Todays children get 25foot toy racing tracks talkies furnished doll houses junior size pianos electric ovens for eight year It will be a good Christmas this year But no better than the ancient ones Ask the old timers theyll tell you