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It's Christmas, time to celebrate anew the today's Christmas tree to an- very first Christmas of all, the Birthday of Christ. cient feasts pf the winter It's Christmas, and throughout this community the sights equinox, when trees were | and sounds of a joyful, festive season appear. All through the adorned with trinkets. : town, twinkling lights, fragrant flowers and greens and'a St. Boniface, an English i 3 Hope myriad other decorations show to every beholder the glad spirit missionary to Germany, is ' of Christmas. Bells ring out and voices sing out, proclaiming said to have told converts that ; Youre the wonderful news. : the fir should be their holy endowed Christmas is here. And because Christmas is here, steps tree, replacing the oak, sacred with all the joys are lighter, smiles are brighter, hearts are merrler. . in Druid tree worship, and ros Joy On the way to Christmas, there may have been hours when thus beginning the custom of of the season! everything seemed just too hectic -- too many plans to make, a decorated fir. : too much Lo do, Loo little time. But as the great day arrives, Many are the legends, but there is time to pause, to see and Lo treasure the glow and the one thing is certain: Nowadays plory of Christmas. Then it is clear that every moment of prep- Christmas wouldn't be Christ- ul 3 1 aration, every personal effort to make Christmas more com- mas without the tree. Slater 3S Service - Station EE lot was indeed well worth ito -- 1 Most Memorable No two Christmases are ever alike -- but this one, surely, must be the most memorable of all. Each year it seems So, and each year it's true. Every Christmas is more delightful than the last, if only because it is enriched by one more "memory of Christmas past. Memories and traditions mount up to make the Christ- mas custpms of today. Most such custonis began so long ago that their exact and ac- curate origin is hidden in the mists of time, and several the- ories may be put forward to explain why and how each custom developed. Happily, the wealth of leg- end and lore woven about Christmas is pleasing rather than confusing. Especially at this season, a touch of the magical and mystical is more to be welcomed than a deluge of precise factual detail, and . one of the special charms of ) aid DON SKINNER HEATING Christmas customs is the hint TOC wish to thank vou for your good uf anysteny susrounding them. will and hope your Christmas is a merry one. Greefinge © Cand gy (ood for Chriatmag! or Decoration Candles, apples, colored pa- 2 pers -- these were among the - Gordon A. Prentice early tree ornaments. Later, individual countries PY developed their own tree-dec- PORT PERRY, ONT. orating ideas. Straw windmills and bhirdcages appeared on Lithuanian trees, while the Poles devised ornaments from - feathers and ribbons. y Tree decorations contributed > ¥ & 4 " by Scandinavian countries X 4 5% = y were as various as fish nets Voices sing : h and miniature flags. . J out our happy The- modern array of tree Thank you for letting 4'4 24 ornaments is vast and imag- ' wishes inative, but even so many - * > us serve you -- best wishes families like to add their own i oliday. personal, "old-fashioned" V)) ~ fora ivighy, oop day touch to the tree, with deco- EN Co rations such as paper chains rich in and strings of popcorn or cranberries. spiritual | 'Lighting Candles Martin Luther, the Refor- joys and mation leader, is credited by some legend collectors with decorating the first lighted Christmas tree. He lit candles and placed them on the boughs moments of an evergreen -- a custom - that would be frowned on to- day, when fire safety is the rule in Christmas decorating. . By lighting the candles and evwy decking the tree, he hoped to show his family some small re- flection of the glory and in- Clorcitieas spiration of the heavens on : the first Holy Night. fd in John Ballard Lumber Co. Lid. | why a Tree? C ot for a Christmas memorable for you. Why a tree at Christmas? HARDWARE ' One early legend says that all : Port Perry the trees burst into bloom on No. 533 A CARNEGIE BROS, PORT PERRY, ONT. |