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6 Port Perry Star Christmas Edition. 1972 Make It Tor a Party: Eat It Later Make a Marshmallow Gumdrop Wreath like our photo to use as a center- piece on a holiday table. It would be: very | attractive scissors with damp cloth after-each marshmallow is cut, to keep blades clean. Cut off 'yv the length of each toothpick, and use the CHRISTMAS A MERRY We hope Santa encircling a big candle. longer piece, inserting it in- brightens The base of the wreath is to marshmallow, Place oor de a large styrofoam ring, marshmallow on foam ring ' y y 7 which you can buy at the and push Soothpien throuah as you've ¢ dime store, or glue together marshmallow and into ring. ph £ from smaller pieces of foam brightened E Doesi't the Marshmallow Wreath look good enough to cat? It really is! Leave about '4 inch ex- posed. Now place small gumdrop on the exposed toothpick. Use red and green gumdrops for a gala, colorful effect. (often used as packing ma- terial). Or substitute any porous material foam rub- ber, leftover plasterboard, ete. Cut marshmallows in half with scissors, wiping our year, Thanks. SWEETMAN'S TAXI They Still Speak Aramaic, The Language of Jesus In the village of Ma'lula in Syria, where the houses of heavy native stone are tinted blue, one would hard- ly notice the passage of time since the birth of Christ, over 2000 years ago. The people have changed little, In dress and habits, and more importantly in their speech. For it is here in Ma'lula, as well as in two other villages in Syria, Jeb- adeen and Bakhaa, that stocking is full of our one can hear the Aramaic HA language Christ used dur- appreciation ing His life on earth. for our Aramaic was spoken i throughout ancient Pales- customers tine, and the lands that are now Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and southern Turkey, and north- v ern Iraq. But after the Arab friends. conquest of these lands in ° the seventh century, Ara- maic was gradually replaced by Arabic. In Syria, only those three villages, all in the Qalamon valley not far from Damascus, have pre- served the ancient language of Christ to the present day. The population numbers only g-few thousand, two- fifths of them Greek Or- thodox, another two-fifths Greek, and the rest Moslem. X Philologists of the Uni- friends and new go our wishes for a wonderful Christmas season. CHESTER APPLIANCES SERVICE and SALES CY WILSON FORD MANCHESTER IT'S CHRISTMAS versity of Beirut tell us that as HEAL while the Aramaic dialect Sal of these three villages has been intermixed with Ara- bic, the villagers would have May the light of Christmas . . understood, and been un- shine on derstood by, Christ and the you and people of His time. : Naturally, the people of your loved Ma'lula are very proud of ones. their Aramaic language ang J take pains to kéep it alive May i and flourishing. Many fam- bright ilies speak only Aramaic to warmth their children until the . youngsters are five years fill each old and must go to sehaol, where ey learn Arabic, to the day. We the national language. Joy appreciate Outside Syria, Aramaic is world ; / spoken at Urmia, in Turkey an eace your doyalty! . .. by the Chaldean Catho-__. to ") on lics of Bartelle in northern hri Iraq... and by the villagers Christmas of Malabar in southwestern Day. India. And Aramaic is still = used in the liturgy of cer- 'tain churches which began in the Middle East, such as » . : the Marionites and Syrian P F NTLAN D J EWE LL RS Orthodox groups. ' - - : 3 wn f CANADIAN TIRE ASSOCIATE STORE Here's to a Yule that's brimming with fun, in the season's special and joyful | mood. Our best to you! you Merry ¢ - 1 ERA TR CANT oa A stocking full ) i of wishes come true p | is yours today! . BOB'S CARPENTRY | Crest Hardware SEAGRAVE a 0 Best wishes for a holiday season filled with happiness and good cheer. And a sincere thanks for your patronage. McDermott - Panabaker Ltd.