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the tribune stouffville or thursday december 24 1953 greetings of the and best wishes for the j i lehmans shoes stouffville ontario jewellery male prerogative since most ancient days during the past five years the american man has shone forth in all his glory in a col lection of jewellery tq dazzle the eye the girls seem to think that the male trend to jewellery is a comparatively new one ac tually man even more so than woman has been bejew elled since ha crawled out of his caves we mean this literally of course for primitive man dec orated himself and his weap ons with crude jewellery made of stones and shells to keep e- vil spirits away in the highly developed civ ilizations of egypt and greece jewellery was important men of high rank and station wore rings brooches necklaces and amulets wince these were still sunposed to hold magic powers against illluck and disease in fact the romans made such a showing of heavy opu lent bedazzlements that cate the old emany passed laws prohibiting the use of all je wellery except that worn for a utilitarian purpose such as a badge of office homemade santa by antel beauregard harvey butler ran a chap ped hand through the lank brown hair that fell over ht- torthead and stsred coat-i- uously at jack and gordon tinter their blue eyes were on him wide and questioning you sure there aint no santa claus six year old gordon asked worriedly harvey laughed course the linter kids were little kids six and seven but they ought to know tetter you think ld be parading around in splitout jeans an a patched shirt if there was probably santa claus is bringing you new ones for christmas jack aid hopeful ly harvey sneered thinking of the barren chtistmases at his house they were lucky if they had a tree even this year on account of his sister jusi over three now mom had said theyd try to have some present any new clo thes 1 get we buy he said an usually i just get my cou sins old stuff handmedowns mom calls hem wei gain gordon ook- i v that doesnt anything mostly santa rnts toys not clothes xot to aw he doesnt i tell von ihre isnt a santa claus txept for your folks gordons eves tilled with dur the middle ages the church particularly the high er officials took over the prac tice of wearing jewellery the nobility too set great store by ponderous jewellery collec tions further along love-em-and- leaveem henry viii of eng land owned hundreds of broo ches necklaces collars pend ants and gemset buckles and similar male flamboyanices held sway until the french revolution except for santa claus himself the photographer was about the busiest per son around at the recent opening of santa claus village at val david in the laurentians north of mon treal filled with the joy ous spirit of christmas the enthusiastic camera man recorded the follow ing scenes showing 1 santa claus arriving at his new home via a modern helicopter rather than the proverbial reindeer 2 nine year old marcel thou- in grandson and official representative of montre als mayor camillien houde presenting the keys of the new village to may or beaulieu of val david 3 santa claus and some of his tittle helpers being welcomed to his new home 4 a llama from the slopes of the peruvian an des one of the many ani mals which roam freely through the village 6 the jolly old gentleman himself enthralling one of his many friends 7 two of the bear cubs revelling in their speciallybuilt pit which when illuminated at night resembs a giant birthday cake and s the chapel of saint nicholas which contains a crib re miniscent of the first christmas mmmjtphaiufaei biq john deere day january 4 1954 2 pm 8 pm ummbi tkepfaifr veterans hall stouffville mmmmm mm mm mwh mm m m m mm- mm fred e byer son stouffville phone 271j1 tears nd jack looked like crying are you sure he tsked his voice quavering your little sister told me santa claus raws she calls him is coming to your house the wind seemed to whist le through all the holes and thin places in harveys cloth es carol said that honest yeah jack said you know- how funny she talks she said he was coming through the door cause you dont have a chimney when the lights are out and bring her a doll and some other things what things try and re member harvey felt chilled if carol was expecting santa claus counting on him like these kids- how would she feel when he didnt come doll cradie and a wagon gordon said and a trike twlke she called itpainted red you were just kidding us werent you harvey harvey looked at their fac es and felt mean that he had told them the truth after all he was eleven big enough to know better and they were just little guys sure i guess theres a santa claus but sometimes he doesnt get to all the houses like carol said we dont have a chimney for him to come down so he prob ably missed us a couple of ti mes the light was back in the toys eyes sure thats it whatre you making that scowly face for harvey this time harvey chose his words carefully well he might miss our house again this year and carold sure be disappointed so i was trying to think how i could see she got what she wanted i think i can make her a wagon at the poys club and a wooden cra dle you think thatd work sure gordon agreed en thusiastically long as she thinks santa brought them she wont know the differ ence what about the- doll and the tricycle you cant make those jack pointed out harvey shivered leaning a- gainst the board fence mom gave me money for a haircut that i could use for a doll u- sually mom gave him hair cuts cause they were so ex pensive but she had a burned hand now hey jack gordon shout ed excitedly how about that old trike in the garage harv ey could fix the wheel sure gordon answered and ill bet we can find some red paint and we could make her some blocks at the boys club easy harvey shoved his hands in his pockets swallowing quick ly gee thatd be fine she doesnt have any now see you later come on gordon he heard jack yell happily lets go find that trike as harvey hurried toward the barber shop he was glad he hadnt persuaded them there wasnt a real santa claus it didnt seem to mat ter so much with all of them trying to make carol happy that was the way christmas should be nixons scourex will save your calves scourex works fast removes infecuon from the intestinal tract overnight the combined sulfas in scourox work fast promotes appeute for rapid recovery save every calf this season get nixons scourex at houstons drug store memo to advertisers c advertising lumber by the foot wheat by the bushel land by the acre gasoline by the gallon too what a fix wed all be in without those standards of measurement for the goods you buy and sell imagine the confusion waste and doubt in business transac tions if we didnt have accepted standards of weights and measures known values we believe it is just as necessary for us to tell you what you get for your advertising dollars in terms of known circulation value as it is for you to do busi ness with your customers on the basis of 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