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PAGE SIXTEEN THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, DECCMBER , 1951: Do Your Christmas Shoppin g Now-- And Do It In Oshawa PBringers of Gifts Range from Santa To KnightRuppert In Canada on Christmas Eve, there is a merry tinkle of sleigh bells as Santa Claus drives "Isn't Christmas Just Wanderful!" Make Certain Presents Will Arrive In Time If you want to make sure that | Anstinmadiom ithav. raanh thain reach GESUNAUoH Oeior ithay thair Christmas Day, then don't wait until the last minute. Everything now points to the heaviest burden of Christmas mail in history. One cardinal rule to remember | is that the farther the gift has to First on every Christmas Gift travel the more time shoul - Shopping List this year should be lowed for the postman iy 0 - the gifts that you are going to have | delivery. to entrust to the mail. | The other important rule is that Sealouna | care be taken tn packaging the gift for mailing. Best plan is to double wrap the gift. Do it first in gay gift wrap- ping, after making sure that the gift will not rattle around in its box. Then put the "gift-wrapped" package into a corrugated contain- er of sufficient strength and secure- ly enough bound for you to be sure | that. the package will- not be dam- raged en-route, And finally, have the packag® weighed carefully and be sure you have enough postage on it. PERFECT ENGINE With a normal pulbe-dt 70 beats to the minute, the human heart pumps about nine tons of blood every 24 hours. r up in a sleigh drawn by eight rein- deer. He drives from roof to roof, pausing just long -enough to climb down each chimney. From a huge pack on his back he fills the chil- dren's stockings with toys and goodies. Gifts that are too large' to be stuffed in the stockings are put on the Christmas tree' or stacked underneath it. This is Christmas in Canada --but it is not always Santa who bring the gifts to children in other lands. The Dutch children anxiously await the arrival on Christmas of St. Nicholas. He was the bishop of Myra, so he is dressed in the tradi- tional bishop's robe of blac k, wears a mitre, and carries a croz- fer. He rides a white horse and is accompanied by Black Peter, his page boy. Instead of hanging up their stockings to hold the gifts, the Dutch children place their wood- en shoes in the chimney corner be- fore going to bed. On the window sills they leave a bunch of ha yfor "Sleipner," the bishop's white horse. It is customary , for St. Nicholas to overturn chairs and leave the room in general con- fusion for *Christmas morning. English children wait for a Santa | Claus who closely resembles our own. They also find gifts tied to a | green Christmas tree, but this cus- | tom has been in effect only since Choose an appropriate gift for the men on your list from our large and varied stock of men's and boys' quality clothing and accessories. \ / STATION WAGON: iui iy cov © ROBES © NECKWEAR ® SOX eo SCARFS © SWEATERS COATS : Warm ond smartly styled for casual or dress SPORT & DRESS SHIRTS , different shades to ch from, warm fur collar. All Sizes. " First quality smartly styled, assorted collar end cuff styles. Large selection BOYS $14.95 to $24.50 na MENS $29.50 to $34.95 $2.98 tc $6.95 CARDIGANS eo BELTS HANDKERCHIEFS eo ETC. Santa's Pack of Toys Contains Thrills And Excitment for All Kids, New Toys Educational and Action Packed, Too * Queen Victoria was a young bride. She married Albert, a German prince, and it was he who intro- duced this Christmas custom to England {from Germany. It is an angel who leaves the . gifts in Czechoslovakia. She de- scends on a golden cord to accompany Santa. In Scandinavia gifts are distrib- uted during the supper hour. They are brought by dwarfs and the chil- dren leave bowls of porridge on the doorstep for them. Santa comes riding on a goat instead of a rein- deer. The birds receive the largest number of gifts in Sweden. Each family places a sheaf of grain on a pole or on the fence posts for the birds' Christmas dinner. Spanish children place their straw-filled sleeves on the window sills so the Magi may feed their horses while they leave gifts. The older people fill an Urn of Fate from which the gifts are drawn on Christmas Day. Knight Ruppert, who is the German Kris Kringie, is repre- sented by a young girl wearing a golden crown and gowned in a flowing white robe. She car- ries a small tree laden with gifts which she distributes. The children of Switzerland have their gifts brought to them by a radiant angel who rides in a sleigh drawn by six reindeer. She brings them goodies to eat as well as ys. And in Poland, at least before the Communists came in, the peorle called at the parish house on Christmas morning where the priest presented them with *'peace wafers," which symbolized peace on earth, good will to men. Tke people exchanged Christmas wish- es as the wafers were broken and eaten before returning home. Why People Keep Christmas Christmas, of course, commemor- ates the birth of Jesus Christ, and the religious event is observed by the Protestant, Catholo and Greek churches on diversified dates in dif- ferent parts of the world. The fes- tivities of the day may be traced to the ancient rites celebrated in | Greece and | Scandinavia," Rome, Egypt, where the people "*ared as the days shortened in the darkest | month of the year, that the sun was dying, and observed a time of re- joicing when the sun began to stay with them a little longer each day. The leaders of the early Christian Church endeavored to adapt the harmless features of the heathen s 1 festivals as a conciliation to those who had broken with their old beliefs and vowed their alle- giance to the new faith. But, despite their effort at control, Christmas resulted in orgies not to be counten- anced by the Christian Church. Revelry continued in England; un- til, some years after the coming of the Puritans to America, the Round- head Parliament abolished Christ- mn -s for twelve years, and in Amer- fca the Court of Massachusetts fol- lowed suit. 'But Christmas must be kept and it was later re-established in more sane fashion by law in both countries because the people were unwilling to do without the festival. Poinsettias Are Native Americans Few people realize that Amer- ica has given the world its most beloved Christmas plant, the poinsettia. This plant is a native | of tropical America, Since florists were able to propagate it and grow | ft in a small pot, it makes a per- | fect Christmas plant with its flam- ing red bracts or leaves. Because of the sentiment attach- ed to Christmas plants, people hate to throw them away and it isn't necessary to do so, with the poin- settia, Simply give the plant a resting period about the middle of Feb- ruary in a cool place. Water it occasionally, just enough to keep the wood from wilting. Then, around the first of June, bring it out and cut it back severely. Want to buy, sell or trade? A | Classified Ad, the deal is made. | | Every toy department is a won-, | derland of the most thrilling and | | exciting gifts for kids of all ages. | | From Santa's workshops comes {a host of colorful, action-packed | | new toys -- designed to set young | | hearts pitter-pattering come Christ- | | mas morning. | DOLLS DO EVERYTHING | |" Dolls, in this year's toy pack, endear themselves to 'little | | mothers' with their almost- | (human charms. They walk, talk, | | eat, cry and laugh. Many of them wet their didies, | | sip milk through a straw, get] their hair waved (dyed, too) and even suck their thumbs. | Their bodies, now made from | soft, life-like latex foam, seem to eager little girls. There's an exciting electronic doll who sings, laughs, talks and prays in a real little-girl voice. There's the just-like-real walk- ing doll, who gets wound up and walks beside her mistress, almost 'big as life'. There are sets of dolls in twins, triplets and even quadruplets for the little mother's loving care. | Of course, there are scads and scads of accessories ... famous- designed doll dresses, extra chang- es of diapers, carrying and travel cases, carriages, all of them in wonderful doll-sized editions -- to fra every little gitl on Santa's | list! The very young miss will cook like mother on her honest-to-good- ness electric stove. She'll iron, sweep, launder her doll's undies, and bake a cake with her minia- ture, working models of kitchen and household utensils. The little miss will love her | sew-a-fine-seam sewing machine, | her embroidery kits and pattern | sets for making dolls' clothes. She'll play - house with fully- | furnished dollhouses, where even the kitchen is complete with tiny, | | tiny replicas of the smartest fur- | { nishings. | SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS | Whether you favorite lad wants | to be a cowboy, fireman, rail- road engineer, lumberjack, Indian or a scientist ... there's the per- fect gift to make his dream come true! From exciting six-shooters (water or cap-guns) to fringed leather chaps, your young buck- aroo can imitate his favorite west- ern hero to his hearf's content If he's young enough, he'll love one of the gay-giddyap rocking horses that he can saddle himself. Working models -- patterned detail-for-detail after tractors, tanks, cranes, steam shovels, fire trucks, hook-and-ladder jobs, and road-grading equipment, stimu- | invite cuddling and loving from |8 | the gift that will | starry-eyed on happy Christmas | | morning! 4 late the interest of young engin-| eers. | For the boy with the story-book | mind, there are complete-in-detail | western toys, farm set-ups, gaso-| line stations, circuses and other imaginative groupings. | Young scientists will thrill to junior chemistry sets hand- | craft hobbyists will love com-| plete tool chests, scale model air | planes, building blocks and con- | struction sets. Pint-sized rail-road'ers will love the latest model trains, with yards | of tracks, signals, tunnels, build- | ings and all the latest designs in| engines and cars. Of course, he| may have to share this with dad, | which makes it an even-better | ift! | FOR BOYS AND GIRLS The collection of toys that are! ideal for both young sexes are both breath-taking in their scope and variety. Manufacturers have keyed their products to give incentive to la- tent talents, group play and con- centration with many educational- type playthings. There are scads of fascinating kits that contain materials for wood-burning designs, leather tool- ing, shell jewelry making, Indian- type beading and a host of others. Novel banks that dispense choco- late, candy-drops and gum balls, help teach 'the child lessons of thrift. . There are like-real soda-foun- tains complete with all the mix- in's ... toy markets with minia- ture boxes of famous-name food products ... and many other similar features. This year's crop of books and puzzles are more colorful and en- tertaining than ever. | "Tis easy to go on and on --| with rapturous descriptions of the wonderland of toyland -- but whether your youngsters are Six or twelve, you are sure to find make them | FLOWER LEGEND | The observance of Christmas the world over is rich with beau- tiful legends, and many of the loveliest are about flowers. The | Christmas rose was divinely creat- | ed, so the legend goes, when a] shepherd maiden wept because she | had no gift to lay before the Babe | in the Manger. An angel, hearing why she wept, touched the ground where her tears had fallen with a branch of lilies he carried and immedi- ately the spot was 'white -with Christmas roses. She gathered | them joyfully and laid them on the manger. on our enti 27 BOND ST. E. 3 DAYS LEFT DON'T MISS THIS PRE-CHRISMAS SALE! 20% or © BLOUSES © SKIRTS © LINGERIE © HOUSECOATS _® SUITS « HANDBAGS © GLOVES ® COATS © DRESSES © SWEATERS o HATS, ETC. 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