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QUESTIONS
1 Who was Kris Kringle?
2 What does the name Kris
Kringle mean?
5 Who wrote the first Christ
mas Carols? When?
4 What superstition had the
Scotch about the Christmas can
dle? 6 By what other name la mis
tletoe known?
6 Where did the custom of
kissing under the mistletoe be
gin? 7 When were Christmas can
dles first used?
8 How long has the practice of
gift giving at Christmas been
observed?
9 How did the custom of hang
ing Xmas stockings originate?
10 Why are candles used dur
ing the Christmas season?
ANSWERS
ANSWERS:
l. Santa Claua' helper. I, "Little
Christ Child". 3. St. Francis ol
Asslssl and hil friars In Italy
during the I3th century. 4. It wa
considered an omen of bad fortune if
the candle went out before midnight.
0. The Golden 'Bough. 8. England.
7. In the middle ages at the Jewish
"Feast of Lights." 8. Since the fourth
century, 9. St. Nick once dropped a
pure of coins down the chimney of
a poor family. It landed In a stocking
that had been hung to dry. 10. As
symbols of the star of Bethlehem.
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Sanla'i Beil JJetper
T AST YEAR a festival In Den-
mark paid tribute to one of the
greatest helpers Santa Claus ever
had. He was Hans Christian Ander
son, fairy tale writer, and composer
of many Christmas stories.
His works have sold more copies
than any other book, except the
Bible, and have been translated
into 35 languages, including Arabic,
Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and
Greenlandish.
Since 1875, the year that he passed
away, visitors from all parts of the
world have come yearly to the town
of Odense to see the home of the
writer of such tales as "The Little
Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duck
ling." Anderson's fairy tales, released
Just before Christmas each year,
brought him money, fame and the
attention of princes, as well as the
adoration of children.
Once he received a United States
dollar bill, enclosed in a letter
written by a young American girl.
It read: "Papa says that the dollar
is my own, that he does not suppose
you are in particular need of money,
but I owe you this and a great deal
more, he thinks it proper that I
should send it to you."
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StUt Summon 'Villafc
A pair of ancient church bells,
brought to Frankenmuth, Mich.,
from Bavaria shortly after Frank
enmuth was founded as an Indian
mission, has been calling the con
gregation of St. Lorenz to Christ
mas eve services for more than a
100 years.
Ninety-five per cent of the resi
dents of the small community are
members of the church, earning
the village the title of "the most
Christian community in the United
Stutes."
Frankenmuth has never had a
crime of violence, and, as far as
residents can remember, no one
has been jailed over a period of
25 years. The only visitors to the
lockup were transients given a
night's lodging.
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CHRISTMAS LECTURE . . .
"Now this is a Christmas tree,"
big brother appears to be tell
ing the toddler. "It grows In the
living room only once a year,
and It always has a lot of nice
presents under It."
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Make Ckrldtma3
Samily, Party.
Christmas is the time for family
get-togethers. One of the best ways
to make these gatherings memora
ble for all concerned is to engage in
games which the whole group can
play.
A nice one to start off with would
be a Sugar Plum Hunt. Have one
member of the family hide Christ
mas candies ahead of time in vari
ous nooks and corners around the
house. At a given signal everyone
starts hunting and gathering the
pieces. The one who gathers the
greatest number would be given a
prize.
The Christmas Puzzle is another
good one to get things going. Look
through some magazines, which are
filled with pictures of Santa Claus
at this time of year. Cut out enough
of these to go around, paste them
on stiff cardboard, and cut them
into pieces. Then put each group of
pieces in a, separate paper bag. At
the signal, everyone opens a bag
and starts putting the pule to
gether. The Xmas Scramble Contest is
good for a group with older children
in it. This is simply a contest to
see who can unscramble a group of
words the fastest. Just for fun, see
if you can work out the following
astna, erireden, ehsgil, dynca,
gosiknet, erte, trepesn, hupnc,
alsorc, and niborb.
If Santa Misses,
Reindeer Supply
Be at Fault
If Santa Claus misses some young
sters this year, it could be offered
plausibly that he was not able to
round up enough reindeer for his
yearly trip around the globe.
The reindeer shortage has be
come, in recent years, much too
acute. It has been estimated that
wolves have destroyed 500,000 of
Santa's helpers within the last
decade or so, leaving an approx
imate 50,000.
The difficulty of keeping the ani
mals alive in a temperate climate
makes it unlikely that any of the
few remaining will be transported
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from their native regions to other
lands for the holiday season, as
has been done in the past.
American boys and girls will
have to be satisfied with stand-ins.
The few department stores featur
ing Santa's complete outfit this
year will be using native deer as
substitute for Dasher, Prancer, and
company.
GlviiUmal OlieiifCHce
Did you know that the observ
ance of Christmas was once for
bidden in England the home of
the Yule Log, the Carol-singer and
the wassailers?
During the Reformation many
believed the undue jollity of Christ
,mas day was sacrilegious. Parlia
ment, on December 24, 1652, or
dered that "no observance shall be
held of the five and twentieth day
of December, commonly called
Christmas day; nor any solemnity
used or exercised in churches upon
that day in respect thereof."
This edict proved to be very un
popular with the masses of the
people. It was not until many years
later, however, that Christmas was
once again regarded as a holiday.
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Let the bells ring forth and proclaim to all that it's
Christmas ... a. time to rejoice. And let our
Christmas message to you ring forth with each peal
off the bells . . . Merry, Merry Christmas!
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