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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1952)
Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, December 25, 1952 Page 2 KEEPING CHRISTMAS Henry Van Dyke 4 Fin r.iu .1 Ourincere good wlehesj go out to you. C. A. RUGGLES Insurance Agency We'd like to fz; "engineer" wrs Merry Chrlatma.- for you. t yp I ... HEPPNER RED Cr WHITE Mr. and Mrs. Roy Quackenbush uxvun woil ol i I .' !. CHRISTfllAS '51 We offer our best holiday greetings and plodge you a bright , J and merry HEPPNER AUTO PARTS " i ' i -3 ' - Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put jfour rights in the background, and your duties In the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellow-men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for Joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book on complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. . 1 1- - " ?-,T FULL REHEARSAL FOR THE BIG DAV . . . Robert wanted Nick, the dog, to have dinner with him at his private table, but Dad and Mom were not enthusiastic until Robert demonstrated that Nick's table manners are impeccable. He did It with a dress rehearsal, which you see here. Nick seems to be enjoying nonchalantly an after dinner cigarette. 'Lord of Misrule 'Hodcning Horse' Make Noel Jollier A DIFFERENT playtime ob servance for your Christmas festivities is the game "Lord of Misrule." When your guests have all ar rived and have been greeted by the music of the minstrels and the song of the carolers, it is time for the most honored guest of the eve ning to arrive. With much fan fare the "Lord of Misrule" Is an nounced. He enters with great pomp and ceremony and takes his place as the master of ceremonies for the evening. The Lord of Misrule comes to us from the Tudor courts where he was elected annually to reign over the Christmas festivities. His word, during the festivities, was law, and the ridiculous commands he laid upon the guests had to be obeyed. At your party, the Lord of Mis rule will command each guest to do his bidding. He 'may call for singing, dancing, panomime, imi tations and stunts of all kinds. Failure to do the bidding of the Lord of Misrule results In the pay ment of a forfeit. And here an other unusual note may be inject ed. The forfeit, Instead of being paid to the Lord of Misrule may be paid to another Christmas character, the "hodening horse." It was the custom in Kent, Eng land, for young men to go from house to house with the hodening horse, an imitation of a horse's head attached to a long stick. Two lads, forming the body of the horse, were hidden from view by a cover ing of cloth resembling horse's skin. The hodening horse was ac companied by paraders who rang the bells throughout the town and begged for money or food. iiii rn Him hami ALLERGIC TO WHISKERS . . . Not all little hoys who love Santa Claus this time of year have a sublime trust In the old gent. This young man obviously wishes he were somewhere else. I I " i ' V. V . JLM ill' Si' r , VI "U Chemical Solution Protects Christmas Trees From Flames To fireproof your Christmas tree, which is still a hazard even with electric lights, select your tree four to six days before you intend to decorate it. Then weigh the tree and buy one-fourth as many pounds of ammonium sul fate as the tree weighs. This chem ical is available in most stores that sell seeds and fertilizers. For each pound of ammonium sulphate use H4 pints of water to make the flreprooflng solution. Mix the solution in something tall and narrow that will hold the tree upright. Then saw oft the tree diagonally so as to give a large cut surface. Set the tree in the solution in a cool place, away from . the direct sunlight, and leave it there until most of the solution is absorbed. Ifou Can Make a ig. CliriitmaA Candle You can make a big, long-burning candle to fit into your Christ mas decorations if you have a number of odds and ends of part ly burned candles around the house. Melt them and pour into cardboard containers and remold. Use ice cream cartons, oatmeal containers or others. Use plain cord for a wick. When the wax is beginning to set, tie the wick to a pencil and suspend it in the wax. Let set hard, remove car ton and there is a nice candle for your table. 1 B.C. and 1 A. D. Were Not a Year Apart According to our calendar, one would naturally assume that be tween the year 1 B. C. and the year 1 A. D. there should be a year called zero. As a matter of fact, no such year exists, as far as historians are concerned, and the year 1 A. D. follows directly fter the year 1 B. C. A person born in 3 B. C. would not be five yean old at 2 A. D. but would be four years old when one is calculating data in that period. When adding B. C. and A. D. years, It Is necessary to al ways subtract one to compensate for the year zero omitted between 1 B. C. and 1 A. D. Why Christmas Candles? On Christmas Eve the Christ Child wanders all over the earth seeking deserving people people who are. kind and thoughtful of others, and people who have loving hearts. Lighted candles are placed in the windows by such people so that He may not stumble and fall. In the course of His search He visits every castle and hut, no mat ter how rocky and rough His path may be. 5 a flot cm a cataclysm could keep eg us from offering you, in perfect yt sincerity, the kind of Merry C(mstmas ilia ta,tl n( if tniHH isCfrtlfi t Jl fast wishes to alL lSWW WW , T W WW ----- MERRY CHRISTMAS Lexington Implement Co. .... ........... .T. n i-.i.- Fear not, for behold I mr The good tidings of great joy are jrj' . wonderfully repeated for us all Central Meat Market TOM AND h .,.. , . ; !'. iwr;"",'"--.-v again this M 0 S E 1 oz year.
