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Manufacturers Offer Booklet For Old Card , What card game is won more often by children than by adults? Did anybody ever actually look like the Queen of Hearts? What card game does Presi dent Eisenhower enjoy even more than his round of golf? Can playing cards provide physical as well as mental exercise? The answers, along with many other facts and fables about playing cards, are in a colorful 32-page booklet, "It's All in the Cards," just published by the Association of American Play ing Card Manufacturers and offered in exchange for an ace of spades from an old pack. This brightly-illustrated book let is not a rules book telling you how to play cribbage or how to win at poker. Instead it is de signed to remind you of the fun, the relief from care and worry, and the opportunities for family participation that a deck of cards can provide, the manufac turers say. In a light yet completely ac curate manner, "It's All in the Cards" traces the history of playing cards and tells you how the early Persians played their favorite card games . with slen der ' circular slices of ivory which they had decorated with symbols of the seasons. You learn that famous monarchs of the Middle Ages were the mod els for the earliest face cards. . i Another section in the book let tells you how to play concen tration, an aptly named card game for both children and adults which, surprisingly enough, children usually win. The booklet also suggests ways to use cards in keeping the chil dren happy on rainy days or when they are home sick. "It's All in the Cards" tells you how to get physical as well as mental exercise out of a pack of cards by playing "Card in the Hat." In this game, you take a deck of cards and try tossing them one at a time into a man's felt hat placed on the floor ten feet in front of you. It sounds simple but just try it! There's a chapter dealing with famous people in history and their favorite card games. You discover that Napoleon prefer red a game called piquet, one of the fastest-moving two-handed games ever known. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's favorite was a solitaire game called spider and President Eisenhower is said to be even better at bridge than he is on the golf links. Famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz finds that canasta ex ercises his talented hands. These are . only fragments the wealth--' of information to be found in "It's All in the Cards." There are chapters devoted to card tricks that don't involve slight-of -hand, new ways to liv en up some of the older games, and suggestions for utilizing old, worn-out decks. You may obtain your copy of the booklet by sending the Ace of Spades from any old deck of cards in an envelope with your name and address to Playing Cards. 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, New York. Closed Friday ' 24th We Wish You, One and All V A ; MERRY. CHRISTMAS From All of Us Cindy Mally Alice . . Kathy "A" Peterson ".' Owner Beauty Shop 32 k Oakdale Phone 3-321 1 A A idl C&rl, A, Q til Th Bell Ringers and Christmas Carol choir of Miss Pat's Kindegarlen appeared last week on a television program, and also at the First Methodist church. The kindergarten students also met for a Christmas party December 14, at the studio at 9:30 a.m. The party closed at noon when lunch was served to 65 children and parents. The students furnished the entire pro gram using miniature Swiss bells. The selections were appro priate to the season. The children are left to right in the front row, Trudy Courtright, Chris Wade, Kathy McNeil, Shirley Isaacs, Cherie ' Aldrich, Clover Hager, Terry Baker, Terry Kerr Steven McAllister, Kenneth Lee Basquer, Julie Ann Herdon. Back row, left to right are Terry Grover, Nikki Joe Marshall Larry Milligan, Tim Bowman, Kurtis Hamm, Rene Roethler. Cynthia Kronschot, Christine Berg, Susan Sutherland, David Patterson, Mike Knox, Rebecca Rickman, Dale Jones and Ginny Clark. Pagan Symbols Of Christmas Topic for Club Many Christmas customs, such as feasting, decking the homes with evergreens and mistletoe, exchanging gifts and the general merrymaking were all a part of pagan traditional celebrations long before the birth of the Christ child, according to re search by Mrs. Edith Baker. Mrs. Baker gave a talk on this favor ite subject at the annual Christ mas party of Medford Altrusa club at the home of Mrs. Adri enne Dippel Thursday night. Mrs. Baker said Christians had taken these pagan symbols and developed them into something beautiful and full of 'meaning, with hope, peace and good will to men as a fitting accompani ment to the feast of joy celebrat ing the birth of Christ. Following the program, the group sang carols and exchanged gifts. Pictures of the group were taken surrounded by the gifts of food, clothing and toys assem bled for the family adopted, by the club as its chief Christmas project. The pictures will be made into slides and sent to the district convention to be held this spring when a contest will take place on projects sponsored by the clubs in ten states. Refreshments were served by the December hostess committee, Miss Lotus Eaton, Mrs. Betty Flannery and Mrs. Bertha Has kins. A second Christmas party, a luncheon at the Elks club, will be held at noon Thursday, De cember 29. 4-H Club Hews Central Point Club The organization meeting of Crater 4-H Clothing club of Cen tral Point was held recently in the home economics room of Crater high. First in the order of business was the handing out of project record books. Officers elected are: President, Phyllis Taylor; vice president, Gwen Moore; secretary, Janet Anderson, and reporter, Joan Dobrot. We are to work on Christmas gifts for our mothers. Our leader, Mrs. Vera Ashton, then adjourned the meeting. For our work meetine we met at the home of our leader. The president and Mrs. Ashton nlan- ned this year's program while the other members worked on their Christmas projects. - Joan Dobrot, reporter. Gold Hill Club Gold Hill Sewin Birds 4-H club met at Mrs. Newland's on December 15. Present were Ivn- dell Munday. Linda : Nauman, May Brown, Betty Brown, . Jen ny Lou ThomDson and Jan New- land. Next meetine will be on Jan uary 5. Jenny Lou Thompson, Reporter. " You'll have time on your hands if voir make these choco late Ting-a-Lings. Just heat one package (8 squares) candy-mak ing chocolate in the double boiler on the top burner of your gas range. Stir until entirely melted, then add two cups of cornflakes. Mix liehtlv until completely coated with choco late, drop from teaspoon on waxed paper, and cool one to two hours or until firm. You'll have 2V2 dozen delightful holi day novelties, with delicious flaw and crunch. Christmas Cards All Types and Kinds Singles and Boxed Assortments Wrap and Ribbon Annual Christmas Musicale To Be Given By High School Medford Senior High school's annual Christmas musicale' will be presented Wednesday evening, December 22. Allan Lehl, director of vocal music at the school, and , John Drysdale, orches-, tra director, have planned a varied program of sacred and secular music. The sixty -voice a cappella choir will be featured in two groups of selections. The first is made up . of "Pat-a-Pan" a Bur gundian carol and three numbers from Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols." The second group includes an arrangement of "Be-the Star" by Dawson, the Czech "Carol of the Drum" and the traditional American "Jin gle Bells." The Orchestral portion of the program will include "Christ mas Carols Fantasy" by Sopkin, the prayer from "Hansel and Gretel" by Humperdinck, and "Christmas Fantasy" by the con temporary Leroy Andersen. The Madrigal Singers, directed by Mr. Lehl, will present " 'Twas The Night. Before Christmas." This ever-popular poem by Clem ent Moore has been set to music by Ken Darby of the Fred War ing organization" and has in creasingly become popular with participants and audience alike. Among selections to be offered by the Boys and Girls Glee clubs are two Scandinavian Carols, "Joyous Christmas Song" ar ranged by Paul Christansen and "Thy Little Ones, DeW Lord" arranged ' by Dale. These two groups will combine with the choir in an all-vocal finale "Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming" the beautiful Praetoripus melody arranged by F. Melius' Christian sen of the famed St; Olaf choir. A sauce for any meat course is "gingerbread pears." Take three pounds of cooking pears, two cups of brown sugar,, the grated rind of a medium-sized orange, seven tablespoons of fresh orange juice, and one tea spoon of ground ginger; pare and core pears and cut in quarters. Then put remaining ingredients into a large saucepan and bring them to a boil over the diaect flame of your top burner. Add pears and simmer .until the fruit is tender. Do not mash; serve hot or cold. India and Brazil are the largest producers of sheet mus covite mica. ; Charter Presented' To Gold Hill Cubs At Meeting of PI A Gold Hill A new Gold Hill Cub scout unit was chartered at a meeting of Gold Hill Parent Teacher association December 9. The president, Mrs. Fred Lester, presided. Wendell Aplen,- neighborhood counseler for Scouts,' presented the charter and Fred Lester ac cepted it on behalf of the P.T.A. Mrs. Ferd Jones gave a brief talk on 4-H club work. ' A committee of Paul Malloy, chairman, Fred . Lester, Ogden Kellogg and Bruce Bennett, cub master, and the , den " mothers, Mrs. Fred Lester and Mrs. Paul Malloy, were introduced. ... Dr. S. E. Messenger, professor of psychology at Southern Ore gon college, talked on factors which go into making up a per sonality and showed a film on mental health. Mr. and Mrs. 'Charles Bell, H. D. Force and Mrs. Ogden Kel logg served refreshments. ; Travelers Take Caribbean Cruise Mrs. A. Z. Dean and Mrs. Frances P. Flinn returned last week after spending the past five weeks on a Caribbean cruise. The two women visited the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Trinidad and Jamaica, traveling by ship, plane and train. They also made stops in New Orleans, La., and Mobile, ;Ala.; before returning , home. . . Family Leaves For California Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ruff ner and daughter, Diane, and son, Bradley, 2512 Lyman ave nue, left, this morning for Top anga, Calif., south of Malibu beach, to visit for a week or 10 days with Mr. Ruffner's mother. The Ruffners entertained at pre-season egg nog party a? their home Friday evening, attended by 16 persons. CALENDAR Calendar notice and news for the society lection of The Mail Tribune must be submitted 1 in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition is 1 p.m. Friday. Dead line for- the weekly calendar is 9 a.m. of the day of publication, and for week day news is S pjn the day before publication.' Sunday 2 p.m. Party for children of members of the Pocahontas lodge. 2 to 4 p.m. Alpha Rho chap ter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, children's party, Lone Pine school. . - 3 p.m: Children's party, Crater Lake VFW auxiliary, VFW hall. : -i 6:30 p.m. Jacksonville Re bekah and IOOF lodge Christ mas dinner, IOOF hall. Monday " 7 p.m. Eagle Point . Com munity . Christmas tree, Eagle Point Teenage club. , ' t' 8 p.m. Alpha Rho chapter. Beta Sigma .Phi, sorority, home of Mrs. Mamie Sleeter. 8 p.m. Dance sponsored by Department of Oregon, auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars, at Camp White domiciliary theater. Tuesday : 10 a.m. Shady Cove Home Extension unit, Mrs. R. Bartus, Rogue River dr. 1:30 p.m. Rogue River Val ley Navy Mothers, Girls Com munity club. 1:30 p.m. Butte Falls Fede rated Garden club, home of Mrs. Fred Kincaid. 7:30 p.m. SPEBSQSA, Room B, YMCA bldg. 8 p.m. Chapter BE, PEO, Mrs. A. A. Lausmann, 200 Med ford heights. Wednesday 12:30 p.m. Mistletoe club, Girls Community club. Thursday ; 7 p.m. Talisman Rosebud Council, Pythian Sunshine Girls, Pythian building. . 8 p.m. Reames chapter, OES, Masonic temple. " CHECK ORNAMENTS EARLY New York (U.R) Unpack your Christmas tree decorations early so you will have plenty of time , to purchase replace ments and clean all lights and ornaments. Clean light bulbs several days before Christmas, wiping " them with a sudsy sponge, if they're heavily soiled. Make sure they are disconnected during cleaning. 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VFW Auxiliary To Hold Party The auxiliary to Crater Lake post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, plan a Christmas party for child ren of - members and invited guests today at 3 p.m., at the VFW hall. r - Santa Claus will be there to give treats to the children and entertainment will be furnished by the auxiliary-sponsored Girl Scout troop. Eve Prentice's ac cordion band also will furnish music and dancers from the Col leen Hope studio will entertain. Refreshments will be served by the auxiliary. : . . Dead line Sunday. Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 jn. Monday for Mondav: other days 5:30 previous day. There is a DANIEL GREEN for everyone at Christmas tim?! They Are So . . , IT'S EVERYONE'S FAVORITE .MOCCASIN PoW Wow! FREE Beautiful Gift Wrapping Open -Monday Thru Thursday Until 9 P.M. IN RED OR BLUE V FELT SC50 BURELSON'S The House of Finer Shoes MAIN AND BARTLETT STS. 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