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In Remodeled Mii
Hong Kong (0" Capt. Chet
Brown, an American pilot with
Thai Airways, and his wife will
have all the comforts ofciome
when ijoey set sail on a South
Pacificruise.
Brown has had a motor launch,
resembling a motor fishing ves
sel (MFV) converted into a lux
ury yact at a Hong Kong ship
yard to fulfill a long-time dream
of "owning a boat to live on."
The vessel has an automatic
dishwasher, automatic laundry
and dryer, a 14-foot deep-freeze,
a 14-footrefrigerator, an auto
matic coffee-maker and a stove.
JSnch of the two staterooms
has four bunks with air-foam
mattresses. Each also has a pri
vate bathroom with tile walls
and with hot and cold running
water. Q
Except for the engine room,
the boat will be air-conditioned.
The main cabin, large as many
living roomrashore, is furrfghed
just a in a house, and even has
a hi-8' tape recorder installed.
Besides, a two-way radio, the
vessel also has been equipped
with depth sounders and an auto
matic pilot.
Renovation of the boat, the
Nancy B, has taken 18 months.
Brown first wants to cruise
the South Pacific to revisit pla
ces he saw during World War II.
Then he is thinking of sailing
to the United States via the In
dian Ocean, East Africa anr)the
Mediterranean.
hfisfffis C3fd Buying
ljg!wo Billion Mark
&.'() tear marga) the 82nd
births J?the mSrican Chriit-
m) car3l Badk, in 1875, Lou
Pranf) the noted lithcifprspner
craftsman 6$) Roxbury," Miu.,
hesitanti published the coun
try rst Christmai) cards ani
wondered anybody oulf Iju
them!
Th year, moi than ttro
lion, four hundred million Chrirt
mas greetings ill 'fly through
the mai before Christmas IJye,
an average et) better thin r5V
cards per family. It will require
nearly 470 million worth of post
age stamps to transport this tre
mendous flood of) ChriVnat
cheer through the mails)
ThJ) orldSBra ChrUtmafc
card was designed in la3 by
John , Calcott fiorffley, R.&.,
painter (Shd illuStrettor (tt Sir
Henry Cole, thg inaugurator .and
first director of the Victoria ejnd
Albert Museum in Hmdon, Eng
land. lu 186, (6 thousand eopiea
were lithographed, hrjd-olor4
and sold "by elix Summrrly'i
Treasure House in Bond Street,
an art shop which Cole had sat
up in order to improvf the tastfc
NO NTft
Montreal ftP) Sidewalk sup
erintendents were supplied with
six peepholes on a construction
job here. From top to bottom,
they're labeled: o"large," "medi
um," "small," "boys and girls,"
"dofls," and "cats."
YOU CAN REDUCE your
Christmas shopping prob
lems to practically nil, by
selecting gifts of fragrant
by SimonettcPfor the very
discriminating on your
Christmas list. Simonetta,
Italy's famous couturier,
'has created the Incanto
Travel Duet especially for
Christmas. Matched togeth
er in this gift of classic
elegance, are Incanto
Cologne and Incanto Bath
Oil. Why not stop in at
Hudson Pharmacy and let
me (Ethel Lockard) show
you this classic presenta
tion. $3.50.
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ETHEL LOCKARD
rf his; contemporsries.
Th first Christmas card did
ncrt arcuae any grest enthusiasm
unoej the English people, in
fact, aome of the Puritans frown
ed on the central illustration of
card depicting the convivi
ality of the SMon. Actually, It
va not until 1880 that the
eurtjom of fending Christmas
card became established
throughout the British Empire.
Louis Prang arrived in New
York City in 1850. A skilled
calico printer ffam Germany, he
wax 26 end elm oat penniless.
Eventually, he opened a small
lithographing shop in Boston
where he specialized in delicately-tinted
flower prints and con
tinued te perfect the recently
invented processes of color
lithography.
By 1870, he was well estab
lished in his own plant in Rox
bury where his reproductions of
oil paintings were so finely exe
cuted that he enjoyed a sizable
busineB in England. A woman
employee in his London offiee
suggested that he print "Merry
Christmas" on some of his floral
prints in the space on the margin.
By 1874, h$ was enjoying a good
British Christmas card trade,
and bo, felt encouraged to offer
hi Christmas cards to the Amer
ican public in 1875. They were
an instant success, with their
new combinations of attractive
designs and holiday sentiments.
Flower Deeigas
Prang's early cards pictured
sprinelifte roses, daisies, scarlet
geraniums) spray of apple blos
soms, and it was several years
before anything resembling the
modern Christmas card symbols
were introduced into his line.
By the middle 1880's, Prang
was prjnting five million Christ
mas cards a year, and they had
become a major part of his busi
ness. In 1883, he paid one artist,
Dora Wheeler, $2,000 an unheard-of-price
for one prize
Christmas card design.
Prang's cards are still famous
among collectors because of their
appealing illustrations and pain
staking craftsmanship. Some de
signs were printed in as many
as 17 different colors to achieve
delicate, life-like gradations of
tone. Many of the cards were
Girl Scouts
Pins and Needles dut r
Officers of Girl Scout Troop
190 and the Pins and Needles
4-H Sewing club Nov. 18 re
ceived Instruction from Mrs.
Arthur Straus on how to con
duet a meeting.
Officers of the Pins and
Needles club conducted the
meeting.
During the club's Nov. 12
meeting the group held a dem
onstration on how to thread a
sewing machine and start sew
ing with it. Colleen Franek,
Mary Daniels, Carolyn Barnes
and Virginia Chadd gave the
demonstration.
The club is holding a contest
on caring for clothes. One star
Is good for 1,000 points, it was
announced during the Nov. 25
meeting. A visit was made to
the Singer Sewing machine com
pany where members made book
markers.
The next Pins and Needles
4-H meeting is at the home of
Carolyn Barnes on Dec. 0.
Reporter
0 Gloria Thompson
Central Point
embellished with luxurious silk
fringes. They sold for as much
as $3 each to the deluxe trade.
At the peak of his success
in 1890, Prang abruptly discon
tinued publishing Christmas
cards because of a flood of
shoddy foreign imitations that
came on the market. This
brought on an era of cheap nov
elty Christmas greetings, some
in post card form.
Modern Phase
With the disappearance of the
Prang creations from the Ameri
can scene, the Christmas card
business was in the doldrums
for about 15 years. In the early
1900's, some of today's leading
greeting card publishers were
founded, artd the modern phase
of the Christmas card, as . we
know it today, began.
At the close of World War I
the custom took on added im
petus. Modern graphic arts proc
esses enabled the Christmas card
designers to regain the beauty
and appeal of the first American
jChristmas cards so that in the
span of a single lifetime, Christ
mas cards have developed from
a penniless immigrant's dream
to one of the nation's most uni
versal a6d well-loved Christmas
customs.
Twenty per eent of at
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chased by farmers.
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