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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, I960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Bundle Days Clothing Drive To End Dec- 1 in Prospect Prospect - The Bundle Days clothing drive was stressed at the November Prospect Parent-Teacher association meet ing. The community' drive to collect clothing and shoes for infants, children and adults is part of a nationwide drive of the Save the Children Federa tion's Bundle Days collection. Students, teachers, parents and friends are asked to con tribute good, usable clothing for distribution to needy per sons in the United States and foreign lands. Articles should be delivered to the school by Thursday, Dec. 1. Contribu tors who are unable to deliver the clothing may call De Carper, UNion 9-2097, for pick up. Dr. Thomas Rutter, Med ford physician and surgeon, spoke concerning the child guidance clinic. He showed two films, one on the six-to-nine-year-old child and one on family counseling, Dr. Rutter explained how a family counseling service aids in solving difficulties that of ten arise in family relation ships. . PTA members this year are asked to contribute an un wrapped gift for a patient at the hospital for the mentally 111 at Salem. Gift wrapping paper may be sent with the gift. Mrs. Weldon Downing, UNion 9-2201, is in charge. Mrs. Gerald Gardner is in charge of a baked food sale which will be held Tuesday, November 29, at Prospect store. Those wishing to donate food are to bring it to the store that day. Proceeds will assist with travel expenses of the high school basketball team to the coming tourna' ment at Alturas, Calif. Entertainment at the meet ing was provided by the com bined high school and grade school bands. More than 30 students participated, with Larry Drake as director. They played five selections and the audience joined with the band to sing two numbers It was announced that the PTA will again bring Santa Claus with all his goodies to the children at Prospect Mothers of fourth grade pupils served refreshments Townsend Club To Plan Party Plans for a Christmas par ty will bs made at a regular session of Medford Townsend club Wednesday, November 30, at Walker's Dreamland, 415!2 East Main street. A potluck luncheon will be serv ed at noon. Members having November birthday anniversaries will be honored. A program will fol low the business hour. Visit ors are welcome. GRAND OPENING SPECIALS! Famous 2 orVV SALE ON NOW UNTIL OUR OPENINGI 20 OFF Raincoats Car Coats Bulky Sweaters Basic Skirts and Sweaters To Match WE MUST MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NEW OPENING MERCHANDISE k n i ( I . . v V 5 t Vvv PTSA Has Counseling For Topic Eagle Point Faculty mem bcrs at Eagle Point High school discussed the school's student counseling services at a meeting of the Parent Teacher -Student association November 17. Mrs. Donald DeHaven, president, was in charge of the meeting. Kenneth Vannice, world geography and arts and crafts teacher, reported on freshman counseling and the orientation Full-time enrollment in Ca nadian universities and col leges was 102,000 on Dec. 1, 19S9, an 8 per cent rise in 12 months. period freshman students take during the year. Mrs. Stewart Hopper, home economics in structor anu girls counselor, explained her program and Mrs. Niles Smith, American problems and United States history instructor, gave a re port on senior guidance. The boys' counseling pro gram was explained by Wil liam Hall, math instructor. A student's idea of counseling was given by Gary Ayres. Richard Traylor, principal, gave a summary of the pro gram and also explained the testing program for each student Larry DeHaven led the flag salute and the Rev. Joseph Bowdain gave a devotion. The freshmen class won tha money drill by having tha most parents present. Refresh ments were served in tha home economics room by par ents of freshmen. Don't Put Off Any Longer! Order NOW-Name Imprinted CHRISTMAS CARDS Largest Selection To Choose From On the Balcony at . . . I hooks sifts . records n Tha Ljons Mixer held at Rogua Valley Country club November 19 Included a buf fet dinner and dancing to Belle Van Dyke's orchestra. Pictured as they filled their din ner plates are (left to right) William Miller. Coos Bay; Ralph Miller, Cave Junction; Kenneth Rutledge, Coot Bay; Mrs, Ralph Miller, Cava Junction and Mrs. Rutledge, Mr. Rutledge is a deputy district governor. Auxiliary women planned the party as a get acquainted event and guests were prom ised there would be no speeches and no in troductions, and kept their promise. (Simonson photo) Christmas Cards Date Back 100 Years By QUINBY SCHUYLER New York-Contrary to a fairly general supposition, the history of Christmas cards is not centuries-old. The first known Christmas card was designed in 1843 by John Cal cott Horsley, R.A., painter and illustrator to Sir Henry Cole, the inaugurator and first di rector of the Victoria and Al bert Museum in London, Eng land. In 1846, one thousand copies of the Horsley design were lithographed, hand-colored and sold by Felix Sum merly's Treasure House in Bond Street, an art shop which Cole had set up in or der to improve the taste of his contemporaries. The first American Christ mas cards were published In 1875 in Roxbury, Massachu setts, by a noted craftsman lithographer, Louis Prang. Earlier he had perfected a lithographie process of color printing that surpassed those I aSIPI ISi&Sx I eHOICI 43l I MTl I ' 3.00 A MONTH l L ma gft l 'r"!";" ' L j. THC WEST'S LARGEST CREDIT JtWILtU WEISFIELD'S PRESENT THE BEAUTIFUL NEW 1961 BUL0VA WATCHES LATEST STYLES FOR LADIES AND MEN use weisniLD's famous low iasy CRioir terms i k 4. 122 EAST MAIN Phone SP 3-5348 STORE HOURS 9:30 to 5:30 OPEN MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS UNTIL 9 P.M. of other graphic arts crafts men in both Great Britain and the United States. In the early 1870 s he began the publica tion of de luxe editions of Christmas cards which found a ready sale in England, cul minating in the introduction of the first American Christ mas cards in 1875. First Ridiculed Early Christmas card de signers met wide-spread pub lic ridicule. Like Fulton and his steamboat, they were warned that the custom of sending Christmas cards "could never win popular sup port." These preliminary findings intrigued my interest further. What did the first Christmas card look like? How does it compare with the 1060 Christ mas cards? Who were the peo ple most responsible for founding a custom that brings such tremendous happiness into every American home? The first known Christmas card, I have discovered, has a central illustration depicting the conviviality of the season Small panels in the design to the left and right show the charitable acts of "cloth ing the poor" and "feeding the hungry," always connect ed with the Christmas season. Inevitably, of course, the greeting on the card was des tined to become the most pop ular Yuletide message ever composed-it reads, "A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year To You." Notwithstanding the rather cool reception the f irct Christ mas card received, other art ists and publishers during the next few years after its ap pearance intensified their ef forts through what might be termed an experimental or face-lifting period. Then, in 1866, Messrs. Marcus Ward and company of Belfast, Ire land, were commissioned by an English firm to lithograph set of four designs by the artist, C. H. Bennett. Repro ductions from this set, it seems, were the fore-runners of the first "popular Christ mas cards. Standards for Christmas cards published by Marcus Ward and company were ex tremely high. For years this firm monopolized most of the better-class trade. The Ward cards were conventional, al most always, and the finished product embodied gala Christ- mast scenes, floral devices, and beautiful hand lettering. Before the 1860's-the same era which saw bustles come into fashion-had passed, the Group Attends Circle Ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Lusk, Mrs. Harold Sutherland and Mrs. Ben F. Allison attended the installation of officers of Silver Peak circle, Military Order of Lady Bugs, in Riddle November 20. The three Med ford women are members of Roguette circle. Mrs. Ted Hopkins, Rogue River, royal grandmother gold bug qf Gladiola circle, was installing officer. She was assisted by Mrs. Lusk royal firefly. Mr. Hopkins, who Is Nation al Home chairman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, gave a talk on his visit to the National Home Oregon Cottage at Ethan Rapids. Mich. The Hopkins' attended the 61st VFW national -on venlion at Detroit, Mich., Au gust 21-26. exchange of colorful Christ mas greeting cards was one I of England's most cherished customs. As might be expect ed between two countries whose cultural ties are so closely allied, Christmas cards soon migrated to America. Here, the story of their origin parallels the career of Louis Prang, the lithographer of many rare talents. On April 6, 1850, Prang arrived in New York City, a political exile from his native Germany, and in poor repair both physically and financial ly. In a brief 25 years, he was established in Boston as one of the most important lithographers, had published the first American Christmas card line, and could say of his career: "It was In 1865 that I In augurated the chromo. I fol lowed this up with the chromo business card in 1873, and with the artistic Christmas card In 1874-5, all of which publications made the tour around the world, and set more lithographic presses to work all over Europe and America than any other spe cial line of publications ever did before or after. Perfected Process The "chromos" Prang re ferred to were the product of a printing process, chromo lithography, that he helped to perfect. Their vast range of colors and shades, simulat ing the woven texture of an artist's canvas, received popu lar and professional acclaim the world over. Today, Prang's "chromos" are valu able collector's items. . In 1880, Prang initiated his annual prize awards for the best Christmas card design by a free lance artist. These con tests, unique at that time. were Instrumental in improv ing the artistic foundation of Christmas card designs, and in attracting national atten tion to the new-born Yuletide custom. Ten years later, with an uncontested claim to the title "Father of the American Christmas Card," Louis Prang abruptly discontinued publish ing Christmas cards. Cheaper reproductive processes had been developed, and cheap novelty cards from Europe were flooding the country. Prang decided to withdraw from the field, rather than risk bankruptcy with his more expensive "chromos." The modern era of Christ mas cards dates from 1000- 1910, when a number of new publishing firms were first established. But the big boom came immediately after World War I. At that time, public fancy was completely won over by the symbolic designs -Christmas trees, holly wreaths, gleaming candles, and church bells-whlch are as popular today as they were then. "Christmas messages,' Charles Dickens once said "are a great accumulation of friendly recollections. Dick ens was certainly right, and he reminds me that of all the thousands of Christmas cards that will fly to and fro through the mails during the coming holiday season, this message that I saw on one of the new cards recently prob ably best epitomizes the true significance of this happy tra ditional Christmas custom: "Never a Christmas morninf dawns. Never the old year ends, But someone thinks o someone, Old days, old times, old friends." , 1 , V.Ij1-Ji. 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