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GIFT OPENING SUPPLEMENT
November 27, 1941
New Ideas Invade Greeting Field in '41
From American Artists Group
Greetings to the lads in the service head 1941's "regular"
Christmas cards. Santa blowing reveille and a sailor wig-wagging
"Merry Christmas" from a battle wagon are good examples.
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Meet the "cheeribub." above, one of 1941's gayest new forms
of Christmas greeting. It's a balloon, which you blow up and
place on a stand. As seen at left, one side bears a Santa or other
Yule decoration. The other side, shown at right, bears "signa
ture" of the sender. '
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
NEW YORK The postman's
pack may be Heavier than ever
this Christmas, when he delivers
1941's greetings. The reason is
that there is a brand new idea
in "Christmas cards" that should
go over big to the recipients'
delight and the postman's dis
comfort. "Send something instead of,
and more than a card" is 1941's
bright idea. It appears in several
. forms, one of the merriest being
the "cheeribub." This is a toy
balloon, decorated with holly, or
some other Yule symbol, with a
silver cardboard crescent which
rolls into a conical base so the
balloon can stand as part of the
home decorations or a placard
at Christmas dinner. The cheeri
bub, on which is printed the
name of the sender, can be mail
ed in a regular envelope.
MORE-THAN-A-CARD
Another really grand "some-thing-more-than-a-card"
stunt
has been devised by a group of
famous American artists who an
nually cooperate on fine greet
ing cards. This year they have
produced perfectly lovely little
books, each about five by seven
inches, and thin. Each is a speci
men of the bookmaker's art
worthy of inclusion in any li
brary. And they cost about as
many cents as you'd spend for
an extra fancy Christmas card.
There are ten different ones,
each the work of noted artists
writers, historians, painters,
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WOOLLY warms for cold toes
a cosy Christmas gift. These
moccasin-type slippers are knitted
of -softest zephyr yarns in lovely
pastel colors with bright em
broidered motifs. One flexible
size fits every foot. They look a
lot more expensive than they are.
music composers, satirists. With
word and woodcut, Rockwell
Kent tells how father and son
set up their nine-and-a-half foot
tree in a wilderness cabin among
spruce-green mountains of the
far North. Jane Miller does a
fantasy of a French poodle and
a "beautiful assortment of gar
bage cans." Hendrik Willem Van
Loon and Grace Castagnetta re
vivify the "memorable morning"
which brought good tidings "in
a world full of greed." Manual
Komroff, Roger Duvoisin, Ilonka
Karasz, Witold Gordon, Grant
Raynard, Russell T. Limbach,
and Edward Wilson are repre
sented in the collection Wilson
by a sheer-fun book of rowdy
roustabout sea chanties.
CARDS FOR SOLDIERS
Judging by the subjects of the
regular Christmas cards, the
manufacturers seem to have had
a reason for getting going early;
They expect you to send a greet
ing to your service man before
he starts home on leave. There
are that many cards for the m-n
in a uniform! Fresh ones too
the gob's stocking dangling from
a porthole, the "home for Christ
mas scene" wherein its home on
wings, and Santa Claus blowing
reveille at camp.
A striking quality of the 1941
collections is this: the close-to-the-heart
scenes which get away
from traditional ones are much
closer-to-home, literally. They're
more realistic. Many have a dis
tinct regional flavor. For in
stance, one snowy everyday
street-picture which conveys in
stantly; little western town. The
traditional subjects are here
again too, especially the religious
ones, in newfelt reverence. Some
treat even those subjects with
distinctly human flavor.
The all-states influence this
Christmas reaches a high point
in the Artists' collection because
these cards are done by more
than 200 creators working close
to their home-parts of America.
Here are fine, beautifully mount
ed reproductions of pictures that
hang in far-away museums
pictures which thus come back
to the people who inspired them.
They're of practically all schools
also, from Adolf Dehn and
George Schreiber with their
deeply communicated winters, to
Donald McKay with his delicate
ly impish little angel acquiring
new wings. The last is typical of
the light, bright, original De
signers and Illustrators Christ
mas Cards.
We are not going to have a
national Joy-ride. Just ahead of
us, I truly believe, are the
toughest, hardest years we have
been through sir.ee Valley
Forge. Donald M. Nelson, exe
cutive director, SPAB.
One of the most charming expressions of the 1941 Yuletlde
idea of "something more than a card" is found in the little
books produced by a group of noted artists, two of which are
pictured above. At right la Edward Wilson's gay. witty book of
rousing sea chanties. The other is Hendrik Willem van Loon's
lyrical description of the Nativity, with music by Grace Castagnetta.
A Pleasant Assignment Is
Buying for Men in Service
With hundreds of boys of the
Midland Empire away from
home in the service of their
country, home folks will do a lot
of special Christmas shopping
for them this year.
What pleasure it will be to
pick out things you know your
lad will like as he goes about the
serious duties of helping defend
his country. Possibly you will
want to give him something that
can be his very own, something
that you and he will know sym-
bollies your Intimate knowledge
of the things he likes.
And then again, you may want
to send him things he can share
with his buddies cookies, a
fruit cake, candies, or maybe a
book or a magazine subscription.
At any rate, it's sure thing
that Klamath's men in the army,
navy or marines aren't going to
be forgotten this Christmas.
Many of them may get a chance
to come home and what a
Christmas that will make of It
for everybody; But If they can't
come home, the folks here will
see that there are plenty of
things to remind them of the
love and honor that goes to them
from tho people In the Klamath
country.
You can do your bit for the
soldiers In camp, whether they
be members of your family or
friends, by making practical kits
that will keep their things In or
der. For Instance, you can
stitch up a sewing kit that will
hold such necessary equipment
as scissors, needles and thread,
safety pins and so on to take care
of day-in-day-out emergencies
A compact laundry bag Is an
other useful item. Binding the
edges of the kits will add con
siderably to their sturdlncss. For
this you will want to use the
binder attachment on your sew
ing machine. Signatures and
monoRrams for easy Identifica
tion are nice, too. and they're
really easy to make if you use
the zlgzaggcr attachment on
your sewing machine to appli
que them on. You can draw your
own monograms, if you like, or
buy stamped letters from your
pattern service.
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