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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-12-24, Page 94 4 4 4 Nag to tie New Year! 11/4/jay the next year bring forth all the • good things, in life. ‘' Warmest thanks to loyal friends. Stan Hadden 118 St, David Goderich STUDIO 524-8787 ,tf • With fond hopes tl\at all your holiday dreams come trde, we send you our best wishes for a Merry Christmas. NO DRYCLEAN:ING DECEMBER 25 and 26 WASHERS OPERATING AS USUAL • WEST STREET LAUNDROMAT MERRY MASI, We wish to extend our warmest holiday greetings to i1t the wonderful people 'in our town who make day-to-day business a .special pleasure. Heartfelt thanks for your loyal trust and support. Merry Christmas. HOFFIIIIEYER HEATING • • , firistmas Customs around tlie worl At five o'clock on Christmas Eve in Denmark' all work ceases. Chur4h bells everywhere begin chiming in Christmas, calling the perpple throughout the land to a candlelight service.After church the family comes home to the traditional Christmas Eve dinner that is highlighted bt stuffed goose and rice porridge. And then, at last, there is the moment of expectant wonder when the parlor doors are un- locked and the tree is revealed with its ,candles and peacocks, its apples and nuts. The ' family joins hands and circles the tree again and again . singing the songs that are dear to their hearti": Wise Men by this star were led To the Christ Child's lowly bed. Guiding star, 0 may we heed thee, May we know we ever need thee, Lead us to our heov'nly King,, Lead us to our heav'nly King. Nikolai F. S. Grundtvig Tr., Ingebret Dorrum , p.opxioCtiliONAL,..8W,...THURS41041;CW1110441:1,74, :ow • ' t • 0311555:A3124=1:ZZAVZ3WAWAY:ZWAYMA=531Z553*Mt5i3WAY*15:535:ASZ;S:W.SIZiOrgiA;ARISAId5S3WATZ33t71 IMMAFSVZS:FAItg3S3ZiYaMItglIZiM4 Paintings Show Sacred Message Lives A niiw 1 ESTEICI)A1A \ 1) 'I' JI) 11. Iljzatitine irons tell the Christ- ntas,_ story. Like that ...aered .tor, the sijle of lijzantine art - ,is unelningitm Among!' the 1'1.11. liirie. as these, paintings ' 17..1.NTINE 111T of jesterjear appears in the painting" (far left ). "Virgin and Child En- throned it kit kligels.— I ..rn unk no% n .11j zant i ne painter. . il is excepted in 1111.11)4.1%1 4111 440401. i111 a gold 'ground. From dm Metropolitan MI1,141111 ti. gUt .sit Lizzie Bliss. 1931 N ATI V ITN .4 TN 1.: (near left slums hou, ironograplij el111- 111111114•S the aneient stIr, s ith s;s, tubolic feeling. The Madonna and Child are centrtil figures. Joseph and a shepherd appear at the left and die ;min - ger is shoun, 1111 historical au- rorae?• as a VII% I' 111 a rock, hill- side. This iron I the '4or1., 441 John l'aqispiliopossloof the 11,/antitte icon- .tettlio. • 1' kST -t \ 19111•:til.:SiT meet as artists turn II, 41 1111114 1.41 .11161.11. 1111. M11110111141 411111 :10111. 0111 of the past l01111, the painting all tefi. til A -Ilyz-notine 14' iti itetlomm it Russian !minter in tempera 011 44 04)41 111.111 is inscribed in I454 4)1414, "()11r 1.841, of Kaza.'' ( From 1114. Met- ropolitan M10.1111)1 Of gilt • of Mr.. Herm, Morgent hail. 1933). 1144% the Byzantine le continues tmlai, is slimy 44 in Ilie icon -att top right, t•reatted itt tempera b die con lemporair, iconographer. holm l'a pa ()pot; los. • .1 httieknown stories, and origins of Xmus customs Americans exchange bti- 1ion of Christmas cards every year. There are conflicting' re- ports of who sent the first one. According. to MO source John 'Calcott 'Hors- ley designed the first card for Sir Henry Cole in 1843, It is a triptych, the central panel of which shows a well-fed family at table. They raise their glasses to toast, "A Merry Christ- mas and A Happy4'New Year To You." Flanking them in the end panels are the poor and thethungry. According to another source, the origin of this relatively modetri, cotom Ili; sometimes ascribed to the Bnglish Eoyai Acad.. emy artist,,W.C.T. Dobson. In 1840 he sent friends lithographed copies a a sketch he had •made to syrilbolize the Christmas spirit. • The first English print*.. ed cards were 'very simple; t'.1'91)in, a sprig. of 'lolly or 7nyatletoe, Plus a convex • tional greeting, pioneers • 9f Cpristrnas card. print- ,. Ing in •the United States were mostirGermanssuch • as Louis Prang, • who . opened a shop in Roxbnry, Mass. in 1874, To all our custoTners, sincerest wishes for a Christmas that hums with complete joy and happinesi. And for the pleasure of having served you, our thanks! AgiliasoiSomessesses*****. • .. . .. .... .. ... .. "... ...•.....• • • Peace and licoy- May you enjoy the fulfillment of all your hopes and prayers, bring- ing you peace ctnd contentment this Christmas season and always. SKY RANCH RESTAURANT & SERVICE STATION Hwy. 21 N. at Sky Harbour :perrirrtimotowo-twok-mtkoe- TREE ORIGINS The decorated Christ- mas tree as we know.it de- veloped from the miracle plays of the Middle Ages. The plays originated as liturgical cantatas sung in Latin in churches with very slight dramatization. Scenery was held to a min- imum. The Garden of Eden, for example, was designated -by a fir tree hung with apples. This Paradise tree, as it was called, represented the Fall of Man, not the Nativity. As the miracle plays gained popularit3r, they be- came more elaborate, with more characters, *lore scenery, even live animals — until their staging out- grew the limits of a chanr, cel. Moved outdoors, the plays became increasingly secular until, about 1450, their performance was banned. The tree of Eden, the Paradise tree, somehow ' survived in the public mind after its play was fbrbidden. It was set up in the house as an object les- son for children: the Mr - green tree was an emblem of immortality, while the apples-stoodsfor sin. Round wafers were hung on the tree to symbolize redemp- tion. The strictly moralis- tic character of the Para- dise tree gradually faded into pure decoration 8,s apples were replaced by glittering ornaments, and plain wafers...took on the shapes ' of moon and stars, of men and animals. Its always a pleasure to take time during the holiday season to MARY IRVING DOUG CRUICKSHANK LLOYD POELMAN KEN TREITZ • JIM PFRIMMER DON DUENCH PAUL LADD DON BAXTER, TOM POELMAN, wish our friend's well! JOHN VANDERWALL STAN KACPRZAK RAY BLACK JIM MANDERSON BILL KIRKEY FRED McCULLOUGH • AL McGEE • KEN McGEE RON McGEE •, ,