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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-12-14, Page 2`'t7tkr�rgl?llllht;;tth+�rbr�i�b"r�tr�tOrbr�t�t�s0• GIVE • FURNITURE d" For The Home Give something for the' Baby, ,� Four Mother, too, and Dad. A. doll pram, for• Sister, n yb@, A Victor Radio for the Lad, c And et thi lad December, Y , S g , AS up and down you. roam,, The finest gift, remeij1ber, Is Furniture for the 'home! 'Though. something far a :minute, Some heart a moment oheers, The gift w'th Christmas •in it Is something for the years. The little gifts are pleasant, The gifts as light as foam, But, for the great big present, Give Furniture for the home! . There isn't any other That hearts will hold as fast, That pleases Dad and Mother Like something that will la_ st - A chair, a table near it, A lamp to light the gloom -- To bring the Christmas spirit, Give Furniture for the home! BEATTIE S Furniture Store (The House That Service Built) Day and Night Phone 184 ' .�rBiR?2r2a012at-M-Dt2r2t`X.af21'di"d 2t)/` aiDe i� Make This Ycar Headquarters fpr �e SeA Full Line of: Cigars, Cigarettes of SMOKING GIFTS and Tobaccos. Get your Christmas Haircut at MEL. CRICH e BARBERSHOP +.voctoe ate?n-,tcm vatetatetetetztetetetetetua rule fee t$tett.f.mX�telgtitelletgttteloctztzt4' A Dainty Shoes Require IE a Careful Attention. A SHOES DYED artd REPAIRED 0 diMade to leak like new. P f. "If its worth doing its worth R eloing right. x�a Next tine try NICK'S Shoe Repair (next Mel. Crich's Barber Shop' !,C4t?#31c etelan:`ntet :S't;r.k1 Vtlirta. 12r7r2r3t;3M2t2re12t2tratTA irdar2r2r2r2r2 r o t7 • We have on hand Complete Line of Flour for your Christmas Baking Maple Leaf — Gdden West 'X- — Monarch — ti Anne Lee Sertt's Cake Flour e& Tea Bisk. Poultry Feeds CAFETERIA LAY $2.45 Monardh POULTRY CON. $3.43 EGGMAKER (Spec al) $2.15 High Grade Cod Liver Oil $1.20 Dairy Feeds 24% DAIRY CONC. .. , $2.00 32% DAIRY CONC. .. $2:1;5 Get our price on• Sherwin-Williams Oil: Cake R. L. JERVIS eSsfaP,urate'•C- t€tAig-lgt;.q S-K-K-e-K-K„#eKV s U gIf'rist �-tam T Christmas time lit England, �t t, writes Oliver G. Pike, we often "' have a period of calm weather, when the trees stand motionless and the sea itself is calm; these are known as halcyon .days, and halcyon is the king- fisher. An ancient author wrote, "The halcyones are of great name and much marked, they lay, and ait about mid- winter when dales be shortest, and the • times while they are braodieis called the halcyon dales; for during this season the sea is calm and navigable. In the days of long ago it was believed that the English kingfisher nested at Christmas time; it was -said that it built 'its strange nest of fish bones on the sea, ,and during the tinie of incubation the gods looked down and calmed the waters until the young arrived. The Legend The first two kingfishers were the Greek nymph Alcyone and Ceyx, her sailor boy lover; Aeolus, the god of the winds, was the father of Alcyone, while her mother was the beautiful rainbow. The legend tells us that during a terrible storm Ceyx was flrowned at sea, and for days after- wards Alcyone's grief was so great that it was thought he, ton, would die, but pe tits r °r d ee r s t epi, t a ime " NI) when,rh,v were conic into 5 the lipase they saw the young '' Child with \Mary, 1 -lis mother, and fell down and worshipped; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto I rim gifts; gold and frank incense " The \Vise Men from tine East brought to Bethlehem `the most valuable presents they could find, For as long as man could remember, such presents had heen dedi- n e t t •ir ods. ck d o ht. g Two tho s nd years ago frankin nse u a y 1, .t ce was one of the most valuable and sacred commodities in the world, Every altar and every funeral required this fragrant. gum. Pliny wrote: "The heaps of odors drat are piled up in honor of the bodies of the dead. It is the luxury of man, which is displayed even in the para- phernalia of death, that has rcadered Arabia thus happy." For it was Arabia that had the mon- opoly of this rich trade, and there only, to the east of Aden, in that part of the country known as the Hadhramaut; was the gum produced. Camel' Caravans Frankincense comes front a small .tree which is tapped through short incisions in the bark. The milky juice which then exudes is allowed to dry into gum. This tree was sacred, and everything con- nested with it, the harvesting of the gum, the cultivation of the tree itself, those who handled it ---all were governed by religious rites and rules. "l'he control of this monopoly lay in the city of'Shabwa, the ancient capital of the Hadhramaut. Then it was a great walled town with sixty temples, and from it led one of the oldest trade routes in the world front the frankincense country to then marl ets of Egypt, Syria, and Ronne. The great camel caravans skirted the central desert, then turned north to Mecca, andthence to Alexandria, Antioch and Ronne with their precious freight. There Were apeelaf'store-rooms for the sacred gum in the Temple at Jerusalem; vast quantities were used each year in the temples of Egypt; the Arabs paid it as tribute to Darius, the Persian; and Alexander the Great sent it as a. present to his tutor o valuab a as it th t r len' . S I w a t who handled it were stripped before they left their Work and searched in case they might have stolen some) Part of the crop was taken. down to the coast and shipped up the Red Sea to Egypt, It was the lure of this lucrative trade, and the exorbitant rates charged by the Arab shipping princes that per- suaded the Romans to build their own fleet on the Red Sea and to fight for the command of the eastern seas. Shipped by Dhows Today frankincense is still produced 'in the Iiadhramaut, but there is no longer a world-wide demand for the gran. .The thousand tons that are produced on the average every year are brought down to the coast at Makalla by camel caravan, there to be shipped in dhows to Aden, These ships would be familiar to the Arab of 2,000 years ago, for their design has changed but little. The frankincense comes 10 Aden about Christmas time, and there yitu may See the women squatting over shallow baskets, sorting out and grading the gee), The air is heavy with its aromatic scent, but it- is difficult to realize that these brown, pebbly heaps were once one of the richest and most '.arced treasures of the lia.t! Oleg eeb tee YOUNG people arc always enthusi astic over the prospect of trimming '' Christmas trees I e ane sac low's ' fo it 1 g u w ve lvi f pia t as t t ul f u n party oC school girls, where 1t was not possible to have enough trees to supply work for all of j; them, It was decided that the tallest,'. a and largc.t of the girls would peaks moat effective substitutes. Nine of the girls' were chosen and warned that on the day of the party, by some sort of tragic, they would be turned into trees. Each one' was assigned enc of the letters of the word y "Christmas," and given a cardboard hell bearing the letter. Every, girl who came to the party was . bidden to bring, carefully wrapped up, a , present, ssonmething she had made her- self, the cost of which should not exceed ' ten cents. Curiously enough, there were 1; not many duplicates;' i There were calendars of various kinds, made front post cards, fancy cards, hand- t'` painted cards and kodak pictures. There '. were memorandum cases made of small I pads with pencils attached. There were ` dolls made out of clothes -pins and dressed with crepe paper. 'There were Christmt. bells and stockings filled with trinket.. Arrival of Guests As tach guest arrived she was given a large red) candle cut front car<lhoard and sn fastened with reel railia that it could be her father, taking compassion upon her, changed her into a bird su that she could accompany the soul of her lover on his Hight from the world. The legend goes ort to say that the spirit of Ceyx remained over the sea and rivers, and he aunt his prate, clothed in tate calor n of the rainbow, 1 ul be seen to this day Hashing above the waters of the streams. An eastern legend gives another espian- anion of the kingfishe s gorgecnus plum- t age. When Noah c tiled all the l.irels into l the ark, the kingfisher was a samall laird cl,,thed in sombre brown plumage. A, tie Hood abated Noah sent out first the rare:tt and then the dove, but as these did not return at once he thought !:e Thad , n s fhillfill� ❑rade a mistake, and so a third bird was stmt out, the small brown .kingfisher. He said: "You, my little friend, twill not fear the waters, for you are no stranger to th m; a ar a • > ns nel re e vo c tour, act, a a S swift of"wing; go forth, and' returning a ion bring truthful news." IN KENT THEY GO A'GODD I NG This was a custom formerly ob- vho sen acrve<I only by wromen t s l from house to house with am fuis o ns nd in •t rn for alma f evergrce a rt. u an r sents ave their benefac- d Pe g tors sprigs with which, to decorate their homes. Often they stayed and helped in the decorating and in ✓ n r i en a• nt al r,n: • slur wee gv c s < wine and a little stoney: The cos -- tom is still kept up in parts of Kent, especially near Maidstone. ?�1 tit ai ue�-5 tlt� Ob to ,$1" itc it�� �Of tat '•yart12 RITIN 1 totes make an e r ter- taining change fur the C hrit- tins parte, and are ideal for fitting in between the more boisterous pautin t., :1u 0apy ane to st,u•t ori with 1. ' Tele- grams " One pl tyer call, out twelve let- ters of the alphabet, chose h haphazard, and a to h person then write, out a telc- gram a ing-the twelve letter, in order no the bitUal letters of the words, - For "Wills" each player r. given r half street of notepaper. At Ute top untst bac written the name of the maker of the. will. This, of course, can be the name of a rela- tion or friend or 001110 celebrity, Such as a film star. The paper is then folded over to hide the nanie and is passed to the next plover. He or- she writes another none and the paper hi foaled and passed again. •1'Itis time each player terites something which has been bequeathed to the person whose. name was last written down. The ganteproceeds until ten or twelve bequests have been tnadc to iffe nt >r•on n dt re pc s s, a d tie papers are then read out, to the amusement of the company. In "Backwards or - Forwards" the players are asked to slake a list of all the words they can think of which snake sense either backwards or forstards. 1 or example: star --rats, bud --dub, moor--- rooul, leper—repel. One mark is scored for each word, Words which read the same backwards ar forwards score five, such as tot, bob; or ten if of live letters nr 111ore, such as civic. For "Alliteration" a letter is chosen anti players must ty to make the best sen- to:•ata••. • 1 i ,'t - t i ty tai tush every word btgl nuug with the chosen letter, "Ctuttious Clara came cleverly carrying charnl!ng Chinese cups," is an example. In "Give -Two -Words" each pia) er writes down any ..two words --the more incongruous the hetter--atdhe 10p.cif his paper and passes on to the next player. This person must write sone kind of v erre, four lines or more, bringing in the hen words. 1I.iny-Limy ,•\claim that they stator write poetry, hat surae very goad results c to be obtained by w riting a litner- ick or a parody on such well-known works as Mary- had a little lamb;' or "fliar- wath.t,' Let us suppose.that the words given are "mandoline" and "delight." four effort might be: )Mary had a mandoline, Shc pl It ed it day and night; And everybody wondered why. It gave her such delight," Or, - if you prefer f iianatha," how about this; "Front its cover l-iawatha 'Took his mandoline and played il, Played it with delight and vigor, Till the audience shrank in horror, Shrank and writlind and squirmed in horror. , , ," "Continucd-in-Our-Next" is a story told in sections. Eaclr plater writes five or six lines of a story ---ghost, thriller; humin •n <1 u , a d so on—and passes it un, first turning the paper down so that only the last line shows. The results are ahvays unexpected and amusing. "Sketch -and -Name -It" is a drawing game, but it is not necessary to be an artist in order to play it. in fact, the less skilful the person the'marc amusing the results. Every player just draws sone- thing—whatever he likes—a scene for choice, perhaps some well-known histor- ical event, or sone recent happening which those present took part in. It must not fill up more than half t e paper. The subject of the sketch is written at the >o o r 1 tl m >f the to a and t irnec n •it I g u I <I w so that it d es n h t n of s cis, 'Then each player in turn writes down tt•hat he thinks the drawing is meant to be, The resutlts arc then read out and generally raise a laugh. A very impressionist sketch, pur. porting to be the battle of Waterloo, vias diagnosed as "Cheesemites in action," "Diphtheria germs rampant," and. "Dodging thetrafliie," woui as a diadem, Ou it was a rnuntlur and one of the letter corresponding to the letter. un the trees thus: 1C, 511, 3R, etc„ there 'being perhaps five candles for every tree. To e ach was also handed a tag with one of these numbers on it, which indicated the person n, whom her present w'as to be directed, Attracting as little attention as possible wlile the party wa, assembling, the• tees" stationed theme elves at vari,tus place- about the• room, putting un their hes •lase ly-fitting green raps, with a red taper etf,rt, -for the• very top of the tree. And. llaey hung their letter-b,'ar. ing ptarards around their necks. Thr heutess for the afternoon then jingled sprue. sleigh bells, and ail their attention w r turned u, her, She explain- ed that they h td secured mule rue Varie- ties of Christmas trees for this party and that tlut gals w•ho wore candle, Corre- sponding in letters to those worn by the trees, which they would find round about the Mont, were to trine that tree with the material given them, and that the work must be finished in twenty urinutes front the time they- received their trimmings. FIRST N I GHT The stable door was closed than night, But through the cracks no bolts could bar Th i it cl tnfholt•innt.sc• g ec(t e Burst like a spraying star. Even the beasts were glad lfe cane.. 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