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GREETINGS
At tliis jeyetfS Christmas
season...wc extend to everybody
our heartfelt wishes- for a
h^ppy holiday/ a prosperous New Year*
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The Singing of Christmas Carols
Reminds Us of True Meaning
During our present day rush there spiration for the carol as he walked
is perhaps, one thing more than any, t° bis home in the frosty calm of the
other that makes us stop and remem
ber the true significance of Christ
mas—the singing of carols.
This is a tradition that goes back
beyond the 15th century. Although
customs, such as the wassail bowl,
have changed, the carols have con
tinued the same.
One of the best-loved modern carols
"Silent Night, Holy Night,” had its
beginning in Germany. There is an
unusual story attached
year 1818, just two
Christmas, the organ
church of ’St. Nicholas in the small
'Austrian Tyrolean village of Obern
dorf, broke down. The organist, Franz
Gruber, took his problem to the young
curate, Father Josef Mohr, who
agreed to write some verses if Gruber
would compose music simple enough
for unrehearsed guitar accompani
ment
The young priest received his in-
to it. In the
days before
of the little
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same evening after administering the
last rites to a dying woman. Declar
ing to himself that "it must have been
like this that silent, holy night at
Bethlehem,” he spent the rest of the
night composing his immortal words.
The next day Gurber composed'the
music, finishing in time for the mid
night mass. The church members
were greatly aghast when they heard
only the muted strumming of a guitar
and the thin, tired voices of the two
composers instead of the rolling ca
dences of 'their church organ.
But, as they listened to the beauti
ful words, the quaint music fell like
a benediction on the startled par
ishioners. Softly, they began to hum
and at the end of the third verse they
joined triumphantly with the priest
and the organist to sing the repeat of
the words "Christ in deiner Geburt"
(Jesus, Lord at Thy Birth).
This now famous and lovely carol
reached the outside world through a
repair man who came from a nearby
town- Zillaterel, to mend the bellows
of the broken organ. Enchanted, he
carried the words and tune, away with
him, giving it to some concert sing-
el’s who sang it in other parts of
Germany. Later it was sung by roving
choral groups, being published in 1840
at Leipzig for a family of Tyrolean
singers.—Reliance Rambler.
4=H Forestry Club
Elects Officers
£/ls shepherds watched their flocks,.
a Star shone brightly in the hush of a
Holy Night... a Babe was born
in a manger... and a new spirit of
Peace and Good Will came into the world.
with you and your
family now and always.
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(Too late for last week)
The Wingham' District 4-H Fores
try Club held its organizational meet
ing in the District High School. The
election of officers took place and the
following were chosen:
President, Ian Gibbons; vice-pres.,
Beverley Stewart; sec., Glen Coultes;
press reporter, Jim Inglis.
Mr. Fullarton outlined the work for
the club for the coming year.
A second meeting was held on De-
cembei' 12th in the high school with
twelve members present. The 4-H
pledge was repeated and Mr. Fullar
ton gave a talk on the conservation
of the woodlot.
inside a
pioneer
"banks”
in our
Today, we seldom hear of anyone
stashing large sums of money beneath
the kitchen floor-boards or
mattress, but in the early
days these were the only
available to many people.
Along with improvements
banking system has come that im
portant item, the "passbook”. The
passbook is the statement and proof
of one’s material wealth and, in fact,
the only receipt the bank gives to its
depositors.
E^poks for recording savings were in
existence as early as the mid-18th cen
tury, b.ut these looked very different
from the passbook of today. Often
bound in soft leather, they were a joy
to behold, but not very practical for
widespread distribution.
Today’s passbook is usually covered
with a bookbinding.. cloth, specially
treated with a plasticized coating to
create a durable and dirt-resistent
cover. The case in which the book is
kept is made of the same material.
The first "bankers” of history were
the goldsmiths who kept the material
of their trade in large iron boxes for
safety. In time, people began to take
their valuables to the goldsmith for
safekeeping and he would put them
in his strong iron box. In return they
got a recept which was the
ner of the modern passbook.
forerun
A lot- of
that they
never were.
men cling to the
are just as good
delusion
as they
CHEERFUL COLORS
CUT DOWN FATIGUE
It looks as though women in offices
are here to stay. Many companies are
now considering women’s tastes when
planning color schemes for factories
and offices. In the recently-opened
"Terylene" plant at Millhaven, On
tario, for instance, the offices oc
cupied by women have one or two
walls painted a soft pink shade. This,
according to the color experts, is the
color preferred by most women.
The dominant wall color in the Mill
haven plant is a warm grey. The 58
individual offices differ from one an
other by the use of a second color on
one or two walls. Matching blues,
greens and tans are used in offices oc
cupied by men while the women work
in a rosy-pink atmosphere. These
complimentary colors change the
tones of the basic grey, giving each
office an individual look. The floors
are covered with vinyl-asbestos tiles
in alternate colors—one a warm beige
and the other a soft blue-grey. Desks
throughout the plant are silver-grey.
. Colors in offices and factories are
\ chosen to please the eye of the em
ployee. But color has other functions,
too. Through the study known as
color conditioning, experts in this
field plan color schemes that will pro
mote the health and well-being of the
workers. They choose light, cheerful
colors that will give an atmosphere of
spaciousness and cut down fatigue.
Colors that reflect a lot of light are
found to eliminate eyestrain and when
used in offices, they increase the ef
ficiency of the staff.
Thanks to these well-planned color
schemes, employees feel as much at
home in the office as they do in their
own living rooms.
Christmas Was a
Time to Remember
Eleanor Saracuse in O.R.A.
At our parties we used to play a
game based on the Christmas customs
of our Swedish neighbors. We called
it trimming the Christmas tree. Each
team chose one of their group as the
tree and each group was given a box
of ornaments. The winning team was
that showing the most speed and
taste. We usually asked the decor
ated trees to serve the refreshments!
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Hungarian neighbours used to wrap
candy, nuts and fruit in bright paper
and hang them on the tree as decor
ations. When children visited they
were taken to see the tree and to
choose a treat from it. We liked
this custom so much that today such
little parcels always hang on our
tree waiting for' the children.
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Right after lunch we used to sing
Christmas carols, sometimes by the
Christmas tree lights and sometimes
by candlelight and we always had a
fire in the fireplace. Incidentally, at
our house,1 we always sing Christmas
carols right after our dinner. What a
wonderful way to get rid of that
over-stuffed feeling.
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There was always lots of fun about
choosing partners for lunch or for
games. The names of all the ladies
were sometimes written on "snow
flakes” or tiny pieces of tissue paper;
the papers put into a white balloon
and hung near the ceiling. At lunch
time the balloon was broken and down
fluttered the snowflakes. Each of the
men claimed a snowflake.
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We used to have wonderful walnut
rolls made from the walnuts we had
picked in the fall, sugared ginger
bread men and all sorts of such an
nual treats. Mother used to tell us
that when she was a child in Western
Canada, Christmas was one of the
rare occasions when they had candies,
nuts and oranges.
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No Christmas party was complete
without hearing Clement Moore’s
" ’Twas the Night before Christmas”.
Slips of paper with a line of the poem
were handed out to the guests, and
to test their memories, they were ask
ed to read the lines aloud in proper
sequence. We always ended, of course,
in a great chorus of "Happy Christ
mas to all and to all a good-night.”
The Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, December 21, 1955 Page JElewm
Miss M9 Johnston
Hostess to Guild
St, Paul’s Evening Guild held its
annual meeting on Tuesday evening,
December 13, at the home of Miss
Mary Johnston.
According to the reports, the past
year has been one of progress and a
hearty vote of thanks was offered to
the retiring officers,
The report of the nominating com
mittee was accepted and the officers
for 1956 will be: Honorary president,
Mrs. H. Parker; pres., Mrs. Lloyd El
liott; 1st vide-pres., Mrs. Laurie Slade;
2nd vice-pres., Mrs, Herbert Fuller;
secretary, Miss Alice Reading; trem»
Mrs. Robert Ritter; convener for re
membering the sick, Mrs. Jack Myene;
convener for selling cards, Mrs. M.
Templeman; press reporter, Dorothe
Comber,
The program was under the grenrp
headed by Mrs. Jack Myers and Mks,
Jack King, The main feature of the
program was a demonstration <og
Christmas table decorations by Mm.
Lawrence Vannan, of Belgrave.
A custom of some Eastern Euro
pean people is that of putting straw
op hay .under tile tablecloth for tha
Christmas Eve feast and for Christ
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