The Daily Standard from Sikeston, Missouri • Page 19

WHUI NNNNM Religious Christmas Cards on Increase THE DAILY SIKESTON STANDARD, Sikeston, Mo. Monday, Dec. 24 Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1962 Each Land Celebrates In Its Own Way We see for you and yours, every joy and blessing of this happy season all in great good measure. Merry WHITE'S REXALL DRUG STORE The trend toward more religious i Christmas cards, which started in I the late is still gaining men turn.

A record number of religious subjects is being offered on this Although Japan is not a Christian Mistletoe Dates Baca to Druids Christmas cards by the ma- country, the Japanese have taken The custom of kissing under tlv jor greeting card publishers. many a Christmas custom. The mistletoe dates far back into mist; Approximately 35 per cent of the firms hand out bonuses on antiquity, reports i an American more than three billion cards that Christmas Eve and the depart- Airways from England, The Brir-, will be sent this Christmas, will ment stores along the Ginza arc ish inherited the custom from the! contain religious designs. decked with tinsel and holly. As a Druids who gathered the mistletoe In contrast, less than five per- festive touch, the Japanese sales- during their celeoraiiOn of the win- cent of the Christmas cards produc- girls up like Santa Claus with ter solstice.

The Druid priests cut ed 15 years ago could be classified fur hats and red shirts, worn with the plant with a golden sickle, and as religious in character, red shorts on occasion. distributed it to the people as an The and Child" is the wholt Teelh Christmas most popular of die The bushy-haired natives ui the neath mistletoe, they would signs, once again, followed by -ppjjj Islands seraade the village embrace. the Three Wise and the chieftains before dawn on Christ- Cake For Christmas In France mas Day. The carolpr.s then re- pastry cooks are busy in France ceive their gifts whale teeth, over the holidavs. Tradition at of cherubs to choirs, open Bibles straw mats and tapa cloth, all; Christmas calls tCl- a iong cake in precious possession? among the Fi- the shape of a log with chocolate jians.

Suckling pig. roasted an icing, made to look like bark, and, open pit, is the favorite holiday candied fruit to resemble candles, fare. Outrigger canoe racing and de 0r Log Cake climbing coconut oalms barefooted representes the Yule log, burned in the fireplace op Christmas Eve. Another special cake, served on! The great day of gift-giving in Spain is the Epiphanv, the Day of xllS uv 1U.UU u. u.c th Ki on 6 Spanish I Lord and "To You Who1 Teach His There is also a card for "Sunday hool Teach- 99 er.

The first religious "Holy Other religious motifs run the gamut from drawings to the traditional snow covered New England church. Beside the religious Christmas cards for general use. greeting card publishers have also made availabl a wide variety of cards specially designed to be sent to the clergy. There are such special titles "To Our "To The Minister and His To You in the add to the festivity. Spain Has Three Santas Tw elfth Night, has a bean or Unv present baked inside Whoever selects the lucky piece is king or queen for the evening Swiss Santa Collects Gift8 Christmas in Switzerland begins May the joys of Christmas fill your hearts with wonder and love, both now and through the coming years.

JOLLY CAB GR 1-0727 Sikeston, Mo. sters throughout the land put out their shoes, filled with grain for the horses, on Epiphany Eve. When thev awaken, the chil- as early Dec. 6. the dren find gifts of toys, cookies and of first St.

Nicholas. cards were published sweets lef1 bv tho Wise jyien. Each canton observes this holiday i Ireland in 1875. the same year ra(Je Kin0s in. in its own traditional way.

In the Louis Prang, a prominent Boston cidenlJtaliv is one of the most color. villages of the Upper Valais, for lithographer, became the first Am- jn jn citv I example, the schoolboys accom- encan to produce Chnstmas cards mbes and bands pany St. Nick on his rounds to colon a commercial scale. joinim in the precision lect nuts, fruits and gifts. When the It until 1890 is over, St.

Nick, usually that religious design' started an-; Danes Smash Pottery the school master in disguise, di- pearing on American Christ, mas The Danes sav? up their tie-! vides the spoils among his cards. In fact, the majority of the 1 structive tendencies for New Grapes Bring Good Luck in Spain early Christmas mot its had little Eve. Throughout the year, each The Spanish welcome the New) or no relation to Christmas or the household puts as'do its old or Year not with a gias', of wine winter season. They pictured gum- 1 broken pottery. When the New Year with grapes from the wine.

When mer flowers, seascapes, fairies, on its way in. cup-, plates an1 the clock strikes mi-fought, it is the; tens, children playing, even fish chipped glasses are smashed custom to eat 12 grapes, one for and reptiles. against front until the hosts each stroke of ine hour. In the- issue an invitation to come in. The alers and nightclubs throughout SIGNS COULD BE IMPROVED family with the biggest hpan of Spain, the hands CHICAGO Drivers who broken pottery on its doorstep on bags of grapes for their patrons to have become lost on superhigh- New Dav is considered the insure their good luck during ways, although signs indicated di- most popular in the neighborhood, year.

rations, have some support from Carnival In Tahiti standardization in the Tahili exl'lwief United States would probably save 1'N 11' about 2.000 lives a says Oinstmas Eve. fill the skies and a carmvnl May tht cyltbraf In which B'-'Vo wealth glaafnyw and contentment wirh Christmas sea- a year, says Harry Porter, traffic manager of the National Safety Council. Iowa recently completed a survey of all traffic signs on state roads and found they were a mess. More than half of its 182.000 signs will be replaced as a result of the studv. a opens along the Papette waterfront.

Refreshment stands serve pineapple, pie and conut milk. Cafes serving good French wines are trimmed with imported greenery. The singing of the old mingles with the chant and sway of the hula. The husband arrived home evening to find his wife distraught. had a terrible day," comolained.

baby cut his first tooth: then he took his first step then he fed down and cut his lip on the "What happened the husband ased. she added in a shocked voice, "he said his first Family Weekly. BRIDGER PLUMBING and HEATING 507 EAST KATHLEEN GR 1-5425 tin's Hokj Clm'stinas Datj Harwell Auto Parts fc 102 NORTH SIKESTON, MISSOURI Sfift heartily wish, for you and yours, a most merry and festive as filled with the joy of giving as jolly St Nick full of happy wonder as the shining faces of children gathered around the tree. May your heart and home be brimming with all the most precious blessings of the Christmas season- Oakes Conoco Station I GR 1-5097 HIGHWAY 61 NORTH GR 1-9972.