Origin Of T. B.
Christmas Seals
The origination of’ the Christ
mas tuberculosis seal is recalled
by officials of the American Tu
berculosis Institute.
Back in 1903 Einar Holboell,
then a young mail clerk in the
postoffice at Charlottenlund, Den
mark, conceived the idea of a vol
untary tax on Christmas greeting
cards which would benefit the
poor. He gained permission from
the ministry .to sell the stamps at
post offices for a fund to erect a
hospital for tubercular children.
In 1907 Miss Emily P. Bissell of
Wilmington, Del., adopted the idea
and interested the American Red
Cross in the project. The first na
tional sale in 1908 brought in
SI 35,000 and the amount has
grown larger each year. The sale
■of seals has saved 100,000 lives
annually among tubercular pa
tients, officials declare.
At the time of his death in 1927,
Holboell was president of the In
ternational Tuberculosis Associa
tion and a member of the board
of directors of the National Tu
berculosis Association of Den
mark. As a mark of honor to the
originator, the Danish Christmas
seal for 1927 bore his picture.
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS
BOAR'S HEAD
Legend says that a student from
Queen’s College, Oxford, England,
was walking in the forest on
Ch:*istmas Day, studying his Aris
ASTRONOMERS EXPLAIN
STAR IN EAST
“The New Testament does not
guide us in attempting to identify
the Christmas star,” Dr. Dmsmore
Alter, director of the Griffith ob
servatory, Los Angeles, Calif.,
states.
“We know what the heavens ap
peared like 2,000 years ago and
there is only one reasonable the
ory for the announcement of the
Wise Men, who said, in Matthew
2:2:
“ Where is He that is born king
of the Jews, for we have seen His
star in the east and are come to
worship him?’
“In 6 B. C., there was a group
ing of three planets—Jupiter, Sat
urn and Mars—which might have
provided the ancients with their
long-awaited sign of the Nativity.
“One year earlier—7 B. C.—
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus were
similarly grouped.
“What makes the astronomer
pause at accepting this theory is
the passage in Matthew which
reads, “The star went before
them.’ That, many scientists as
| sume, must have been a psycho
I logical rather than an actual vis
ual impression.”
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totle when he was attacked by a
boar. The student defended him
self by thrusting the book in the
boar’s mouth. That day, as a cele
bration, the boar’s head, with an
apple in its mouth, was served at
the college. The custom is follow
ed in some American colleges.
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