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Shop
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to our friends
Clyde
Franks
CONTRACTOR
Italian children
may be otf cardboard. Among
rich ndbles there may be ex
■pensive hand carvings. But al
ways there is the Presepio.
©albbo Natalie (Father Christ
mas) is known in Italy bmt it is
the Gesu Bambino (The Infant
Jiesus) who lays presents be
side the heads of sleeping Chil
dren before they awaken Christ
mas morning.
Thus begins Christmas, the
one day of the year in wlhieh
every Italian is expected Uo rest
at home with his family. Thr
ough the day the family group
plays cards, talks and jokes,
drinks coffee and eats candies)
* or sweets. j
Sweets vary from city to ciiiy
but everyone must have pan-!
ettone. This is a sweetbread
with raisins and candied fruit
which has spread from Milan a
cross the world. Thousands are *
shipped to the Unilted States
for Italo-Ameriean Christmas ;
celebrations there.
In Sicily, cassata, an ice
cream enriched with fruit,
candy and cream, is a favorite.
In Cremona they eat toffee.
Chocolat e is popular every
where.
There is no traditional menu
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ill tbe Yuletide Season brings
us closer to a complete and
lasting peace on earth, it will truly
be just cause for rejoicing.
M.S. "Duke" Mitrovitch
General Construction
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
and Staff of the Sitka Order Office
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