Grandfather Frost
Is Russian Santa
Christmas in Russia? Behind the
Iron Curtain it’s Grandfather Frost
who delights the children.
Grandfather Frost (really an ac
tor from the Moscow stage) was
revived by the Russians two years
ago. Through most of the month
of January thousands of Russian
children dance around a fir tree in
St George’s Hall and may shake
hands with Grandfather Frost, the
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Kussian Santa Claus.
Grandfather Frost entertains the
children with the aid of singers,
dancers and variety artists from
the theaters. Last year, for the
first time, American correspond
ents were admitted to the Kremlin
to see one of the gatherings.
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WRIGHT BUILDING
We wish you and yours a rich
abundance of all of the joys of this
happy holiday season.
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PALMER BODY AND PAINT COMPANY
Outdoor Decorations
Began in Small Towns
Today nearly every community
in the land has some kind of out
door Christmas decorations and in
nearly every big city you can find
two or three spectacular displays.
It was a small town that first
came up with the idea of lighting
up the outdoors at Christmas time,
but no one is quite sure which
town gets credit for the idea.
Four communities are believed
to have thought of it about the
same time, as early as 1913. Two
of them, McDonald and German
town. are in Pennsylvania. Salem.
Ore., decorated a Sitka spruce and
Riverside, Calif., illuminated a
large evergreen, an Aracuria
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As carolers
sing the joys of
Christmas, we
chime in with best
wishes for you.
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j\ s you worship in the
Church of your choice, may
Christmas bring you the most precious
gift of all... peace and contentment. And may the
spirit of Him whose birth we celebrate abide with you now and
throughout the coming year. May all the true joys of Christmas be yours.
MATANUSKA VALLEY BANK
TIME OF JOY
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Christmas—a time of joy and peace, tree lights, tinsel, and snow—
and time for renewal of that perennial cry, •’Christmas is too commer
cial.”
It's been said for years, and to a certain extent it has always been
true. Many are too concerned with today's commercial world to
have time for the observance of Christmas. Others are so busy buying
presents, selling presents, and generally mak n? Christmas an ordeal,
that they, too, are unable to place the emphasis where it rightly
belongs—on the religious and spiritual level.
Yes, there is much about Christmas that is commercial, or rather,
that has been commercialized. Yet Christmas itself, and the spirit
that belongs to the holiday, is always the same. As individuals, we
each “make” our own Christmas within our hearts. Our feelings, our
motivations and our outward actions, weigh these well and you will
know what Christmas means to you.
How often is it also said that Christmas belongs to the children. If
this be true, then the observance of Christmas would have been
forgotten long ago. Tinsel and glitter, present under the tree, stock
ings by the fireside, this is the meaning of Christmas to the young
in heart; but all these are merely adjunct to the true and significant
meaning of Christmas; that on this day a child was born in Bethlehem
and because of this birth mankind may hopefully strive for eternal
salvation.
The true Christmas is not commercial, nor does it belong only to the
young. Through faith, good will and charity do we enter into the
proper observance of this great holiday and only the truly hard
boiled, the cynical, the greedy, and the disbelievers; only these,
through their own lack of virtue, are not a part of the true celebrations
of Christmas.
Hope your holidays are
as merry as children building a snowman 1
PIONEER APARTMENTS
May all the delights
of this happy
Christmas season be
enjoyed by
you and your family.
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MATANUSKA HOTEL
JOHNSON FUEL SERVICE
PALMER
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WHEN SANTA LEAVES
While American children always
find their Christmas presents in
the stockings or under the tree,
children of other nations must
search for theirs Norwegian chil
dren seek them out in hiding
places which may be anywhere in
the house in Italy, they seek them
in ‘ Urns of Fate” and in France
children usually find them in wood
en shoes.
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