Small Towns
First to Light
Outdoor Trees
It was a small town that first
thought of lighting an outdoor com
munity Christmas tree.
Four communities are believed
to have thought of the idea about
the same time—as early as 1913
Two of them, McDonald and Ger
mantown, were in Pennsylvania
Salem, Ore., decorated a large
Sitka spruce. Riverside, Calif.,
illuminated a large evergreen, an
Aracuria.
The first national Christmas tree
was in 1924 and was sponsored by
the American Forestry associa
tion. The event is now televised
every year for all parts of the
country to see.
The most spectacular outdoor
displays in the United States are
at the White House and Rocke
feller Center in New York. The
New York display is possibly the
most elaborate in the world.
But it was the small towns that
first thought of the idea.
Today, nearly every community
in the land has some kind of
Christmas decorations. Many com
munities string colored lights
across the street and decorate
light posts with evergreens. Many
suspend bells and stars at street
intersections and have dazzling
community trees.
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CHRISTMAS SPIRIT . . . Full
of Yule good fellowship, “Bingie”
tries to arouse some ditto in the
feline heart of “Ginger.” Ginger,
goodwill season or not, can’t get
over her distrust of dogs.
Christmas Today
Is Too Commercial, *
Many People Believe
Today we hear many people say
that Christmas has been "com
rr.erciaiized” and has lost its true
.meaning.
Has it?
< Is it wrong this one time in the
year to mak the dominate theme
one of giving, rather than re
ceiving?
* Giving has always been a major
part of the Christmas theme—the
giving of joy and happiness to oth
ers whether it be spiritual or
material.
It is true that economically no
other holiday or festive season
contributes so much to the wel
fare of the world. The holiday has
hardly passed into the new year
before thousands are at work on
toys and Christmas specialties for
the next year.
Giving will remain one of the
great joys of Christmas for all
time to come. The idea has sur
vived through the centuries and
nothing will ever stop it.
What, after all. brings more joy
than seeing people happy; than
watching children and loved ones
open gifts and express their thanks
in words and deeds?
It is, essentially, the Christmas
story.
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Dr. Clement Moore
Was Ashamed of
His Famous Poem
Dr. Clement Clarke Moore was
ashamed of his famous poem.
“Night Before Christmas” and
would not acknowledge that he
wrote it for more than 20 years.
Today, the poem which begins—
7 was the night before Christmas,
when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not
even a mouse;—
is one of the most beloved of all
Christmas writings.
Dr. Moore was an aloof profes
! sor of Greek and Oriental litera
! ture in the Episcopal Seminary in
New York. He wrote the poem on
Christmas Eve 1822 and read it
to his seven children.
He had not planned for the poem
to go further than his own family,
but a relative who was visiting
! the Moores put a copy in her diary.
I The next year the relative’s father
| sent it to a newspaper.
Other newspapers printed the
jingles and they quickly became
known all over the country. The
dignified Dr. Moore was embar
rassed and considered it beneath
a man of his scholastic standing
to be the author of children’s
jingles.
Twenty-two years later, how
ever, he finally publicly admitted
authorship of the jingles and it
was published in book form under
his name for the first time.
Make Gifts Attractive
Make your Christmas package
attractive because half of the
pleasure of the gift is the wrap
ping and opening a beautiful pack
age. Use plenty of ribbon and gay
colored paper. Add bells and
Christmas ornaments to the bows.
Tie ribbon about the corners and
put the bows off-center to make
the packages distinctive. A lit
tle disguising by putting small
boxes in larger ones before wrap
ping adds to the mystery of the
gift.
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children. Every year Macy’s of New York has a gigantic pre
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tacle. They are having the time of their lives and the scene will be
repeated in hundreds of towns throughout the country this Christ
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may not have snow, but it’s
Christmas in Miami Beach, too.
Hilda Esteves gets into the Yule
spirit by decorating a pool-side
tree. Helper is T-*l!°n Ss>pt.
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Christmas day.
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Germans First Linhted
Christmas Tree Here
German immigrants, homesick
for the traditions of their native
land, were the first to decorate
Christmas trees in their homes in ;
the United States, according to
tradition.
Historians believe it was about
the end of the Revolution that the
practice began to grow in the
colonies.
Before that the Pilgrims forbade
Christmas celebrations on the
grounds ihey were pagan. And a '
Massachusetts law in 1689 sub
jected anyone to a fine who ob
served the day by feasting, re
fraining from work or in any other
manner.
Historians also believe that Mar
tin Luther was the first to deco
rate and light a tree. He was fas
cinated by evergreen trees, glis
tening with starlit-snow, pointing
to the heavens at Christmas time.
So he brought an evergreen into
his house and lighted it with can
dles for his children.
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