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AMD GIVE MY PAP A BOOK ON FIRE PREVENTION SO
OUR HOUSE WON'T BURN POWN AGAIN THIS YEAR*
Here There Everywhere
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
To our friends in Kodiak and
throughout thgr United States, we
wish to extend! our heartiest
Christmas greetings and well
^Wishes for the New Year to follow.
The low < of mail received re
mains unanswered, but within oui
hearts is an ever abiding hojM
that each and all of you have t
Christmas of complete content
ment, and may the New Year b<
measured with your fall share o
happiness.
Glory To God In The Highest
By MOLLIE SMART
If religious celebration is a vital part of your Christmas, you’ll wan!
your children to share it. ........
If your children are too young to stay through the whole of a churcl
Christmas service, it is still worth the effort to take them to a smal
*art of it. You can give glory to God at home, too, at this season ii
particular, une way « w
carols as a family. Christmas can
he featured in mealtime grace and
bedtime prayers. You can let the
Christmas story inspire at least a
fair share of the decorations—stars
and camels, for instances, rather
than holly and reindeer.
The story of Christ’s birth can
be told in part while a child is
still too young to understand a
word*story. You can speak to a
baby through Christmas music,
part of it sung by his family, some
of it from bells which he’ll like to
ring for himself. Pictures take on
meaning between 1 and 2 years.
A year-old child will recognize the
baby, mother and father in a
creche and he will enjoy the
animals and angels. You can tell a
2-year-old the story in very simple
terms. You can begin reading it
from the Bible while the children
are of preschool age.
Stage a Christmas Play
The Johnson family gives glory
to God each Christmas through
dramatics. It began with the two
elder children, Jim and Jane, act
1(1 Xiojs seunsuqD aqi ino Sui
moving ngures m uieir crecme am
saying lines ad lib for them. Tin
next year, Mr. Johnson read tin
story from Luke while Jim, Jam
and Jill made the creche figure;
act it out.
The following year, they us«*
both Luke and Matthew. Nex
came an attempt to act out Christ
mas scenes themselves, using cos
tumes from the attic and whatever
else they could find. Last Christ
mas all five children worked foi
scenery for putting on the Christ
mas story on Christmas eve. Thi:
venture took some effort on th<
parents’ part., too.
There were quarrels to mediati
and practices to supervise. Jerry’;
shepherd and wise man had eye:
right on top of their heads and n<:
chins at all. but they looked fine
to Jerry. They looked fine to the
other Johnsons, too, because, a;
Jane put it, “Jerry’s only 4 and h<
did his best.” Jane had made <
puppet to represent Mary and i
was quite lovely from an adul'
standpoint. Mr. and Mrs. Johnsor
never doubted but "that Jeiry’i
puppets were just as pleasing U
God as Jane’s.
There are manyways in whlcl
families can shar<? in the glory o:
Christmas. The1 Reynolds, lik<
many others, made Christmas
cards together. Their 2-year-olc
licked start and stuck them on
The g-year-old cut out shapej
from colored paper and stud
them. The 8-year-old addressee
envelopes and signed cards. There
came a time, though, when all th<
children lost interest and Mrs
Reynolds finished the job by her
self. Each child did a job that h<
could handle. All had the unifyinj
feeling of working together as i
family. The children were not call
ed upon to stick at the job longe:
than they could without strain.
Family Project
The O’Neill* are like man;
families in the way they decorat
for Christmas. They make a famil:
r
[.occasion of going out to get the
: tree and greens. (Although trees
s and greens are of pagan origin, no
> body would denv that they a id to
1 the glory of Christmas.)
Mrs. O’Neill takes the box of
► decorations out of the attic and
* everyone hangs them on the tree
l and sets up the creche on the cof*
“ fee table. They reminisce over who
5 gave them this and that and over
* what they did with on other
■ Christmases. In the days that fol
* low, Polly and Jack make perish
(> able decorations—paper chains,
1 strings of popcorn and cranberries,
- popcorn bails and cookies. The
tree soon takes on an overloaded,
stuffed appearance, but Polly and
Jack admire their creations.
7 Mr. and Mrs. O’Neill accept the
s children’s products without trying
i to make them over. “Our tree may
not look very artistic, .mr. v/
has said, "but Jack and Polly haw
a wonderful time decorating it.
The * Ketches of these three
fancies illustrate the following
truths:
1. It can be joyful and rewarding
when a family shares in the glory
of a festival.
2. A famiily project succeeds when
each member can work on his own
level.
3. Younger children feel happy
and satisfied when adults and
older children accept the things
they make and do.
V.F.W. CHRISTMAS PARTY
The VFW will iidd its annual
Childrens Christmas party, Sun
day, December 22, in their Club
room.
The party is scheduled for 2
p.m.
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It's a pleasure and a privilege at Christmastime to
be able to set aside the cares and problems of our
workaday world and extend our best wishes for a
Merry Christmas to our friends
From all of us at tho
Kodiak Mirror
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been privileged to
serve. Another year has
almost passed and whether
it has brought happiness
and prosperity in great or
lesser degree, our lives are
the richer because of the experience
we have gained. Much of the progress
we were able to record was in
some measure made possible by your
cooperation and a friendly understanding
of our problems. For this we say a
most sincere thank you. As we
urn to the year ahead we realize it wil
, a year of considerable challenge. M;
the year 1958
bring you good
fortune and much
happiness is the
wish of all of us
here at the Bank