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the “she" hollies smooth-leaved. The varieties brought into
the house at Christmas supposedly showed whowould head iV
the household for the coming year — “he” or “she.” ]r
A variation on this custom said that if the holly was
brought into the house in fair weather, the wife would rule, J
but if the weather was bad, the husband would be master.
Holly was credited with many magical and medical I'*
powers. It was believed to cure toothaches, banish rickets, .o
and even foretell to girls the names of their future husbands.
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Red, Green Set Yule Scene
With Symbolic Meanings
The traditional colors of the
Christmas season are red and
green. Yet these colors have
meant different things to dif
ferent people over the ages.
Color has been used as the
symbol of abstract ideas from
time immemorial.
In early and medieval Chris
tian art colors had a mystic or :
symbolic meaning. Red indi- !
From Poem, Cartoon
Santa Gets His Garb
Thomas Nast, in 1869. The car
toon showed Santa in his fa
miliar red garb, smoking a
pipe.
Santa first appeared in his1
now-traditional guise as a i
plump, jovial, white-bearded ’
and pipe-smoking old gentle
man — “a right jolly old elf"
— in the poem, "A Visit from
St. Nicholas.” written by Dr. 1
Clement C. Moore in 1822.
Earlier, “Santeclaus” had
been pictured dressed as a
bishop, in a book called "The
Children's Friend,” and in
Washington Irving’s “Knicker
bocker History of New York,” i
published in 1809, Santa was
said to wear a broad-brimmed
hat and huge breeches.
Even Dr. Moore’s poem did
not, apparently, clothe Santa
in a red suit. “He was dressed
all in fur from his head to his
foot,” says the poem.
Santa as he looks today was
first sketched by Cartoonist
cated passion. In its good sense
it was a symbol of divine en
ergy and love and the creative
power of the Holy Spirit; in its
bad sense it was a sign of hate.
In that meaning it became an
emblem of Satan.
Emerald green is often the
symbol of hope and growth in
many Christian paintings.
Colors played an important
role in medieval magic and su
perstition. For example, the
famous “philosopher’s store,”
which the alchemists thought
would turn base metals into
gold and cure all diseases, was
thought to be colored red, ac
cording to the Encyclopedia
Americana. Red was also a
favorite curative color in more
recent superstitions.
In Indonesia, the people
think a piece of bright red
coral will keep its owner’s
teeth in good order, and there
are people everywhere who
YULE LOG
The Yule log figured promi
nently in the inauguration of
'The Twelve Days of Christ
mas.” A huge log was selected
by men and, with children
sitting atop the log, they
brought it upon their shoulders
from the forest. The log was
set afire and kept burning for
twelve days, at the end of
which time the fire was quen
ched and a portion of the log
saved to kindle a new log the
Allowing year.
are sure that a person owning a
ruby will live to a ripe old age.
Green was a sacred color
among the ancient and medi
eval Egyptians who wore it as
a symbol of hope and the joy
of spring. The Muslims carried
this symbolism throughout the
Middle East, and the faithful,
on returning from the pilgrim
age to Mecca, wear a green
turban.
Cards Came
Late In Yule
Traditions
Many of today's Christmas
traditions began somewhere
in the dim past, but the prac
l tice of exchanging greeting
i cards is just a little over a cen
tury old.
In 1848 William Maw Egley,
a “starving” young English
artist, came up with the idea
of designing a Christmas card
and reproducing it on pieces
of pasteboard for the public to
buy.
Egley’s card showed a fam
ily Christmas dinner, formal
dance, skating, carolers, alms
giving, a Punch and Judy show
and other aspects of a celebra
tion resembling the one in
Charles Dickens’ “The Christ
mas Carol,” published a few
years previously. Unfortunate
ly, Egley’s friends were not en
thusiastic about his idea.
The “daddy” of all holiday
cards was designed and etch
ed in 1812 by J. A. Boemer,
a young Londoner, who wanted
to apologize to friends for his
failure to pay a New Year’s
Day visit. Mr. Boerner’s card
made it clear he was tied to his
home by depicting him with
his coat caught in the locked
doorway of his house.
In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, a
busy English “missionary” of
culture, hit upon the idea of
send:ng cut little missives at
Christmas. John Calcott Hors
ley of the Royal Academy, fa
mous for his campaign against
nude art. designed the cards
and Sir Henry sent out 1,000
to friends.
It wasn’t until the early
186G's that cards were issued
for general distribution by a
large English publishing com
pany.
Christmas greetings were
introduced into the United
States by the Marcus Card
company of London. They be
came popular immediately, and
in 1874 Louis Prang, a German
immigrant, started a Christmas
card business at Roxbury,
Mass.
At the turn of the century,
he ceased publishing rather
than compete with imports
flooding the market. For the
next decade or so the custom
of exchanging cards fell out
of fashion.
Only after World War One
did American manufacturers
begin to achieve success in the
card business. Then inexpen
sive printing and lithographing
processes brought Christmas
cards within everyone’s reach.
Despite its relatively recent
start in this country, the cus
tom has caught the fancy of
the American public to the
extent that it sends billions of
Christmas cards every year,
according to Mrs. Peggy Gil
bert of Norcross, Inc.
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