/1 GE SIX------"HE UftiON COUNTY JOURNAL. MARYSVttLE. OHt 3 DECEMBER 21 1949 IMfcunff1 San fa Claus School Sint a Pictured S pirit t Ians By, » . A. D. Era Started New Year’s Gift Bp Thomas Nast Trains Jolly Gents •. Any Other Na me By Charles III Yuktimc Thoughts of Broken Dishes Thomas Nast, the famous car* In a colonial farmhouse at Albion. The notation A.D. (from the Latin Heywood Broun once said, “Christ­ Most Americans would be per­ tnrnist who created nur conception N. Y., there's a school Santa Claus is inseparably asso­ Anno Domini—in the year of our mas is not a date. It is a Mate of plexed io find a pile of broken crock­ of Uncle Sam. the Republican elo- and it’s the only* educational insti­ ciated With the spirit of gift-giv­ Lord) was started by Charles HL mind.” ery on their doorstep New Year’s phint and the Democratic donkey, tution of its kind in the world. ing in America, but in other lands, of Germany, who affixed it to the morning. However, it's a time-hon­ is also credited with giving Amer­ Graduates wear white wig and various gift-bearers are just as eag­ tv years of his reign in 879. No man lives today who does, not ored Danish custom to save every whiskers, red suit trimmed iij white erly awaited. ica its first modern pictorialization fur, wide white belt, and blnck The Christian era begins on Jan­ seek, in some way, to fallow .a guid­ dish which comes to grief during of Santa Claus. Commen^orating the arrival of uary 1st in the middle of the 4th ing star. > the year and hurl it all against Hast first sketched his notion of leather boots. the Mafi on , lhe Wise year of the 194th Olympiad, the 753d the front doors of friends and neigh­ Sa ata Claus in 1873. This Santa was A course at the school prepares Men leave presents fci good hoya year of the building of Rome, and It was Christ who, by his volun­ the prospective Santa Claus to prop­ bors on New. Year’s Eve.. a i ollicking, chubby old man smok and girls ar they pass through Spain ai in 4714 of the Julian period. The tary acceptance of the r<>lt of serv­ The tossers are supposed- to toss in; a pipe and dressed in what erly shako when he laughs like a and other Catholic countries during era, and its system of dating the ant. has been elevated to the royal and run, lint not too (ast. Before lucked like a night shirt with fur bowl full of jelly, remain calm when lheir annual journey to . years prececding the birth of Christ purple and seated at God’s right they gel away, the householder is coJar and cuffs. Since that day he a child glares and yells ’‘there ain" and.dedicating the succeeding years hand. supposed to open the door and in­ hn.t grown taller and rounder, has no Santa Clous" and maintain prop, r-l.W / / to His greater Glory, was invented er diplomatic relations with a parent vite them in for coffoe and dough­ de .•eloped a full white beard and about 532 by a monk, Dionysius Ex- At few, if any. times since Christ nuts. who thinks Santa has given her tot •t. Was born have all the people of the nitstachc and has acquired the tra­ the brushof- tingios—sometimes called Denya le A pile of broken crockery around ditional red suit bordered in ermine. Petit. , enrth needed .faith, trust, and peace any Danish threshold bn New Year's Introduced in Haly during the ns much as they do now. morning attests (he popularity of Use The Journal for Better Results sixth century, the system was not the householder and is •' compli­ PRESENT . - - This puppy la «• GOOD JOB . . . Row would you extensively employed imtil its use Wheri we celebrate the birthday of like lhe job of delivering boxes of ment to his wife’s nbility to make happy as his master. Experts say was prescribed for bishops by the Christ we ought not tn think of Him delicious coffee and tasty dough­ that a pet is an ideal gift M cbd* durinj the only as ■ child. Those who think Council of Chelsea ( Middlesex. Eng­ nuts. dr*-* season? Mice work-—If you cant land) in 816 and made Its debut in Christmas is only a festival about I fiet it. world affairs under the sponsorship a child, for children, veer away from ' of Charles III. lacing Him as an adult. READ THE JOURNAL READ THE JOURNAL

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Ft •;$ fa I -v ft % § STIFFED ANIMAL VARIETY \mong the newcomers to the stutlcd animal collection of toys is the fawn which is gaining in ft popularity with most of restric­ tion! on its manufacture removed. fa Home-Sick Tailor Ci it First Tree Auguf' Imgard, a-home-sick immigrant tailor, goes the credit for ft r introducing th to America. ft As the years roll by $ Iingard vamt to this country in 1B47 to visit his brother in Wooster, ft $ Ohio. With the prospects of a dis­ we realize more and more •V< mal Christmas for the first time ft fa away from his native land. August decided to bring to his newly adopt­ how much it means to hove 7$ ed home all the Christmas- spirit and festivities he had loved so much ft in Wetzlar, Hcssia. To his young the confidence of folks like you nephew and niece he would show ft how Christmas was celebrated in the old country. ft First, he needed a Christmas tree. is a pleasure to wish you This is the way he described how ft he got it: “I walked up Apple creek, . When I got to where the trees a Merry Christmas. were I found the water so high I could not get across. So I walked * $ along until I found a tree fallen from bank to bank and crossed on •W.C'* ' -r fa that I cut a tree and carried it to > 1 the fallen log. But to get across I ft $ tins time I had to lie the tree to my neck and crawl on hands and loot. ft People looked at me with consider­ J

able curiousity when I walked * through town with my tree." Adept with scissors, Imgard cut his own paper adornments anti » local tinsmith fashioned a shiny ft star for the top.

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