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Tiny straw creations, woven
together with fine string and
reminiscent of snowflakes,
went on the tree, while large
ones were hung in windows
or displayed against a
constrasting background.
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Spruce was the traditional
green, used abundantly
throughout the house. But a
child never helped to
decorate the tree. It was
hidden behind the locked
door of the living room,
decorated by Mother while
the family attended
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Christmas Eve church
services, and then displayed
“in an experience you would
never forget” with the doors
flung open to reveal the tree
in its candle-lit beauty.
“With real candles, you sit
and enjoy the beautifully lit
tree. One never just walks
away and let it burn,”
warned Mrs. Bey. The Bey
family still decorates their
fresh evergreen with
burning candles, carefully
placed so as not to bum
directly beneath an or
nament or overhanging
branch. More German
families, according to Mrs.
Bey, are adopting the
perhaps safer, but not,as
majestic, use of electric
candles.
“Baking is still one of my
very favorite memories,”
she retailed. “And, every
German housewife still
bakes at Christmas.”
Stollen, the customary
fruit-filled bread, is baked
many days ahead of time
and set in a cool spot to
“ripen” and blend flavors.
Stollen never has eggs in it,
and according to Mrs. Bey,
was never decorated with
green or red cherries,
contrary to some of today’s
cookbooks. It’s richness
came from lots of fresh
butter, and almonds, raisins
and lemon peel. Other
children’s favorites mcluded
chocolate-covered pretzels,
marzipan, and anise
flavored sprmgerle cookies,
probably once decorated
with animal symbols and us
ed as religious offerings.
Within each country of
Europe, and even within
individual countries, slightly
different customs are ob
served. In Switzerland,
where Mrs. Bev’s grand
mother still lives, Christmas
is strictly a family-oriented
holiday. Religious obser
vance always comes before
any merrymaking and the
Christ child appears as a ra
diant little angel, clad in
white, arriving on Christmas
Eve.
No sound may disturb the
beauty and tranquility of the
rural Swiss Christmas Eve,
save the ringing of church
bells. In rural canton areas,
the ringing of the bells
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Fulton Grange No, 66
makes Christmas plans
OAKRYN - The Fulton
Grange No. 66 met
November 27 at the Oakryn
Grange Hall with Master
Harry Baker presiding.
Reports were given on the
Pennsylvania State Grange
meeting in Butler.
Mrs. Charles Wallace
announced there will be an
Attic Sale booth at the
resounds throughout the
valleys nestled below the
towering snow-clad Alps,
almost competing with one
another in then* echoes.
Having also lived for a
period in Holland, Mrs. Bey
noted that gift giving there
takes place on December 6,
St. Nicholas Day. Traveling
on a white horse, and
wearing a bishop’s robe and
miter, St. Nicholas comes
accompanied by Black
Peter, symbolic of the power
of the devel. There is no gift
exchanging on Christmas
Day. December 26 is a day
reserved across that below
sea-level nation for singing
and musical praises of the
holiday season.
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held December 8 and 9 at the
Solanco Community Fair
Building, Quarryville.
Anyone having a donation
toward the booth should
bring them Friday evening,
December 8 or the morning
of December 9.
Mrs. Thomas Galbreath,
lecturer, presented a
Thanksgiving program.
A Christmas party with a
$2 gift exchange will be held
on December 11. Allison
Appleget, the Grange’s Miss
Solanco contestant, will do a
dance routine at the party.
The Grange will go
Christmas caroling on
December 22. They will
leave the Grange Hall at 7
p.m. The youth committee
will be in charge.
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