Thursday, December 14, 1989.
HOLIDAY EDITION—UNION PRESS-COURIER.
Marry
Christmas!
By Helen Morton
IT WAS enough to make one hate
Christmas! Betsy was so tired
that she could hardiy stand This
counter in the middie of the aisle
bad become a nightmare to her. The
erowds hurriving by, pulling the
neckties off as their coats brushed
against {hem, fingering them: over
and then tossing them back on the
table carelesily
Still, # wan good to have a job,
even & temporary one. For she
had beer without work for a long
enough time so that she had "eat
en’ and ull her possessions she could
borrow rhoney on.
No time to lw standing here think
ing, though.
ties. “These are very nice, madam.
And so reasonable; 35 cents a piece, |
or three for $I00. This Is an ex
ceptionally pretty one.” and Betsy
showed hear a savy blue. But the fat |
woman dropped the ties and has |
toned away with her friend, leaving Su
{ Sumn,
& pile of ties on the floor.
Wearily Betsy leaned over and
§¥
| tip of Honshe
: That fat woman looked |
as if she was going to buy several |
: fATe
rh
Villagers Kneel at Mound
i
T hey (Call Christ's Burial Place
OKYO Peasants In a rernote
northern Japanese village do not
celebrate Christmas but they believe
Jesus Christ died in Japun
Nor are they Christians, if each
year they kreel beforir a strange
reound which they belweve on Christ's
burial place.
This takes place at the
Herai where Buddhists or
gather each year sround
- surmounted by a pillar on
three Japanese chars(tiers
siz-pointed star componed of
focking triangles,
emblem
How this strange tradition
in Japan is not known,
notice that the village,
cated in Aomori,
islnnd,
distance south of Mount Yadaijin,
which is pronounced almost like the
modern Japanese word for “Jew.”
age cif
Tntoets
gw
¥
am
Sy
which is Jo
The six-pointed star i completely | o
foreign to the people, yet some peas- |
she Biblical |
The Ao |
ants are familisr with
version of Christ's deat
OTian story. whith they have
Heved for 20 centurws, ix this
During tne reign of the Emperor
the slevinmll
young white man came Ww H
{ the district. Twelve years later, at
| the pge of 34, he disapprared
Soraitaro
Fifteen years inter
ba.
. gion andl that, because of his beliefs,
safe 4 give ‘em ties. Socks are |
80 conumonpince.”
“Your brothers?” Betsy asked as |
she held up tne or two she liked
“Yeah. Thiee brothers and a sis
ter. She's sbout your age, | reckon.
What does a gir! like, anyway, when
you've oily a little to spend?” He
i had been sentenced 10 death by cru
| cifixion.
Sorsitere is thes said tb have oid
" mound 5
which are | |
and 8
inter. |
like the Hebrew |
arrived |
at visitors i
fear the sxtrame |
# no great |
IP PETOY, @ |
ve in |
| House of the Moon
His |
{ unearthed from this place
; ve returned |
| and told the peopie he had been to |
{ the land of his birth tesching reli |
| in a religious way
| especially
! Jesus as a
Ocean
Ishtiri, sacrificed his
on the tross.
years, scross Europe
through Siheris. Finally res
Aomori again, he died at the a
105 in the eleventh year
| Tenno's reign
Near the alleged buris! mou
OWN
Then he traveled for
| the natives that his younger broth.
| er,
iife
and
nog
ie of
i Reiko
nd is
the rus of a stone building which
villagers call
articles are reported to have
say it ® the place where Jesus
shiped
They do not
nor is (he on
sacred. They
"Selina saint or
man
Tsukino-Tatte,”'
Many foreign
ithe
been
People
wn
worship His memory
wound
desor
he
Wine
TRICEY BOK.
Atrichy box for a mia's desk is a
laguered metal box with sections for
{paper clips, rubber bands and pins
‘Bs equipped with an adjustable roll
calendsr and 2 roll top.
MEN LIKE THESE
Ads in the Pree
tEnlion Wo men’s farnishings
and if they are suitably chosen
i nothing more pleasing fo
erage man
Fare
Have appeared as guests in your homes this past
visits gave enjoyment and happiness and that we may look for more’
in the years abend,
as
ips at.
gifts
there
ee wv.
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Christmas (Comes
But Once a Year—
Almost Any Time!
Merry Chriatmay, is whatever you
make it. whenever you mike i
From December 5, when Saint Nich.
stags arrives for Dutch children, ©
we Aleutian landers’ Christimas on
wary 7. someone ts celebrating
festive day most of the time
altgnd chovses December 5 as
¢ of the festival day which
the chureh has set
aside in Saint Nich.
slag’ honar In
Hungary Santas
Class pays his frst
vigil several weeks
ahead of the Yule
tide, inaving boxes
of candy in prep
aration for his seo.
ond yisit
Nlost of the un
; usual celebrations,
nouwever, come after’ December 18
indeed. fall after New Year's day
Hemole Shetland ishinders north of
Scotland celebrate January 5, still
SARI Ny
issu s———————c
‘linging to the old Julian calendar |
and refusing to accept that of Pope |
world |
wregory which most of the
was used for two centuries.
Januacy § is also Christmas day
n at least one part of the United |
isolated ami wind |
swept Rodanthe island off North
The custom, apparently
a holdover from “old Christmas” — |
States proper,
Carolina
the Twelfth night, or
Epiphany —
the occasion finds all 300 residents
hanging thelr stockings and await
ing Santa Claus.
In Alaska, where mid-summer de
livery of Christmas presents makes
them suitable either for last Christ
mas or the coming one, part of the
residents celebrate on December 35
and the rest January 7. The latter
date is observed chiefly by Aleutian
islanders, which is populated by ne
tives whe were interbred with Rus {
ahs: griniGa Sma.
socents by Warod. ind in the ear
y days was comvidinred an eern-
So intense was thw lear of thin
unfortunate festival that the coro
nation of England's King Edward
IV was pusiponsd in order io
avoid the fatal date.
pans sundreds of years ago. Toey
use the Russian calendar, which has
not been changed to conform with
that used by the rest of the world
By this calendar, New Yeur's is
celebrated January 14.
Men of Christmas
Povtmasier Gessral James A.
Farley receives Christmas canis
at the rate of 1.000 4 day during
Yale inason.
Vasco Du Gama, the great Por
tnguese navigator, ‘was bers us
Christmas day in 18D, Siscoveirnd
Matal, Afviea, on (Christmas day,
1497, and died on ((Dristmas eve,
eg."
Osear Phillips, postmaster uf
Santa Class, bil, cancels »
hail. million pieces of mall end
Christmas season.
President Roosevelt gets »
toothbrush ami calty of senp In
his stocking eset (Christmas.an
old family custom.
Fdwurd Keenas, whe has eo
setod the role of Banta Claus is
Milwaukee since HET, keeps »
small herd of reindieer all year
round for his parpese.
oll cours, means © every
Like Aladdis’s Limp, may every joy be yours on Christmas Tuy, 4nd. uy you
Nave She full wealiation of Nesith and Prospuity for 1940.
am common of great interest and spir-
Hal uplife to ofl who are sttending
The theme is “Tou Can Win" in lie
by giving piser to the Spirit of Cod
in your heart
quarter of DE i on Rand Whit »
rive thing # wold Be if you woul
purchase i fw oxirs copier od make
presets of them to your frien They
make first class Christmas presents
William J. Pulmer, Judge of the So-
pirior Congrt, Lis Angeles, Califorsia
his this is sy: “The Upper
wiry helfiful in keeping the
he family star aglow. 1
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