Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1921-12-10

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Wishing all Merry Christmas i
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A HEART TO HEART CHRISTMAS |
TALK.
Good morning, Social Corner Editor |
and Social Corner Sisters: wish in
stead Of writing this letter could say
to you personally Just a few words con-
corning Christmas. I hope you all be-
l.eve in the old fashioned Christmas
the kind that begins weeks before hand
and Is! somehow associated with snow
and wind WHICH whistles under the wag-
on wheels, with frosty panes and sHai.
noses pressed against them, with strings
of eranberries In the shop windows, rows
OF dangling fat turkeys, and the sound
Of sieighbells In and under everything
Christmas is really day TO be loved,
quite apart from its real Significance. 1t
is such a CHEEKY, jolly, whole-he arted
sort Of a day. making you love the pea
nut-vender and the newshoy. even Il he
is late with your Bulletin, and your
neighbours disa greeable chi'd with tho
hare lip and the siclsly Fauntleroy curls.
almost as much as you do your k!th and
kin. but i seems to me that some % Us,
in the modern erdeavor to conserve en-
ergy and time, and conscientiously
weigh values, are in danger OF losing
the old-fashiened Christmas past all
possibility of ever finding It again.
If you have been considering limiting
the Christmas expression TO few Pres
ents for the children. with the grown
folks yourself included left out, repent
in haste, Don't lose Christmas out Of
the ca endar. 1t is ctildren's day 70 be
sure but that only means it is a Gay
when grown folks should become chill
dren.
Surely, I am not the only one who
would like to be six years old again.
working cross-stitch notices for mother
with such inspiring sentiments as Home
Sweet Home laboriously over and
-overing fat pocket oin-balls for father.
and counting The money IN my tin bank
to see Il I could get brother battle
dore and slluttlecoclS, and sister q, NINA
turs tea-set in three pieces of Britain
MIA metal. There can never be any sem
sation to me in any degree eduai 20 It
/ in Importance ard the number and
quality of It's thrill g.
If you. too. are conscious OF a warm
feeling about your heart at the memoir
, les Christmas calls up. make up Your
! mind, now, to provide a new set that
shall be just as satisfying and as Joy
Gus.
/ Plunge at once into the Christmas at.
nosnhere. srnueela packages up and
down stairs. hide them under the ssare
room bed, and in the old hat boz on the
, waFdrobe, and in the shoe bag. on the
closet door. and see you loose no Joy
( which Christmas can vouchsafe.
And remember all the fofks-every
one Of them. Not with the substantial
presents you have thought It imperative
to give, but with a jar of your curran
| Jelly, a loaf OF spice cake, q pot Of sin.
from your thrifty pants. half iozer
iron holders. e handkerchief case made
from bits Of linen your scrap bag ha!
, furnished, a cake dolly from the SAM
source or anyone of hundred Other
simple things that you can work on a
odd times In kitchen or sewing room
and sin out of sight when discover.
threatens.
y These are the sort OF presents whiel
will restore the old-time thrills which
cut glass berry dishes and EXPENSIVE
manicure sets. and Illustrated gift book
had threatened TO extinguish and as IA
nette," says why not nut the children {
work, and the countless things childre
love TO do. anyway. things that VII
really tighten your burden, IL oniv
| little. and give them a chance to wor
off that energy into "trifes' that WI
; make the Christmastide perfect.
/ Making gifts is just as interesting t
!. tiny fingers as to older. more canabl
ones, and there are ways and ways
even the tiny tots can be Included !
tne delightful secrets" Of making thing
for somebody. Card board and a fe'
I strands OF bright woo's will be nece;
sary for q pest card holder, that bot
nd OH yrii oIr;r =
> two cards about seven inches long. O
/; one card mark about an inch and Ia
, from the edge. and cut out around II
1 line. This VIII serve as q facing bt
| hind which the card board IS placed. L.
the children do all the work rs far /;
possible. Place both ca-is togeths
and holding them tightly punch hole
: all around the outer e6ge-an inch fra
: the cut-out line OF first card. The,
starting at the upper corner OF one
: the short sides. sew the cards toseth'
. with the bright wool Cor baby ribhor
: across the bottom and IN the other sho
> side leaving the ton open to insert Il
= most card orr snap shot Of tina little "a
= fist" If preferred OF course there n1u
: be looms of wool or ribbon so It can
hung up.
If the. children are cooking forward
: a Christmas tree. let them help 70 nal
: the trimmings covering the nuts
y snools with tinsel paper or tinfoil. tt
: children can do that easy. They CO
! make the paper chains-and a re
r Christmas chain Of holly leaves.
Q For the lanterns, take a glossy fl,
1t ished bright paper, cut It five inch
is square and paste halt-inch bands
e some contrasting color on opposite side
it then fold through the middle SO G
u dark edges are even. After that C
70 through the folded edge, making sill
= about D quarter Of an inch apart, sto
le ping at the dark edge. Paste the II
st outside colored edges together, their {
y. tire ength Sc that the darker strips q
p at top and bottom, and add a haif-in
d strip Of the dark color for a hand
It These will make a tree quite festive
lie a total cost of few pennies when hui
y from the branches The paDer chat
n. are made from half-inch strins Of CT
ored paper. pasting the first strip {
a gether to form a ring and then drawi
J. the end of each succeeding strip tlrou
IL the previous ring before passing I
IT end.
ID and when Christmas morning cor
td'i and YOU see the Joyous young faees. q
IL the heaps Of mysterious bundles