Evening star., 1954-12-12
T ee1 Etiquette
BY Kitte Turmoil

Have you counted how many
giving days there are before
Christmas? There's much you
can do to make Christmas
merrier In your town. You
don't need a red suit. white
beard to play Santa. Young
people have pioneered some
] fine prehoIiday projects that
have become annual events In
1 many places. Here are q few
. that might inspire you and
your friends to spark the
Christmas spirit around your
!: town.
CoroIing
Christmas ship. High school
students board a tug-boat at
sundoWn each night during the
! week before Christmas in Ta-
coma, Wash. Their Christmas
ship Is equipped with a loud
speaker, strung with lights TO
look like q ea-borne Christmas
], tree. They cruise UP and down
the coast, to serenade all along
the waterfront. Ashore, each
4 noon, the young carolers sing
in the center of town, on .
traffic island"
Christmas streetcar. Carol
ers charter a streetcar, as
club project, to carry their
carols around Los Angeles.
You could do the same, by
chartered bus or car-caravarl.
! Many young groups visit hos
pitals, rest homes. to carol for
children. for the elderly, for
shut-ins.
I Decorating
A teen-age club trail -blazed
I q program that has won ma
tional awards in Oyster Bay.
1Iong Island. There, each De-
cember, over 400 students from
!. public and parochial high
schools team for a village
I project.
y To decorate the town, they:
4 /. Collect eyergreens. Q. Raise
{ funds to string lights, hang
4 big candy canes, trim store
4 window trees in their busi-
ness district. 8. Arrange
nativity scenes In front OF this.
community's six churches.
AS Santa's aides. these teen
ayers: Set up Santa mail boxes
In shops for letters from small
fry answered promptly by club
members. as Santa's secre-
taries. Maintain a North Pole
phone headquarters, where
4 calls for Santa are answered
1 from 4 to Z pm.
story Book Lane is an
T event for which teen-agefs,
parents team in Altadena,
! Calf. Lighted Christmas
!. tableaus are arranged IN front
/ yards of all houses. up ana
down the street. Each depicts
1 4 story or poem. For Twas
! the Night Before Christmas $
!. 4 dummy in a nightcap leans
!. out one window to sight Santa
and his reindeer. For tableaus,
figurines and props are maoe
Of plywood; kept and repainteo
for use each season.
] Good Will Gifts
For q white Christmas, stu
! dents at San Fernando VAL
! lev school bring gifts wrapped
!. In white. These 60 to homes
1 for orphans. -.
a gingerbread house, with
I frosting for cement Is made
by Camp Fire Girls as their
/ annual present. treat-to-eat
4 ]. far ,,nlin patients In q con-
( valescent home.
! Christmas tray-favors are
I made or collected, and taken
To hospitals, for Christmas Day
l delivery on trays by many
young groups. These include
\ caps. baskets, filled stockings.
q Also sprigs of holly, mistletoe,
/. or tiny pine-cones with ribbon
bows that can be worn as
! ornaments or kept on bedside
] table for Christmas cheer.
! Gifts Thot Go Far
I Books, games, and hobby
] equipment are collected by
/. some teen clubs. These go TO
I veterans hospitals, to con-
teens and outposts. 10 know
what's needed where. and how
4 TO send 1t, check with the Red
Cross chapter or Chaplains'
Corps In your area.
What II you want to befriend
d needy family whose Christ
mas might be bare? Fine!
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