The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1939, Page 25

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PAGES 1 TO 8 FOURTH SECTION JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939. Spirit of Christmas What is more joyous than the Spirit of Christmas? It rounds the circle of the year and ushers in its season with the jingling bells of fine hilarity. It rings the chimes of olden melodies and casts a spell of happy reverence. Christmas is universal. [f brings and gives fo everybody. Youth and age frolic together. Rich and poor, alike, rejoice. Rul- ers are remembered and beggars are not, forgotten. It fills the homes of Christendom with the rarest joys of life. The children laugh and shout. Youth revels in gifts and giving. Father straightens his shoulders, under a lighter burden. The flush of youth and beauty come again fo maternal love and mother is queen of the Christmas fime. Grandmother forgets her cares and grows young again. Grandfather shares the joys _ of his children and grandchildren. | On Christmas day the blind see; the deaf hear; the dumb sing; the lame walk, and the friendless find a friend. Hovels 4 calch the spirit of the palace and fireless, hearths glow with warmth again. On that day the poor are rich and the rich have| pleasures that money does not buy. The sick drink sunshine with their cordials and seem fo feel the cerfainty of refurning health. Unstayed by locks and bars, Christ- mas flows even info prison cells. The Spirit of Christmas takes out sad- ness and brings in gladness. It casts qui: A dread and brings in hope. It brings fo life 2 the finest sentiments that dwell in human breasts. It stimulates ambition, begets love, bestows mercy, prompts generosity, add_s fo 5 friendships, drives away douds and gives § the sky a brighter blue. It brings the urge ¥ ' DECORATIONS Many Arrangements May Be Secured to Give Home Holiday Air Lights gleaming f t e of ¢ t it up on round » holidays and \la | HOW they fill the Carols Rin Messages of World Peace sical pause, & mys- ir man’s best and sweet- the Yuletide carols wed words: “Peace 1 will toward men.” even the most sul- ard arted per- of the soul with- the merry festi- gic in red 1 branches and the | perfume prgreens, melt- |ing wa ning log. How mys ) 11 sweet thoughts of long a the elders! arts of play« ful children with joyous delight! Christmas is the sgnificance at or | childhood, for almost two thousand it | years ago the Christ Child brought or | the redeeming message of love to atside of the ay buy scar- the world. Love that keeps the lit- tle flame of hope burning; love that gives patience and courage to endure the problemg of life; 5 love that prompts the giving and receiving of gifts. When Wise Men of the £ast, men 5| of profound learning, saw a bril- Or | liant star and followed it, they a|found this little messenger of love $!in his rude and humble resting you would the effect and s I 0 arrang A pot of brilliant red poinsettias or cylamen will be fresh and lovely | :um' a charming contrast “WAITS" its” get their name ish word “waith” wandering or roving. Gradually the term was applied to wandering musicians. WAFFLES FOR CHRISTMAS For Christmas breakfast, serve| crisp ffles topped with apple marmalade and crisp bacon The flavors blend wonderfully well. “Hear uot, for behold, I bring you glad tidings of areat inn” they laid their most s gift before him These gifts were highly symboli- cal. Gold to a King, the King of Love and Humanity, Frankincense to a Divinity, the God of human needs. Myrrh for a man, and for | the sorrow that redeems. Thus they recognized in a little Child, the | King, the Divine and the Man. As we commemorate Christ's birth each Yuletide, there is a | radiant warmth and spirit of love in the giving and receiving of | gifts; we pay homage and rever- |ence to our King, our God and | our Redeemer, SAVE TOYS FOR JUNIOR Careful parents will not wear out Jthv Christmas toys before Junior gets a chance at them. T e et O O L - T e L P - U D - ST T S T L e D D O o o The Ideal Christmas Gift J -~ for the Whele Family FATHER——GIVE YOUR FAMILY A CENTURY Automatic Oil Heater and H NO OTHER BOILER BURNER OFFERS SO MANY OUTSTANDING FEAURES: — 2—Instant Heat! 3—Automatic! 4—Factory Tested! 1—Mineral Wool Iusulation! WE CAN INSTALL ONE IN YOUR HOME NOW! of Water 5—Low Cost Quality! Automatic @il Heat Your At Little or No More Coast than a Regular Furnace! We Can Also Show You:— Present Furnace! Use the Conversion 0il Burner fo nobler living. With each returning year ¥ Christmas leaves a befferworld. | LAND OF MIDNIGHT | SUN SPREADS JOY ATCHRISTMASTIME The Christmas season in Norway —it is most beautiiul! It is as though the whole of Christmas had borrowed from all other na- ticns just to make the “Land of ihe Midnight Sun” a little bit J Each year an imag feel it as it pervades the atmosphere | &% as though actually gushing out from the surrounding hills and val- leys shouting hospitality and good will toward every living creature. Streets are decorated with gar- lands of pine, holly and mistlefoe. | S/ Flags fly from the windows and | & flagpoles while the bright lights of the gayly dzcorated -hops flood the snow with, diamonds. Scarcely a heme is 'without a lighted Christ- mas tree ¢nd the windows are filled with pots cf scarlet poinsettias. They re | always have the tree and presents 'Y lon Christmas eve instead of on { | Christmas morning o ing it into a veritable fairyland. 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They seem to possess afliof gayly coloored miniature cakes.| unsurpassed ability to bring out all| The celetration continues for the beauty and simplicity of the|several weeks with dJancing and | true holiday spirit. One is able to|merrymaking every night.