The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1945, Page 11

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1945 R T RN T e e e e P T e . 5 i Lt Mantled in Snow, The Family THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA Gathering to Make Merry, The Children is Joyous for Christmas in America! 1 ring around the festive table, laden , and bright with candlelight. In the Christmas tree wreathed in ils; seme branches heavy with i sticks, cones filled with candy and gay fun makers. Af ils foof, packages a few hours ago neatly fastened xnd heribboned, shall be left open on the floor their con Iready having brought waves of joy and thrilled "“thank yous” from every member of the family to each other. another roon lights and vi toys and pepperr 1 Since our pioneer forefathers observed their firsi Christmas in America, that has been the spirit of the sea- son. In those earliesi years, families rode hard, for many miles, astride their horses whose fast-coming breath formed cloud-like in the frosty air. Years later they rode snugly wrapped in blankets, in graceful sleighs, the horses’ reins jingling with shining bells. Today, the streamlined auto- mobile whisks over miles of cleared roads in brief time. bringing together members of families who may live at all four points of America. But the old time American spirit still pervades, though there has been change. Preparing the Chrisimas feast takes a fraction of the time it used to. This generation’s mothers stay younger because their tasks have been light- ened. The men in the family are no longer beset by fears, but hearty and happy, secure. The children too, have a voice in the gay holiday affairs, and as always, it is about them that all the season's gaiety revolves. Christmas is America! What a wonderful time it is, and how happily we talk over the Christmases of former years, when mother was a girl; and the children’s eyes blaze with wonder when granddad tells of how things were in his time. Christmas in America! Let us all enjoy it to the full — in the old time American spirit. Alaslka Electric Light & Power Co.