The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 24, 1954, Page 15

“Away In A Manger----” il oto TRADITIONAL FIGURES AND NATIVE FOLIAGE—are used in this delicate Nativity scene. It was executed by Mrs. Orion Russell and Mrs. Aquilino Lopez, Ire. for the Christmas meeting of the Key West Garden Club earlier this month. Pastel colored figurines were combined with sprigs of cedar, bergamot and small pieces of cyprus, commonly called flat sedge. The latter is often used in composition of this type to represent growing in Key West are also found in the Holy Land.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. Novel Gift Suggestion Why Not Give Hubby A Jail For Christmas? | FREEPORT, Maine. (?)—This That’s what Janet Hunter gave pela) 4) 41-4) a0) dyad a) a | suggestion may be too late to help| her husband, George, and he says STUDIOS 705 Duval Street DIAL 2-3282 \this year, but next year if you're |stuck for a Christmas gift for your husband, how about a nice jail? vl y 1 / y Py o4/ Ne \ vif a FROM EVERYONE AT Stock Island Service Station CITIES SERVICE Stock Island, Fla. Dial 2-3015 TTT | it’s the “best Christmas present I ever. got.” Freeport, which has a population of 3,300, has only infrequent law- breakers. For 75 years, it locked up these culprits in a 6 by 5%-foot iron cage in the town hall base- ment. Two years ago the city decided it would be cheaper to send its prisoners nine miles to Brunswick for boarding. Mrs. Hunter bought the iron cage hoosegow for $25. Friends helped her load it aboard a truck and it was presented to Hunter at his door on Christmas Eve. That was two Christmases ago. “Now” says Hunter, “I don’t think I could get along without at? He set the jail in the rear of his grain store and made it a triple- padlocked keeping place for valu- ables. In addition to the store safe, prize seed corn and other items, the cell houses a six-foot bed, Here Hunter lowers his 265 pounds for noon-time naps without fear of be- ing disturbed. “It’s the only place that is really my own,” he says. “Before I got it, my pocket book was the only place where my things were safe from my wife and three kids. “Everyone ought to have a jail of his own, especially if he’s mar- ried. “And it’s the best hiding place for Christmas gifts.” MEXICAN CHRISTMAS A feature of the Mexican Christ- mas celebration is the unique Pina- ta or fragile earthenware jar paint- or some other figure. Children are blindfolded and giv- en sticks. When the jar is shatter- ed a shower of fruits, gifts and| sweets tumbles out. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN —— palm trees. It is interesting to note that many of the plants CHRISTMAS EDITION —— 1954 You Can Have Holiday Egenog With Or Without The Kick A GIANT'S PUNCHBOWL—This is how your Christmas eggnogg is mixed before Time was when Dad got out the punch bowl on Christmas morning, warned away the small fry and then went to work with milk and cream and eggs and nutmeg — and maybe some rum or bourbon — to mix up a batch of cheer for the folks who would come calling later in the day. Mother — to add (or avoid adding) |the stimulants. Some families like \it without the “spike.” A typical dairy eggnog recipe calls for 100 gallons of milk-cream your Christmas joy 0 beyond all bounds -..€Nd May you teach new heights Of happiness during all the days of The coming New Yeor. | Nowadays, in most cities, the | | milk man brings the eggnog. It iss) ed with a doll’s face, a bullfighter | still left for Dad — or maybe delivery by your milkman. blend, 50 pounds of beaten egg yolk and 60 pounds of sugar. The mixture in those proportions is blended in 400 gallon vats. It is pasturized and cooled and several gallons or rum flavor and a little oil of nutmeg added. Then it’s bot- tled. Testers sample the batches to maintain the butterfat content and taste them to make sure the fla- vor is maintained. —AP. CHRISTMAS ROSE The legend of the Christmas rose is one of the undying Christmas tales. A little shepherdess watch- | ing from afar wept because she had no gifts to offer the Christ Child. As her tears fell to the ground, gathered up and hastened to bring jtc the infant Jesus to add to the | gifts of gold, frankincense and jmyrrh brought by the Wise Men. flowers sprang up. These the child | # NEW YORK, Dec. 18 P— Aj} strange “Christmas neurosis” or depression grips some people each | Christmastime, a psychiatrist finds. | He’s not talking of people for whom Christmas is the anniversar: of some loved one lost through ill |ness or accident. Nor of Scrooge- |types who prefer to padlock their | wallets at Yuletide. Instead, the Christmas neurosis stems from childhood jealousy of a brother or sister, or emotional hungers that weren’t satisfied, D> L. Bryce Boyer, Berkeley, Calif. told the American Psychoanalytical Assn. | From a study of patients with | | Christmas depression, he finds they all had felt—for real reasons or in their own imagination—that they had fared second-best to a brother or sister. Some felt that a younger brother or sister had replaced them as the “baby” of the family, getting the | attention they once had had. Oth-| ers felt that an older brother or sister was more favored by the parents, Dr. Boyer said. | These people at Christmas had tended to put Santa Claus on a Par with “giving” parents, “whose | presents were intepreted as tokens of love, on the level of hunger satis- | faction.” “Thus, Christmastime was seen | to be associated with a revival of old memories, unconscious to be sure, related to the infantile peri- od of dependency for satisfactions of hunger needs,” said Dr. Boyer. “Christmas is a holiday which celebrates the birth of Christ. The majority of these patients uncon- sciously perceived him to be a per- | sonal rival. Jesus is the incom- parable child whom all members of christendom revere. No chi:d could satisfactorily compete with such a foe for favoritism. | “Hence the fact that Christmas is a celebration for Christ remind- ed these patients again of unre-| solved rivalries with siblings bro- thers or sisters, real or imag’ ary, in their distant pasts. The re-| sult of the reawakened conflicts | was @ loss of self-esteem based oa | a rembrance of love and they fel they did not receive and, accord. | ing to infantile logic, did not de-| OM I, serve. “Their feelings that they could | not compete’ with Christ, as at an earlier time they could not succee in their struggles for favoritism | against their sibling rival or ri i ; ARRAN ARH MRAAMARARRRM ARAM RRBM Fd The Bookshop 534 Fleming St. feo (Dee De De Be Dee Dee! Childhood Unhappiness Can Cause Life-Long Yuletide Woe vals, brought to reaction of depres- | sion.”” | The Christmas neurosis might | often have been prevented, he in dicates, if parents could have been aware of the jealousis, or had + steps to make sure no child felt less loved or needed t. another. SILVER PINE CONE There is an interesting early German legend that explains the origin of the pine cone, widely used at Christmas time. This tells of a poor woman c ing a mountain to pick up pir cones for fuel. She was approached by an who told her to “take only the cones under this tree The woman picked up the cones indicated and when she arrived ome she found they ha d to pure silver. Thence, the silver pine cone which we know today. Ve wish you the very best for the Holidays! Fernandez Dry Cleaners 1107 Olivia Street Sweets tcc ts dreams of Christmas all come true and may you and yours enjoy the happiest New Year ever. 1030 Eaton Street Dial 2-6016 RARMADRARNIRRPAAARRY ND AAAWRATD: ARRRARBARWHWRVBRI: for Every Purpose Through the years many delightful traditions have grown up around the Holiday Season. Of these, most impor« tant to us is the custom of expressing appreciation for the very pleasant asso- ciations we enjoy with our business friends. WE EXTEND OUR THAN and MOST CORDIAL Season’s Greetings Speas Plate Glass Company 1114 White Street Telephone 2-2751 If we a Merry Christmas personally, during the past few days, may we now say to each and every one of our friends and patrons, “S Foegne.Coristmas and Joyous Hero Desc” Christmas haven't had a chance to wish you Lopez Funeral Home 413 Bahama Street Dial 2-2731 H. RAMOS & CO. 520 Front Street Dial 2-7642 Overseas Garage STOCK ISLAND Dial 2-6821 eH HN I rge 3 Hr. Cleaners "1124 Southard Street. ARRWATRAAAKWAARBAD BHR’ BRAD WMTW ARRARDRMAARKARALAMMH MMMM BRIANA AMBR RAAB 2200 PRAIA RRARRDARDRD FPDP RARRR PRADA AAR DUR