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'7' T'ST"".""." r t j s J - If w f ' JHE FLATTSIHOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FOUR Thursday, December 21, 1950 The qualities of stainless steel can be changed by the addition of varying amounts of chromi um, nickel, molybdenum, sul phur and other elements. Some make the steels harder, more corrosion resistant, easier to pull into wire or greater heat resistant. Dirty eggs spoil more rapidly than clean eggs. vv E hove found that the value of friendships in business is involuoble ond we ore grateful for yours A JOYOUS SEASON TO YOV 2$ Your Patronage Has Been Appreciated St Knorr's 50 to $1.00 Store 11 Their Work Will Make Your Christmas Merrier Telephone people say "Merry Christmas' to you with service. Everyone connected ,with furnishing service expects their busiest time of the year, handling your Christmas greeting calls. They'll work gladly through the holidays knowing that your telephone is performing one of its happiest services at this time. If you'll try to place your long distance calls early and avoid "bunching" them on Christinas day, everyone can make their calls, and telephone bells will truly rival Christmas bells as traditional holiday founds. Remember too that low "night rates" will be in effect all day Sunday, the day before Christmas and on Christmas Day, too. The Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co. "A NebtMskM Company Serving Ua People" Jbr, Moore, otutltor 01 'M&kt fiefore', WaJ crfjfiamed of St Everyone knows and loves the poem which begins Twas the night before Christ mas, when all through the house ' Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; kbut the man who .wrote it. Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, was a shamed of it and would not allow it to be published under -his name for more than 20 years. Dr. Moore, an aloof professor of Greek and Oriental literature in the Episcopal , Seminary in New York, wrote the poem on Christ mas eve 1822 and read it to his seven children. ' He had not planned for the poem to go further than his own family, but a relative who was visiting the Moores put a copy in her dairy The next year the relative's father sent it to a newspaper. Other newspapers printed the jingles and they quickly became known all over the country. The dignified Dr. Moore was embar rassed and considered it beneath a man of his scholastic .standing to be the author of children's jingles. Twenty-two years later, how ever, he finally publicly admitted authorship of the jingles and it was published in book form under his name for the first time. Ironically, the professor's ser ious works are forgotten today. He is mentioned in encyclopedias because he wrote the celebrated Christmas verses. Wax From Candles Calls for Caution With so many candles placed about the home to give a festive air during the holiday season, can dle wax drippings on rugs, table cloths, and mantels are almost in evitable. Wax spots on rugs can usually be removed successfully by first scrap ing off as much wax as possible with a dull knife and then sponging with carbon tetrachloride. When you scrape up the wax, be careful not to injure the yarns. If the candle was colored and a stain remains, try sponging it lightly with a liquid made of two parts of water and one part of denatured (rubbing) alcohol. As a precaution against fading, test this mixture first on an incon spicuous part of the rug. Wax that has run down from can dleholders onto your best linen tablecloth can be removed by the same method of first scraping be ing very careful not to injure the fiber or thread and then sponging with carbon tetrachloride. If the stain is colored, use the solution suggested for a colored spot on a rug, after you've used carbon tetra chloride. Again you are urged to test an inconspicuous spot for pos sible fading from use of the solution. BOYS WILL BE BOYS ... De spite the spectacular mouse that Andrea Kleczek is dis playing, Santa Clans being the jolly and understanding old gent that he is no doubt win let the seven-year-old off with a warning that time is running out for good behavior. A classified Act in The Journal I costs as little as 35c WE HOPE YOUJDOtf T OVERDO IT ... BUT WE WISHJOU CHRISTMAS EVE IN OlDTIME'- FINIANP The Christmas Eve bath was quite a tradition in Finland be fore the advent of modern plumbing. The oldtinie Finnish bath-room was usually a three-room hut; one room was used for steaming and scrubbing, one for rubbing, and one for dressing. The hut was warmed by a stone oven, heated for hours before the scheduled bath, and the "bath room" was really steaming. After bathing came the rub-down and the switching of the body with birch twigs to increase the circula tion, topped off by a roll in the snow, supposedly to whet the ap petite for Christmas Eve supper. For supper there was usually stockfish and prune tarts to be en joyed, plus the traditional barley porridge in which cream and sugar and almonds were mixed. After supper the boys and men matched their strength: while the girls garbed in the men's work clothes blackened their faces and stole away to visit other homes in cognito and "see Christmas." The girls never spoke nor accepted food, but went from house to house merely to watch the festivities. : And when the evening's festivi ties were over, the smaller chil dren made their beds in the clean straw spread on the, floor in com memoration of the Christ Child. Indestructible Mistletoe The flame-thrower and atomic energy lethal instruments bor rowed from modern warfare are out to kill that' ancient symbol of peacemaking and love, the Christ mas mistletoe. The unusual battle front is Aus tralia where too many valuable trees each year have been receiv ing the kiss of death from . the harmless looking shrub. Despite mistletoe's popular reputation as the Yultetide promoter of romance, it is a public-enemy parasite in the woodlands, killing off the trees that play it host. Australian foresters' have finally resorted to the flame-thrower as a quick executioner for the plant and are using radio-active tracers, furnished by the U.S. atomic en ergy commission, to study how the mistletoe saps the water and min eral salts from the trees, starving them to death. FT- i i r I i . 1 q-i 1 8 J 1 ' T Z T- T 9. Pt xtau,'Gndfi-tt,t astjitttotty C&ttfymen. fftt (aX dtf& twat tut- ttaj$ 'if. 6 . . j , r J . J . I w r-p 11 1 . ' i T " ' V Students Give Money For Red Cross - Library (From the Platter) A pnllpptinn rpfpntlv made in both hig h school and grade schools resulted in $24.82 for the local library. Mr. Friest re cently announced. ,The collection, taxen eacn year at Thanksgiving, provides new library selectipns for the use of students of all ages. A rhfrlr fnr that amount was re cently sent to Miss Verna Leon ard, local librarian. The Junior Red Cross Drive was supported to the tune of $35 by the students. The students were asked to give only five cents, which pays the member ship of our grades and high school classes. Most of this fund remains in the local Chap ter for use in first aid and health education. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS I A Good Housekeeper (From the Platter) A small boy was shopping with his mother during the Christmas holidays. He had noticed all the different Christmas decorations in the many store windows. They stopped by one store and the little boy proceded to inspect the Christmas decorations in the window. Angel hair had been skillfully filmed over the window to form a realistic outdoor Na tivity scene, complete with snow. When the mother started to enter the store, the boy tugging at her coat pulled her back with the comment, "We don't want to go in there, mommv. Nobody must go in there. The windows are all cobwebby!" aniC Christmas .gfrrrOa" ; &yjTF i Q-ossword dtrv P--7' "H- f RzzleJff iHSSmA! 1. Sum (nil .A j It) r , 1 LJ ! sSx w-z? & ' ytr m !ts2r,r,j 4rr rk ' - mi V: Ah nv afF Jl. ttato t34 -n I (' J. . h (Mt.) I I , I 'iS6 V. it. tck bLT"" ' r I "1 ' i y II B4v ItUi.l I J " L 7" JZSt"' wvl, 1 L L. ft Wit . f j jrUfl TP ' I ji. mi V 1 ' 1 r" " i ' rSff X I V It Bun I Cut, u. It Im itfi I limAtfjlrTiA. stritfiHrtM "- .riiwiiwi nr VzMH saw! itlirr 11 $ lonHl4' sjiiai! M it, hnrfw4it u.sunitMi.1 if Tn IITfliy . jjf a Y ofy , DOWH 13. CrMWc SI. CtratbM ft B- Hf t lr wjg. , ... tL tut tl dwck JI. Ktikm SK Keen Time Plans Christmas Party (From the Platter) Everyone will be decked out in his or her finest trimmings when Friday. December 22 rolls around. That night, the Annual Christmas Dance will be held at Keentime, startine at 8:30. Dress may be either formal or informal, and there will be no Increased charge for the dance. A lunch will be served late in the evening. Wescotts' Since 1879 NOBODY HOME MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UP) Rob ert E. Dye escaped a fine on charges of leaving the scene oft an accident when he told the' court that he stopped and knocked on the doors of two houses near the site of the mis-; hap. In both cases. Dye said, nobody opened the door. ' Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, is the largest in tHo TTnitprl fitntps in nnnn- lation, the 1940 census showing 4.063,342 people, in area. Ban Bernardino County, California, is largest. f 0OOK rWND$ "ANDJCUSTOMERS May. your every wish for the Holiday Season be realized that's our wish for you. Joe J. & Freda Stibal (Stibai -Variety) Stainless steel knives should be kept sharp. Use a medium grit grinding stone and finish with a strop. ! Wishing You All The Blessings of This Holy Season mm OR mony years it hos been our privilege to extend Seoson's Greetings to the mu!(jr tituae or rnenos ana customers, who hove favored us with their f potronoge in the post. We welcome this tra; ditionol custom it gives us on oppor tunity to express our, sentiments to re new our pledge mode years ogo thot our stondord of serv5ce( would be mointoined on the highest level possible Thonk you for &ti thing ond ; Jack and Elmer's Bar I V i A. J V i Mm am C. A, Ruse Motors & Appliance Phone 209 Wee Wardrobe 546 Main St. 111 North 6th Phone 263 l . . A -v X v A " " .