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MBWY AND A HAFfYNCW YEAR R J OREILLY Carload King City KiitKlif Appliance CHRISTMAS 10 All ft I i I J Cm Hid MANAGEMENT Eves Ladies Wear you our friend and patron avwy good with for hippy with for the privilege Mtvfif over the AN STAFF Silk and Linen Shoppe with foe our parous Holy thorn Of Glastonbury Future Foretold Fag The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday ISM By Drowsy Hens In honor of the Hawthorn which shielded Christ while he rested in the wood before the crucifixion Joseph of Arimathaca chose thorn staff when he started on his long journey to Britain short ly after the death of Christ Ar riving at last at his new home in Glastonbury Joseph stuck his walking stick into the ground the staff began to grow and soon acquired the habit of producing lowers each Christmas Eve Kte Yarrow had to often heard neighbors remark that would be an old woman before her time that she had begun to think of herself as quite middle- aged Actually she not quite nor had her full days as mist- of the Yarrow household turned her hair gray or her cheeka wen Sometimes since she had taken her mothers place Kate did think she was imposed upon But she blamed no one Her father was generous enough with the money and she had in the kitchen and old Sam for outside work Bui five inconsiderate younger brothers and sisters a preoccupied father and a grumb ling grandfather made a house hold that required supervision For the past two years literary mention of j thought there had really been no the thorn is contained Charles E Boyd Ltd REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Charles Boyd J Wright Hut Edmund Kennedy Warren MAIN ST NEWMARKET Christmas But this year would he different The brothers all in boarding school or college had accepted invitations to spend the holidays with roommates One sister was visiting an aunt and the other had gone south with he exacting but youthful grandfath er And Kates father was the season with a thoroughly capable widow who it had been whispered he was considering as a possible second wife Bill did not neglect privilege I So as soon as the last member of her brow had faded down the in History and Antiqui ties of Glastonbury published in In this work Mr states Whether it sprang from St Joseph of Arimathacas dry staff I cannot find but beyond alt dispute it sprang up miracu lously When Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 2000 persons assembled at Glaston bury on December 25 new style to see if the Holy Thorn would bloom in agreement with the new calendar when it did not many refused to participate in the usual observances of Christ mas The evil of changing cal endars was proven when the thorn blossomed on January Christmas Eve old style and many ministers in the vicinity of Glastonbury appeased their con gregations by announcing that Christmas would be observed ac cording to the old calendar A cutting of the Glastonbury thorn was brought to America in and planted near St Al lans school in Washington by the late Right Rev Henry Gates Sattcrlee The cutting grew into a tree blossoming for the first time in December since then it has blossomed each year at Christmas time and at tracts thousands of visitors an nually Mary Crane emptied the last tub and stood it against the shed to drain sighing her thanks that if she must wash clothes on Christmas Day the job was at least over and done with by noon She had just relumed to the kit chen when a knock came at the door It was her neighbor decked out in her fin est Arent you the one ex claimed washing clothes on Christmas Day Mary conceded it wasnt the best way to pass the day but add ed that it must be clone I wonder if youd do me a fa vor asked John and Fanny have asked us to come to town for Christinas dinner and the tree tonight You know times were a little tough for Henry and me this year so I took those two Utile State orphans to board Now dont want to leave them at home alone and Fanny would nt want them to come mingle with her youngsters She sigh ed faintly Would you let them come stay with you for the ev ening Why of course Mary re plied smiling It will make Christmas for me who was spendin it atone What time will they come Fannys sending the car for us about five oclock and well drop them off here on the way After had left Mary mused that she didnt suppose the Lord thought Fannys children too good to mingle with these two orphans but after a moment she there was much to be done By five oclock she had walked to the store and spent her few pennies on two tiny pair of red mittens which were now hanging on the little spruce tree Maty had cut in the back yard And in the kitchen a hot hearty supper was waiting Mary sat in the living room waiting Lucky I did that extra washing today so I feel justified spending those pennies on the youngsters Those children must Divinations were an important part of the Christmas festivities in Russia After a special family Christ- mas dinner the girls of the hou sehold placed five piles of grain upon the kitchen floor each pile was given a name such as Hope Ring Money Thread and Char coal A drowsy hen was fetched from the henhouse and allowed to walk around kitchen floor and choose a pile of grain Obviously the hens choice of Money meant wealth Ring fore told a wedding within a year and Hope promised the fulfillment of a wish or a long journey If the sleepy chicken chose the grain designated as Thread a life of toil was predicted for the marr iageable maiden of the house hold and Charcoal was consid ered an omen of death in the family Old were oung to accom pany while the girls and women vied to devise complete stories based on the an tics Ihe hen irkktis AND A IIAITY VISAS ART ROSS TRANSPORT KING CITY ONTARIO MfKM CHRISTMAST1DE A GLAD NEW YEAR RONALD WILSON TRANSPORT KKKIK ST KINO CITY yOAWttnttJa driveway Kate told Marie Sam to take a twoday vacation and then settled to spend Christmas by herself She ran in to the capacious living room and with a completely undignified leap planted herself sprawling upon the divan Everyone but Kate sprawled on that divan hi Ireland Once upon a time in Ireland the wren was hunted and killed on Christmas morning a branch of holly and bright ribbons were attached to his body which was Kate never had time Now she house By Look your prettiest to greet j the New Year Pin flowers in your hair Mistletoe dipped in silver powder makes a beauti ful frosty hair decoration You MANAGER STAFF Or STORE wont have to stand under the have a Christmas and maybe mistletoeyoull be under it she sighed shant have a home another year Waiting there in the old or her head dropped slowly and Man Crane fell asleep just in case would begin the Christmas noli days by staying there for hours Before dinnertime she donned her best red evening frock and over this her smock Then she went down to the kitchen to make herself a meal admitting for the first time that it was lonesome in the old house heard loud on the brass knocker and went to open the door rather timidly But her timidity gave way to annoyance There was her older brother Tom who had started that morning ostensibly to pass the holidays with a group of bachelor friends And here he was back with five young men in tow They were heavily en turkey feet protruding from one of the bundles Well we began talking it Tom said and decided Christmas at the club would be I a frost So I asked the fellows to come home with me was a you wouldnt have things for the feast so we stopped and I got what we thought youd want Bill here even got mistletoe wren boys who sang songs and expected to receive a dole from each household The story goes that during the DanishIrish war the Danes we re resting after an arduous march and the Irish were creeping up All of a sudden a wren spying a fey crumbs which the drowsy Danish drummer had dropped on the drumhead swooped down and began to peck at the crumbs The peck ing awakened the boy who aroused the camp the Irish driven off and defeated blamed the wren Modern Irish ashamed of the oncehonored tradition say the guilty bird may have been a starling or a sparrow anyway and now welcome the wren to j their farms and homes One thing Id like do before dinner rich old Andrew Craig said to his wife Spoe theres time You remember Mary Crane had some tough luck a few years hack She borrowed money from he bank on her house and could nt keep up the payment Well directors decided not to give her any more time your steps when we came down the lane We saw him plain J as could be Youre right said Mary An- drew Craig is a man if ever there was one Not the man in the fur coat insisted the child It was anoth er just behind him All tall and bright and and beautiful Well said Mary Im not surprised folks might say it was shadows and lamplight an but tapping the pa pers wherever theres things like this on Christmas ni ght Im persuaded Hes there MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR from the Members of the YORK of the Ontario Insurance Agents Association though I told him be no I pretty girls Then turning to one of the It was past midnight that night went on Kates face Later after she had prepared an impromptu All tall and bright and and Christinas Eve supper and laid beautiful aside her smock she heard BUI if ring Mill say from the other end of the help remembering Hex Smith bier I thought Tom said there WMI years Sue when Mary Smiths Hardware would he no pretty girls here I neighbor and worked Boy lets drink a toast to Sister through Kale pneumonia So I just gathered in young men whom Kale had when Kate left the kitchen The er met the tactless brother went had helped with the dishes on Bill this is my sister Now under Bills orders but there run along and get the car in would be pies and puddings on HI HILL J Her- Til Savage Insurance Services that debt it was only a few and had some papers pik made out to Mary Id kind of like lake out to her on Christ- tt M KINfi Victor A Hall Son King Marvin Hunter the garage And sis you might J make for the next day and Kate and I show em knew she would have her hands 0 to prepare l basket for you 1st and all day she reckoned kitchen swiftly If you drive there and take fellows up and where you want em to sleep full She was up I Bill alone of the young the festive j noted the look of disappoint she worked in the I It was late Christmas night alf do When she had finished last we have work in the kitchen As she pass- through the hall Bill stood when Andrew JOYS BEAUTY SALON H wailing for her There above Ihem hung the mistletoe and Bill did not neglect his privilege Kb Hie window the cheery lice It isnt just because of the seeping old lady He ftp he told Kate holding fl placed his basket on A K PA IK j Agency King Harvey Coathup King Stanley Mc Neill Limited King HUSO I A ST KIM still close to him I loved you hr papers on top The when I first saw you It has been of the door aroused Mary outrageous for us to impose on Hit small guests rushed in a you this way minutes Inter to find Its all been worthwhile Bill holding papers In her heart replied because Ive made her face alighted with jny myself believe that was doing it Mary cried alighted from car A lamp showed him Marys kitchen thro- j Cook King Aubrey Stewart King Nell Mellon- aid Sinclair Associates It A 1351W J mII for you alone little girl There was man Seasons Compliments v Davis and Day Drugs OAK RIDGES ONT Open A Week Till pm Greetings of the Season ft Mil bent for i I inanu devoted friend and Holland lnnilinu and POP WALKER WALKERS GROCERY of duaJu to loyal very happy sod New ap From KNTIKK STAFF OF Newmarket Motors Ltd DAN PROP ST NEWMARKET