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Show THK SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH News Notes ! ! IPs a Priviltg t to Lieo in Utah ! ijTo Buy or Make for Christmas! Sealing Wax Plaque weather and SALT LAICB-M- Ud precipitation was generul, though com paratively light. In southern and eaut-aportions of the state, according to the weekly weather, crop and range report from the offices of J. Cecil Alter, government weather observer, for the week ending November 30, BRIGHAM The Brigham CITY City sugar factory of the Utab-ldubSugar company has finished Its campaign for this year, the big mill having been In operation fur more than forty-flvdays. The campaign was a most succesaful one this year, according to Superintendent A. C. Pearson, and during the forty five day run more than 46,600 ton of bccti were sliced The men are now busily engaged In cleaning up the factory and finishing up the adds and ends of the campulgn. Approximately 200 men have been employed at the factory during the are the period, with an additional 100 Plaques dune In men working at the beet dumps. newest development la scaling wax OGDEN Indications are that more craft One neednt be a skilled artist than 400 students of college grade wl'I to accomplish exquisite results. These enroll at Weber college for the winter designs are built upon pictures cut quarter when registration for this from decorated crepe paper, wall pa Fork begins, It was stated by Presi- per or magazine covers. The flowers, or birds or whatever the picture, are dent Aaron W. Tracy. Final examinations for the fall quartern will be held built up of soft scullng wax, using a soon. Instruction for the winter quar- heated' thin pQtctte knife. College ter will begin the morning of Decem- and fraternity Insignia plaques made in this way are handsome. ber 6. PROVO Decision to refrain from For the Bachelor's Den further consideration to launch a new hospital in Provo fer the present was reached at a meeting of representative citizens. The consensus of op'nlon was that the financial burden was too much for Provo City to undertake at this time, without help from the counAtk Beat 'Makes foi?kpislrxAS ty authorities. arxd ike BRIGHAM CITY The local augat corcMfxj factory si just completing a forty-fivday campaign, during which time more than 46,500 tons of beets were sliced. The campaign was a success and from the 36S0 acres planted to beets In the Brigham sugar factory district an average of more than thin teen tons per acre was harvested. MURRAY For the aecond time within two weeks Salt Lake City and its immediate environs received the greatest amount of precipitation ol any locality In a storm area generally For many this Christmas Is going to covering the northern states. Precip- make a reality of that itation for the past twenty-fou- r hours wistful dream, When my ship comes 0 to o! oclock up Tuesday morning In. It is all due to tlio conspicuous last week totalled .86 of an Inch, as part that ships are now playing as a computed by J. Cecil Alter, United decorative feature In modern home MERRY CHRISTMAS AND" A States meteorologist. Interiors, There are ships and ships 11EBER CITY Seven inches of new to bo had, some, of brass, some of HAPPY NEW YEAR ) gnow fell on the city watershed at glass for table appointments. The Brighton on Sunday and Sunday n'ght bachelor who glories In a inches den would feel honored to remaking a total of twenty-eigh- t 39 of snow on the ground, according to ceive this candlestick which embodies Greeting Cards Today information received at the water- a ship In Its design. Twenty-twartists of first rank were commis works department Monday. slotted to paint designs and these were purchased BRIGHAM CITY While at CUtton A Hand-Blocke- d Scarf and entered In the popularity contest. Among Idaho. Robert II. Stewart, county agthose whose work was shown was E. II. Rlash ricultural agent, of this city, and Ralph field, the dean of American mural painters, and Richards of Riverside purchased J. Aldcn Weir. And the collection wns exhibited twelve head of cows and heifers and not only In New York, but also at the Museum of one young bull from the purebred Fine Arts In Boston and at the Art Institute of dairy farm of James Skelley. There Chlcngo. But the later Influx of cheapness and is perhaps no herd in the entire west conmediocrity proved too overwhelming for the which shows breeding back to the extinued Interest of the best artists In Christmas traordinary foundation of the United card designing." States more than this herd, according Until the eighties the Illustration on the curd to Mr. Stewart. was the main thing and the only residing matter OGDEN Highest price ever paid al wns a simple greeting or an appropriate motto the Ogden Union stockyards for bulla Then poetry on the cards became popular and It was recorded recently, coming after a became so popular that It brought Into the Christ- succession of records for high prices mas card field several noted poets. On one occa- In the steer market. B. Child, oi sion a London firm offered Lord Tennyson $r.000 Clinton, sold an individual 4b' ' for 12 poems of eight lines each to he used on bull for 7, while several animals Christmas cards, hut he declined the offer. The weighing from 1250 to 1500 pounds craze for poetry became so pronounced and It sold for from 6 to 6.25 a hundred was used so generously that finally the manuOh dear, theres Dorothy and Betty weight Previous bul prices have hov facturers of cards were forced to place a limit ered about the price of 65.75. Jane, Phyllis and Sister May and upon the verses and set that limit rt 12 lines. MYTON The aftermath of the re- mother nnd Aunt Mary and Cousin The religious motif also wns popular from the cent flood when the Farnsworth dam Eloise still on the Christmas list Its beginning and ns bite ns IS'.ifl one manufaeturei broke recently reveals the fact thal an S. O. S. call sent out for gift sugdeclared that the most popular of all Cliristmas there will be a heavy loss to the gestions. A or card designs was a reprodttetion of the Nativity farmers who constructed It The loss scarf for each? The very scene, with Murillos Nativity ns the greatest to the Uintah Power and Light com- thing! Its heaps of fun painting favorite. Since .that time various motifs hnvi pany is placed at 61900; a storehouse them ones self, but If one hasnt the appeared In Christmas cards until now eve J filled with tools and supplies was tak- leisure, the specialty shops and necksymfol of Cliristmas. contributed hy every nation en. T. C. Gwyn of Myton, local en- wear departments are featuring d appear on our Christmas cards. gineer of the Indian Irrigation proarticles, at prices very reasonCamels, the star In the east, the three wise ject estimates the loss to the governable. Squares and triangle shapes men, palm trees, buildings of decided oriental ment at from 63000 to 65000. To the which yield to such nonchalant knotappearance recall the scenes In Ialestine where county the loss will be heavy because ting about shoulders and throat comChrist wns born on the first Christmas; the Yule of bridges damaged. Ranches along pete with the oblong scarf. leg and the mistletoe are reminiscent of the the course of the flood on the Lake Druids of ancient Britain ; holly, plum puddings, Fork river were damaged and several Scissor Painted Basket roast beef, singers of Cliristmas carols typical farmers ill have a heavy loss. a. SALT LAKE Estimates by forest English landscapes remind one of the good cheer of the English observance of Cliristmas; Jolly officials show there are 500,000,000 old Santa Claus, originally a Dutch patron saint, board feet and 3,000,000 cords of as but now thoroughly Americanized (one Christmas pen wood on the national forests ol card tills year shows him speeding over the Utah. This wood is used in the mansnowy landscape In an automobile of distinctly ufacture of excelsior, wood pulp, matAmerican make!) appears on many; the turkey la ches and boxer for butter, cheese and a symbol for otli Thanksgiving and Christmas chocolate. feasts mid is a distinctly American contribution. MYTON Several of the sheepmen Nor do Christmas cards stop with Christmas who range their flocks of sheep in the symbols. Each year sees a new idea introduced Nine-mil- e district and Green River with new symbols which are nut especially county south of Myton have begun to with Christmas. In 1911 the Dickens cen- move their sheep In that licalitiy for tennial whs echoed on the Christmas cards'; Ihe the winter. Among those already gone revival of interest in Americana in recent years are Coleman brothers, Murdock broth. has put all kinds of antiques furniture, ers, Ray Dillman and Mr. Lewis muffs, bonnets, sleighing parties and huskOther will utilize this section in the A scissor-painte- d waste basket ing bees on our Christmas cards, and last year, near future. makes an acceptable yuletide gift for ns the result of the great Interest in ship models, SPANISH FORK Sugar beet ship man, woman or child. One cuts pic niur..v a ship went sailing across the cards. Just as Christmas cards of the past reflect the tnents from Sa'-- Lake and Utah coun tures out of illustrated crepe paper, interests of Americans of those days, so do this ties have almost doubled, thus far th's which costs but a trifle for a whole roll. After the background of the rayear's cards indicate some of the major Amer- season, last years production, accordican Interests now. Among them are radio and ing to word from J. A. Anderson, gen- pier maclie backet form lias Leon enameled with sealing-wapaint, pcste aviation, the latter, no doubt, due to the various eral traffic manager for the Salt Lake historic flights which have thrilled the nation & Utah railroad. A total of 1700 cars on the pictures very smoothly. When thoroughly dry tie whole is gone over during the past year. Sports, too. have their of beets has been moved to date, while with a coat of tra apparent amber sealingplace and It Is not unjeunl to find on Christmas last years crop vas easily accommo-wax paint. While this is still wet cards scenes Illustrative of the various types of dated in 1000 cars, it is expected that outdoor recreation. This, however. Is not a now an additional 500 cars will be delivered one can, if one chooses, sprinkle crystalline beads over the picture cart to Idea, since swimming, boating, cricket and tennis to the Utah-Idahplants at West Jorscenes were reproduced on English Christmas dan, Spanish Fork, Mapleton and give It sparke. cards more than thirty years ago. Spring ville. o beet-ruttin- g bas-reli- iT i wui." Although It wnulu lie dl.lficull to et limit the vulue of the time "lost In trying to a tills wag suggcsta, there are llinae who ran testify to the fuel Unit hi nllmute of trn.(MX).(X)0 aa the tolal cost of Chrlulimis greetrotm-m-her,- " ing curd I a tnmleul one. If no actually an underestimate. Dealer In Chrlutnio card will tell you that their business baa virtually doubled each year for the lul Ove or all years, And the season of 1927 rohuhty will exceed all others In the volume of sule. One wholesale dealer In Chrlutmus card has reported tl.nl early In November Ids orders' had already punned the 1920 total and each week saw a steady Increase over the previous week. The numlier of Oirlst-ni- u card used In the United Stales long ago passed out of the realm of millions Into billions. If there Is anyone who can testify to the Increasing popularity of the custom of sending Christmas cards. It Is Uncle Sum's mull mail, lie will tell you Ihut these gay little hits of cardboard have doubled and trebled and quadrupled the burden on his hack around Christmas lime. Time was alien you could send a Christmas card for one cent. Now .t costs two cents, but not which soon runs Into the even this extra thousands of dollars for the coffers of the department has diminished the flood of cards which begins to pour Into the mails at the beginning of the third week In Iecemher and continues until after Jnnuury 1. For the Christmas card Is a gift In universal use for remembering one's friends at the holiday season, filch and poor alike send them. The social leader" hns her cards of special design engraved on costly vellum and sends them cut by the hundred. The working girl buys hers at ten" and sends them out by the the flve-andozen. Count that man poor In friendship. Indeed, who hns never received a Christmas card. Ard some complnln of an embarrassment of riches" In this regard, for the problem, as suggested by the wit In the opening paragraph of this article, Is a real problem to many. How many times have you, looking through the stacks of cards that the mall man brought you during Christmas week, come across one which held your attention more than momentarily ns you said. Heres one from Ur. and Mrs. Illnnk. Did we send them one this year!" In fact, the custom of sending Christmas cards ha become such a problem to those persons who have never fully realized the meaning Of the statement that they have declared, Rut the next year finds them Never again! adding their quota to the mountain of t'hrlstmns cards which pile np In poet oflloes throughout the suc-exal- t- Post-Offic- Vjr.ee:tin33 e e d (Cvpjrrlglatt d land. Although the Christmas card Is a comparative newcomer among Christmas traditions, tt can hy no means lie regarded as an Infant Industry." The figures alrendy cited prove that. Rut as one regards the amazing growth of the Idea, one wonders sometimes how our forefathers ever man aged to celebrate Christmas without Christmas cards. For It was only 81 years ago. In 181(1, that the first Christmas card first, at least. In the sense that it was the forefather of the present Christinas card Idea was sent out. The man who originated It was Sir Henry ('ole. later famous ns a social and educational reformer. He had already begun applying the fine nrts to manufacture and was the pioneer In Illustrating children's books with woodcuts of famous paintings. Just where Sir Henry got ' the Idea If tt was not original with him for his Christmas card Is not known. Lover cards and Illustrated writing paper had been popular In Europe for many years. In Germany Illuminated cards were sent on Namenstng, the feast of one's patron snlnt. In 1844 some unknown person tn the city of lelth. Scotland. Is said to have sent out New Years cards to hts friends bearing a laughing face and the words "A Gude New Year to Ye," but since this did not have a wide circulation. It Is dotibjful If Sir Henry got the Idea there. He may have got It from the custom of English school boys of writing 'Christmas pieces on paper which they decorated with many scrolls and much flourish of penmanship. But wherever Sir Henry got his inspiration, after deciding to send out curds to his friends bearing his good wishes for their hnpphiess at Christmas, he went to J. C. Horsley, a member of the Royal academy in London, for the design, and Horsley's product was that shown at the head of this article. The German Influence may be seen tn the Germanesque style of leafy trellises which divide the card Into three panels. The smaller side panels show two of the acts of ciiarity feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and the central panel shows three generations of a fam fly party at the festal board quaffing their Christmas cheer. This card was six by four inches. colored by hand, and a thousand copies, were Issued. For some unexplained reason, Horsley Issued his design under the noin de plume of Felix Summerly," and the card bears the line Published at Summerlys Hive Treasury Office, 2 Old Bond Street. London." Since this card bears the inscription A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You, It cun te regarded as the first huMday greeting card ever printed and sent out as the forerunner of a custom that wus to become woi Id wide. Strange to say. Sir Henry Coles friends were not esieclally pleased at this remembrance and It Is said to have received much unfavorable criticism. So he did not repent the experiment and tf looked as though the Christmas card Idea was to die aborning. However, In the early sixties ornamented note paper and envelopes began to appear In the stationers shops around the holiday season and the use of these began to increase each year. Next these designs were stamped In relief In the center of a card with colored or embossed edges decorated by stencil or by hnnd. Thus the business of making Christmas cards got under wny slowly. It wns even slower In getting stnrted In America and It was not until 1SJ.1 that the begin nlngs were apparent In this country. . In that year Louis Prang, a lithographer of Roston, exhibited samples of his flowered business cards at the Vienna exposition and they attracted considerable attention. He had an agency In London and one of his women employees there (her name Is unknown) suggested to him that he put a greeting In place of the name of his firm nnd Issue them as Christmas cards. This was done the next year, so that 1874 marks the beginning of the Christmas card in this country. It was not until two years later, however, that the Christmas card Idea became widespread and this was due to the exhibits of such cards by different printers nnd lithographers at toe Centennial exposition tn Philadelphia. Another forward step In the Christmas catd business was taken In 1 STD when a British com pnny. which had offered prizes for Christmas card designs, held an exhibition of the best ones sub mltted In Dudley hall In London. About this time a Roston card manufacturing company held a similar exhibit at which the first prize winner was given the sum of $2,000. At the London exhibit It was learned that the majority of the prize winners were Women nnd two of them. Kate Greenwny nnd Alice Havers. Inter became famous for their Christ mas card designs. In fact, in the early years of the Cliristmas card business, before the great demand for them resulted In mass production nnd more emphasis upon quantity than quality. Ihe Christmas card design was an important piece of creative art. so much so that it has been said that The Christmas card enjoyed a golden nge of art In the decade One of the reasons for this from 1S78 to 1SS8. was that the exhibitions and contests which were being held by the producers of Chris tnrts cards were stimulating Interest In this form of art and uncovering many new artists.. One of the art events of the year 1880 was a Christmas card exhibition arranged by Louis Prang at the American Art galleries, writes one Investigator in the history of the Christinas card. "For several years thereafter similar exhibitions were held, with competitions in the artistic merit and popularity of the designs; nnd such men as Richard M. Hunt, John La Farge and Louis C. Tiffany were sufficiently Interested to act as Judges. The exhibition of 1SS4 carried a special feature. The quantity 'of dilettante work that hitherto had found its way to the exhibitions tended to turn away the best artists, but now their Interest was deliberately sought In the hope of raising the level of Christmas card design. of o 1010-poun- c "rfSk. 1 hand-painte- d hand-blocke- hand-painte- -- hoop-skirts- t x o d |