Show Nf millions illions rolas for ch chrisom Gr edings some HEN the postman delivers another shear sheaf of christmas cards at the door during the few days just before christmas how many of the recipients give a thought to the magnitude of the job of preparing sentiments for helping folks to express a cheery word to friends and kin at that season A word about the origin of bf the christmas greeting will be Interest kig thomas Sk orrock of leith Is credited by an english journal published prior to 1810 18 IG 10 as th the e originator of the christmas card but as no copy of his card came to public jo notice tIce another source must be found in 1816 IS ac J C horseley or seley R A acting upon the suggestion of sir then mr air henry cole produced a drawing which was lithographed lithographer litho graphed by jobbing of warwick court II olborn but bul one thousand cards were printed and each was colored by hand from rom this beginning the custom of sending bending greetings at christmas has spread to the entire christian world in an average year the output of these concerns approximates 90 at retail prices of which a large proportion consists of christmas greetings sentiments usually are purchased from free lance writers who submit them to the editorial department of the publishing company just as notion fiction and other manuscripts are submitted to editors of magazines though some concerns maintain a writing staff naturally writers try to express a sentiment better than the purchaser himself could find and also to provide a variety of sentiments which individuals might find apropos for a particular friend or relative besides the christmas cards found in the stores called counter cards individual designs and F sentiments a are re prepared to order 0 for personal use of by society people and others some of the greetings of this character affected by the hollywood holi I 1 movie colony are very elaborate and erpen elve alve others bear merely a formal engraved greet greeting 1119 with the name of the sender bender another class of christmas greetings Is that pro provided sided by tile the telegraph companies the sentiments being sent in code and written out to in full for the recipients on special blanks decorah ed with designs telephone grep greetings tings also both local and long distance make important additions to the big multi meillon ir wish for joy tr le tho ali orail ciul a marry christ 1 I hll 1 c i pi irra anian |