Show I LONG AGO AdO AT CHRISTMAS US I the Night Before Christmas was first published In the Troy N. N Y Sentinel in 1823 Dr Clement C C. C Moore had composed It the preceding Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas Just to amuse his children The British Museum has a copy of ot the first Christmas card etched by an English artist over a century ago Tinsel as used for tor Christmas decoration was first produced by a London engineer named Henry Harris In 1879 It was an accidental tal discovery While working in a silk mill he noticed metal shavings clinging II to a strand of ot silk I |