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Show Christmas Season Evokes Spirit of Trust, Faith Indicative of the Integrity and trustfulness - prevailing throughout j the world at Christmas time, pec-pie pec-pie of Holland often enti'ust gifts to total strangers requesting the passerby to leave the package on such-and-such a doorstep. Half-way across the globe, Negro families in Virginia long have observed ob-served the table-covered-with-a-sheet custom. The dining room table is covered with a sheet Names of everyone in the household house-hold are written on slips of paper and pinned to the sheet. Gifts are sneaked under the sheet when everybody is supposed to be asleep, and even the youngest child refrains re-frains from 'peeking' until the gifts are unveiled Christmas morning. |