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Fun trivia about Christmas
Who started Christmas
cards?
Christmas cards began with
cards drawn by children of bib
lical scenes and messages like
Happy Hobdays and “I promise
to be good.” The first commer
cial card was printed in 1846
with a picture of a family cele
brating a Christmas dinner in
the center and on each side
were pictures of charitable acts
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message ‘A Merry Christmas
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ed.
Where did the idea for
fruitcakes come from ?
The Romans first made fruit
cake with raisins, pine nut,
pomegranate seeds and barley
mash. The ingredients have
changed somewhat over the
years, but the fruitcake
remains an enduring symbol of
Christmas.
Who started the tradition
of gift giving?
Gifts were given as good luck
symbols and house were deco
rated with greenery in early
Roman festivals. Although
early Christians did not
approve of this “pagan” Yitual,
they did approve of giving gifts
as the giving of gifts by the
Magi or wisemen who brought
gifts to the Christ child. By the
middle ages gift giving became
widely accepted.
One popular gift in the 19th
and 20th centuries was fruit,
nuts and candy. Another popu
lar gift was stuffed animals,
particularly the Teddy Bear
introduced in the early 1900’s
and named for “Teddy”
Roosevelt.
Why are lights and lighted
trees so popular at
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Christmas?
Very early Christmas (ever
green) trees were decorated
with candles which proved to be
a dangerous practice. In the
very late 1800’s Ralph Morris, a
telephone employee, took home
a string of lights used on one of
the early switchboards and put
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President
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ceremony on the White House
lawn back in 1923.
Early Christmas trees were
decorated with real fruit and
flowers as well as with bghted
candles. Some of the fruits
were quite heavy. German
glass blowers made glass balls
to go in the place of the heavy
fruits. Many other decorations
were made at home. Popped
corn was strung together on
thread and used for garlands on
early trees.
Where did the term “Merry
Christmas” come from?
When the term first began,
the word “merry” meant
blessed and peaceful, so the
phrase meant “Have a blessed
and peaceful Christmas.”
Why do people kiss under
the mistletoe?
Around the New Year, Celtic
priests, who were called Druids,
would collect mistletoe from a
holy oak tree to offer as a sacri
fice to the gods. At the same
time, some of the mistletoe
would be hung up for people
who had disagreements could
stand under it and kiss to sym
bolize the end to their differ
ences.
Why do people think
Santa Claus lives at the
North Pole?
Cartoonist Thomas Nast
drew a cartoon back in 1882
gM. showing Santa Claus
J sitting on a box which
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North Pole.” Nast
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the North Pole was a
good spot for Santa to
live.
Why do people hang stock
ings on the mantle?
No one knows for sure, but
the tradition could have come
from the legend of the three
girls with no doweiy (gifts to
give to the family of the man
the girl was to marry). The
girls hung the stockings they
wore by the fire to dry. When
St. Nicholas threw bags of gold
down the chimney, they landed
in the stockings.
In Holland, St. Nicholas is
said to have placed gifts in the
wooden shoes of the children.
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