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From home to home, from coun- try to country, Yule celebrations The robin seemed Jo understand that something wondrous was hap. petting. After the departure of the Magi, when the Holy Family was Lore and Legend Express Happy Mood of Season According to the legend. the Holy Family was not alone in taking w fuge in the stable at Bethlehem. Perched on a rafter. a small brown robin watched as the three Magi presented their gifts to the new. born Christ Child. One can) published for this year gauged a Malling of the robin What's a robin doing on a Guru- mu card? More familiar " a hm liner of spring. bobbing along with a fat worm in " mouth, the gotrln is nevertheless n centuries.. old Christmas symbol. And one of the earliest Christmas cards, a 101Fyear-old English greeting, lets. tures an illustration at a robin on e snowbank. Because legend am the robin Med a vital part in the first Christmas, Yuletide decorum and cards have long celebrated the cheery red-breast. 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The early Christians used mistle- toe to adorn the ttitars at Christ. Mistletoe Was Pagan Medicine wmcmwm.wn baupus V WV B.- ' ' ' on earth, good will toward men . . . may this Christmas bring you and your family a time of lasting peace, joy and multiple blessings. Merry Christmas. toe was given to the goddess ot love and therefore every woman passing beneath it was kissed. To- day, it is popular belief that any woman who stand, beneath the mistletoe invites a kiss Some even hold that a girl kissed beneath the mistletoe will be married within a year - if she allows herself to he kissed but once for each berry on the mistletoe. INTERIORS 745-4916