Once upon a time there was a little Prince, and he wanted to give a valentine to a little Princess who lived in a neighboring kingdom. She was a very beautiful little Princess indeed, for her smile was as bright as her golden hair, and her love for her subjects was as deep as the blue of her eyes.
"What kind of a valentine shall I get for the Princess?" the Prince asked.
Arthur had a box of paints given him for Christmas, and he had learned to color pictures very prettily; so just as he was finishing the dress of a gorgeous Japanese lady such a happy thought came to him that he nearly spilled some yellow paint all over Miss Matsuki's gay pink dress, in his haste to find mother and tell her about it.
Christmas will be here soon, and I'm looking forward to visiting you in . wrote to tell me what a good you have been this year. You should be very proud of yourself! It's so important to be a good little , listen to your and always do your .
I hope that you and are busy getting ready for Christmas
Toys decorated the Christmas tree in the corner of the hospital classroom; the tree so real-looking you could almost smell pine needles. Tomorrow would be Christmas Eve, and it was beginning to look as though Tracy would be spending the holiday at home with Mark. She'd been back on her feet for nine days—after eight weeks of bed rest—and nothing had happened yet, much to the surprise of her doctor.
The middle of winter has long been a time of celebration around the world. Centuries before the arrival of the man called Jesus, early Europeans celebrated light and birth in the darkest days of winter. Many peoples rejoiced during the winter solstice, when the worst of the winter was behind them and they could look forward to longer days and extended hours of sunlight.
Rudolph, "the most famous reindeer of all," was born over a hundred years after his eight flying counterparts. The red-nosed wonder was the creation of Robert L. May, a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward department store.
