Lottery Marks
Christinas Time
In Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES Uh—For many
Argentines Santa Claus is the
Christmas lottery.
Down here In the Southern
Hemisphere where Christmas
comes at the beginning of sum
mer the holiday observance
nevertheless is pretty much the
usual thing in Christendom today.
Except for the lottery.
The shops of Buenos Aires are
decorated for the festive shop
ping season, although gifts as m
rule are given on Epiphany, Jan.
6, in the Spanish tradition.
Uke Catholics the world over,
the Argentines, with little fig
ures and toy animals lay out
miniature reproductions in their
homes of the Christ Child’s birth
in a Bethlehem manger. Many
homes also display the lighted
trees of northern climates.
When Christmas Eve comes
around, it is the time for the
family dinner, with the grand
parents, if possible, presiding at
the feast. Then the families go
to church for midnight mass.
Traditional here, too, is the na
tional lottery, the biggest of the
year, with the drawing two or
three days before Christmas. Mil
lions of pesos are the prizes. Six
top prizes of 6,500,000 pesos each,
reward perhaps 40 or 50 buyers
of shares in the tickets with a
total of 38,000,000 pesos. Hun
dreds more share lesser prizes
rartging from 2,500 to 1,300,000
pesos.
Christmas Village
Always on Display
MARDELA, Md. UFl — It's
Christmas all year ’round in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. George J.
Hochmuth in this community on
(Maryland’s eastern shore.
A Christmas village, built by
their two sons, 25 year-old Wil
liam and 28-year-old Joseph, la
on permanent display in an en
tire room set aside for that pur
pose. ■ -
The village grew over a 18
year period from a few little
buildings and a train to its pre
sent size—big enough to fill a
room 16x16 feet. There are now
three trains and a painted back
ground.
The Hochmuths live on a 300
acre dairy farm near here. There
are three other sons and a daugh
ter away from home.
Children in the neighborhood
drop in occasionally to start the
trains running and watch the
house? light up.
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