European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday december 24, 19b7 my True love9 spending a record $13,871.75 from pm dispatches the rising price1 of five Golden rings 10 lords and 12 drummers sent the Cost of a True love s Christmas a Caping by 7.3 percent this year. Buying gifts for All 12 Days of Christmas As out lined in the Carol of the tame name carries a heft Price lag of is 3,871.75, almost $1,000 More than toil car s 112,9211,25, according 1o a Phoud Phi economist. The lords and Capers Are much higher this year than the commodities partridges Pear Trees things like said Robert j. Christian of provident National Bank who developed the Christmas Price fined for smoking Chain smoking Rodney Mccroe of Perth holding a cigarette a no smoking sign and hit Fine Money it Ata Trolia t Firtl airborne of fender since the government banned Uno King on dome tit flights. Index five years five Golden rings increased to j750 from 1225 last year As Gold prices Rose 22 percent through de a canner Christian and an assistant spent about four hours last week gathering the data for the Index. They called the Philadelphia zoo to Price swans partridges and Turtle doves and actors and musicians unions for the Cost of hiring drummers pipers leap cars and rundown of the Cost of Christmas according to the song an Anonymous Folk Carol that started in England in the 17th or 18th Century goes As Fol lows on the first Day of Christmas my True love spent the same amount As last year for a ji5 Partridge and a 129.95 Pear tree. Two Turtle doves also remained steady at $50, Sadid three French hens for ii5 and four calling Birds for $280. Six Domestic a Csc a laying Cost s50, Someas in 1986, and seven swans a swimming also showed no increase Al s 7.000.eight maids a milking held firm at $26.80. Nine ladies dancing now go for $1,800, compared with $1.602 last year 10 leaping lords require$2 000 up from $1,780, and 11 pipers piping Cost $�42.40.upfrom$8l4.32. Finally in would Lake $912.60 1o hire 12 drum mers to drum on the i2lh Day of Christmas. Last year s Cost was just sb82.18,Christian a
