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wiiiias
"Christmas and the Farm; the
Farm and Food”.
Christmas 1930 should see a reviv
al of this ancient Christmas toa’st.
Those were the days when the value
of the farm was universally recogniz
ed, but in the whirl of modern life
the farm, as the sure foundation of
material civilization, is apt to be for
gotten. The word “farm” means food
and was so called because in older
times the tenant was required to pro
vide the landlord with food by way
of rent. Today this definition has
been considerably extended in that
the farm supplies the nation with
food, and without food, without the
feeding of the multitude, it is, not
given to human beings to be able
openly to express that spirit of uni
versal kindness and peace and good
will evoked by the teachings of the
Master in the celebration of the fes
tival of Christmas.
The connection between agriculture
and Christmas has been intimate
from the beginning. It was to shep
herds watching their flocks by night
that the words “Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great
joy” were addressed. It was in a
lowly stable attached to a farm-khan
that the Saviour of the World was :
born, and a few days later it -was on The queen of, the banquet was'called
the back of the most humble farm Bessy,
animal, the ass, that He was borne Then th
to Egypt in safety.
It was from the agricultural pop
ulation that the early Christians drew
their adherents, and many’years lat
er it was over the farms and orch
ards in the vicinity of Rome that the
early Christians scoured the country
in search of holly branches to dec
orate their churches and dwelling at
Christmastide.
Meanwhile, the farm, as ever, con
tinued to furnish the wherewithal for
the feast, and at the same time, as
centuries rolled by and towns became
swamped in their own activities, it
was the farm that kept alive the I
kindly, ancient rites of the feast. I
Many centuries later, Charles Dick- ]
ens restored to the townfolk of Eng- |
land something of the joy and beauty |
of the spirit of Christmas which still i
flourishes among agricultural com
munities. Even today many of the
ancient agricultural Christmas cele
brations, as distinct from the towns, j
survive, some of them under limited I
conditions. There is Plough Monday,
for example, which is still observed in
several countries, including the Brit- •
ish Isles'. In olden times in Europe,!
Plough Monday marked the end oi j
the Christmas holidays. It was held i
on the first Monday in January af-'
ter the Twelfth Day. It was custom-j
■.ary on Plough Monday, before the
ploughman returned to work on the:
, following day to draw a plough from i
door to door of the parish to solicit
plough mmicy” to spend in a frolic.
of the boar’s head which still exists
in at least three distinct communities
in Englund, at Queen’s College, Ox
ford, on Christmas Day, and at the
annual Christmas banquets of the
City of London at the Guildhall and
of the Worshipful Company of Cul
lers in London. The proceedings are
much the same. Trumpets sound and
the boar’s head is carried in proces
sion, escorted by choristers singing
the old carol “The boar’s head in
hand bring I”. At the City of Lou
don feast, the master takes the lemon
from the boar’s jaws*and at Oxford
the Provost takes the orange and pre
sents it to the principal singer. At
the Cutlers’ Hall, the president of the
feast accepts the present of a pot of
mustard, and extols.the circumstances
of the feast. This reference to mus
tard must be very old, because in- a
carol that had been in vogue for cen
turies before, Wynkyn de Worde
printed the words in 1521 A.D., the
last line of which runs “the bore’s
heed with mustarde”.
The phrase "Christmas Box” orig
inated in the early Christmas times.
It was really then a box which was
placed in the church for promiscuous
charities and was opened op Christ
mas Day. The contents were distrib
uted the next day (Boxing Day) by
the priest, and where the contribu
tions consisted of cash were known
as box money. However, farmers
were accustonied to leave their con
tributions in kind, eggs, butter, flour
meat, and other agricultural products,
much the same as the farmers of
Quebec today place fruits at the
church entrance on Thanksgiving
Day, the results of the sales of which
go toward masses for the souls of
relatives. In many churches in Can
ada, the accumulation ,of Christmas
gifts is distributed in much the same
manner as in the earliest Christian
days. 1
And at this Christmastide, as in the
days gone by, the farm has furnished
the chief necessaries for-the Christ
mas feast, such as the meats, the. tur
keys, the geese, the ducks and chick
ens, the cereal foods, the vegetables,
the cream, milk, eggs and cheese, not
forgetting that many of the other es
sentials, the candies and confection
ery, the pickles, cigars and cigarettes,
arc all of
So once
"Christmas
and Food”.
needs to make her lovely. To her
self she was simply a forlorn female
only seven years less than thirty.
Comfortably settled Sally snuggled
down in her chair and decided that
she would try and remember it was
Christmas Day. With some wrinkling
of forehead and a. firm setting of lips
she made vp her mind that for the
space of one long week-end she would
forget the past, ignore the future, and
pretend she was content.
Within ten minutes her good re
solution Yyas smashed to smithereens.
To keep it entailed putting Don en
tirely out of the picture, something
not easy of accomplishment. To for
get him was as easy for Sally as
turning Lake Ontario into a golf
course, or transplanting the Rocky
Mountains to the Atlantic Coast. Ev
en if Don bad not behaved as well as
he might he was an unforgettable
sort of creature, and still occupied as
much of her thoughts as when they
were engaged. Hard as she tried she
couldn’t banish him. Way down deep
she knew he had not been entirely to
blame. The row that resulted in their
separation might .not have amounted
to anything if she had not. been silly,
and he had shown a little sense.
Entirely forgetting her determina
tion to eliminate all unpleasantness
Sally settled deeper in her chair, and
gave herself up to misery and intros
pection. For the thousandth time—-
or more—wondered if Don wasn’t a
little bit sorry for-what had happen
ed. Not that he really had cause for
regret, at least not professionally. He
had plunged even deeper into work.
Already his practice was larger than
that of many a doctor twice his age,
and he had won a bit' of credit for
something he had done in a research
line. Just what Sally did not under
stand, in spite of the year and a half
she had'already put in at a training-
school for' nurses. Not that what
happened to Don mattered ' in the
least to Sally Dunn. Soon—she shiv
ered a little and stirred restlessly—
soon he would be married to some
one,else. And she would manage, she
assured herself, to find a place in the
world—there was always room
old maids who could be useful.
Sally had almost reached the point
where love-breaks down pride. Only
once since the flare-up had she seen
Don, and-then he hadn’t recognized
her. Disguised in mask and gown she
had seemed but one more nurse in
the operating room that morning
when something unusual .had been
done by a surgeon’s skilful hands.
She held it against him. Did so in
spite of the fact that the hospital had
taught her the relationship of a doc
tor and his job, and that answering a
call was of more
taking a pretty girl
the beginning
had not been
of himself.
don’t ■want you to go
for
agricultural origin.
more, the ancient toast:
and the Farm: the Farm
WHAT SANTA
BROUGHT TO SALLY
By Callaway Marston
After the nip and tingle of the cold
Christmas air the warmth of the car
was welcome. All aglow Sally tipped
; the Red Cap generously. With a
I "Merry Christmas to $.)U,” she an-
I swered the greeting of the beaming
: porter who stowed away her bags,
I and saw that she had a hassock plac-
j ed at the proper angle. ' She even
i managed to look as if the day that
i meant so much to many held soine-
} thing more than mtsery'-for her.
Fur a minute or two- Sally
* something of the real spirit of the
| season. Then she sagged back into
I the stagnant mental state that was be-
I coming habitual. To a casual, onlook-,
er it didn’t seem as if much could be
amiss—in appearance she was just a
very pretty person with all a girl
broken for the convenience of nurses
on night duty. The delay meant miss
ing the family dinner which was this
year being held at her sister’s. But
Linda and her Bill would understand,
and be there to meet her when the
train pulled in. There would be a bit
of supper, a little talk, a look at the
pink and white cherubs who called
Bill and Linda parents. Then—why
then, on Monday night she would be
back on the train speeding Montreal-
wards.
“Oli, what's the us^?” she said out
loud, then startled at the sound of
her voice, looked round quickly to
see if she had been overheard.
Ashamed of having given way, she
determined on action to make her
forget. She pulled a bit of knitting
and a big ball of wool from a small
bag, and for a time her fingers flew
furiously, her mind intent on purl and
plain. Lulled to a drowsy calm she
was half a
ed rolling gently, lazily <
aisle, and keeping just out
Almost she had retrieved
with a flirt and a flutter it
and out among the chairs,
pear at last under the only occupied
one in the car.
Standing behind Sally looked, down
at the top of the brown hat, under
which the wearer was evidently as
leep, and addressed'it.
"I’m sorry, she began.
ry but—”
Then she stopped short as if pull
ed by a string. Before she realized
what was happening,'-Don was hold
ing her hands.
"Sally,” she heard him say. “Sally
is it true? Are you sorry, too, that
we were such fools?”
Before he could kiss her a stenor-
ian voice from somewhere in the
background announced, "Dinner is
now being served in the dining car!”
That proved a signal for a general
exodus from the smoker. A bell tinlw
led. The porter hurried down the
aisle. Clearing it was neither time nor
place for explanations. Dreading
them, anxious to put them off, Sally
clutched Don by the hand. “Come
and eat,” she said as if there had nev
er been a misunderstanding between
them. “I’m half starved. Had noth
ing to eat since breakfast.”
In’ the dining car they attempted to
act like normal people, but they could
not fool anybody, least of all a jolly
old chap at the next table .who wore
a sprig of Christinas greenery, and
looked a lot like Santa Claus with a
beard trim.
They reached the coffee stage be-
sleep 'when the ball start
down the
: of reach,
it when,
wound in
, to disap-
The Queen Mother
felt
importance than
out to dinner,
of their quarrel
angry, just too
out with
was how
the..ancient feast
JOIKi THE-
SHARE SOME OP YOUfb
CHRISTMAS (WITH THAT LITTLE
FORGOTTEN TOT
JUST ARODMD YOUR CORNER-
IT WILL BRING JOY lb YOU BfiTH.
At
Don
sure
“I
Hal Louis any more." That
he put it.
The man meant was no
her than a stick of wood but she had
countered with a “Why not?”
Worried and tired after a hard day
Don’s tone when he answered was
not calculated to turn away wrath.
Annoyed, Sally canie back at him.
“Hal’s all right.” ’ ■
“He’s, not your sort — our sort. I
wouldn’t let my sister go out with
him, and you mean, a lot more to me
than Kathie does.”
Secretly she agreed with him, but
she did not intend to be bossed, then
or later.
"I' wouldn't need Hal to take me
places if you kept your engagements.”
Don rushed to his own defense.
"But, Sally, a doctor—”
"Oh, of course. Ring in that alibi.
Blame duly.”
He tried to explain, but she would
n’t let him. "Do you want me to sit
at home waiting until you take a
minute .off to call me up, and tell
me you 'can’t make it’. 1 won’t do
it, Don. I intend to enjoy myself,
and if you can’t come along—well,
I’m sure someone else will.”
When the debate Was over Sally's
engagement ring was back in Don’s
pocket, and two young idiots had ap
parently parted for ever, For three
months she waited for some sign,
then had entered a training school in
Montreal and set about becoming a
nurse. Site liked the work, liked the
people, ‘even liked getting tired—'be
cause, well if too weary one did not
think,
Disgusted with herself for thinking
of Don, Sally turned to the window
and stared out into the darkness.
When that proved no remedy
looked round the car, but there
nothing of interest. Passengers
Toronto on the afternoon exp
were few, and apparently they
all foregathered in the
room. Sh
alone. Then discovered her mistake,
Behind a slowly moving coon coat
at the far end, she caught sight of a
brown hat just showing above the
back of a chair. Idly she wondered
what- mischance had driven the wear
er from home on Christmas tJtyy,
She had intended to take the morn
ing train, but hospital rules ar<Lnot
more to
she
was
for
Tess
had
smoking
thought she was quite
that.
Suddenly with a start'they realized
where they were as a gay voice cried,
"Looks '-as if you’d never need it. .But
take it child, and use it.”
A guest of fresh air swept over
them. Someone had opened the door
and then beaten a retreat. For an in
stant Sally had a glimpse of a kindly
laughing face, a white beard half hid
den in something red that might have
been a muffler.
Looking down at her,.hand she
stared at what had been thrust into,
it — something delicately green and
white, something of which even child
ren knew the Christmastide use—a
sprig of mistletoe, f
Eyes full of mischief, lips an invi
tation, she held it high and looked
up at Don.
"See Don, see. Does Sally need
what Santa Claus has brought her?”
______ . .. An instant later Santa’s gift fell un-
fore Sally ventured on anything per- j heeded to the floor, disregarded, for-
sonal. "Odd, wasn’t it,” she queried,. ■• T'----------—
“that we should take the same train?”
And Don, assenting, did not admit,
■then or later, that acting on a tip
from Linda, he had travelled all the
night before to come back with her,
and then had been too scared to
speak.
When the last excuse .for lingering
was gone they, started back for their
own car. Then as the first door
swung behind them Don caught her
in his arms. They blocked the nar
row passage, but neither thought of
gotten, as .Don proved that Sally cer-
tianly didn’t.
OUEEN MARY ASKS
LOYALTY TO KING
distress which fills a mother’s heart
•when I think that my dear son has
deemed it his duty ot lay down his
charge and that the reign which was
begun with, so much "hope and prorii-
ise has so suddenly ended.'
"I know you will realize what it
cost him to come to this decision, and
that, remembering the.years in which
he tried so eagerly to serve and help
his country and the Empire,, you will
keep ever grateful remembrance of
him in your hearts.
“I commend to you his brother,
summoned so unexpectedly and'under
circumstances
place.
“I ask you
full measure
which you gave to my. beloved hus
band and which you would
have continued to give to
new King's) brother.
"With him I commend
daughter-in-law who will
Queen.
so- painful to take his
to give him the same
of generous loyalty
willingly ■
his (the
my
be
dear
his
May she receive the same
unfailing affection and trust which
you have given me fo¥ six' and twen
ty years.
"I know ^ou already have taken
her children to your hearts. It is my
earnest prayer that, inyspite of, nay,
through this present trouble, the loy
alty and unity of our land and Em
pire may by God’s blessing be main-
•Queen Mary issued a message to
the nation and the ' Empire Friday,
night, expressing gratitude for the
sympathy and affection shown “in I tained and strengthened,
this time of anxiety,” | “May He bless, keep and guide you
• The Queen Mother’s message said: i always.
"I need not speak • to you of the) (Signed) "Mary R.”
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