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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD •
THURS., JAN o 2, 941..
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By John C. Kirkwood
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'Year, wonderingly. of
d ly Just now we see intellectual aids and furthe
rances
the black clouds of bloody war, and the whole place. We have a church
we hear the awful noise of giant and a chapel, and I attend both. The
guus. But many .of us are looking Dreamthorp people are Dissenters
ver could
for
beyond these dreadful times - toward rthe most part - why,
days when Peace shall have returned understand, because dissent" implies a
and when we shall be rebuilding what certain intellectual. effort. In an un'-
hae been destroyed. I gainly building, filled' with hard gaunt
pews, without an organ, without a other people. Here I' can live as
Today I have, felt inclined to give Pe , windows with I please, here I can throw the re
peaceful touch of colour in the , T
Whenever it is finished fancy returns
from her wanderings and 3 am alive
to the objects around me, The •clergy-
man knows my humour, and is good
enough Christian to forgive me.
An idle life I live in thin place, as
the world counts it, but then I have
the satisfaction of differing''from the
world as to the meaning of idleness.
A windmill twirling its arms all day
is admirable only when there is corn
to grind. Twirling its arms for the
mere barren pleasure of twirling
tthem, or for the sake of looking busy,
does not deserve any rapturous paean
of praise., I must be happy after my
own fashion, not after the fashion of
my readers a picture of a
village Dreamthorp. The very name, 1nothing to stir the imagination or the
res' one,wag- devotional sense, the simple' people
g estivethofp, mis a sleepy' g I they are put
gestive of composure and infinite worship. On Sunday
peace. It
is of
course
an
invented
upon
on a diet of
spiritual
p
iritua'
l
:bread and n
d
name -aconcealing name, yeta verywater.Personally should
labour-
But the • neious food.
more e
e
of g
isalso the
nam
It
name.
haonce
PYtill Pattentively, ,
ing people listen Y
they fall asleep, and they wake up to
on the neck of my whim. Here
play with my own thoughts; here I
ripen for the grave.
Thus ends Smiths essay on Drearb-
ed
not succeed inmaking
he
then:).
Does
rp
I at-
tractive?
small community. ina
life
lived
his da. there were
tractive . But in y
no motor cars - no furious pace of
life. 'I suppose that the motor -car
was inevitable, yet it has taken muoh
from the peace of life -from its re-
posefulness, from its reflectiveness.
In ending this contribution to the
News -Record, I suggest to my readers
that they read over again, if they
have it near them Gray's most beauti-
ful "Elegy in. a Country Church -
are - for, like Smith's "Dream-
from
itself
from the place and circumstances. thorp" it is a picture of blissful peace.
a book, by Alexander Smith, a Scots
journalsit who flourished, in his na-
live land., in- the 60's of last - century.
The sub -title of the book is "A Book of having done their duty. In my
of Essays Written In the Country." pew, and whilst the clergyman is go -
I havd Telt that the re -telling of ing on, I think of the strangest things
of the tree at the window, of the
Smith's description of Dreamthorp
might have a welcome as "escape" congregation of the dead outside, of
readingsomething to take our the wheatfields and the cornfieldsd
minds away from the terribleness of. beyond and all around; and the o
the war which is destroying the cities thing is that it is during sermon only
and meadows and road- that my mind flies off at a tangent
and hamletsf with things removed
sides of Britain, and which is impos- and b •
. ing miseries' beyond the power of
receive the benediction with a feeling
words to tell of on countless thous-
ands of persons and families in Brit-
ain andEurope,
Asia and Africa, and
c to
Atlantic the
Alla
��d
•os.e
which have crossed
put sorrow and distress into many
homes in Canada and the United
States, and which are putting heavy
burdens on all of us - burdens which
will be passed on to the generation
which follows us who are now alive.
It was on a summer evening, says
Alexander Smith, about the hour of
eight, that I first beheld Dreamthorp,
with its westward -looking windows
painted by sunset, its children play-
ing in the single straggling street,
the mothers knitting at the open
doors, the fathers standing about in
long white blouses, chatting or smok-
ing; the great tower o the
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The Voice of Britain
The man whose voice has become
known as• the radio find of, 1940, J.
B. Priestley, will continue to be beard
in 1941 as a member of the speaking
group regularly presented over .the
CBC national network at 10.15 p.m.
EST. This is the feature, "Britain
Speaks" produced by the BBC and
rebroadcast in this country as a
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Christmas Miscellany
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About Old Santa Claus,
Children's Patron Saint
TUN dictionary merely tells you
; hat Santa 1 'alio a contraction
i,t Salol Ni'hnlas (see Nicholas, Saint)
A .turning, tf the pages reveals :that
Nicholas wits hlshop of Myra or Satyr
nit In Ash, Minor about 800 A D. He
was 'the patron saint ,Wold Russia anti
war believed to otter' spi'clal prole('
hien
;•furan
Holtcomfort to "sea..faring It n and f t
e•r� nand t•hlldren Hie at col tvirgins
the
on t
• a 1hawed'
Ft t inn for elrliilren w71
a',Serttun IoW he br,ught back to Int
ttit',' schoolboys who had been mut
iered An encyclopedia attributers the
'lame. by width he Is known in America
to the early (Noes settlers who caller'
dw San Nlcolans.
Plot fllittle matters whether he be
tcnowu Its Saint Nicholas, Santa (`laws,
Krt$ I' ningle, or doers other names,
'or 1 he presence of his spirit en this
•Umttx Mulishly 01 the year is the lm'
tortoni thing 11 enters every home
In the four turners .uf l'hristendom
lad touches the heurts of cell the 1110
and w1t11011 In them. Mureuver, 11 Is
•Ksenlitill the spirit of rliilthood, the
reslmest the courttge send the eager
1 s
1 It< la.
Saint N<
less at young lives.
nay spent old hut he tuts none of the
sears, regrets or prejudices el age.
ale and his children stand on the
threshold of rhe world 'Tel banner
's ;.Coon will and tied goal is ptn,e.
So this day dedicated to the 1110111.
my of the birth id a ;•Bald, nelongs to
ell rhIldren 1t Is then carols. theft
"aughttr, their happhIpes shied ataakes
f swept. Aad we 01det folk should on
this dray at least share theft kindliness.
'batt ttlerant•e, diel purity anti theft
taint Nlrhol:ts.—Thr Huston Herald
Printed Christmas Card
Was Issued Back in '43
TIII'Itis: is more humanity shunt the
1 1'ictnrit and Albert nuteutss throe
is still' brick exterior suggest$
1`he direette nae ....to asp a Christ
nus Net -lire Rook says n writer In
the 1,nndnn Star If reveals the tart
Jot the first Christmas card ever
printed was tqi Ird :nit ri> reremiY
:5.13.
— to
the CBC Farm Broadcast, Don Fair-
bairn pointed out that such an in-
crease in prices across the line was
not improbable. In fact, figures re-
leased by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture late in Decem-
ber estimated a decrease of 10% in
the fall and spying pig crop in the
United States. With fewer hogs be-
ing marketed and with consumer de-
castle rising high into the rosy air, ]nand in the United States on the
nightly programme from Ottawa. upswing because of the tesnce Pro -
with a whole troop of swallows - by I Mr, Priestley, who long since gain- gramme it is noteunlikely that prices 'made as small as gnats ed international fame as a writer and will rise front one to ply dollars per
When I about its rents and fissures.)
fel I lecturer and, who last year became I cwt. is spring.
When I first behold all this, I felt I one of the best known personalities AcbY tually relierts the Farm Broad -
be t akeneiy taint any lt4ers, k might
be taken off my shoulders, that my' of the air, is heard Sundays and casts Department of the CBC, such
, Tuesdays in this series. Leslie How- an inDepar has been predicted by
Broad -
tired feet might wander no had found
that al Ilt the British film and' stage star I e
How -
at hitt, on this planet, 1 had have dwelt
a 1 some economists in the United States.
Who Went home front Hollywood If live hog prices over there did go
home. From that evening I dwelt when war broke out, speaks for Brit- ftp two dollars a C.Wt, it would bring
here, and the only journey that I am s. Sir Philip Joubert, with current quotations
sin on Monday them in' line wi
likely now to make is the very the eminent authority on defense mat -
Considerable one, so far at least aslters, gives his informative report on
distance lives concerned, front the house Wednesdays. William Holt, the York -
side I in to the graveyardTreb h shire weaver who has travelled all
York -
side the ruined inhabittle.ants
There, la i over the world and learned the ways
the former inhabitants oe the'place, ; of man and the things that touch his
tosleepicily enough and 1 new
here in Canada and in that case a
revision in our present Bacon Agree-
ment with the United Kingdom night
be considered by the British Ministry
of Foods.
Ontario and Quebec farmers can
I trust quietly ' i Itetut, br'ing's fresh courage ane
will draw over our heads her Two excellent peep up to date on developments in
nature spirit on Thursdays
coverletukof green sod, and tenderly speakers take alternate Friday nights I this situation as well as other arnt
tuck us in is a molder her sleeping, fl Problems by tuning in the CBC Farm
that no sound from the world' for their reports On economic 1\ oel nd h
saes, so lftar affairs. They are Philip T East least, heard ('Time over? stations
no servos mi Y Eastern Standard r •us, aril h .
1 P the
reachBowes-Lyon, e1e1Bowes w•
n
Y news
limavii
and
Da CBC'e more. � �.-. I Baker a of the Ontario network, ;rouble us any latter a brother of Her Majesty, the ; 1st,
The place spies my whim, and I I service, inaugurated January
like it better year after began As Queen. 1941, brings to the Farm Broadcast
In the United States, where `Brit -
to the most recent agricultural repots
else„ the
thinheard
be
with everything•tat Speaks is regularly
love it I find it village is,
think, a I • from all parts of the world.
a � Programme is pronounced one of the Royal Canadian Help Canada
special
My ofsis, tI best in the BBC Empire and over Canada.0a n Help
her blessings
Y
special favorite of summer's. Sum-) seas services. The feature is schedul- ,a keeping • these days and it t p g her busy
and her heart light. None of her
sons and daughters, even those far
away from hone, have forgotten her
need of them at this hour. Word has
been received of one more affection-
ate gesture. Guy Lombardo and his
orchestra, known now
n fn
oat coast at t0
coast
on both sides of the unguarded fron-
tier, as the Royal Canadians, will
lend their aid in Canada's war ser-
vice. On Tuesday, January 7, at 7.30
p.m, EST, Guy and his. lads, throng
h
the kind permission of the Music Cor-
poration of -America, will broadcast
in aid of the campaign to increase
the sale of Was Savings Certificates
in Canada.
CHRISTMAS GrtEENS
1-110 custom of hanging ever.
',greens the house during the
Yuletide originally. tied 0 purpose
Beyond that ,d ,Mcnrntinn. In
olden days each kind of even
green was believed to confer spe-
eial hfessings on those who
passed beneath Its houghs. 'ib
1111 fur
neared d
pass hull I
untie! h
a i v
hay
n, tlirinl bout the year, til 1.
t l was
Ir while laurel 111 tt
meant V y,
supposed to impart a spirit of
beauty and poetry. — Missouri
Farmer.
Trier has adorned nay village as gal y,
and taken as much pleasure in the
task, as the people of old, when Eliza-
beth was queen, tock in the adorn-
ment of the May -pole against a sum-
mer festival. And, just think, not only
Dreamthorp, but also every English
' l
trfu after
village she has made beau vivid
one fashion or another- making
green the hill slope on which strag-
gling Welsh hamlets hang right op-
posite the sea; drowning in apple -
blossom the red. Sussex ones in the fat
valley. And think, once more, every
s
spear of grass in England she e
touched with a livelier green; the
crest of every bird she has burnished;
every old wall between the four seas
has received her mossy and licheny
attention; every nook in every forest
she has sown with pale flowers, every
marsh she has dashed with the fires
of the marigold. And in the wonder-
ful night the moon knows, she hangs
the planet on which se many millions
of us fight and sin and agonize and
die - a sphere of glow-worm light.
In simmer I spend a good deal of
time floating about.. the lake. The lake
each with
a
nd•
ntains
threeislands, to
ds
;elan
these
and
on
solitary tree,
the swans breed. I feed the birds
daily with bits of bread. The green
pasture lands run down to the edge
t d into it in the after -
ed in Canada each night except Sat-
urday, at 10.15 p.m, EST and is fol-
lowed immediately by that other in-
ternationally popular British broad-
cast, the B B C Radio News Reel,
which brings heartening last-minute
30
at 10
c Kingdom ncl I
Island vs of
the g
news
pm. EST.
Bouquets for the CBC Programmes
CBC studios have never bad a big-
ger New Year's mail -bag of .bouquets.
The fan letters include many from
American friends, east, south and,
west who have enjoyed the special
Christmas programmes front Canada.
From Florida C B L has a kindly
greeting, written in verse, "in ap-
preciation of news and other good
programmes”. Thank you for listen-
ing, Florida. With its own CBC news
service established on New Year's
Day, the CBC will endeavour to keep
its news reports up to the very high-
est standards of authenticity and
reliability.
ileery Cole. first dn•eetot of the South
Ketriugtun 1111114101111 is reproduced
atom. With mutts utltet efforts by art
'sts. to velohrule the nativity The)
•ranee from a walrus Ivory rellet erten
t'tPlgne to lmidt'rn wooden' ny k3ri'
11111 It 0. strange to see hon the xr
tistle wheel has turned full Oren, bacl,
to the madicvii austerity
iBut I .int help lilting the tirst
•'brlsatmts cast', which 'features• as
the Imus say. a. ttt'dnly ureal ,1s flit
Ittt 1tly would say. 1 liltes eating
Inst!
And the T. S. 0. Band
• It is net the custom of Canadian.
radio
r cl
• new
a
r. to
'review many
Wa
a re 5
no
p 1
is
no
gramme
When a g
• Imes. p
• 'fan
xo
p g
that s
•singled out for such. an hmtom ,
news. When another metropolitan
daly reprints the tribute, it's the
of the water, an into news of the week in. radio. So• once
moons the red kine wade and stand again CBC orders orchids, this time
knee-deep, surrounded' by troops of for the Toronto Symphony Band, L.
flies. Patiently the honest creatures F. Addison, its director, and Ian
abide the attacks of their tormentors. I Smith, whose meticulous attention to
The soft blue heavenly abysses, the I the production of the broadcasts on
wandering streams of vapour, the Fridays at '7.30 p.m, ST have all
long beaches of rippled clouds, arid contributed to the success of band
glassed and repeated in the lake, music on the Canadian air. Credit
Dreamthorp is silent as a picture; the to the Ottawa Journal for, quote: It
was a real delight one day this week
to hear the quality of the music com-
ing' over the air from the Toronto
Symphony Bandy unquote, and to the
Toronto Telegram for its courtesty in
reprinting the comment.
"'.Chis Little Pig"
News of special importance to far -
mens is emphasised by the. CBO Farm
Broadcasts Department this week.
The Hon. J. G. Gardiner said at a
Press conference recently that Can-
ada's present bacon agreement with
the United Kingdom provides for a
revision in, the event that m'ices for
pont products in the 'United States
rise substantially.
"Musically Speaking"
Music appreciation starts young ill
Canada. One of the nicest letter of
the year was addressed to Harry
Adaskin by a young listener whose
devotion to fine music is her chief
delight. She says she always has her
home -work done early on Monday
nights so that she can listen to Mr.
and
• , music
about
talks a
skin s
to l
Ada.
mUSicimis at '7.30 p.m. EST. In ad-
dition
about
for stories. •
asking 'ion to g
dit
requests
the
also
'worksshe q
certain
performance of several pieces that
she is studying and to show she is
an Eve at heart she closes by re-
minding Mr. Adaskin of their return
together from Aurora last summer
*ken he went there to adjudicate.
She was the `smaller girl who played
in the duet'.
'voices of children are a mute; and
the smoke from the houses, the blue
t illars all sloping in one angle, float
n.nward as 11 in steep. Floating about
thus, times passes swiftly, for before
I know where I ani, the kine have
withdrawn from the lake to couch on
the herbage, while one on a little
height is lowing for the milkmaid and
Ter pails. Along the road I .see the
labourers coming home for supper,
while the sun setting behind' me
snakes the village windows blaze; and
so'I take my oars and pull leisurely
ihroueh waters faintly flushed with
evenin r•'colours.
Besides the itinerate lecturer and
Christmas Essentially
the Day of the Child
j� I+a'IQn1111111 the •ti'iitIs the •Ilay
t/ of the Philia.
It is upon this d:0 of days that
countlti+s nll'n. and Wnlnpp sued 11Tt1.
ones bttrefy able to filfenkc their Ian
gunge utter the great •re,fuicntg; .Fut
unto us a Child is horn. onto us st
Snit Is given?
Even those ,whit hold creeds In
which there is no Christmas tee) flit•
Most who
,uu Ih ,t
J , 1 11 n that Iry t
de.ul r 1
•I
still
neve 00 touual aced altill.
know there is one of the 'sift portions
of the year which 'Ie essentially the
Day 01 the t!hIM
It 111 the (110 When even the most
unsentimental. adult. long since 01111
gealed and hardened to the years. rain
hear ill his heart the footsteps 01 the
little ores. Today they are running
about so eagerly all rivet the world
pattering to see what Fund gifts mIU
have been received. ardent with a hope.
that only young hearts eon feel.
On this day rte austere sl•lenrist
who has almost quit behoving in the
very laws of astronomy which renettl•
ly seemed so sure and stable, bat
whleh now seem dissolving in a miss
profession
nil
• ePnl
—.his careful of relativityt t p
al stcept.ie becomes Its a mild himself.
and considers 11 hard Indeed ii 11e
eannnt believe In Santa Claus, beard
ed fairy godfather nt' the children,
On this day even those who have
been the mos; careless feet Tike say.
Ing over reverently' that heti ;it
prayer for wisdom In the rearing fat
children :
"Almighty God, heavenly Fattier, whit
bast blessed us with the .toy and care
of children; Give us Tight and
strength so to train them. that they
may love whatsoever things are true
and pure and lovely and of good re
port."
For on this Day of the Child we all
remember that the most precious gift
we can bestow upon our children Is n
capacity for feeling just such tender
and generous and helpful emotionsas
today stir In the breasts of all g
men and women.—Seattle Post -Intel
ligencer.
Peacock Dinner English
Custom Many Years Ago
FASHII.NS In Christmas dinners
I' come and go. In olden days at
a Christmas feast in England, next
In tmportanee t11 the boar's head as
a Christmas dish was 111e pelage*. 'Co
prepare the bird ftn the table was a
n N trouble.
The
n 11111
ask entailing
t
skin was first carefully stripped et!
with the plumage adhering. The bird
was then roasted; when Ilene. and par
dally cooled It wits sewed 1111 again
in Its feathers, its beak pninted with
gilt and so sent h, the table.. some
times the whole holly was covered
with lent gold and a piece at cotton
saturated with spirits placed in Its
beak and lighted before the carve,
commended operations. 'this "food tot
lovers and meat for lords" was stuffed
with 81111,1 and sweets, basted with
yolks of eggs and served with plenty
of gravy.
The noble bird was not served by
conrntnn hands; that privilege was
reserved for the Indy guests most Ills
tingnishe" by firth or beauty. One of
them partied it into the dining loth to
the sounds of.music% the rest o1 the
ladles following In due order The
dish was set down before the master
of the house or his most honored {repel
'Che lures[ instnnct: of peacock eating
recorded was all a dinner given to
William )V, when duke of Clarence
by the governor of Grenada.
„Christmas I1 nn," Name
Given to Kris Kringle
ANTA A l'LACS flues not visit the
.7 chitoh•i,u ul Lithuania on Christ
oats NVe ns he tines the children In
this denary, hot there ore els kinds
et Christmas cetehrutiuns In widen
they hate a part, and mien, guild
things 1, oat, In Germany and Not
way old Kris ICrttigle aide' gifts for
the 011011 01 111 11111 ny 0111 of the Way
phtris, 111111 ('W'isttiuts day Is Myatt
chiefly In hunting fol Ihen1. In 111)1
hod SI,i'u Nicholls dispensed Christ-
mas
t•s
• Ilul1
when
the
• hut wie
rt119 dwelt,
Wee
c to 11
u.
come to this immune hl.
mol
dhrtngetl Iu Santa (leas, In Sweden
Santa Claus Is cutch like he is lit
Anttrletl, but he dues not mile down
rhe elltulIey,111 10 the night he coons
into the room where the Christmas
tree 1$ anti leaves gifts to all. His
nnnle Is not Santa Claes, however, for
he Is stilled "The Christmas Man,"
+ .n 0$15')
511
'urcat Yule Feast Given
by King Richard in 1399
CIIttiSTdtAS In England, of ciul'se.
Is an old feast !lacy though the
i,tutn Claus and Christmas trap
trlliltllons mime to tis from tututhet
soiree, hVtItlutn I':_ Mtv1Q't '"The Hug
Itch yltdipvtd roast-Ulougluon, yfil
111 Ill quotes 1,110 `tow's "Survey nl
London:' 1111 110I•Itlal of tbd grew frust
wl.ihli RIbg Ito:ha rd gave In 11'esttultt
seer Nall In the year MIA Inst alter
rehulldinta the null of R'111tumu Rufus:
A most royal 1'hristuas. with tinily
jolt digs and retini«gs at tilt, where
,Into reanrlt.1 su:h a utiulitt of mei
pie
that there netts ever) day spent 25
or '0 I1Aeit. and :1(111 sheep hostiles
sec t 1
ceased fust wphnw nuuthe•r; he vl t
:own fm Idnlselt to he made of goal
garnished with pearl and prel•Iuus
atntttb. In the value Ili ;ldtblt lltt•ks1
he was Windier! by 1'UeKllire Wren Mel
had about 111111 comnenW 13 bishops.
besides barons, knights 'centres line
others more than needed; Il:sunlle-It
th111 to the household ratite every day
tat alert leo de simple. as nppeareth
by the ureases told out front the
kitchen to 1(110 serf ours."
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I'HE REAL SANTA CLAUS g
` spirit is the M
7�HIS CllnsttilCl
LV real Santa Claus --a spirit
that Is uulversal—thin grows �c
k ?teinget with the years—that
brings out the best in us—It splr
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KEEP SMILING
As ,you sit in the shelter, while the
guns' go pop,
And a Dornier is droning overhead,
It's Coolish just to wonder where a
bomb will. drop
Or how lunch the "Hun" will keep
you out of bed.
Jest sit there and sing the praises of
Great Britain.,
The R.A.F.and gallant lads in blur,
Tell how the, "Huns" will have t r
take a whipping,
And once again we will come smiling
thrti.'.
For not once or twice in our dear
Island's .story of
The path of duty was the path
glory
So we'l'l tread the path of duty hand
in hand, I.
For God and Right, and Our Beloved
Land.
Shepherds and Wise Men
It. 1s not cleat' from the Scriptural
Illusions that rhe shepherds who visit-
ed the new'bttrn Jesus were the slime
as the wise lien; tl saw
thio t rthn
Ole Fast. Only Matthew
story of tate magi, acid only Luke men.
Lions the shepherds. Mark and John
do not refer to either the shepherds
or the wise men.
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Saxon tyJor • rds "Waes Fiael,"
Meaning "Be in Health"
Ci•tt1S'i'AIA; tare has ntw'ays oven
pied a big purl in 1'ulttde vele
at -alien. Iter Anglo..exun forefathers
were ext•elletll 1rent'her•nw«, and eel
Ing ;anti drinking were a necessary tau"
of every gull day. Stuffed mein,'
treads. •peacocks, geese, 1.111)011N piens
ants. nli11t•e 111e, plum pudding •these
decked the uosu•d The turkey was 1111
known. ';'hat excellent fowl did hot
pules into the hill of fare until tot
discovery of the New world lit
course. there was drink aplenty.
Punch was the enstumttry wassail
bow) This how) takes its mime from
the Saxon words, "woes haeh" 11114111
ing "he In health." It was a great
bowl of punch into w'hic'h naked tip
pies 'were thrown to enlnnvr its Ila
v
or. mint*e {ue
t rl
_
i11ufed
in
1590,
1
"he
u t
t n.
drat Wifeac made
cramn mt
i
Puritans condemned 11 as on tuagoll)
dL Would
have
Quakers
the
u
i tl
mkt
4b, u1d
none o1 It.
One Way to Keep Warm
Perhaps 1 Ile heel et till pnssltle ways
to keep warm diving the Yule reason
1$ to become employed It the fully
nutdl led Santo Clans 11 a basement
toy deparrmh,nl
UNDER THE MMISTLETOE
Wreaths, Garlands Gay
Shout "Merry Christmas?"
RAT a joy it is to come into atV hone scented with spicy pine
and hemlock, so suggestive of Yule
tide that each room fairly shoats
"Merry Christmas I" And what a
real pleasure, too, to gather the
greens and dispose them so that they
express ali the kindliness of the
blessed season, intensifying the de
lights of the 'friendliest" period of
the yearl
As garlands, the various types of
greens :nay decorate windows and
doors, or they may be massed on
mantels or tables.
To make a fexitlle rope of green•
cry, supply a foundation of heavy
twine and to this uttt,ch tine short
spray's of pine. hemlock or spruce, in
terspersed regularly with clusters of
laurel; or for a more decorative ef•
Pert use the artidciel berries with the
greens. trine flexible wire Is hest for
fastening the sprays In place.
Another use for greens is in the
formation of window wreaths. Ari
range the small sprays on a heavy
wire foundation, taking care to keep
the wreath symmetrical. Small
groups of red berries, regularly
placed. give character to such a dee
Non.n
era
t111Mtit usvit5tN1!-'v1ostml'1Ktr Jak tai• -titer
LE FOLLY
EXCUSABLE ,z.
IS tree that rnen loin woolen
Christmas 1iine do things a
at it
which are foolish. espevhslly in >o
the giving 111 presents- But 1y• -
uu� when did cold wisdom ever make
51 ei le happy? Who sums 10
Si gee a 311rslml` whet neho y plieit
�...;
vl spends morethan he should, in, P.r.
when there Is no giving .of things,
that are
trivial
re
p
ii
leg8
m
tnlish7 A truly cutit Christ
nls would be miserubie one.—
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American Magazine. rr:"
tilAIZMINICA:6Y6RIMOiYl7MMIIHiiisiABORIMihst•rah
Ancients Gave Presents
as Most People Do Now.
'TUN custom of making presents at
1
Christina: Is derived from very
ancient llsltge. It was a Teutonic: -
lnvettton. In Latin countries gaffs- •
wore exehsttlged at New Year's, writes -•
,iames Waldo Faweit In the Wash-
ington 11). C.) Ilivcninn Star.
The decnratnn of churches with
mistletoe and holly is likewise a
pagan survival,
Nativity plays and ptigeants trace
hack 10 a pre -Christian era. 'Cite
spurts of the Lortis of Misrule In
I;nghuul are supposed to be 1111 In -
hesitance trtou the Saturnalia of
heli then notate.
Father Christmas or Santa Claus 111
Identified with St, Nicholas or Nic-
olas, and also with Knecht Rupereht.
and Robin Goodfellow. Grimm says •
that In some parts of Germany
Knecht Nicolas is merely an attend-
ant on the real gltt•glver, who est
sometimes the infant Christ and
sometimes Dame [Bertha, but who Is
also frequently con('eived as an ugly
dwarf, called Kranlpus.
Carol singing by waifs, strolling..
street musicians, is ao old British
custom.
The first Christmas cards date
from about 1840.
The setting up In Latin churches oft
a Christmas creche is said to have, •
been originated by St. Francis.
Keeps Candles From Dripping
'to keep table candles fromdrip
Ping, stick a pin in the candle along.
side the wick and leave it there. 11
keeps the wick upright, the ranine
burns longer and more steadily and
decorations and tablecloth are kept
free Preto grease,
Like Cash. Christmas Presents
tjeppy is the woman who rec•elved
hi cash Christmas present., because she
will have a fol of fun at the J.nnua!'Y
stile counters
ek' til • /
"A Me
Protect Children When
Celebrating Christmas.
CQRISTMAS time being a season ori
joy, every precaution should bel
taken to prevent any untoward cir-
cumstances which might enter Into Uzi
celebration.
Too often the careless placing of{
lighted candles has resulted in panne
ful burns, and even death to those;
participating in the Yuletide testivl-t
Iles. "Santa Claus" has been the vie.
Pim In innumerable cases.
Tiny electric lights now are most;
used 1n lighting the Christmas tree,
and that reduces the fire danger magi
terhtlly. If candles are to be used int
the decoration—and they undoubtedly;
lend an effect not to be obtained b Y,1
Oltit electric lights—they should bee
placed on the mantel and in other;
secure locutions where contact with)
their pretty blazes is not likely to:•
be made.
In Christmas sports involving the;
slightest danger, childrenshouldpert
directed In their p d
Y by an
son who is competent to effect a res-;
cue 11 neeessarY•—Charles Frederick
Wadsworth.
I Celebrated Christmas
Merry Christmas," as on Way to North Pole
Nations Say It I ,APTAIN SCOTT and his men on)
Other !'�
1315 is how the nations of the C tlselr way to the Pole once cele -j
I world express the wish "A Merry brftted Christmas dry b9 havtng ami
Christmas": France, ;Boit Noel; wash In a cupful of water each, and)
China, Tin Hao Nl,tt ; Portugal, Boats by washing their shirts. On another)
hesttts; Japan, Kingu Shinners; Tun occasion, after being on short rations,'
key, ichok ?tiara; Hungary, Boldug they kept Christmas day by eottsum-I
Karecsony' Unnipelcet; tireece, CtLHol ing.ssuch
holuxuries
st,raisins
lur supper
tovjena; Croatia, Sretlin Bozic; oast ul r br to sftar courses. First
Kerstues; Spain. they Ind
l.
land, Den 1 roolijk Froth
of i01, there was a full whack of
Fences eascuns; Germany,
ache Weimuchtttn t Sweden, Mad pemmican, with slices of Horse meat
Men; Itatiy, Felice Natalie; Hum:tufa, flavored with onion
and
en powder
Cracium Irelicitatfune; Bohemia,Veand thIctoot ened and biscuit noon.
sele Vanpce; Pul'nti. Wesolyth Swlat; sweetened, then plum pudding, them
cocoa with raisins, and finally, a des -t
sort of carauletb and fgi pas. difficult I
Scott, ' says
St t,
s
all.his Y
t
oleo ;
finish..
connive
t
to move. Wilson and
our share of the plum pudding. 1Ve•
sit
Pn
slept and i
warm 1
1 sou
•ill w
thoroughly Y
felt b
slow;
was advance v
didly." gni tot ac
the following Clay owing. prebu01y tee -
the
e -the tightening of the night before.
Marton—Jack is gettsn8 near-ctguted
Niyrtle—lf. doesn't 10 !ow that there
is anything the matter with ate eyes
because he can't see you Under the
mistletoe.
Denmark, Gluedelig Jttl,
•.
y it ]FW:K•Xat:X.W,r•JiJK;I•-W4*
THREE CELEBRATIONS
Christmases ease
a ft
re
cele -
United
t.
�l1t Lr t,
l.hr ,
hrated every, year In he
Church of Nativity at Bethlehem. I
The drat occurs In the Roman
4'athdic section on December 211;
18 days later the Greek Orthodox
church hold their eeletraticns. to
* be followed by those of the Ar•
ntenitn rhumb In another 18 days.
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Selecting Christmas Cards
We unconsciously hetray mrr true
selves when we select Christmas cards.
People who live In city apartments are
apt to send drawings of rltl'mhnuses
that nestle vitally anions tail trees; a
lawyer's holiday card is likely to be
sugary with sentiment. — Cnlller'e
Weekly.
Hard to Answer
Boy—Mamma I
'fired Mother—well?
Boy—When Santa Claus was a lit
tie boy, who filled bis stOcktng4—The
Oountry HOMO. '
A BIG STOCKING
Bobby—Say, ma.
Mother --What le it, my dear?
Bobby—It's good the foot of a moue.
Iain don't have a stocking to hang 'sta.
at Christmas time,