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(rail and fair,
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fcsir.
■isthe «rp?e blossom’s pink and Jane the
loses red.
■ded overalls picks cherries for his bread,
bust treads the sxuir., jields a stately Indian
feaeen
|led like standing ccrn in silken qold and
jreen.
P 8r > P~rp!eceir: re : bears a basket piled
luMh grapes,
r.ethijst'ine globes from rnhich a fuicy dem
I escapes.
risacaualior, so fiannts a crimson plume,
-er. tailing beads of rain, is cowled in fog
|aad gloom.
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lered. booted, furred,
fc'-q laughter like ll.o sound of merry bells
I is heard.
ms are ruled nhth many gifts and holly
I wreaths because
lie children kneo him first end named him
| Sants Claus.
—Mmna Irvino.
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crimson tinsel gay.
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11 , bears Christmas day.
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little Loj), and cirls
Vj L f* t,1 « tlleir a > 5 mind fiady et lessons school
‘ DJell,
Vf i *5 keep
to each rule,
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Tl? children h ound (he tree
M,nna gro-jj, Ir m Christmas Land.
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The Nativity
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THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, uuukGIA
1 The Message S
S of the Bells
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JDING, ring, O bells of Christmas-tide,
' *■ Your joyful message far and wide;
Through all the land proclaim
This is the blessed Day of days
When here, to walk earth’s troubled ways,
The Lord our Sartor came!
O not with pomp and splendor fine,
But ’mongst the lowly sheep and kine,
And cradled in the straw,
He came, and low the path He trod
Always- the greatest gift from God
An erring world e’er saw.
As in the dawning eastern skies
The Wise Men watched the Star arise
That heralded Pits birth,
Thus we await God’s Kingdom come,
When man and all God’s creatures dumb
Shall dwell upon this earth
In brotherhood; when war shall cease
And Love and Universal Peace —
Their banners white unfurled —
With tenderness and gentle sway,
Their watchword "Mercy,” shall for dye
Prevail throughout the world!
Fling out your message, O ye bells,
Your cadence silvery foretells
The gracious times to he
When sweet Compassion, angel fair,
O’er this our land and everywhere
Shall brood perpetually!
■Loutlla C. Took
T T IS at Christmas time we feel it most,
When in the close packed stores
The mothers, anxious-eyed, maybe of slender
Purse,
Weigh this doll's hat against that box 0 4
ducks ,
Or choose a string of gorgeous, glittering balls
To grace the Christmas tree.
We press along the crowded aisles and eye
The endless toys, the fascinating tiny sets
Of tea things, the dolls' trunks, the furniture,
Sometimes we e-ven buy ; why should we not
pretend,
Just for a little while, that there's someone
at home
Belonging to us—oj our very own —
Whose stockings must be filled f
'Tis like enough we have worked hard to aid
With many little gifts the lucky ones
Whose " ^ose quivers quivers are are too too jull; jull ;
; fiu/ in the glowing avenue's late afternoon,
When .... j warms flit past us oj those busy folk
H’hese arms are piled with sleds and drums
and such.
If hose pockets bulge with candy ,
And we walk on toward home with empty
hands
Because we need buy nothing, noth g, nothing —
It is at Christmas we feel it mostl
■Ethel lt'olff. in New Fork Times.
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CARD GAMES AT CHRISTMAS
Thir Paste’ 3 A ’ orded Means of
Entertainment in England During
Yuletlde Season.
of the year felt bound to play a few
games at Christmas.
A prohibitory statute of Henry VTI’s
reign forbade card playing save during
the Christmas holidays. Of course this
prohibition extended only to persons of
humble rank.
Sir Roger De Coverley took care to
provide both creatpre comfort and
amusement for his neighbors at Christ¬
mas by sending “a string of hog’s pud¬
dings and a pack of cards” to every
poor family in (!,'■ parish.
Even the pulpit combs in for its
share of anecdotes regarding playing
cards. Fuller gives an example of a
clergyman preaching from Romans
12:8, “As Cod hath dealt to every '
man the measure of faith.” The rever- j j
end gentleman in question adopted as
an illustration of his discourse the i
metaphor of “de ding” as applied to
cards, reminding Ms-congregation that
they should follow suit, ever play
above board, improve the gifts dealt
out to them, take care of their
trumps, play promptly when it came
their turn, etc.
Short notes were frequently written
. on the backs of playing cards. In an
following old collection lines: of poetry is found the j
“To a Lady Who Sent Her Compli- |
ments to a Clergyman on the Ten of
Hearts.
“Your compliments, dear lady, pray
forbear,
“Old English services are more sin¬
cere;
“You send ten hearts—the tithe is only
mine,
“Give me but one and burn the other
nine.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS TREE
History of the Yuletide Emblem Ex¬
tends Far into the Mists of
Antiquity.
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Time, Ygdrasil, the great tree of Norse .
mythology, within whose roots and j
branches heaven and earth are bound, j
Some say tbe custom may be traced to ,
the Egyptians who, at the time of the J |
winter solstice, decorated their portals
with branches of the date palm.
To a Scandinavian legend may per- j j
haps bo traced our custom of ilium
inating the tree when darkne s comes.
Among the Greeks, Christmas is known
as the feast of lights.
To people of different localities to¬
day the term Christmas-tree may mean
fir,' spruce, pine, cedar or even mag¬
nolia, for each particular region makes
use of the most suitable species that is
to be found near its markets. In the
vicinity of the mid-west, a short-needle
pine found in Michigan and Wiscon¬
sin may be used. On the Pacific coast
the white fir finds favor, while through¬
out Ohio, the Norway spruce is largely
used. In Maryland and Virginia, the
scrub pine and farther south cedar
and holly. Best of all is the sym¬
metrical balsam fir, each tiny leaf of
which sends out a breath of aromatic
fragrance.
AN OLD CHRISTMAS CUSTOM
Village Boys in North England Re¬
produce Play That Is as Old
as the Race.
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village boys who call themselves “The
Mummers.” At Christmas time they
perform a little play that is as old
as the English race. characters
There are three chief
St. George, resplendent in silver-pa¬
pered armor, and brandishing a
wooden sword; Beelzebub, who is, of
course, the famous dragon; and the
Doctor, who wears a battered top-hat.
At the beginning of the play it is
announced that the countryside is be¬
ing laid waste by Beelzebub. 1 arious
minor characters make an appeal
deliverance from the monster's sway.
Then St. George bursts upon the scene.
A fierce battle takes place, in which
he slavs Beelzebub, but is himself
badly wounded. At this point the Doc¬
tor rushes in with a bottle, which he
places to the saint's lips.
“Tak sooni o’ mail niff-naff dabn
thy tiff-taff,” he prescribes. So George
drinks and is cured.
Some of the words used in the play
are so old that neither the boys nor
the majority of the audience can un¬
derstand them.
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Nut Bread.
One egg, 1 cupful sugar, 8 cupfuls
flour, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 large cupful nuts, a little suit.
Use enough water to mix; let stand
20 minutes; bake slowly one hour.
UNIVERSAL Christmas cus¬
tom of England in olden
times was playing at cards.
Persons who never touched
a card at any other season
history of Christmas tree !
usage mists extends of antiquity. far into Some the j I
say its origin is connected j
with the legendary Tree of
THE North of England
of the ol(lest of our
Christmas customs are still
faithfully observed. One of
the is that of the
OLD STORY.
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Mother say when
I didn’t c Dine
home until late
last night?
She said “Just
wait till after
Christmas, I’ll fix
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