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SUNDAY,.DEC! 25. 1921.
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HHOUGHOUT Germany, and also
-Italy au<| Franco'there has been
lor some time a widespread use
Ist (bo. “crib:” i It Is now ,universally
diffused in the Roman church. Cribs
w. the delight of children who through
the sensed o t Christmas and Eplph
mw§ wander Into the churches at
al> time# of the day to gaze wide eyed
b the lifelike scene and offer a
prayer to their “Little Brother,” as
[tfioy call the Christ chUd. The use
Mhe “crib/’ however, hr by no means
confined to churches. It is common
•in many homea both Catholic and
! Protestant. •
There grew up in Germany, about
ithe Fourteenth century, the ex
ihremely popular Christmas custom of
cradle-rocking, a response to the peo
ple’s need Of a lifelike and homely
presentation of Christianity, rbe crib
Decaine a cradle that could be rocked
aod the worshipers were thus able to
express In physical action their devo
tion to the new-born babe. Thewadle
;sWklng seems to have been done at
first by the priests, who impersonated
the Virgin and St. Joseph and sang a
diet, * The people and the choir took
,-pirt in the singing. In time dancing,
Which was a natural ’accompaniment
wl festive song to the early Germans,
bocasae common around the cradle.
Eventually the people were allowed to
,stock the cradle with their own hands.
It was by appeals like this to the
jfebmely Instincts of the people that the
church was able to gain a real hold
aver them, so that during the Fif
teenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth
jehturlos Christianity became a genu
inely popular religion in Germany. Dr.
Aodred Title, a well-known Christmas
historian, In an article on Christmas in
Germany, makes a statement that is
ssopt interesting.
“I the dancing and Jubilation
around the cradle,” he writes, “the
,religion of the eros*,< however much
K'pslght In Its inmost character be op
posed t# the nature of the German
people . . . waa felt no longer as
•pmethiag alien. It had become nat
•rallied hut had lest in the process
tfs ;very core. The preparation for a
‘life after death which was its Alpha
<*4d Omega, had passed Into the back
ground; It was not Joy pt the prom
ised 'redemption' that expressed It
;p4f in the dence around the cradle;
Tdf'the German has never learned to
l htmeelf utterly rile and sinful;
,H wes Joy at the simple fact that a
human fifing, e particular human be
jng. .m peculiar ctreumeUaem, Urns
bom Into the world.”
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Wishes its friends and
■ Merry Chrismas
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Toys I Used
to Know
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ITHIN the shopping center here
fll/lel ;; 1 Stand, a waif and stray,
‘'UfcAarw And watch the throngs of wom
en dear
1 Who pay and pay and pay.
'Wide-eyed, i look about, but oh!
Where are the toys I used to know?
Pwlft an acrobat goes by,*
TO boyhood's marveling,
And fascinated ey es rove .high
, swatch the wonder thing.
But, heart of mine! across my sierht
'inhere floats a little homemade kite.
My boy demands a ’lectric train,
' With fifty feet of track.
His modern spirit skims the plain
And brooks no holding back.
O Christmas when I used to bless
My key-wound flfty-cent express!
My little girl 1 must amuse, .
And so I buy at view
A doll that wears Fnneh high-heeled
And silken stockings too!
Tot lo! a vision from above—
My sister’s doll, of rags and love!
O dear, dead days that brought to me
My earliest burst of speed,
When Santa placed beneath tiie tree
My first velocipede!
Yet*my son tells the Christmas Czar
He’s got to have a motorcar.
O tree, long since decayed and dead,
What Joys you held apart!
*Ue! how those mittens, thick and red.
Warmed both my hands and heart!
But now my wife I have to buy
A pair of ruto gauntlets high.
Hors, where the incandescents gleam
Amid the costly show,
1 seem to see, as in a dream,
The penny candles glow.
Tree of my youth! my heart, grown new,
Again hangs on a branch of you!
John O’Keefe, tr New York World.
WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS
CHRiHTMAS In far other
than a vision, a poetic reo
tl“!on of the facts of life;
it Je i . event set deep not only
In the history of men hut In
their *Ph, their worship, and
.tlieh way qf life. They have
never .jrisep to its level; they
have never, by united effort,
given its spirit the tremendous
effectiveness of concerted ac
tion; but, even in their infirm
ity of intention and their feeble
' ness of practice, Christinas has
given their life on earth a di
viner meaning and u kindlier
habit. It has enormously in
creased the value of that life; it
is increasing the spiritual con
tent of the thought of life in
the utinds of men; it Is giving
It u sweeter savor, softer
jfface, a warmer atmosphere as
tueii moge and more Interpret
life In the light which streams
from Bethlehem. Hamilton
Wright Mabla.
THE 1800 CHRISTMAS
FIRST YULETIDE DINNER SERVED
IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Haunch of Venison Graced the Table
Presided Over by the Wife of
John Adams.
rtWP HE first dinner at Christmas
given in the White House was
that which took place in the year
1800, when John Adams was Presi
dent, and thrifty Abigail, his wife, sat
at the head of the table as hostess. .It
was not a comfortable meal, although
a splendid haunch of venison, the
gift of Mrs. Washington, graced the
board, and the country people of what
Mrs Adams called “the City in the
Wilderness” had generously contrib
uted gifts of all sorts to make the
feast as toothsome as one could well
wish.
The reception after dinner took place
in the oval room, which is now the
library, and was at that time barely
habitable, though furnished, as Mrs.
Adams wrote, in “warm crimson.” The
view from the windows on that first
Christmas day would have disclosed
what John Cotton Smith describes as
“a deep morass, covered with ajder
bushes.” The sidewalks were laid
with chips from the stones with which
the capitol was built. A wooden
bridge spanned Black Tiber Creek, and
low houses,'also built of wood were
the residences of the congressmen.
The only brick dwellings were those
that stood in Pennsylvania avenue, be
tween Twenty-first and Twenty-second
streets, six in number and built with
money derived from the sale of lottery
tickets. These were the surrounding;
of the first Christmas day of the Chin?
Executive of the young nation “whose
policy in government has been icoro
Christ-like than any other nation o>
the face of the earth WhS/.i keeps the
holiday.”
Good Reason, Too.
At Christmas the children of a cer
tain provincial school tried to collect
money by, going from house to house
singing carols and snatches of hymns.
Many complaints reached (he rector’s
ears of hands of youngsters scamper
ing through the first verse of "While
Shepherds Wutehed,” and then vio
lently ringing the doorbell. So he In
stituted Inquiries on the next occpslhn
he visited the school.
“Why is it.” he usked, "tlfat, instead
of singing the hymn in a reverent
way, you warn per through one verse
and then ring the bell?”
Silence reigned* for a short time
Then a ifhrltl voice from a small boy
at the back of the room was heard lo
explanation:
“Please, sir, it’s ’crus* they ctlwayt
lets the dog loose at the second
Under the H0II3)
Bough
E WHO have scorned each other,
3;Or injured friend or brother,
In this fast-fading year;
Ye who by word or deed,
Have made a kind heart bleed —
, Come gather here.
.Get sinned against and sinning
Forget their strife’s fTeginning.
And join in friendship now;
Hfe links no longer broken,
Be sweet forgiveness spoken,
Under the holly bough.
Ye who have loved each other,
and brother,
in fading year;
sire and child,
Young man and maiden mild.
Come, gather here,
And let your hearts grow fonder.
As memory shall ponder
Each past unbroken vow;
CM loves and younger wooing
are sweet in the x*enewing,
Under the holly bough.
Ye who have nourished sadness,
Estranged from hope and gladness,
. In this fast-fading year;
Ye with o’er-burdened mind
Made aliens from your kind—
' Come, gather here. i
T>t not the useless sorrow
Pursue your night and morrow,
If e’er you hoped, hope now—
Take heart, uncloud your faces.
And join In our embraces,
Under the holly bough.
—Charles Mackay.
EXTRAVAGANT AFFICTION.
Perce —Muud exiiccts u handsome
present from me this year and has
hinted she thinks it might be in the
shape of an engagement ring when I
i-hii afford only a piain one.
, Ferd —Serves you right for indulg
ing a diamond ring passion on a ten
dyllnr salary.
Soft Sugar Vanilla Wafem.
Cream together two cupfuls of soft
sugar and one cupful of butter. Add
the yolks of five eggs well beaten and
a generous flavoring of vanilla. Sift
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
and one-half a tepspoouful of soda
with two cupfuls 6f Hour. Add alter
nator ' the well-heatep - whites of the
five-eggs and the preparwl flour with
enough jnore to make a soft dough.
Roll thin and cut in rounds,
diamonds or squares.
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G’W fourth a memory.
Farmer^
origin of the Christmas earoi
Vi/ Is uncertain. It la probably as
old as Christianity. Indeed,
Bishop Taylor In his “Great Exemplar”
remarks that the first carol is the
hymn of the angels to the shepherds
in the plains of Bethlehem:
“Glory to God in the highest, and
on eatth peace, good will toward men.”
In the Fifteenth century carols were
widely used throughout
fact, the first piecea printed by the
very first printers were carols. In one
of the oldest collections appears "The
Boar’s Head,” which used to be sung
us that old dish was carried to the
table during the Christmas revelry:
The Boar's Head In hands I bring
With garlands gay and birds singing;
I pray yon all to help me slug
”Qui estla In convlvlo!”
CAROLS AS PART OF
THE CHRISTMAS
SERVICE.
"The Boar’s Head” represents one
of the convivial carols or "jolie chan
sons,” which had their place at the
feasts, dances and other gay festivi
ties of the Christmas season.
In Shakespeare’s time hands of
Itinerant singers used to wander about
the streets and make their earoJry a
pretext for getting money.
During the Eighteenth century carol
ry declined greatly, and many of the
quaint old customs which had marked
Christinas festivals for centuries be
came obsolete.
Carolry still exists in parts of Eng
land.
In Wales It has been preserved to
a still greater extent, while Ireland,
too, has her Christmas caroling In
time-honored style. Frnnee has Its
“Noels,” and in Italy Christmas carols
have been sung since the time of St.
Francis of Assisi, who discovered the
power of sacred song in the ver
nacular.
In churches all over the world mney
of the delightful old carols are now n
part of tin* Christmas service. -*♦*
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St Nicholas, the
Holy Mart of the
Fourth Century
rtf N THE entire category of thej
s|| saints none continues to enjoy a,
** more eiferided popularity than
St. Nicholas, .arthbiahop 'of -Myra. ;
At this time, -when .preparations ara
being made,for- the celebration of the
birthday of ijie .Christ-child, it is par*
ticuiajfjly filing thstt yre' recall some
o£-;the character of this holy
V n of the 'Fourth century and re
member some of the legends which
orftig him .so close to us at Christmas
time. V .:• * 4?<-- •
StraVige to say, while St. Nicholas is
regarded' as the special guardian .of
children/virgins and Bailors, he garnet
to be regarded as; the patron safijt of
robbers; from ah! alleged adventure
with thieves,' tyWNfo? he compelled to
restore some stole#'; /goods .td their
proper owners. . ...., v .t
In various parts of the old it
is .customary for the_ elder #>embers of
the family to place 1 i tt)e/sgMsent.s ’in
the shoes as well as thjp; sV#?kings k of
the younger relative#- oq^ f t& eve of
St. Nicholas’ day. In cdw&nts the
young women used to place rgflk stock
ings at the door of the apartment 6f
the abbess, with a paper
ing them to "Great St Nicholas of
her chamber.” . *. ■ v
While the emblem of, the three
golden balks is derived from the Lom
bard merchants, yet St. Nicho
las is frequently pictorlally represented
as bearing three golden balls or purses,
the origin of which can be traced to
an act of the saint which has ’ come
down to us in the form of an ecclesi
astical notation.
DECEMBER A£Ro#riC
gys F THE following words are
31 arranged in f order, one
*** under tlie other, their
initials will spell the name of
something relating to Christmas.
As u further help, we will say
that each word has three letters:
1. A small insect.
2. Word used in speaking of
ocean tide.
IL More than one.
4. Word used in asking ques
tions.
H. Adjective meaning not
rigid.
6. A small part of the body.
7. Head covering.
8. Verb to he mistaken.
9. Month of the year.—Sue?
cessful Farming.