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Music and 'Song Always Associated
With the Yuletide.
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Original Sacred Character of Carols
Was Almost Lost Sight of in
Thirteenth Century.
I'SIC p.nd song have always been I
v associated with Christmas.
In Itoman Catliollc' countries,
as early as the Third century, It became
the custom to usher In the
Christmas festivities with musical
masses.
The practice of singing carols or
canticles was supposed to recall the
"In Kxcelsis Gloria" of the angels ami
the song of the shepherds on the
llrst Christines night.
A very old carol, published in 1P21,
gives an amusing description of church |
revelries:
A wooden child in clouts on the altar sat.
About the which both boys and girls do
dance and timely jet.
And carols sing In praise of Christ.
The priests do roar aloud!
And round about the parents stand
To y?c the sport, and with their voles
Do help them, and with hand.
At lirst, carols were generally religious
in character, and were written
with Latin and English words in alternate
lines, or with a Latin refrain.
The well-known carol
When Christ was born of Marjr fre?
In Bethlehem, that fair cltie,
Angels hang with mirth aral gle?
In Excelsis Gloria,
und another with a chorus,
Chrlstus natus hodie ^
The babe, the son,
The holy one
Of Mary,
? arc pood examples of this class.
When the tendency to ribaldry became
marked, some of the carols got
to be very peculiar in subject and
language. Joseph is treated with a
great want of respect, for one carol
runs:
Joseph wns an old man,
An old man was he.
When he wedded Wary,
The Maid of Calilee.
Ai.other relates the story of the
shepherds watching their llocks by*
night:
A skcpard upon a hill he satt.
lie had on him hys tabard and hatt,
Hys larbox, hys pipe and hys llaitatt;
Hys name was called Joly-Joly Watt.
Having been informed of the hirth
of Christ, the shepherd sots off for
Iiethlohem, and on arriving, says:
Jhd.su! r off Thee my pype.
My skyrte. my tarbo:: and my scrype. j
Home to my fellows now will I ekype.
y.iwl lokc unto yiy sliepe.
In llu* Thirteenth century the sacred
clianieter of these Christmas
mhikk was almost entirely lost sight
1 of. The l'uritan parlianicnt abolished
Christmas and carols altogether, I "if
feasting anil revelry returned with tin*
Restoration.
Carol singing. which had fallen into
disuse, was revived l?y a collection of
carols published by D. Gilbert, In 1N22,
but enroling, wnieu >\us lmumh.,
ushered in by the chiming of rhureh
bells, iiml the sallying forth of ohoirwhieh
ehnnted their whv rou'ul vll
hurt's until their throats were hearse
,"n?l their noses red from eold and
friendly Christmas potations, is row
jilnn?t *'t ibiug "f tlic i?ast.- Ill wis.
With ten y ii - of leisure. wo ought '
to bo able to think up a bettor name 1
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O OXE has told us much about
Jjnr George Washington's Christmnsps.
r.uf from "the record
(if his life we learn how he spent some
of his Christians (lays.
It was a very cold Christmastide In
1777 at Valley Forge. Snow was on
the* hills. Everything was frozen. And
Washington's army was in great nejnl
of food, clothing and shelter.
Instruction- of parlies of men to go
foraging for food are entered in the
orderly book for that Christmas day
at Valley Forge, which was anything <
but merry for Washington.
Still more desperate were the food
conditions at Morrlptown, in 1770,
win n Washington reported that his
army was on half allowance and near '
starvation. "We have never experienced
a like extremity at any period
of the war," declared Washington,
pleading that food be sent.
There was a welcome Christmas
present for Washington and his men
at New Windsor in -17S0 when n big
Christmas wagon came with over 2 000
shirts and other comforts made'by
Philadelphia women patriots?things
needed by the men under Washington,
who were cheerfully buffering all sorts
of hardship in order that this country
might he free. The Philadelphia worn- |
en also raised, that yenr? over S300,000
in aid of the soldiers.
The lino old Colonial mansion (the
(Taigle house) in Cambridge, Mass.,
(now u'iilnlv tnmvn !K fl>?> holi'io nf
Henry W. Longfellow), was the place
where Washington spent his first
Christ mas as commander of the Revolutionary
army in 1773. Mrs. Washington
was there with him (as she was
later at Valley Forge), and there was
some pleasure in the midst of the
heavy cares and responsibilities carried
by tho great Washington.
A year later Christmas day found
Washington at thev head of his ".-but ,
brave men making his celebrated
crossing of tho Delaware river, nine.
miles above.Trenton. The snow and
sleet were blinding, it is recorded, and
the cold was intense. Hut hearts
were brave.
Wherever he was at Christ must ide,
Washington was cheered with the
thought that the cause of the struggling
colonies would surely win. A
few days before Christinas. 177?5, lie i
wrote to his older brother, John Augustine
Washington: "Between you
and me, our affairs are in a very find
situation. . . . However, under a ,
full persuasion of the justice of our
cause, I cannot entertain an hlca that '
It will finally sink, though it may remain
for some time under a cloud."
Washington must have had some
very merry Clirlstniases at Mount Vernon.
There were no children of his
own with whom Washington could
'omp. But we can easily imagine
he big-hearted general putting nu,a
false heard of l'u/.zy white whiskers
and slinging a pack over his back for
the delight of the little ones in the
neighborhood.
(Icneral Washington was truly the j
Father of His Country." and we have
.1 very good idea of the so? of holiday
-pirit in which he observ. ?i the "glad
"hristmastide" when our republic was
n its infancy.
? Xn one in all our bright history as
i nation has handed down a more fit- |
diani Christmas message of hope and
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three "It's" of our educational system J
are Hoot and Raw Raw.
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Birth of New Life Which Was to
Shine Over the Earth, Conference
of the Beasts of the Nativlty
as Portrayed by Imaginative
Writer. /
U/fr AREFUL, Brother, thy horns I
Keep thy head straight. Ite
member, tonight we share bat
'the one stall between us. The man
"and his mate, there, have thine." The
little tnwny-hlded ox of Palestine on
the farther side leaned hard against
the stable wall.
"TJs It strange star that shines tonight,"
his yoke-fellow answered,
sighing restlessly as he turned back
his gaze from the open door. Even
with care their horns clicked In the
narrow space. "If men wyst take
my b&l, why did they not turn us out
into the free air? The grass would
have dew on It tonight?and I could
watch the star."
"IIo I" snorted the little gray ass
which hJtd carried hither the woman
who lay stretched on the straw between
them. "What grass wouldst
thou pluck from the cobblestones of
the city?"
"Aye," lowed the first ox. "There
is hay here; eat and be still. The
star is no concern of thine."
"The star sliineth on the whole
broad earth, Brother. He hath the
peaked hills to wander in, ami the
dark valleys, the fields and the towns
iKL-a T T worn frnn liirn fhp
star."
"Then, like lilrn,'thou wouldst come
slipping In at our stable door again.
Hey, come off thy knees! We'must
sleep standing," his mate' grunted
warnlngly.
"Hash, Brother. There Is something
wondrous in my old stall: Something
very small and white! It gleametb
sis with hoarfrost 'in the star's light.
It hath the smell of lilies. It nioveth.
Hie star can stroke It with its long,
pale tongues." lie .leaned longingly
against the harrier which shut him
away, until It creaked.
The little ass slipped his soft <?nrs
between bis own bars and sniffed inquiringly.
"Why, 'tis a child!" he
whinnietl with delight. "Children are
lovely things. His small fingers will
play with my mane and he will sing
little songs to me as 1 bear him along.
Look up, little Master. We will see
L'cent days together."
"There, that serveth thee right 1"
reproved the far ox as the woman
,/nade a quick motion toward the inquisitive
nose. "Thy black muzzle
bclongeth in thine own manger, Brother
Ass."
"She did hut brush it aside,"* the
little gray beast breathed contentedly.
"She Is pleased that wo know her son.
No fear, Brother Ox. Her husband
will not take hi3 staff U> us. She Is
gentle, this woman of mine. Her
child, too, will love us." *
But the ox had not drawn back. He
knelt there, his broad forehead pressed
against the bars, his wondering eyes
fixed 011 the new life which was to
shine over the whole broad earth with
a brighter glory than that wondering
star's.?-John Breck, in the Detroit
News.
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f2t T AX.MOST every corner grocer's
gl stands can be purchased very
cheaply that will hold the Christmas
tree flrnily in position.
The simplest of these consists of a
crossplece of wood raised a little from
the iloor by wooden supports and having
a hole in the center to iusert the
trunk of the tree.
More elaborate ones take the form
of a wooden square, paluted a bright
red and surrounded by a low wooden
railing.
Country dwellers who cannot purchase
these trees at the corner store,
hut have to cut them in the nearest
wood lot, must devise some other way
of holding the Christmas tree in position.
The easiest way to do this, if the
tree Is not too large and heavy, is to
Insert the trunk into the hole through
the bottom of a wooden box, and
either paint this box green or rod or
cover it with green or red paper.
A starch box will hold up a small
tree perfectly, but a somewhat larger
box must be chosen for one of larger
growth. If. in spite of all precautions,
the tree seems too heavy and is inclined
to wobble, weight the box on
either side with heavy stones. Some
itines 1110 nnx IS Tltietl wim sum, untrunk
planted In that, and then the
wooden cover nailed in place to make
all very solid.
If one Ii?3 any talent for carpentry,
even of the roughest sorf, an effective
support can be made by nailing two
Places of wood in the shape of a
square cross, holding the tree upon
this and nailing cleats to both tree
and support until It stands firmly.
A very pretty effect can he obtained
b.v cover!Dg the support of the tree
and the floor directly nrottnd it with
white cotton batting on which silver
tinsel, called ''rain" in most shops, has
been sprinkled. This makes the tree
look as if it were growing In a bunch
of snow glittering in the sun.
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Copyright. 1921, Western Newspaper Union
By ELEANOR E. KING.
THE kitchen of an apart;
mi a * r. t building in the city
i v^^?7 was seated a large, husky
man with n kittle girl of
about seven, on one knee,
and a boy of perhaps six, on the other
knee.
"But grandpa, I don't see why Santa
Claus doesn't come," said little Doris
"We have waited so long out here in
this old kitchen."
At tills, Master Fred laboriously
climbed clown from his grandpa's knee
and ran over to the kitchen door, and
then to the window.
"Isn't it disgusting, graudpa? I
can't even see him coming."
"Well, you know," said grandpa, as
; Fred climbed back upon his knee,
i "Santa Claus was n little boy once
, himself, and he knows how impatient
little boys are. lie has a hard
time, though. Every year tie has
more boys and girls to bring toys to
than he had the year before."
' But grandpa," said Doris, "I never
knew Santa Claus was ever a little
j boy."
"Oh, yes," asserted grandpa firmly.
"Once, upon n time v group of fairies
. , ^ ? -f -jffli ,11 were playing
IhSHT around in an
open place under
I u\ ^:cy found a
baby asleep.
-r\ t'-illfj They took the
f<\ V.' ha'?y to their
| queen. The fair"S-h-h!
tirandr\?
J ililnl* lin'u r>njntninf infPiTUDtOd
Fred as he again climbed down
; and ran to the window*. "Nothing
j lining," he said with much disgust and
! gave a signal with his arm like the
flagman does when telling a train to
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Grandpa obeyed the signal and continued:
"He lived under the-care of
the fairies until he gre\V to be quite
a man. Then the queen ordered her
fairy workmen to build 'Glaus* a h?t.
as he was a mortal and could not live
the way the fairies did, any longer.
'Glaus' had lots of time when he got
into his new home and he occupied it
by cnrvfng things. The fairies had
taught him how to whittle and he began
making all sorta of toys.
"There was a village some distance
j from his hut and every time he heard
i of n-little boy or- girl down in the
1 village who was sick, lie took them
1 one of his little toys. The children
| grew to like him ever so much. .After
u wliile he became acquainted with
so many children that he found It
! hard to get around and see them all
1 so often. He decided that lie would
work all year making toys, and then
! go around and find out which of the
i children had been good, and leave
them presents.
"When the fairies heard of this
' plan they were delighted and gave
j Snnta Claus four [1~n7n.11 w , ? ,
reindeer and a Willi'||lSj??v rsS
sied to help him gwjjj||p^^ |f"jj
"After many
years of this hard R .j?f&\
work Santa Claus
that lie was grow- \ Yi
lug old. The
| fairies realized B s
that Santa Clans - >
was a mortal and y
1 has come," some
the front room. j
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finish. grandpa.
What did they do?" queried Doris
nervously.
"They gave Santa Claus everlasting
life so that he could make little cliil|
dron happy always," finished grandpa
"Oh, I am so glad," said both of the
I kiddies.
"Now, to see what Santa brought,"
said grandpa, and all three made a
; rush for the parlor.
Christmas Fish. s
A fish which resembles a cod i>
considered by t he people of Sweden
as an indispensable adjunct of their
Christmas feast. This tish is burled
for days in wood ashes or else soaked
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CHRISTMAS gifts were common j
in Medieval times. Accounts'
tell of the chandlers' guild sending
out gratis to everyone a special
sort of big, flat candles which were
bumed with the Yule log to flight
the houses for the coming of a supernatural
Christmas visitor. The bakers
also sent out "Yule cakes," or
"Yule babies," which were little Images
^f Christ. This custom, In fact,
seems to be even older, It being recorded
on the old Roman calendars
that on the Vigil of the Nativity little
images of the Christ Child were'made
In grent numbers and presented to
the fathers in the Vatican.
Gradually'the sentiment of "Peace
on earth, good will to men" and the
celebration of the spirit by general |
gifts seems to have spread through ;
the other guilds, and finally to have i
become general.
In England today there Is a survival
of the ancient custom practiced by
landowners of setting big sacks of
gfiain or other products outside the
gate, that whoevfer came might help
himself. It Is said that an extra
Christmas eve feed Is also still glfen
to the cattle. '
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Uncompromisingly Morose.
"Christmas comes but once *a ycarj' i
said the ready-made philosopher.
/ "V?o " ranliori Mr fJrrtwrher? "a tor
iiado doesn't come even as often ss
that But consider bow long it takea
to get over It." ?
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