The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 21, 1950, Image 12
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 21, 1950
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c4merican Chriltmal aJ Old aJ C olumbuS
The celebration of Christmas in j
this country has deep and perma- j
rent roots, although at one time its
observance was nearly extermi- |
nated.
The first Christmas observance
was shortly after Columbus dis
covered America. The Santa Maria
beached on Christmas Eve and
all Christmas day Columbus and
his men worked to free her. When
it was found hopeless, she was
stripped and as much gear as pos
sible taken to the Nina.
However, the Nina was unable to
carry all the men, and some were
left behind in a fort, that in honor
of the season was called Le Navi-
dad, the nativity.
0 Come Let Us Adore Him
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CHRISTMAS EVE IN
0LDT1ME
FINLAND
The Christmas Eve bath was quite a tradition in Finland be
fore the advent of modern plumbing.
The oldtime Finnish bath-room was usually a three-room hut;
one room was used for steaming and scrubbing, one for rubbing,
and one for dressing.
The hut was warmed by a stone
oven, heated for hours before the
scheduled bath, and the “bath
room” was really stemming. After
bathing came the rub-down and
the switching of the body with
birch twigs to increase the circula
tion, topped off by a roll in the
snow, supposedly to whet the ap
petite for Christmas Eve supper.
For supper there was usually
stockfish and prune tarts to be en
joyed, plus the traditional barley
porridge in which cream and
sugar and almonds were mixed.
After supper the boys and men
matched their strength: while the
girls—garbed in the men’s work
clothes—blackened their faces and
stole away to visit other homes in
cognito and “see Christmas.” The
€irls never spoke nor accepted
food, but went from house to house
merely to watch the festivities.
And when the evening’s festivi
ties were over, the smaller chil
dren made their be4s in the clean
straw spread on the floor in com
memoration of the Christ Child.
Indestructible Mistletoe
The flame-thrower and atomic
energy — lethal instruments bor
rowed from modem warfare—are
out to kill that ancient symbol of
peacemaking and love, the Christ
mas mistletoe.
The unusual battle front is A us
tralia where too many valuable
trees each, year have been receiv
ing the kiss of death from the
harmless looking shrub. Despite
mistletoe’s popular reputation as
the Yuletide promoter of romance,
it is a public-enemy parasite in the
woodlands, killing off the treef
that play it host.
Australian foresters have finall;
resorted to the flame-thrower as i
quick executioner for the plant and
are using radio-active tracers,
furnished by the U. S. atomic en
ergy commission, to study how the
mistletoe saps the water and mm
I eral salts from the trees, starvin;
I them to death.
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