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‘White Christmas,*
Modern Day Carol
Irving Berlin’s “White Christ
mas” has c'eflnitely joined the pro
cession of Christmas music! Lest
we hesitate to admit so recent a
creation to the inner sanctum of
cherished traditions, let’s see just
how old some of our Christmas fa
vorites really are.
Denmark launched the annual
Christmas Seal campaign against
tuberculosis in 1904; Dickens’
“Christmas Carol” was written in
1843; SamOel Clement Moore wrote
“The Night Before Christmas” in
1822; W. C. Dobson, one of Queen
Victoria’s favorite artists, dis
patched the first Christmas card in
1845, and, historically, the first
Christmas tree was set up in 1604.
One can imagine the first Christ
mas carol—the “Gloria in Exceisis”
of the angels. However, of our popu
lar Christmas carols today, “Adeste
Fideles” is undoubtedly the oldest.
Its origin is controversial: some say
it was a graduale of the Cistercians,
others date its composition various
ly—from 1250 to 1680. Even accept
ing 1680, “O Come All Ye Faithful”
antedates — for example — “Hark,
The Herald Angels Sing” (1730),
“Silent Night” (1818), and “O Little
Town of Bethlehem” (1868).
There’s a lot of Christmas tied up
in the confident expectancy of child
hood and the nostalgic memories of
grown-ups; so,
“May your days be merry and
bright
And may all your Christmases
be white.”
Saint Nicholas
Day in Holland
When Christmas rolls around in
Holland, it is quietly and religious
ly observed: St. Nicholas Day, De
cember 6, is the day of gift-giving
and jollification.
For weeks, life-sized figures of
St. Nicholas have decorated shop
windows and men dressed as Nich
olas have stood in front of business
establishments, and driven around
in horse-drawn carts delivering par
cels.
At last the great day arrives: if
there are several children in the
household, sometimes they are gath
ered together from neighboring
households, Bishop Nicholas
(dressed in full vestments and ac
companied by his Moorish servant)
attends the children’s party and im
presses them by his knowledge of
their shortcomings and chides them
fatherly before distributing the
trinkets and gifts he has brought
for them.
After the youngsters have had
their fun, the grown-ups sit around
a festive table and open their “sur
prises.” Small gifts are baked in
loaves of bread, packed in enor
mous crates, wrapped in bales of
paper—each wrapper directing the
present to a different person: the
longer the donor and final recipient
remain unknown, the greater the
general jollification.
Indicative of the spirit of the sea
son, packages containing gifts are
often entrusted to strange passers-
by who are instructed to leave the
parcel on such and such a doorstep
and ring the bell.
California Has Mile Long
Avenue of Lighted Trees
The trees comprising the mile long
Avenue of Christmas Trees in Alta-
dena, Calif., are descendants of the
Deodar Cedars of India which grow
upon the slopes of the Himalayas.
* While traveling in India in 1882,
Capt. Frederick J. Woodbury gath
ered the seeds which he planted lat
er on his ranch in California. When
the seedlings were about two feet
tall, the captain’s sons transplanted
them to line the wire driveway lead
ing to the ranch residence.
The once private driveway at the
foot of the Sierra mountains is now
e busy public thoroughfare and Cap
tain Woodbury’s seedlings, illumi
nated each year at Christmas, at
tract thousands of visitors annually.
Greatest Stamps
Of Entire World
Officials estimate at least 100,000
lives are saved each year—in Amer
ica alone—by funds made available
by the annual Christmas Seal cam
paign against tuberculosis.
In 1903, a Danish postal clerk—
Einar HolboeU, by name—conceived
the idea of a voluntary tax on
Christmas greeting cards which
would benefit the underprivileged.
Specifically, Holbosll visualized es
tablishment of a fund to build a hos
pital for tubercular children. The
ministry granted Holboell permis
sion to sell his seals at post offices
and the Christmas Seal campaign
was launched. In many countries,
the seal campaign is conducted
largely in co-operation with postal
authorities and, in some instances,
the seals are parts of special post
age stamps.
The American Red Cross became
interested in the project in 1907 and
co-operated with Hie National Tuber
culosis association. To strengthen
the nation-wide campaign, the Red
Cross and the Tuberculosis associa
tion jointly conducted the sale of
the seals and, until 1919, the em
blem of the Red Cross appeared on
the seal.
In 1919, the double-barred cross,
international emblem and trade
mark of the warfare against tuber
culosis, was embodied in the design
of the seal. In 1920, the Red Cross
wished to devote its energies to
the annual Roll Call and arrange
ments were made whereby the sale
of the tuberculosis Christmas Seal
is conducted exclusively by the Tu
berculosis association.
Children of Provence, France,
reverently recite the following pray
er before the Christmas cribs in that
vicinity:
Little Jesus of the Crib—
Give us the virtues of those who
surround you.
Make us as philosophical as the
fisherman,
Carefree as the drummer,
| Merry for exploring the world as
the troubadour.
Eager for work as the bugler,
Patient as the spinner.
Kind as the ass,
Strong as the ox which keeps you
warm.
Give us the sacred leisure of the
hunter.
Give us also the desire of the
Shepherd for earthly things,
The pride of the trade of the
knife grinder and the weaver,
The song of the miller.
Give us the knowledge of the
Magi,
The cheerfulness of the pigeon,
The impulsiveness of the cock.
The discretion of the snail.
The meekness of the lamb.
Give us the goodness of bread.
The tenderness of the wild boar.
The salt of the haddock,
The good humor of old wine,
The ardor of the candle.
The purity of a star.
Propriety of a few of the meta
phors may be disputed, never
theless, nostalgia prompts specula
tion regarding a world of human
ity endowed with the virtues so ear
nestly and innocently enumerated
by the little ones.
Future Foretold
By Drowsy Hens
Divinations were an important
part of the Christmas festivities in
Czarist Russia.
After a special family Christmas
dinner, the girls of the household
placed five piles of grain upon the
kitchen floor: each pile was given a
name, such as Hope, Ring, Money,
Thread and Charcoal. A drowsy hen
was fetched from the henhouse and
allowed to walk around the kitchen
floor and choose a pile of grain.
Obviously the hen’s choice of
Money meant wealth; Ring, foretold
a wedding within a year; and Hope,
promised the fulfillment of a wish
or a long journey. If the sleepy
chicken chose the grain designated
as Thread, a life of toil was pre
dicted for the marriageable maiden
of the household; and Charcoal was
considered an omen of death in the
family.
Old songs were sung to accom
pany such goings-on, while the girls
and women vied to devise complete
stories based on the antics of the
hen.
Yule Means December
The word “Yule” for Christmas
comes from the Anglo-Saxon "geol,”
meaning December.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1946
Mince Pies of Deep
Christmas Tradition
No Christmas dinner would be
complete without mince pies. While
they have long been a part of our
Christmas tradition, they originally
had a deep symbolic significance.
Patterned after the manger in
which Christ was born, they were
oblong in shape. The crust, baked
a golden brown, represented the
gold brought by the Three Wise
Men.
Insurance of Marriage
Crippen tells us that the maiden
who receives no kisses under the
mistletoe will not marry for years.
Homer R. Williams, turret Cap
tain 1-c, son of R. C. Williams, 712
Green street and Wilton Laddie
Motl, ship’s cook, 3-<J, husband of
Mrs. Earon Wenora Johnson, 2702
Milne avenue, have been iniatiated
into the Royal Order of the Deep
aboard the BB Wisconsin, while
crossing the equator in company
with the aircraft carrier USS Leyte
on a tour of South American ports.
King Neptune and his party came
aboard the ship near Valparaiso,
Chile, and passed sentence on all
“polywogs”. “Shellbacks”, men
who have previously crossed the
imaginary line, initiated the new
comers. On completion of the rites
the men were officially declared
“Shellbacks” and King Neptune re
turned to his watery domain.
Santa Claus
C.8.A.
Good Little Olrla and
Good Little Bore
everywhere.
Good Little Girls and Boys Everywhere: Your old friend Santa has
received your letters. While be could not answer them all from Santa
Clans, Ind., he wants you to know that he is watching over you and
knows you will become stronger in every way before next Christmas.
Bonchevalier and Tree of Humanity
dreamed a dream, or perhaps ex-
perienced a phenomenon. The knight
himself admitted that the whole
thing seemed Incredible; if it was
a vision, he could not interpret it;
but he was absolutely certain be
had seen it and his story was al»
ways the same.
Learned citizens of the com
munity questioned him and shook
their heads—so did everyone else,
except his mother.
The tree of humanity had been
revealed to her son, she said proud
ly, and all the world would be,
blessed by his vision.
Indeed, Bonchevalier’s vision
symbolized the tree of humanity;
the candles represented persons,
the good ones standing upright; the
bad ones inverted; and the child at
the top was the Infant Jesus who
watches over all the world of hu
manity.
The tale of Bonchevalier and the
tree of humanity, told with minor
variations throughout France and
Germany, is one of the most charm
ing of all the Christmas tree leg
ends.
Bonchevalier was traveling
through a dense forest once upon a
Christmas Eve. In the distance one
tall evergreen stood apart from all
the others; it seemed aglow with
lights and, from afar, a star ap
peared to rest among its topmost
branches.
As he drew nearer, Boncheva
lier saw that the tree was covered
with candles — some standing up
right and others inverted. The star
at the top seemed to be the vision
of a child whose beautiful head
was surrounded by a pale amber
halo.
Word spread through the village
that Bonchevalier had seen a vision.
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