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Show ' .......... ...... . - .. - ; ; .. - ' " . . . .. THE BINGHAM NEWS. BINGHAM. UTAH . ; ,., . . ... ..,' plirilttniIHIIIHIHIHIHIIHHIIHIIIIIHHltHIIIHHnlllHimHIIIIHnilHllllllllimTt3 I niie Letter to Santa Claus aRuliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitijiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiuiiitiiiiiiniiiiuiiiiiiiirrmk : iU n 4 .';--'';;t- r- ' iar jawaarjg r.j. LI,, - - - - a, t f I ' ; , " 1 ) The Spirit of 1923J I New Year Wishes j I- - ' I ft By CHRISTOPHER O. HAZARD fj Copyright, Wutira Newspaper Colon. ASSURANCE 111HATETR the rear ejeybrlnj Of thing! not enderttood. We certain are that ererything Will have to tore ear good. We mar to wldi Joyon tread Aad art a siasie thing te dread SOMETHING NEW I MID the falu, amid the true, 1 Between the laurel and the yew. Thank Cod for something young and newt A ad my thh new leaf of time's page. This fair addition to our age. Be filled with tana- - wit and tate I NINETEEN TWENTY-THRE- E mAYthe New Year be threaded through strands of blue and sold foryou; Things high end precious, far and fine. To serve, inspire, delight and shine I MfimmifinftllMffllllinitirririlimiilitimiiiiiiiinmiiiiitMiiita MIHHIMIMimt.MUMl I The :: Firsl Chrislmas :: (i Bq tlanota J. KnecK, i in tho Uuconria Farmer MIUHMIMIIMIHIII) Hi "Merry Christmas! Merry Chrlstman! Clanirg the heavy, deepvtoned bell. And all the world gives balc the ajimvert Christ la born, and ail la well." OVER nineteen hundred years ago lived In the little town of Nazareth a humble carpenter and his wife, Mary. At this time the ruler ol the Itomau empire, Augustus Caesar, required all persons to pay taxes for the upkeep of the kingdom. Joseph was a de scendnnt of King David. Although he was living In Galilee, the law re-quired him to go to Bethlehem In Ju-de-a to pay his taxes. When It was time to pay the trib-ute, Joseph took Mary with him on the Journey to Bethlehem. It was a tiresome Journey. They were very weary when they reached the little town. Joseph went to the hotel to get a room where they could rest. But poor Joseph was disappointed, for so ninny other people had come to the little town that day the rooms were all taken. No doubt Joseph and Mary fejt lonely and discouraged as night came on. At last they went to a stable to find a place to sleep. Here In a manger the Savior f the Woild was born. This was a very lowly place Indeed for the rriace of Peace to be born. Prophets had been foretelling his com-ing for many years. Peopte were ex-pecting hlra to come, but in some very grand way. Some thought ho would make the kings leave their thrones and himself be the ruler. But he cume as a sweet, dear little babe. Now, you wonder how the people heard of his birth, in those long, long ago days when there were no tele-graphs or telephones? Perhaps you think so Important news as thta would be announced publicly by the highest officials or the riches people In town and a holiday declared. But not so. The first news of his' birth was told to people engaged la a very humble and lowly work. Methlnks It must have been a beau-tlfi-warm night. Far out on the hills of old Judea the shepherds were herd-ing their ' sheep. No doubt they were talking together about the big crowd In Bethlehem that evening. Suddenlj there appeared In the sky a bright light The shepherds were afraid. Aa angel spoke to them and said, "B not afraid; I bring you good tidings of great Joy which shall be to all people. Then he told them that Jesus had been born In Bethlehem ; that they would find him, a babe, wrapped if swaddling clothes lying In a manger with his mother, Mary. Suddenly there appeared with the angel a host of other angels singing, "Glory to God In the highest and on earth peace, good will to men, After the angels were gone t! e shep-herds talked over the wondroui news. Then they hurried away to Bo'hlehem to see If It was true. Sure inougb-ther- e were Mary and Joseph and tb little babe, Jesus. They then went out to tell others. God also told the news of his gift to the world by placing a new atar In the sky. The wise men saw It and followed its shining rays until they, too, found the "Babe of Bethietuym. These wise men worshiped him and gave him gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense. This was the first Christmas. Plllllilllllllllllliilllilllllliilll iillll HUH fsi. B 1 to I r r, 1 ss ess I s iiiiH And hnre we aland to say "Good-byl- " Brief word utd yet wo acarce known wby, They bring a moisture to the eye. And to the heart aome quaked and ftaheai We apeak them very tenderly, With halt a sob and half s algh "Old Year, gwd-b- yl Old Year, good-by- l" W. K. Burleigh. TTERB we stand again on the borderland of Welcome and Good-by-. There Is so little be-tween them and so much either side of them. When the great bell, of time strikes the midnight hour, and 1022 passes Into the land of long ago, there Is one ulraplo resolu-tion that we can all make with pretty good surety that we can keep t till the next midnight chimes that we will be a better mar or woman In the next year than in the last That won't be a hard resolution to fulfil in some degree, and If everyone Is even a little better, there will be a heap more good-ness, kindness, success and love In the world when 1923 rings out that there is now. The untried year brings with it another chance for all a chance to mako good where we have failed u chance to benefit by what we have counted as failures in the year that Is passing out The old year has been a difflcuK one for many. Some have lost heart. The new year, which gives promise of so much that is better, will bring new courage and hope to them. Ii we can let the unhappy part of the past year go with It and only remember the good, It will help toward all that is best In the new. One of the best things that we can hope for the untried year is that It will be a busy one for everybody. Work Is the best pro-moter of goodness and happiness, and the best cure for trouble and sorrow that there is. When the solemn, happy bells "ring out across the snow,' let them ring out with them the bad things and ring In all that Is good and true and beautiful that is within the power of each one of us. I YOUR "LITTLE NEW YEAR" ill By MARTHA B. THOMAS ;: !;!; ffHpiiE Wttle New Yar" is a ')' very eager youngster, lie j;j jij pops into view overnight; in l; fact, one second's difference la Is the margin between his being nothing at all and then appear- - ; !;'; ing as something very delinlte vj to reckon with. From the mln ute he claps hla eyes on you, he !J; belongs; h Is your "Little New o Year" and you've got to decide t i; pretty quickly what to do with t ;; him. There Is no possible way t; o of escaping this parenthood. 8 He's going to stick to you like a burr for 8C5 days, every mln- - j; !j: ute, every hour. It's really quite '', !; alarming. j ;:; Are you going to bring up the ;i; Ij: I'.ttle fellow on underdone resolu- - !: Uons? Are you going to make him a :;; present of malnutrition by feed-- !;!; o Ing him on irregular meals of ;!; procrastination T ;; Are you going to ruin his char- - ji; '': acter (nnd maybe your own) by Si ;! rows and rows of pleasant fibs ;i; to prevent u feeling of discoin- - ;i; fort about his growing up into a ;i harum-scaru- m boy? Like human '4 ;!; children, he needs watching and jt guiding and discipline. You'll o never have the opportunity of Ij! ij; "raising" this particular lad again. lie will slip from your U fingers on the night of December ; ;; 31 your "Little New Year" ii grown Into whatever manhood j:j i: you've permitted him. List's send him out a fine, ;z I; sturdy fellow I i (, 1022, Weatern Nowapaper Union.) ' Relic of !i I Saxon i Days (, 1U , Western Newspaper Union.) Op HE New Year begins precisely at - midnight and almost everyone now adays sees the New Yenr in by general festivities and many good resolutions, which are promptly forgotten on Jan-uary 2. The festivities marking this occasion, says Hereward tarrington, scientist and author, are very ancient, and in old Saxon days it was the custom to partake of a bowl of spiced ale, which was passed around with the expression "Wasshael," which meant "to your health 1" Hence the origin of the Was-sail, or Wassel bowl. We now keep New Year on January the first ; but the Chinese, Jews, Turks and many others do not observe It on this day. Even Christian countries hava not always so observed It ; the Romans began the year with the March equinox. The later Teutonic nations for a long time continued counting the beginning of the year from March 25. It was only In' 15G3, by an edict of Charles IX, that France changed the time of the beginning of the year to January 1. In 1G00 Scotland mads the same change, and England only did so In 1752, when the Gregorian system was adopted there. It win thus be seen that the New Year, ob-served on January 1, Is relatively new, though we are accustomed to think that It dates back from time im-memorial. It was Julius Caesar, in the year 40 B. C, who first reformed the cale-ndaraided by the Egyptian astronomei Sosigenes. He made it a few minutei too long, and a second correction was necessary. Pope Gregory made cer tain changes In 1582, A. D, and ad-ditional minor changes were made latet on, from the "old style" to the "new style" calendar." We now employ ths new style. After the French revolatlon Francs decided to set up an entirely new or-der of things. A new calendar was made. The Christian era was wiped out, and was replaced by the new French era, beginning September 22, 1702. Instead of our week of seven days, a week of ten dnjs was estab-lishedIn accordance witT the decimal sjt,tem the tenth day bdng set asidd for rest. Instead of the mythological names of the months, others deduced from the prevailing seasons of the year were substituted. Everything was to be based upon reason! The Notre Dame was con-vert- Into a "Temple of Reason." ilme. Momero, the young and beautiful wife of a Jacobin printer, was chosen to represent "Reason." And so It went. The months were chosen nnd given French numes which were thought to be characteristic of them. Thus, autumn had a vintage month, a foggy month and a sleety month. Winter, a snowy month, a rainy month ond a windy month. Spring. a huMlnfl mouth, a flowery month nnd a pnsturs month. Rummer, a harvest tnwith, a hot month nnd. a fruit month. Each inoiith began somewhere bo tween the LSui Mv the 22nd accord-ing to cur reckoning. Thus the first month .of tho autumn trio be.m on .September 22, and lasted until Oc-tober 21, etc. With the restoration of a stnbla governirwiit in Franco, this calendar was repealed, nnd the usual one sub-stituted. But for a time, as we hav e. n, New Your d;iy did not begin on .Timu.iry i, in Frnnco, so ir)0 ns tn lnt century, nnd it does not boffls on that dnto in cui ' tries even tod;iy f j! Tell Me Again J .. TH-1-- at,rr . 1 last yea tald whaa we beta were yeagi A Tm vtrt mf trimct la slary, A arises with a geUaa tsagae, Aad Ike teach of yaw taad was tarflEaf, The fact that yea Brad was Joy Bat I waa eajy a girl than. Jeer, , Aad yea were eaty a bey. TaB ew, the way yen tell ess Win ear Im wis tk. mm of eprhrl , Held aaa, as yea weald bald we "m Mlmrai avend tUd i ltUsurtaafstayeatludr,ks BeMtaHawdtaba f WaealwMesaawtetaraaeas Aad yea wars aa great he awl Bar by tW Brwida littiac. Ai lha aktarai ia Sua mby, west be the aaaMato fktliag, J . AadcUUra,Jaelyeaaadn : PeraVskweelearageb richer, I Aad eaU leal the iey 01 the lew thai waa eaty t glrTi. laat. Far bar ariace, who waa ealy a bay. Jlnry Uwmd Wnm, m iht RkhmmS HOW JAPAN GREETS NEW YEAR Custom of Oriental Countries Is to Give) Special Performances In the Play Houses. nnE Oriental methods of greeting the New Year differ greatly from ours. In Japan, as well as lu other Oriental countries, special perform-ances are given In the theaters. In the temples and shrines priests and attendants entertain the people with special dances. The Kagura, or Sucred Dunce With Music, is the fa-vorite, for while It Is being given prayers are offered for the continued happiness of the nation during the coming year. This very old dance is performed by young girls, while the priests are the musicians. All are In appropriate costume. Another ceremonial, which has been handed down for centuries, is the Shu-Sa- L or Dance of the Ancestral Sanc-tuary. This Is given within the palace by the Imperial family on January 3, and It celebrates the founding of the imperial house, centuries ago. . hi iiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimi WhatDoYouWant? By Christopher C rlanrd ill iiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuiiii K0, lUi, Weatern Nearapaper Union.) TX7IIEN the boy passed the baker's " shop on his way to school, he used to look with longing upon the display of pies and cakes and resolve In his heart that If fortune should ever bless him with means he would have enough of a feast for once. But when, In after years, he passed the sitine old shop and looked upon the new treasures of the old window, now with a pocketful of money, he had ceased to care for the goodies, and went on, Jingling his useless coins. What do we want now? Not what we used to want Not more pie, not more candy, not more toys, not even more money. The old ambitions have been realized, the old goals have been reached, we have the power of which we dreamed, there doesn't seem to be anything In sight worth running after, we look out upon a splendid world with a falling desire for It, we go on by an acquired momentum rather thnn with test Still, we are unsatisfied. Yet we want something. What is It? What do we want? What could the Christmas time bring us of satisfac-tion? How would you like to recover that lost art of imagination? Hiw would a large investment in hope pny you? What would that strange power of be-holding the reality nnd the loveliness of a spiritual world, that mysterious power that some have, mean to you? If you could be a child again, Just for Christmas Eve, perhaps, you would see the meaning of the stars tnat rido so gloriously upon the billows o space. You might feel called up and out by the supreme and 'satisfying Joy that Christmas signifies. After all, we may have gained the world and lost faith, nn Immeasurable loss. Only he who keeps his childlike-nes- s not his childishness knows the eternal worth of time, the satisfac-tion of that everlasting love that faith grasps. What a Christmas gift that would bel Was not the old colored preacher right v.hen he sang, "All I want, all I want; all I want Is a little more faith In Jesus"? I CHRISTMAS IN THE AIR I ? ? Jjt By MARY G. BONNER 4 jjj rpiIE air was keen and cold t S and Invlgoratlrg. The snow fx p was falling gent". In every jjj l house Christmas p.TGfhts were K Jfl being wrapped, cheery ttessnges X x and cards and lettart vere 4 Jj being sent Almost . fotVotten 9 ttj friends were thought of aid re-- j membered by a card, a wlih, f jfj a small gift ft V' For Christmas was in the thi fx ijf a tilt. Waster Newepapar U.tlie.) "t j, (Bljrtfltmais TOrgutfj ANIMALS AND NEW YEAR'S DAY Oxen, Cows, Sheep, Goats and Pigs Blessed In Churches of Italy, Spain and France. TN ITALY, Spain and France more Is made of New Year's day than Christmas and on St. Sylvester's eve as the last day of the year Is called the utmost Joyousness prevails. Even the animals are blessed in the churches. A rorrenoridopt who fittPded or" of these quaint ceremonies, writes: The priest lifted high the host and slid some words of benediction at which the people fell on their knees with a response. An acolyte with a holy-wat- er sprinkler passed through the columns of animals deftly throw-ing the sacred water upon them. The oxen and cows were thus blessed first, then the sheep and goats and lastly the pigs. A moon nearly full glittered high above the mountain stones and combined with the light from the can-dles revealed the long, polished horns and heaving sides ana sleek coats of the oxen and cows and the white woolly skins of the sheep. The acolyte passing among them, Incensed them and their bellowing, bleating and squealing arose to a tumult. But high above all, the voice of the priest was heard, as he chanted these words: "My children, God In his goodness sends me, his unworthy servant, here k bless your Cocks, according to nn indent custom of our mountains, go that these animals by whose aid yon live may Join In our religious cere-monies which usher In the New Year. Let us then sing a loud hosimnn of praise to the ever-mercif- Lord so lenient to sinners." e.rtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinr I: lour i . Christmas Room Eg Bu MARTHA . THOMAS j Blllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllir; t 1022, Weatern Mewspayer Lnloa.) ' rpilKUE Is always a place to which one may flee In time of need. That . place is the Inside of our own heads I Provided, of course, that the Inside of our own heads Is properly furnished with Imagination and that the key Is not rusted In the lock from long dis-use. If you are a little lonely on Christmas eve, or a little unhappy, ot a little anything that tends to tar-nish the glow of the season, why not climb up to that place Inside your 1 brad, rattle the lock, be quite firm with the key no matter how stubborn it is, then enter into what Joy you Kins summon by your thoughts? Glad wishes for friends are the green wreaths we may hang in the window of our Christmas room. Hopes for another year are the can-dles we light on the table. New plans are the fruit to deck the board, and very likely there will be a guest or so to share them. Think of the Fire of Purpose you may light on your hearth 1 Think of the glow and warmth It will cast over you 1 Think of tho castles and dreams you crowded out of your heart because you were too busy; the fine, adven-turous ones; the funny ones you have laughed over all to yourself; the shy ones you would not reveal to a soul at any price. Call them all back and awe What n splendid set of Inspirations they are. You'll foci like a new person. And don't forget to put a present on the Tree of Faith for yourself; something you've wanted nil your life. If you cnn't have it this your, waiting will inuke It more precious; and if you can (oh, think of that!) you'll be alV the better prepared. j Do spend a little tlms In your Christ-- 1 mo a rxiri ' ,' A NEW YEAR'3 CARD Now what ia hera A word of cheor To herald In another year; May all It days be free of blhme A little nobler than your aim; May all Its labors be con font A little butter than your beset. And all the Joya within Its grope A little brighter than your hnpe; And may eaoh year be found, when ist, A little dearer than the ltun. Arthur Ouiternian In Woman's Home Companion. Ralhin Pie. One-hal- f cupful sugar, 2 cupfuls seeded raisins, y cupfuls boiling wa-te- , teaspoouful salt, 1 tcaspoonful grated orange rind, 3 tahlespoonfuls orange Juice, 2 tahlespoonfuls lemon Juice. 1 talilespoonful grated lemon rind, 2 taMespoonful cornstarch, Vi cupful walnuts. Cook rnislns In boiling water for five minutes; pour iuto sugar nnd cornstarch which have been mixed. Cook until thick, about five minutes. Remove from fire and wld other In-gredients. Bake between two crusts. Walnuts may lie omitted If desired. cnmrNC l)3 Th Lord him thee and herp I CJ thee, The Lord make hit Ulc Wfjf . J Jyy'M" "p (, nd be Kridoui J, ttnt0 '" Tl Lord lilt up J hie coumrnince upon thee., JSftl Q NEW YEAR CALLS fj)k P" 'he peace. f VJ PASSE Ine American custom of New Year day calls, so prevalent in tho social life of tills country In ttu! Nineteenth cen-tury, is little practice! todiy. Lotion for the Skin. Tho finest lotion for preventing rough, red hnniis and charred Up In winter is equal parts of glyceric, hay rum ir4 ornica. |