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Show aHF f V -- r "'4 THE PATSONIAN, PAYSON, UTAH, DECEMBER 10, 1920. PAG i- - 've v VV A ,4? ft Oat, Merry Bells 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000X0000000000 YJg Welcome out, ye merry bells' bright Icicles' old Christmas Wekome, again Blithe as a child at play, keeping his holiday, '"Welcome him back from the snow peak ... and plain holly-crowne- d Up with the holly bough, green from the ' joy-bell- e, n inter's brow, your ledgers and cares for a day, Out to the forest go, gather the mistle Loi k up toe, Old and young, rich and poor, up and awayl with the holly boughs, ay, and the laurel now, In with the yule log and brighten the hearth; Quick' here he Is again, come with hi Joyous train, Laughter and music and friendship and mirth Up ,, 4 joy-bell- e, the holly boughs, high In each manor house, Garnish the antlers that hang In th hall ifes, and the "neck of corn with a ga wreath adorn. Rich as the bloom on the cottager; Op with ' ,p 8 S JJkklth has Its duties now, Christian, you w11' allow: pink, then, ye rich, whilst your table' are spread. Think of the wretched ones Poverty's stricken sons. Weeping whilst children are asking foi bread jr n, , 3 ' walL V VS Th great yule logs are b taxing high. The hall with holly green are 4rest. And bllthsome maids and marry Are gsyly clad in all their best. And have ye eeen the fairest tnald That ere hath dwelt 'tween aea an ssaT And for my loVe and for my faith. Think ye she'll bring a gift to met O, ring, ye gsyly ring! . O, merry minstrels, harp and sing I PIU every heart with Christmas heer, For Christmas comes but jmee a year The yule Ore biases warm and high. On oakened rafter, blackened wall; It shines upon the fairest maid, As down she dances thro the halL I Sing my weary harp aside, . (And will she stoop to such an IT) I haste to meet her underneath The mystic branches hanging high. O, ring, ye gayly ring! O, merry minstrels, harp end-- ring! ' V Christmas fill with cheer, , t O, my heart For Christmas comes bat oStsjTn ySsr. I4' Who hath so rare or fair a gift "'t. . As thla my love hath brought to mat For 1 was but a mtnetrsl lad. maid waa aha A dainty, high-bor- n , Tet with her Upa her heart aha gave. Her heart, nil pure as Christmas snow, t c; And for her love and for her faith, 'k -, J- Fourth unto joust And war ill go. " " . , gayly ring! O, ring, ye i O, heart of mine, rejoice and alng, For Christmas love and Christmas cheat rounds Shall bless our lives the whole year, Annie Louise Bracksnridga. j.. Joy-bell- s, BOXES, bells' ring till youi music swells Out oer the mountain and far on thf main; Ring till those cheerless ones catch up your rvrry tones, ringing "Come, Christmas again and again." Prank Leslie's Popular Monthly Ring out, ye merry OLD CHRISTMAs 'fAO Ancient Custom at One Time Dev I. oped Into Demand airtight and Became Nuisance. ' V HE bestowal of Christmas ' boxes Is of great antiquity, ' . and was formerly the bounty of well disposed "persona; who were willing to contrlb- j ute something toward the Industrious. Later the gift came to be demanded as a right and became somewhat of a nuisance. Long ago the Roman Cnth- ollc priests had , masses for everything, and if a ship went to the West Indies they hnd a box In her under the protection of some patron saint. Into which the sailors put money or other valuables In order to secure the prayers of the church. At Christmas these boxes were opened and were thence called Christmas boxes.' In England the day after Christmas la known as Boxing day, from the Christmas boxes which used to be In circulation, and In the British mu- -' seum can be seen boxes covered with green glaze with a slit In the side for money and presents. -- i ART " AND SCIENCE IN TOYS Playthings for the Kiddles Necessary to the Proper Conduct of Their Society. HILE the making of toys Is an art that is probably practically old as the world itself. It has been only within recent years that science k. has bothered itself about them. Less than half a century ago they were re-i garded merely as playthings amus-tadiversions for children that were V-bno means necessary to their Today, how ever, science Insists that there is a philosophy underlying the use of toys; that they are the tools, wlth.wlilch the little ones nec- v ply their trade; the paraphernalia of their conduct to the proper essary society; that dolls, for example, are i iiiuore to them than the associates that they Jij to entertain them In that them In the attainment of their the mental growth by stimulating A natural emotions which must be ex- perienced in later life. Whether this theory of the scientists "la correct or not, the fact remains that children have always had the play-- thlpgs requisite for their Imitations of domestic life and business affairs of older people; that they have always required their elders to provide them with such indentions, and that, when they could not obtain these toys by have any other means they themselves fBUght and found objects that might 4 be made to suit their purposes Even ft somnolent middle Ages did not put r. attend to their pastimes. The toys In have wych they found diversion may met been more simple, but, ns they av Xrftawlmuids of nature, they plnved fmrt m the scheme of 14 Afhelr allottedeloonient. Puhlle Opinion. f human dm l i' p ll as It "f g well-bein- g. well-define- d CHRISTMAS Is " . quaint customs are observed Cliflstinns time in vnrious English of Cumnor, wuntry parishes. In that Berkshire, of which the living is a Af vicarage and the church a beautiful J, jLcimen of an old English parochial repair, af-- . f edifice, all vsLo payontithes Christinas day, service ter evening to the vicarage where the vicar is held in duty hound, by a nsnge con turlfS old, to regale them with four diets of malt brewed into ale or of wheat baked Into Ti two bushels bread, and half n hundred weight of Cheese Any remnants of this feast distributed nmong the poor of the T are the next parish after morning prayer day. z ' ' ri ? FOR GUESTS Chrlstmns hag Is an planned by one housekeeper. The breakfast table Is to he decoinled with a mirror In (he center, outlined as a star by holly siwlgs, and wlthr slender rut glass vase In the center holding red ihinnlhemums. Long stemmed flowers also radiate from the central star with iho blossoms towards the plates of those for whom the E ory napkin flowers are Intended lies benenlh a Christmas enrd with a uprlg of holly tied upon It with red ribbon, and to the bm k of everx ((fair Is tied n bag with a big red satin bow The bags are of nil sbes, and etn b One is ai1 Is full of individual g'fls opera bag, another a shopp ng I ag In black and gold, still another Is brown leather and gold nn'lhe.els another a ling for collars and cuffs, nil otlnr a gay laundrv bag. one is sag gestlve of the straps giandmotber will put into it, and the other of books that a small girl will cm ry to sriiml All are as dainty and fine as caieful workmanship and good materials can make them, and there will be fun emptying the materials out of the various bngs. THE bajished oreVermore it seems aJI tKe World is brighter jkefcjloW QrSnristmas j Mflnj , irnini lun e . stork The Christmas Stocking and indeed no menus with which to si r port them, was about to sell them St. Nicholas, v lio into a life of sn. was accustomed to dispense his laigc fortuno in gifts of charity, resell ed taint of the fourth to rescue 6ring Smiles of Gladness. As the young women. the of reatuiv of house their womhr he fg not so much the thought approached i Dicembi Christmas on and was born the customary holiday gifts lie mg how he should proiofd, the moon 0, .112, in Lyein, Asm Minor. width most pleases the fancy, but was regiided ns especitllv the patron shone out and displayed an opci Instantly St. . Nicholas rather that pleasure the heart derives s lint of children, voting girls ami window. llirewr a purse of gold m at the The from dwel'lng upon Joyful surprises sailors. (lirislmts stockiigi window which, falling at the feet of To bring custom arose as follows ,jt may be'iow upon others. nnother-the father of the girls, enabh d him w ,f gladness upon H lie It seems that St Nuhol.s, who a to portion his oldest daughter. face ps, iidteil. a boon more pieeiou of Mii. lmd in second time St. Nicholas isitid the the arl bishop than a Cl.riim.is gift, and the Jov the same town with an impo enshi d hone he also was able to throw n of bestow in- - can Dever be tqualed by nobleman who, beeiuse he had no purse of gold through ai open window. the recel'irg portions to pie his damditers, am) thus providing for the portion of the i7a ( , 4 Container for Presents Attached to Backs of Chairs With Bow of Red Satin Ribbon. Ancient Christmas Custom. f BAG come igs down to us the goon St.. Null a olas, who was On the third isit the father, watching for his 1,iene factor, east himself at the feet of the samt anil cried: Oh, St. Nicholas, servant of God whv seek to hide thyselft The saint made the father prom in I rom not to revutl his benefuetio is. this habit of bestowing gifts m secret and under the rloak ot nipt arose the practice of putting out sh oi s or stockings for the younger of the family, so ifiit the good saint would be able to till tin in wi'hnnt being spied o i. At one lime it was the custom for young women pupils hi convents on the even of .smt Nicholas to hang their new second daughter. t i rs pie j Its. Origin silk stoi kings on the door of their They apnrtimnt of the abbess. would also write notes calling the Nnholns St. attention of the good In the morning to their stockings. when theconveit pupils who hnd not gone home for Iho holidays arose they invariably found their stockings filL 1 with sweetmeats. A Thrifty Saint. "lont you think holidays tempt ns to extra va gineef Not at nil, If vou will study the jictures of R(nta Claus you will ol. sirve th it he lies on tho same old clothes lie has worn for years.' ( F A. Plants for Christmas. Other things being equal, It 1r ht ter to buy plants near ones home than to travel afar. Do not be tempted, even by cheap offers, to go miles away, for counting car fares, packing, expressage and lost time, the ultimate cost Is very likely to be more than If you paid a good deal higher price at home. Of course it nmy happen that one grower or florist has a large stock of some one thing and can sell at a low rate, but dealers mindly have an understanding with one another especially regarding holiday pnees, and for weeks before the holiday season they hnve been balancing stock with each other, so that the better qnalit.v plants are of an alumst flved value 1 Vi - t v4 4 -- U |