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Show 1 frHE PAYSONIAN, UTAH, DECEMBER PAfSON, OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 16, 1921 .ViV.V.VAV.V.'.V.l Basque Women Undisturbed by War Cleaning Off the SLte WWWWWWAWA'JWAW.VA.V.VAVAV.'.V.V. boooooooooooo;ooooooooooooooooC' of striking instance known of a populaIn the southern departments through France where the little villages tion roiiuiining unenanged tho ages. cluster iu tiie sliuuow ox luo i'yrcuct. To tho visitor today tho buildings ttre lu Oe touud sciwu ox lUe giuilos in this area seem a symbol of those ox tuo old SXuuu Ago. men who thousands upon xiore tort thousand or xuoro yiai. prehistoric thousands of year8 ago dwelt in these race B. C. men of the sumo hills and valleys and plied the ol Uu art. outdo the begiuiuogs their trades with implements of stono nails of those cuvcs have 00011 xuuuu lately discovered in the river drifts. tepresoaUtious of the animals long For, in contrast to northern and siuco extinct that huutod and note middle France, tho barns and houses huulod by the utou who thou made of these peasants are ail built of thoir homes xu this region. stono. The fields are divided from it is with a atraugo Xooiiug of rev- each other by such walls as are those these of New York State. erence that out) approaeues ot evidences of the artistic spirit The native peasants aro an intelliuiuu. gent ad handsome race, with a goodHomo of those eaves are plainly to ly mixture of Spanish blood in their bo soon from the road that winds up veins. They are much interested In the lovely valley of tho Aruge. They strangers and more kindly disposed to are high up ou the eblfs above the them than are those in some of the river and must have afforded secure ,other deiwrtments of France. They shelter from the savage dangers by speak with great affection of thoir and well they were surrounded particular which those men pays, ' in that dim dawn of tho worlds may. It would seem ungrateful not nature to have appreciation whore life. The paintings and sculpture of tho has been so lavish in her gifts. These rock walls of these caves have boeu peasants are hard workers through raiiirarararamraminmmmmmiH dated by scientists by tho evidence the summer months that they may severe winters. the live long ami though fouudutious rock of superbeiug St. Nicholas , the & is stock CHRISTMAS DOES their immense ago in iucontrovertible. Their principal occupation cows and horses, breeding raising, the remote f II Holy Man NOT STAND ALONE galIn one instance iu a sheep which are sent to tho adjacent lery at the back of a cuvorn some H Fourth Century j to bo marketed. Just enough stalactites were broken away by tho city F CHRISTMAS stood alone It aro raised on thoir land to crops block Smmmmmiiirammiuiiiuimmiinra who 31 found that they would be an Idle mockery. explorers, take care of. thoir stock and themed the entrance to a smaller grotto, But it does not stand alone. v THE entire category of the food their boing principal llere were two statues in clay of selves, It Is part of a year. Yet It Is a U Faints none continues to enjoy a jeoreals. the bison that roamed tho European peculiar part. It Is that brief more extended popularity than In the yard of an old granite In which the child rules wilds before the rocky curtain to this house built in the period St. Nicholas, archbishop of Myra. early eighteenth the world. cavern had been formed, through At this time, when preparations are century father is threshing in true It murks nowadays the cul- countless ages by water dripping from biblical mema being made for the celebration of the while younger style, fi mlnation of a clvlllxutlon which And here were discovered ber of tho the roof. it Is parbirthday of the Clirist-clUlfamily iB near at hand to has had a leading principle. that we recall somein the clay the footprints of tho lend assistance. The old man stands ticularly fitting The aelflsh, the hard, the gras;- the bison; in the middle of a pilo of straw men who had modelled thing of the character of this holy and the unsparing are out Jf man of the Fourth century and relng and fliuts that they hud dropped two as fifteen feet about square and apart that one week from member some of the legends which lumps of cluy left from the model hones which he guides by ropes the great flowing tide of the ft bring him so close to us at Christmas those held in one of the bore that impress while a ting hand, plying of the worlds development time. These little long, long dead flagons. go round and whip with tho other, man or woman The progress. ' who round him like a Strange to say, while St. Nicholas is men those made The carrousel. by statues, who does not know this or see as the special guardian of regarded thousand ago years lived over forty is occasionally broken by monotony It or feel it Is alien to the Chrischildren, virgins and sailors, he enme are beautifully executed and quite the insistence of a lurking foal that tian spirit and to all the prodto be regarded as the patron saint of unbroken. tho maro in the lead must furnish it ucts wrought by the Christ robbers, from an alleged adventure refreshment. Tho non, lest he forget j spirit In the twenty centuries Not far away ,on the walls of with thieves, whom he compelled to discoverand been three years spent on the Somme cave, there have last past. restore some stolen goods to their ed paintings of tho same remote per- somo months at Salonica, is minus a Christmas day, then, brings a ft proper owners. These horses. iod of bison and wild finger. Mndam, wife of the younger message. But It also sings a In various parts of the old world it are engraved with a sharp flint on man, emerges from the room at the is customary for the elder members of song of hope and calls aloud a the smooth rock walls, ond then col front of. the house, with its ancient prophecy. The message Is that Jj the family to place little presents in ored with paint made of powdered rafters and heavy worm eaten doors, the shoes as well as the stockings of gentleness Is stronger far than gout-er- . with where she has been preparing mixed force and that the greatest pow- - "j the younger relatives on the eve of ochre and manganese, er on earth Is the compelling At once she takes the centre The hollow leg bones St. Nicholas (?ny. In convents t' e animal fats. power of tenderness. of reindeer were used as paint pots of tho stage. She is full of the found esprit of tho south, which with her Every Christmas tree Is lit Jjj by the artists, and have been render unnecwith that light. The great flood Js Castillian dark envorns. eyes the of floors in the deep that her of presents hears this as Its earlier drawings essary her information There ar0 still and cheer The message. made before men learned the use father was born in Spain. are season whole been the had of she Ono said, rock charity brother, the of color, and etched into love. fed two this others while tho by war, with a sharp one, representing lions killed in If the result of this process roamed had returned but to go away again. and the giant elk that Is only a century flower, how- - 2 found that they could make mon-cthrough the woods of Europe when They old ever, or one that blooms even faster in the cities than in the the artists who thus depicted them only once a year, then of what mothoT, hard for is my home. It were alive. use Is this more than that, this jj them. blame cannot one enfin, but, all Burled deep in the cliffs of j than fact that J suffer grotesque still la guerre; they only Cest these Pyrenean valleys, and a Is curious It plant? stranger and are restless. recently brought again to view, this phenomenon only, a hothouse So many, many of the women in of shaft light primitive art throws a spectacle and not an abiding j out these villages have never been and understanding into those ages of them. food product. Rev. Dr. David have few that The very M. Steele. Philadelphia. when the spirit of man was encomventured abroad have usually gone They passed by utter savagery. over the border to Spain. Whore show in the care with which they just all tho men of a family have been gradual killed the women are carrying on were executed and in tho CELERY AND CHEESE SALAD. development of artistic ability which tho farm alone, as that is their only sense of tho record that beauty they means of subsistence. Chop nicely bleached, tender celery and a desire to represent it in line will asTho peasants hereabouts fine and bind It together with mayonstrivfirst the were color and among sure you of how conscientiously and naise. Line an Ice cream dipper with ings of the awakening soul of man. cousistautly they work. Some excottage cheese, then fill up with the Theso are no chance seratchings but claim: We are just as industrious celery mixture, packing it In well. painstaking efforts to present nature as the Germans, and wo dont want Screw out the cones on crisped lettuce as it appeared to the primitive be- tho eight hour law! They are also leaves arranged for Individual serving. ings who mado them. fully aware of tho fact that Frances It is evident that there must have riches lio in her agricultural comCHRISTMAS FOR THE BABIES. been somo light with which to see munities, and may 'eventually navirecesses But in tho the work done deep gate theiT bark accordingly. Never deny the babies their ChristOno can picof these great caves. they dont know or aro unwilling to mas! It Is the shining seal set upon ture the drtist working by a crude acknowledge that whilo tho inhabit- a year of happiness. Let them believe lamp held near the rock, with the ants of the industrial centres are !a Santa Claus, or 8t. Nicholas, or skill that must have required much heavily taxed those of the farming Cries Kringle, or whatever name the the districts aro scarcely taxed at alL Only here, deep in practice. Jelly Dutch saint bears In your region. For new's of tho outside world as enough Marion Hsrland. kindly earth, was he safe from the myriad dangers that en of neighboring towns these quaint Good Reason, Too. compassed his frail life to patiently people depend upon a paper posted each day in a village rock walls the conspicuously on the r"hristnias the children of n cer-- r work out with what tali r tnclal school tried to collect scenes and objects which his eyes street. One visualizes women mo those mind of y going from houae to house him. huddling around world in the agony perceived There are some scientists who be must have spelled out the news of tin g enrols and snatches of hymns. lieve that the inhabitants of southern battles, and thoso fallen, a few short Mwj lomplalnts reached the rectors 5 ears of bands of youngsters scamperFrance are descendants of the so years ago. of verse Whl' theso first in the all valleys is which peaco the through ing to rece, called S There are sev- where the shepherds return at night Shepherds Watched, and then vlo cave artists belong. flocks on the lently ringing the doorbell. So he Intheir wat from cling to tend which faets eral striking women stituted Inquiries on the next occasion In the first everlasting hillsides and the substantiate this idea. inevitable he visited the school. into weave their knitting the place, the heads of Or in castles dreams of their Why Is ft," he asked, that, Instead Spain. people, nJs proved by the fossil re do the of jagged singing the hymn In a reverent they yearn beyond mains of their skulls, are very long sunsets the glow you scamper through one verse way, mountain int0 tops and narrow, with a broad fnce. The and then ring tlie bell?" where lies Andorra t only ivOther people known to anthro Silence reigned for a short time. Although only twenty kilometers cranial pologtsts to have the same a shrill voice from a small boy Then if mouutain over few, a trial, ehwractertisHcs are the people who away,from this side have ever vent- at the back of the room was heard In any, lire in this part of the world now. ured in. Notwithstanding, it must explanation : Another significant fact is that the be well worth a visit to that little Please, sir, lta cause they always most primitive language in Europe the dog loose at the second verse. lets its 7,000 with republic, independent is that of the Basques, whose eoun inhabitants. try is not far from this region, which In 805 A. D. the Andoreans went Charity in the Heart was thiekly populated by tho Cro bo tho aid of the French when they TU the season for kindling the fire Ifangon people. This is commented laid seige to Urgell, and as a reward of hospltalltly In th hall, tho genial upon by Prof. Henry Osborn in his were granted by Louis le Dcbonnaire Irt of charity In the heart. Washing interesting wOTk on the fossil re a strip of territory in the Pyrenees ton Irving. mains and ancient cave drawings and lyng between Franco and Spain. Here, cut off from all the strife N0 Allowance for Lateness. sculpture of Europe, If this resemblances of cranial do and chaos of the outside world, Jones has been to visit his son in vrfopment and the supporting coin theso people have existed for eentur-Jesufficient unt0 themselves and America and, on his return remarks cidenee of a primitive language are They say that the sun rises six to be trusted a evidence, the poo menace to none. May some one some them hours later in America than in Swe pie of this part of Prance certainly ,day have tho initative t0 study and tell us more about them. Pep den, but I had to get up at the same represent the oldest living race $111181 decent time, anyhow. most the is and it haps they are of western Europe, Btrix, Stockholm. 3 While the emblem of the three golden balls Is derived from the Lombard merchants, yet St. Nicho- las Is frequently plctorlally represented as bearing three golden balls or purses, the origin of which can be traced to an act of the saint which has come down to ur In the form of an ereltsi-astlcnotation. y After the Long, Long Trip HE origin of the Christmas carol Is uncertain. It is probably a old us Christianity. Indeed, IJlshop Taylor in his Great Exemplar remarks that the first carol Is the hymn of the angels to the shepherds in the plains of Bethlehem: Glory to God in the highest, and on eurtli peace, good will toward men." In the Fifteenth century carols were In widely used throughout Europe. fact, the first pieces printed by the very first printers were carols. In one of the oldest collections appears The Boars Head, which used to be sung as that old dish was carried to the table during the Christmas revelry: The Boar's Head In hands I bring With garlands gay and birds singing; I pray you all to help me sing "Qul estls In convlvlo! The Boar's Head represents one of the convivial carols or "jolie chanwhich find their place at the sons, feasts, dances and other gay festivities of the Christmas season. time bands of In Shakespeare's itinerant singers used to wander about Ihe streets and make their caroJry a pretext for getting money. During the Eighteenth century carol-r- y declined greatly, and many of s which had marked old Christmas festivals for centuries been me obsolete. Carol ry still exists in parts of Eng- t cir-tom- of -- CAROLS AS PART OF THE CHRISTMAS SERVICE, her chamber." llARRIMAN BORDEN young women used to place silk Blockings at the door of the apartment of the abbess, with a paper recommending them to Great St. Nicholas of land. In Wales it lias been preserved to still greater extent,-whi- le Ireland, too, has her Christmas caroling style. France has its "Niels," and in Italy Christmas carols-hnvbeen sung since the time of St. Francis of Assisi, w ho discovered of sacred song in the vernacular. To elio-ehall over the world mar.y of the d .'" tfid o'd carols are now a. Cliris-'nmservice. nrvf nr a Hans Schmidt was reputed to be the meanest man in the neighborhood. He died. His body was placed in the grave, and according to an old Pennsylvania German custom the people stood around the open grave, waiting for some one to say good things about the deceased before fil-- j woman 1 T,(1 0ny ing the grave. After a long wait, -- '.st have three qualifications: Gustave &hulze said: Well, I can Dor and Riches Money. Property, about one Hans; say joost goot thing was Brunner (Berlin) he wasnt always as mean as he Tho Universalist Lea- sometimes. Luck That Turnea. der. os )ogxhe TTnintentional Bcginncr (after repeated failure)Funny game, golf. Caddie Tain t meant t0 be. Punch (London.) 1 think it a fine thing when introduced in their neighare sheep borhood, but it is the coming of the sheep that loads to the extermination of the wolves. Moral, etc. St. Louis Wolves Humor. - Globe-Democra- t. IS3BEBBB9BB9BI jjl y Save Time N Make your Application for your Automobile License for 1922 and have your car Inspected at the same office, saving you the time and trouble of visiting two offices in complying with the law BBBBBBBIIBBIB W. E. ELLSWORTH at the Paysonian Office, To-da- y n Who is the Official Inspector, will make out your application for license under Notarial Seal. n . 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