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Show STRANGE A STAR CHRISTMAS CAROL Ufe Which Wai Shine Dver, the Eartlu New gjrth of . -- to of the Beasts of th. NPortrayed by Imagl... M tlvty - Jwee , native Wrltw.V" ill M"""CH5i IHduinq Fuh TPith Old Santa Claus Music arid Song Always Associated With the Yuletide. Original Sacred Character of Carol, Wag Almost Lot Sight of In Thirteenth Century. 1 - Christmas Brother, thy norns! tJtCSIC and sons alwavs been GL Keep thy head straight associated will, Christmas. member, tonight we shsre but In Roman Catholic countries . The man as early as the one stall between Third century, it be-- ' tWne" The !od ni mate tber Ut vmue me custom to usher ilk tile ox of Palestine on Christmastawny-hlde- d festivities with musical hard leaned aide against masses. jjjj farther iABEFCI 1 W ; Present w - . stable wall. ouiuo iv TlS a SlToU" IW .yoke-fello; answered, .jjjjt" his Srtjng restlessly M hft. turned back Even Zjg raze, from the open door. Kh care their noma dicked in the men must take isrrow space. "If ; hed, wby did they not turn us out Into the free airt The. graisa would ri nave dew on,.lt tonightand I could watch the star." Ho!" snorted the little gray ass ttlcb had carried hither the woman "What grass wouldst nreen' them. pluck from, the cobbIestones-o- f4 the city?" "Aye," lowed the first ox. "There d bay here; eat and be still. The star Is no concern of thine." Tne star ahineth:on the wftble He hath the eroad earth, Brother. peaked hills to wander in, and the lark valleys, the fields and the towns alike. I wish I were free like the itar." "Then, like him, thou wouldst come dipping In at our stable door again. Hey, come off thy knees t We must his mate grunted sleep standing," warnlngly. "Hush, Brother There Is something wondrous in my old stall ! Something 1 It gleameth rery small and white U with hoarfrost in the star's light, (t hath the smell of lilies. It moveth. The star can stroke It with its long, The practice of singing carols or canticles wns vtinooseri t.rr.,..n .... "In Excelsls Gloria- of the angels and u.o song or the shepherds nrst Christmas night. A very old carol, published in 1521 gives an amusing description of church revelries : Mr. Gimlet was sitting all alone by generally rewere written words In al- Latin refrain. n When Christ was born of Mary free in oeunenem, mat fair cltie. Angels sang with mirth and slee In Excelsis Gloria, and another with a chorus, Chrlstus natus hodio The babe, the son. The holy one Of Mary. ai'e good examples of thus clnsS. When the tendency to ribaldry became marked, some of the carols got to be very peculiar in subject and language. Joseph is treated with a great want of respect, for one carol runs : pale tongues." He leaned longingly against the barrier which shut him (way, until It creaked. The little ass slipped his soft ears between bis own bars and sniffed in"Whyr 'tis a child !" he quiringly. whinnied with delight "Children are Joseph was an old man, An old man was he, Wlien he wedded Mary, The Maid of Galilee. Another relates the story of the shepherds watching their flocks by night : lovely things. His small fingers will play with my mane and he will sing little gongs to me as I bear him along. Look up, little Master. We will gee ehepard upon a hill he satt. He had on him hys tabard and hatt, Hys tarbox, hys pipe and hys flagatl; Watt. Hys name was called Joly-Jol- y A , peat days together." Having been Informed of the birth "There, that serveth thee right !" of Christ, the sliephtftd sets off for reproved the far ox as the woman Bethlehem, and on arriving, says : made a quiet motion toward the inquisitive nose. "Thy black muzzle Jhesu: I off Thee my pype, My skyrte. my tarbox and my scrype. belongeth In thine own manger, Brothfellows now will 1 Home to In the Thirteenth century the sacred character of these Christmas No fear, Brother Ox. Her husband songs was almost entirely lost sight will not take his staff to us. She is of. The Puritan parliament abolished Her Christmas and carols altogether, but gentle, this woman of mine. feasting and revelry returned with the child, too, will love us." But the ox had not drawn back. He Restoration. Carol singing, which had fallen Into knelt there, his broad forehead pressed (gainst the barshls wondering eyes disuse, was revived by a collection of flxed on the new life which was to carols published by D. Gilbert, in 1822, but caroling, which was formerly (bine over the whole broad earth--wita brighter glory than that wondering ushered In by the chiming of church itafs. John Breck, In the Detroit bells, and the sallying forth of choirs News. which chanted their way round vll- lages until their throats were hoarse and their noses red from cold and GROWTH OF CHRISTMAS TREE friendly Christmas potations, is now a thing of the past. Tit Bits, abandoned Parma In Foothills of almost Green Mountains In Vermont e CUSTOMS AND THEIR ORIGINS the Yuletlde -- Pro-vid- 8prout. A INCE trees five million Christmas Numerous Yuletlde Ideas Are Relics are annually shipped out of of Pagan Observance, Especially Vermont, it Is only natural to Those of Druldism. wonder where they all come from. customs a re They must come from farms not ANY Christmas farms operated to produce the Christ4Tl relics of oaitan observance mas tree crop, but abandoned farms especially those of Druidlsm. where the trees have Dianted and the religious system of the ancient j) reared fhemselvpa inese abandoned farms lie In hlh valleys ln the foothills of the Green aiountalns. oaks (inula and Britons. Groves of were their chosen retreat, and today the acorn Is found as u Christmas symbol on some Christmas greetings, as much as although It Is not used formerly. Druidlsm considered mistletoe most on an oak sacred, and when growing it was cut with Is, it as imrasite tree, ln a a golden knife by a priest clad were white robe and two white bulls sacrificed on the spot. relic The Yule log in Bnglaml is a considered of Druidlsm. Its name is a wheel a corruption of "wheel log." the typifying In Druldical symbolism of inarch of the sun. The lighting sacred the Tulc log harks hack to the at midfires kindled by the Druids which yet towers round winter in the remain In many parts of Great Brit, and Spain. The ain, Ireland, France defenduse of the Christmas tree has The ed from the German Druid. with caudles and tree the of dressing of jhelr n.id presents was a feature winter festival. Chrlsinm decIvy Is not used for sacred f ouce was orations, as it Bacchus and constituted "hnost leafv adornment at he K""" saturnalia. The early Christian clergx. in the people from then desiring to as possible, for pagan practice as far and the precede... of Ivy. ,a(e the use' still obtains. In medieval Europe a peacock din the favorite dish for Christmas carefully Jier After being skinned the skit, the bird was cooked. Then was replace.! intact with the plumage manner i and the bird served In a .real resembling as possible nearly One may see sections covfarms, once thriving settlements, but now all but two r three may be unoccupied. Such and, once under the plow Is gradually coming back to forest. Along the faintly-trace- d furrows, young spruces come up and in the pea sunshine take on a vivid green. And more than that the symmetrical branches are a lively green clear to the pound. Christmas treet cannot be cut In reas of spruce forest, because when they grow In dense clusters the unto branohes die for want of light, and hence the treea have no value as decretive Christmas trees. Few, Indeed, tee the harvest. One r two lonely partridge hunters, per-- : "pa, will aee It as It lies covered ; 1U the first early enow squalls In the mountains. But back in October, when ' the days have not lost aU of the of autumn, a gang of twenty choppers will' have been busily at work cutting the scattering young p"" and tying them with twine. The cutting and bundling lathe easiest part of the harvest, for the,) fees must be hauled for miles to the ; '"road, and at this time of year the "ow.taln roads are nothing more than frozen ruts and waterholes. Despite this fact, however, e heavy Waons and even motor trucks, bris- ""ig with great criblike bodies, strng-- ; lowly out, loaded high with the "7"- two. horata are able. to draw ' a load about aeventy trees of life. lTrge stse. i At the chosen Mince pies are first mentioned tewa on the railroad at Christmas use common In 15B6 as disused spot ! hired and a In the matter ther, Jwtaln of treea begins to grow, Ull times. Authoritiesbe eaten as early a. might said they ,,nt thousand f them may be packed December 14. solid tuna. Bt NUsholae. ered by thirty-od- d a ; ! j two-hors- : f , - vy little Jesus, sing for me! There's a. mortgage on our Christmas tree. When Dorothy awoke she rememhimself. The cold December wind bered that she had dreamed about was driving the writing a letter to Santa Claus, and snow ngolnst the so she went and wrote It. This was windows, the letter: frosty and novv and then Dear Saitta Ctaus! There's something the matter with It seemed to fairly our cowa. They've rot a mortgage on screech--" at htm. 'em. Only money can cure 'em. Pleas) come and cur 'em, so's we can have Some of the snow Christmas tree. I will be good. Your hopeful appeared to have DOROTHY. got Into his hair, Then, when father went to town, and some of the frost Into his heart, for he looked old, and cold, and grim. with the little pony. Bigger, he put The firelight shadows that played on the letter Into the post office, only he the whII were like the thoughts that directed It to Mrs. Bump's brother, Mr. went to and fro in his mind In the Ephralm Gimlet. Mr. Gimlet was very much surprised light of the memories of the brighter He had days of the past. The empty chairs to hear from tbe Bumps. reminded him of his frlendlessness, the slow ticking of the old clock, as it tried to be a companion, only made him feel how lonely he was. He felt as much out of the world, as far away from Its gludnessrathe picture of his grandfather that hung over the shelf. Mr. Gimlet was wondering what he would get for Christmas. He had spent many years In wondering what he would get, and had gotten a good No one had a better many things. house than he, few had as much money as he had. There was a park, there was a garden ; within and without and all about him were the things that money can buy. Yes, Mr. Gimlet was as rich as money and things can make a man. And yet, although all these things had not made him happy, he was wishing for more". He did not know any better than to wish for more, and though he could not think of anyJ thing that he needed, he hoped that someone would think of something or other that he might want and that Th Next Day the Carrier Brought a might give him a gleam of real ChristPromising Looking Box. mas joy. Away out on a prairie the Bump forgotten that he had a sister, and that there were a lot of little hopefamily were holding a consultation, An old trouble had after the children had gone to bed. ful Bumps. At thnt momenr-th-e father and mother made him bitter and forgetful, and he of the family were perplexed and had felt more alone ln the world than As he sat again by THE CRADLE-ROCKIN- G even a good deal worried. The Bumps he really was. bad been practicing farming for some the firelight, but on a clear and moonlit night, he mused on things past with time, but without anticipated results. FORM OF WORSHIP AT CHRISTThe children didn't see anything the a new tenderness ln his heart ahd welMAS IN GERMANY. matter with farming. The move out comed a new thought that came warmafr of the smoky city had been an en- ly to him .nd brought a lovely purITHIN the shopping center her trance Into paradise for them. Don- pose with It. He would play Santa I stand, a waif and stray, Resulted in the Church Later Gaining ald had ten hens and a rooster. Doro- Claus, and give himself the surprise And watch the throngs of wom of making others happy! Much Stronger Hold on th en dear thy owned two Muscovy ducks, with So, the day before Christmas things Who pay and pay and pay. green feathers. Kenneth had a little People. i look about, but ohl called "Bigger," be- happened at fhe Bump house. As Mr. that pony they Where are the toys I used to knowT HROUGHOUT Germany, and also cause they thought he would grow. Bump went to the wayside post box Bwlft an acrobat goes by. Italy and France there has been Small Edith kept a flower bed that he found two letters. One of them made To boyhood's marveling. for some time a widespread use she called her "gardy." There was a him sad, for it was from the man who And fascinated eyes rove high held the mortgage, and it said that the "crib." It Is now universally of the pony cart. They had raised a To, watch the wonder thing. Roman ln diffused the Cribs church. had watermelon. said Father mine! of across that time for payment had come. It meant But, heart my sight a are the delight of children who through the rest of the garden wouldn't to Mr. Bump, "your money, or ynnr There floats a little homemade kite. the season of Christmas and Epiph- amount to a hill of beans, but it had. cows." But the other letter was from My boy demands a 'lectrlc train. any wander into the churches at There was apt to be enough for yum Mr. Gimlet, and It made Mr. Bump With flfty feet of track. Hla modern spirit skims the plain all times of the day to gaze wide eyed yum cake, with raisins ln it, to go laugh until be cried, for It was a check And brooks no holding back. for $300, with some kindly, friendly on the lifelike scene and offer a around. Why, it was like a perpetual O Christmas when I used to bleu words and good wishes, enough to cure their "Little Brother," as picnic! to even And prayer ail with now, My express! the cows and all tbe family troubles. call the child. Christ The use snow under the they blanket, and the things The next day the carrier brought My little girl I must amuse. of the "crib," however, Is by no means pony and the two cows safe in the And so I buy at view a most promising looking big box confined churches. to common la It d A doll that wears French shoes from Uncle Gimlet, so that the Christin many homes both Catholic and And ailken stockings too! mas tree was full of happy surprises Tet lo! a vision from above Protestant for the little folks and a gift or two My sister's doll, of raga and love! There grew up in Germany, about for the big ones. Mother made a big the Fourteenth O dear, dead days that brought to me century, the expie In the dlshpan and the children My earliest burst of apeed, tremely popular Christmas custom of When Santa placed beneath, the tree found out what was In It. cradle-rockina response to the peoDorothy My flr.it velocipede! , poked a hole through the pasteboard ple's need of a lifelike and homely Tet my son tells th Christmas Cxar CFttst and pulled out a maple sugar He's gst o have a motorcar. presentation of Christianity. The crib heart. Donald got a red sugar heart. became a cradle that could be rocked 0 tree, long sine decayed and dead, Kenneth got a white sugar heart. and the worshipers were thus able to What .toys you held apart! Kdlth got a yellow sugar heart Moth how (noe mlUeas, thick and red, express ln physical action their devoer said it was Uncle Gimlet's kind Warii'ed both ray hand and heart! g tion to the babe. The But non my wife I have to buy heart that had made them all so seems to have been done at A pair ot ante gauntlets high. happy. first by the priests, who Impersonated Then Mr. Gimlet got another letter. Here, where the Incandescent! glean? the Virgin and St. Joseph and sang Amid the costly show, It was a round robin from all the duet. The people and the choir took seem- - to see, as ln a dream, Bumps, with the little Bump names and The penny caudles glow. part In the singing. In time dancing, marks upon It, too. -- It made the old Tree of my youth! my heart, grown new, which was a natural accompaniment man yery happy. He waa sitting Again hang on a branch of you! to to festive tbe song early Germans, -- John O'Keefe, In New York World. among a lot of pleasant things that became common around the cradle. had been sent ln for his Christmas Eventually the people were allowed to tree, but he was not thinking very rock the cradle with their own hands. much of them. He sat with the letter It was by appeals like this to the t WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS ln his hand and a far-of- f look in homely Instincts of the people that the church was able to gain a real hold Yes, Mr. Gimlet Waa as Rich as Money his eyes as he thought of the sweetis far other ness of love, and felt that the best and Things Can Make a Man. over them, so that during the FifCHIilSTMAS a poetic rengift that he had received was the Sixteenth and Seventeenth teenth, dition of the facts of life; barn, farmer Bump had laughed with happy surprise that he had given to a genucenturies became Christianity it is an event set deep not only the happy, rosy children, as the dog the people m the prairie farm. inely popular religion to Germany. Dr. in the history of men but In tolled up the bill with the sled, Jake Andred Tille, a Christmas I heir faith, their worship, and ln an article on Christmas ln so that they all might go shouting "Divinity" Fudge. historian, a their way of life. They have Boll together two cupfuls of granumakes, a statement that Is down again. "They're Jolly bunch," Germany, to Its ; level risen never But that night lated sugar, one cupful of maple sirup, said farmer Bump. they most Interesting. have never, by united effprt, the Bumps were Riding a consulta- one cupful of water and a tablespoon "In the dancing and jubilation cows in the ful of vinegar until a little of it hardRiven Its spirit the tremendous around the cradle," he writes, "the tion. Although the two effectiveness of concerted acwere bare, yet there) was a ens when dropped ln cold water, and barn of the, csoss, however much religion The consultation tion; bat, even In their Infirmthen add a teaspoonful of vanilla and It might in Its inmost character be op- blanket on them. Farmer take from the fire. While this mixture was about that blanket. ity of Intention and their feebleto the nature German of the posed ' called it a mortgage and didn't has been cooking, a cupful of granuness 'of practice, Christmas has people . . . was felt no longer as Bump how he was going to pay It. lated sugar should have been put over know given their life on earth a disomething alien. It had become natviner meaning aud a kindlier No wonder it was an anxious consulta- the (ire ln another saucepan, with a but had ln uralized lost the process It has enormously Inhabit. Short crops and a mortgage! of cold water, and boiled Its very core. The preparation for a tion. ! out even creased the value of that life; It the to flatten until mixture the Bumps Enough spins a thread from which life after dqath was Its Alpha Is Increasing the spiritual conBut while the Bumps were talking the tip of a spoon. This should at this and Omega, had passed Into the backtent of the thought of life In It was not Joy at the prom- things over, the clldren were having stage be beaten up with the stiffly ground. the, minds of men; It Is giving They had laid awake for whipped whites of two eggs, and this ised 'redemption' that expressed It- dreams. It a sweeter savor, la softer about the best place stirred into the first preparation, which a while, talking self ln the dance around the cradle; grace, a warmer atmosphere at German has never learned to to hang up Christmas stockings, and should by now have Cooled slightly. for the men moreand more Interpret feel himself utterly vile and sinful; a part of the conversation downstairs, Beat the two hard until they begin to come up to stiffen, when turn In two cupfuls of life In the light which streams It was Joy at the simple fact that a the mortgage parf, had Hamilton Bethlehem. from human being, particular human be- their ears. A little of the worry, too, chopped nut kernels. Drop on paper had come with It, so that they fell or pour Into pans and cut in shape Wright liable. ing, ln peculiar circumstances, was asleep with a little uneasiness about desired. Delineator, born Into the world." . skype, my And loke unto my shape. er Ass." "She did but brush it aside," the little gray beast breathed contentedly. "She is pleased that we know her son. 1 Bins;, U A wooden child in clout, on the altar sat About the which bom hoy, and girls do dance and timely Jet Al"LCar918 slne ln Praise' of Christ The priests do roar aloud! And round about the parents stand To see the sport, and with their voice Do help them, and with hand. At first, carols were ligious in character, and with Latin and Kngiish ternate lines, or with a The enrol the blanket that .doe not keep thing warm, but makes them cold, and wondering what a mortgage could be, and whv nit ons roiilit Intra it off without money, la nU dreamv Donald heard a boy singing this socgj little me. "Sing, Jesus, sing for There's nothing on mjr Christmas tree." ,f A BAA Vn,l BW9 title, UkUD 1.4 MB tMAB WJ IMU UVQ,. but there wasn't a thing on It, not even a leaf. So he planned how to get some thing to grow upon It. Finally, be sane; the song that Donald heard In hie dream, and the next tune he looked out there was his tree, full of red and gold apples, with leaves on all the twigs and many pretty things among them, and Donald saw It all ln hla' dream. So, when he awoke, Donald thought he would sing the song too, and see if Jesus couldnt take the shudow of that awful mortgage away, . THE 1800 CHRISTMAS FIRST YULETIDE DINNER SERVED IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Haunch of Venison Graced the Table Presided Over by the Wife of John Adams. Toys I Used to Know ssii Wide-eye- IHE Hist dinner at Christmas in the White House was fy given that which took place in the year ! when John Adams was Presi1800, dent and thrifty Abigail, his wife, sat at the head of the table as hostess. It was not a comfortable meal, although a splendid haunch of venison, the gift of Mrs. Washington, graced the board, and the country people of what Mrs. Adams called "the City in the Wilderness" had generously contributed gifts of all sorts to make tbe feast as toothsome as one could well wish. The reception after dinner iook place which Is now the library, and was at that time barely habitable, though furnished, as Mrs. " The Adams wrote, In "warm crimson view from the windows ou that ilrst disclosed Christmas day would ha-what John Cotton Si.i'li; desor". i Mi "a deep ivjnis caret ei with t.lder The si'ln, '.'ks were k'd bushos" with chips from the .tones . iti; A the capltol was built. bridge spanner! Black TiN-j- Creek and low houses, iilso I.ullt of wood were the residences of the congresnie... The only liflck dwellings were tl ose that stood in IVnnsjknnlu incline, beand Twenty-se- . mid tween Tnenty-lii't-- l streets, six in iiunitT and built with money derived from the sale of lottery tickets. These were the sun .uti.'liitgs of the first Christinas day of the hief Executive f the yoitn nation "w liose more policy in government has been Chrlst-IIkihan uny otb. r nation on the face or the earth which keeps the holiday." In the oval room, wu.-de- - e d, ly fifty-ce- high-heele- g, O! new-bor- n cradle-rockin- 1 well-know- n half-cupf- EXTRAVAGANT AFFECTION. Perce Mudd expects a handsome present from me thus year and has hinted she thinks It might be In the when I shape of an engagement ring can afford only a plsln one. Ferd Serves you right for Indulgon a ing a dlnmond ring passion salary len-doll- " |