Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-23 | Page 3 | Yule Spirit Once Branded 'Public Enemy' by Puritans

Yule Spirit Once Branded Public Enemy by Puritans CHICAGO Dec 23 AP The AP The Christmas spirit was traced back in n history today and identified as a time one public enemy Branded a pagan outlaw it w was s banished from New England by the he Puritans in 1659 Yule gaiety and feasting so irked loso solemn pillars of the church declared Professor ProCessor Warrent War War- rent Sweet University of Chicago church hurch historian that they passed a law In the general court of the colony olony of Massachusetts saying Whosoever shall be found ob- ob Cowhands Insist on Frijoles For Their Christmas Dinner MARFA MARF A Texas Dec Dee 23 AP Cowhands AP-Cowhands Cowhands of the Big Bend country wear ten gallon hats and high-heeled high boots with Tuxedos to o their formal holiday parties and insist upon frijoles for their Christmas dinner Deep in the southwest cattle ranges anges far from the bright lights of f any Main street or Broadway Christmas is a time of big doings doings- dances ances and dinners Tho The punchers refuse to exchange their heir boots for tor dancing shoes but pull mil their trousers down over their remove their spurs and drive hilariously as much as 50 00 miles to swing their partners in some omo spacious ranch house Adding to the hilarity on many occasions are those potent extracts from rom the cactus cactus tequila tequila and sotol of which one cowhand said The taste Is bad but the result is swell serving any such day as as Christmas I or the like either by t of labor feasting or any other way as a festival shall be bo fined tined five I shillings Only during the last half century was the Christmas spirit generally accepted in America even in the church Professor ProCessor Sweet asserted