| Show y A- A 7 S' S rr r I l j It fA f N v V- V A Sv t. t tyr I yr x r 7 l f rd lL i 7 r L J L i J r rr d i r L 4 1 4 Fr U r. r Ii I. I j. j K IX i- i iJ J 0 t N j y- y fr 9 t c t. t j 1 f J j ij lY k y yf t I T t Iii i 4 v 0 a i f ti t J I Y i. i j. j i I Ij I f fV V t t. t o J. J f t i W S f f i i 1 i iv i f v 1 v. l i x t- t ii z rt I V v t 0 N w. w 3 Fw i h crr 4 They'll Reign at Tonight night Miss liss Saga Lindberg center will viII be the the Lucia queen at a Swedish Tuesday Aids Swedish to Note Lucky Lucia Deny Day Old 17 1 Christmas festival One of the most beautiful of old world customs is the Lucia Lucia- fest Christmas pre celebration of the Swedish people In Salt Lake City Swedish Viking lodge will observe Lucia night at a celebration Tuesday at 8 pm p.m. in I 0 O 0 O F hall 41 Post Of- Of and star-boys star from left are Thomas I Ulla Backsell In Ingrid grid Hallen and Lars Granath flee fice PL with Miss 1 Saga Lindberg Lindberg Lindberg Lind- Lind berg as t the h e crowned candle-crowned queen The nights night's activities include the serving of coffee and baked Christmas bread to some persons attending Mrs 1 Olov G. G will read a special Swedish Christmas poem and Swedish songs and dancing will complete the program A ASanta ASanta ASanta Santa Claus and the traditional Swedish dancing around t the Ii e Christmas tree will complete activities activities activities ac ac- ac- ac for the children Popular Introduction Lucia Day in Sweden is a very All the farmers' farmers work should be bedone bedone bedone done by that time and even inside inside inside in in- side the house all the big Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas cleaning baking butchering popular introduction to Christ Christ- mas On each Dec 13 the Lucia appears a white-dressed white young girl with a crown of lighted candIes candies candles can can- dIes on her head Thus dressed she goes around very early in the morning when it is still dark waking up the townspeople and giving them coffee and saffron bread Following her are w white h hit i t e ed ed d dressed r res e s s sed e d children who sing Christmas songs as well as a special special special cial one called the Lucia song It tells of the crowned candle-crowned queen who brings warmth a and n d dlight light to all Double Meaning The legend has a double meaning meaning meaning mean mean- ing for the candles are symbolic of the bringing of happiness and relief for the soul just as the coffee coffee coffee cof cof- fee and bread signify help and support to suffering people With Lucia Christmas begins and are all over Schools in Sweden used to close on that day Nowadays the children children children chil chil- dren have to go to school a week longer but they still celebrate the day in school with a sort of Christmas feast I |
