Show a 0 D o a t CE o 0 0 0 0 1 7 O O a. a k o 0 D I H o e 0 D 0 o o Th Th w nr n- n nY Y r ti M t 4 I 1 2 S 9 I r It t I k M t tc I c 34 l r. r l 4 ICTOR may come and victory may go but hut no future triumphs or defeats ts can ever soften for Europe the memory of this dark Christmas of WIG 1016 the saddest she has ever known Pride In Inthe Inthe inthe the present and faith In the future fu fu- fu- fu ture sustain everyone of the warring peoples in their exaltation of sacrifice But Dut at Christmas Christmas Christmas-Christmas Christmas the feast of the home Lome and of of the family family exaltation ex exaltation dies and only sorrow the sorrow of the bereft Individual remains remains remains re re- re- re mains sa says s 's the New York Sun It Is If a ver very different Christmas Europe Is approaching approaching ap ap- this year ear from that of two years ears ago Then hen the shock and excitement of the beginning of the war were still tingling In England the question of munitions Is today of no less Importance Importance importance Im Im- im- im to the popular mind than two years ago was the absorbing question of getting a plum pudding to every man in the trenches There was still till talk of the kaisers kaiser's dining In Paris and discussions dis dis- discussions as to which ruler should lead lend the tri tri- allies In iu procession through Unter den Linden inden Victory seemed a much simpler matter then than It does toda today Ever Everyone one admitted then that victory would be bought only with sorrow and sacrifice Now er e everyone ne knows with the hard knowledge of experience that victory will be bought only with sorrow heaped on sorrow and sacrifice heaped on sacrifice It is this knowledge e eborne borne in on every ever home however exalted or however however how how- ever er h humble th that t makes mules the Christmas celebration celebration celebration tion of 1316 in Europe a solemn sacrament sacrament of ot sorrow gorrow Of all the warring peoples Christmas means the mo most t to the Germans and on none will the sacrifice of the traditional customs of the day fall so heavily There I Is no blood and Iron In Inthe Inthe Inthe the German Christmas There Is Instead a n tendel tender tender ten ten- der del and appealing sentiment that Is t typical of I all nil that Is best In the German character The whole hol world is Indebted to Germany for the Christmas Christinas t tree ee and for man many of the most dell delightful delight delight- ht- ht ful of the Christmas stories and customs that Americans have adopted as their own The German German Ger Ger- man num Christmas Is a day for or the home the family and the children with its every custom endeared by generations ns of tradition The real ral German Christmas celebration occurs on D Christmas eve About four o'clock the dinner Is ls served serve an an elaborate and heart hearty feast consisting consist consist- In lag ing of a n lon long series of traditional dishes all eaten In a state of wild excitement During this meal the makes males Its appearance This fi figure ure is 1 a curious product of sentiment and tion a queer combination of the Holy Child the good fairy and our own Santa Claus It Is represented represented represented rep rep- resented In the time country district by a half-grown half child made up as an angel who goes from door to door calling for the good children giving sweetmeats sweetmeats sweetmeats sweet sweet- meats at one house and begging them at the next After dinner comes come the great reat moment when the doors are Ire opened Into the Christmas room wh where re the Ue lighted tree has the place of honor The tree Is III always placed near a window so that every Passer Passer-by C l see and nd share it A walk through the deserted residence streets of any German Grman Germantown town eve leaves a memory memory memory mem mem- at this hour on Christmas ory of Christmas cheer and spirit that can cnn never be forgotten By nine o'clock the family Is rea ready to eat again a D light tight b supper Including still more mor more of the time traditional atonal Christmas dishes Every one me rich rId or p poor or has bas Nuremberg ginger er cake c cake ke its shiny Drown brown rown surface sure sun face tace decorated with with almonds and raisins and with the word wOld and anel the year worked out In pink and aud white frosting Stollen a sort of plum cake cal and many fw sweet et biscuits of various shapes and sizes are all indispensable able parts of this feast Vats eats In Her shortage of But nut this year ear with a n serious attention at attention at- at severe demand food supply UI so 50 severe as to there thre Is in on the punt part of f the ov g-ov government the Christmas Germany no butter or milk for fOI the Christ Christmas mal can cnn cakes no o tallow or wax for the for dies To 10 many p opi lc this little homely homely severities eh orwar of or on tion will bring a realization of the than e even en war more vivid and more comp compelling With Ith graveyards the sight HIght of the fn growing fast with dire lire necessity ne ne- necessity land two million new graves s in the thC holiday of its den dearest rest her tier dearest clearest robbing this Christmas Christs Christ Christ- s symbols no triumphs of arms armR can n make Had wul and sorrow sorrowful rui was mas of 1010 UJO anything but hut a U feast e In the homes bonus of the German German Germun empire are I If is nn celebration L In Austria the Christmas Juried ra the 0 races race and religious religions that make up f that lint great loosely knit umpire Where the Greek church prevails pre the celebration occurs a n fortnight later luter than thun ours that Is on January 7 It Is accompanied ac ue- companied by hy feasting and by various local cus cus- toms The of Bohemia and Dna Moravia lora have ha ramous curious Christmas usages In which superstition has entirely triumphed over religious significance This Is the great day of the year when the peasant peasant peas peas- ant appeases all the invisible world of spirits sprits On the afternoon of Christmas eve the Whole hole household marches In n solemn procession to the stables and cow cow- houses carr carrying ing bread salt and beans benns These are offered to the animals with certaro certain taro tain hallowed words and great grent Is the dismay If any cow or chicken Is IR Indifferent to the ofte offering Returning to the house the parents all ull their unmarried daughters with water wafer sweetened sweetened sweetened sweet sweet- ened with honey thus Insuring them honest good- good tempered husbands The entire family then sip sin ot of sll o a strong native liquor fro m plums A small mall quantity of this Is then poured on the Ute floor to conciliate such other spirits as us may Ian have ve been overlooked Everyone then falls on oil the Christmas feast without ceremony But this year war has reached out to the remote remote re re- re mote districts and blighted even such simple Christmas celebrations as ns this The men of the families are all gone Only the very young oun and andr the very old remain There will be no blessing r p of the kine this year for there are no kine to bless All have long since gone to supply the army There will be no Christmas feasting for food was lon long ago reduced to the smallest quantity t ty that will sustain life And Am every day In every very village e the list of th the widowed and orphaned grows longer and longer Vienna I Is known as a gay light hearted city Its Christmas observance Is ordinarily a happy combination of rell religious gol om ceremony and Teutonic good cheer But this dais year the brilliant midnight masses will be attended h by robed black mourners and there thele will be no good ld cheer In Vienna The Christmas celebration in all the countries where the Greek orthodox church prevails are much mulch the sane same As the holiday itself is preceded b by a severe fast the Christmas feast takes tales on a n highly highly important character In Tn many parts of Russia especially in the cities the hung gift-hung Christmas tree has hns been heen borrowed from the Germans Germans Ger mans while a n pudding of rice and raisins Is Is' the feature of the Christmas eve feast From this feast has hns now been taken Its crowning glory the vodka bottle In only one other part of Europe has the heel of war pressed so hard as In Russian Poland In only one other place has the land been so utterly devastated by fierce and continued fighting In n only one other place will the season of peace and good will be such a hitter bitter mockery as to the hunted and starving Poles And this Is In Serbia Serbin poor brave bea beaten ten Serbia Serbin Ser Ser- bin bia with Its whole population an entire people fugitive before hated and terribly feared ers era During three years Serbia has be been n swept by three wars the present one so relentless and so overwhelming as literally to wipe out the ordinary ordinary nar nary relationship of the people to life They have ceased to have homes they have ceased to Pi possess possess pos pos- sess fess property they must burrow In n the earth for shelter and forage forage for their uncertain food like wild animals With her army making a n heroic and desperate struggle with her people d dying with their spirit yet rpt unbroken the birthday of the Prince of Peace Pence will not be celebrated this year In Serbia The Time sorrows of Belgium this year ear as compared with last int are more of the spirit than of the flesh The voice of ot Christmas of peace and good will does not speak ve y loud to a n captive people its army tc terribly decimated Its Its' beloved ling king all but hut driven out of his own country countr with Its dally daily life lICe subject to the scrutiny and the control control con- con of a n stern captor there is no room In Belgium for an tiny any of the old hearted light hearted Christmas spirit that used to show Itself In crow crowded ed churches for fot midnight musses masses s gay gny night all s slipper parties Belgium waits as aR all ull Europe waits wafts for the end of the war watts war waits with fulth faith and hope and a determination determination determination de de- termination us grim as It must he be silent condition of the stricken Happily the physical people Is better than last lust year yur There Is not the frightful ll confusion contusion the separation rn of families the pitiful terror and want wont that went with the lile night flight before the Invaders All relief measures ure ule organized Belgium I is If no happier this year than llama last Int but hut she HIP Is loss less cold collI and hun hungry IY If the Belgian people ever r again have a Il united Christmas the they will find finel themselves with many new holiday Ideas A tree twinkled In every r place ince that housed n a German last lost year and though the Belgians Bel liel- Flans gians will not allow their Christmas to be German Germann yet et the trees appealed to them mightily Certainly Certainly Certainly the Christmas tree will be much more com corn common common non mon mon henceforth In Belgium whether the Germans sta stay there or not Thousands of refugees waiting In England until their country countr Is redeemed will bring back with them man many Ideas of the English Eng holiday Until th the marriage of Queen Victoria to the prince consort Christmas In England was chiefly a n aday aday day of churchgoing of ot merrymaking and of mighty feasting The prince brought with him from his German home the customs of the Christmas tree and of gift giving The latter has hns never become as firmly In to England as It Is here but a alighted alighted lighted tree loaded with decorations and presents Is established as a part of every English tion Christmas decorations of holly and mistletoe the ceremony of the Yule log and many of the traditional traditional tra Christmas dishes notably the plum pudding pudding pud pud- ding are all nIl owed to English custom TInt That It is a n sadder and ancl wiser England that approaches ap ap- Christmas this year Hundreds of thousands thousands thou thou- sands of young oung Englishmen have died to make Londoner has had graphic her iller so Today roday every a n lesson In what a n powerful and resourceful enemy can cando do even In a right little tight little Island As Asa a further object lesson England will pay puy for the raisins for her plum puddings something like per pel cent more than she did last year The war with Turkey Turley has done that to her England has hns had other black Christmases but hat they were farther arther away awny from home The Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas of IS 1899 1500 In South Africa was one that she does not like to recall while the terrible Christmas of 1854 the Christmas of the Crimean war when as asa asa a n writer of the time day put it Thanks to General Muddle things are about as bad as they can be was always a n bitter memory to that generation The year una has not been a good year enl for England England England Eng Eng- land and she knows it The knowledge has shattered shattered shattered shat shat- her complacency and has strengthened her determination But Dut she Is not happy about It and her Christmas celebration will be a chastened feast Christmas In the Latin countries has alwa always s 's been more wore of a n religious festival than a home tion In Italy It Is more customary to exchange presents at New Years Year's than at Christmas Lighted trees are frequently seen but the they are the luxury of If the prosperous and not the habit of the people The day before Christmas is more of an occasion than the tray day itself In the cities of southern Italy booths are erected In certain streets as before Easter gaster for the sale of odds nn and ends and sweetmeats wheeled traffic Is barred and the people promenade slowly up and down exchanging greetings Midnight mass Is s said suld In all nil the churches In the churches too are expo exposed ed the famous cribs or representing scenes of the birth and Infancy of Jesus The beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning of this custom is ascribed to St. St Francis of Assisi Assist Christmas eve is the great feast of the season it IL France France- FranceIn In the provinces es It Is celebrated with processions processions processions pro pro- cessions in the streets which were originally religious religious re reo re- re in character but which have become pro famed by the gayety of the maskers In Normandy and in Provence there are elaborate puppet shows of scenes In the life of the infant Christ All the street gayety terminates after mass In feasts In all the homes I In Paris there are Christmas booths booths' set fet up Inmany in inmany n many of the boulevards This year ear they I will be devoted to the sale of comforts for the soldiers Paris knows better than an anyone one Just how blacka black blacka a wartime Christmas can he be She has never forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten the Christmas of 1870 For ninety eight I days duys the Germans had battered at the city Every EVl rJ sortie had failed miserably The final bombardment bombardment bombardment bombard bombard- ment was Inevitable On Christmas eve met froze to death In hm the trenches just outside the city Better It seems than any of the other nation nation- dl did l France rance realize from the beginning what this tills present war would mean and realizing she conse rouse consecrated crated herself utterly She has made every every sacrifice sac sac- great and small even eveh to giving up tire the crust crusty rolls and und light white bread that are as time breath th thIn In iu her nostrils When a. a al Frenchman every ery French Frenchman Frenchman Frenchman man eats without complaint a u gru grayish bread brend of a n mixture of wheat and rice ilce and entirely lack lackIng lacking lacking Ing In lu golden crust 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