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L dent Tyler himself directed one rase dress fancy dress Christmas Christ Chris II k r lJ I I l 1 j 1 mss mas party for his tiny g granddaughter a M y i 2 a r J U T Tyler ler where dam daughter Alice a born leader dressed c A r Y as us Titania presided from a throne specially set up 7 q for tor Then her there were Presidential Christmases f f- f forThe fr for r The President end H M Coolidge o ide Beside a a. r I y to t z r. twenty years earR but no children except those Im fm Imported T Livia Living d C Christmas hns tm d as 5 T Tree I Y J l J school ported with when a Mrs Mr Christmas Pierce tree entertained An article her from Sunday Y rise tto I 4 4 t 3 Star of December 27 1853 i hob gives I tai further t h 1 I t J By ELMO SCOTT WATSON AVE you tou ever wondered howEl how bow the ie leaders lers in our land observe observe ob ob- El serve Christmas whether our President and the other high rr officials of our government forget forget for for- get for that one day In th thear the year ear the cares of state and arid Tike like you and me and the friends we know become becom Just plain folks filled with the Yuletide spirit If It you have perhaps the following news story which appeared In the press dispatches Just before Christmas last y year nr may may answer the question In hi your mind Washington Mrs Mrs Coolidge Is planning an old- old fashioned New England Christmas dinner with all the fixings for her family All the details ct of the dinner have been planned by the first lady herself Although she probably will not go Into the WhiteHouse White WhiteHouse House kitchen n to do any of the cooking with b bown her own hands she will will personally arrange the dinner Instead of leaving It as she might an ordinary party dinner to the housekeeper The Th dinner will willbe willbe willbe be a typical New England England repast In hi all ways save one the turkey will be a tame tame Instead of a wild one The President and his family will celebrate the holiday alone No guests are expected at the he Executive Executive Executive Ex Ex- Mansion Even the will not be present as they were last year John Coolidge re returned returned returned re- re turned from Amherst December 20 20 without guests The Tho White House will boast a Christmas tree all Its own Whether It will be kept exclusively for family admiration or placed In the East Room where where- all White House visitors may see It has not been decided Mrs Coolidge Coolidge- will not give any young peoples people's parties for her ber son home on his holiday vacation but as usual young John n will be the most popular beau In the capital He has already be been n besieged by invitations to parties and the usual crop of pretty prett debutantes Is waiting anxiously to see which he be will accept Mrs Coolidge has done much of the Christmas shopping for her especially for her eminent eminent eminent emi emi- nent spouse She Is the Iho delight of the shopkeepers She has started her shopping at 9 or In the morning when the stores opened made no special demand for attention so BO that often clerks or fellow fellow fellow fel fel- low shoppers did not they were literally rubbing rubbing rub rub- bing elbows with the mistress of the White House She usually stops later when the crowds become becom thick Following an annual aRnual custom Mrs Coolidge willaid willaid will willaid aid in the distribution of the Salvation army's l f baskets of oC food On Christmas eve Pre President Ident Coolidge will press pressa a button that will light the capitals capital's living community community com com- Christmas tree He and his family will listen to carol singers before lighting the tr tree e which has lights It Is Interesting Inte to note that phrase an old fashioned New hew England Christmas because surprising surprising sur sur- as it may sound there was a time when Christmas celebrations w were re forbidden in the very section of the country from which President CoolIdge CoolIdge Cool Cool- Idge came For the Puritans who settled Now England Eng Kug- Kugland land brought with them all their prejudices against the Yuletide celebrations such as they Mid known In Merrle Merrie England during the reigns of Charles 1 and U. U In regard io to o their first Christ Chust Christmas mas mss In the New ew world the Journal of John Biad 13 ford lord has this entry And ye 25 day De Dec to erect ye re first house bouse for use to receive them and und their goods Notice that Ye 25 day Wes Dec Is not even called Christmas 1 I IOn On the following Christmas the gov governor Issued Is sued a special order that everybody should keep leep at work on the feast duy and there should be no cel celebration Thirty nine years ears after the lun landing of the PH grims the G General Court of Massachusetts l enacted this law That whosoever cr shall be he found ing log any uny such day ay as ns Christmas or the lII like e either f by fort bearing of labor feasting fc-asting or un any other 4 r was wad shillings an s shall be subject to lo u fine of iv live jive rb The first Christina r celebration Lin ln M aCh wa was held id l by a D ro royal ul governor I who with ith ul al 1 the I the churches sh shut BLut t against him US C the tho town towi for religious Ices and went went v with h an es 8 r i J 1 Y 1 n t If 1 M x Chief Justice Justi e. e Td Taft Tatt t d tort cart of ot soldiers to protect him agaJ against t th the wrath wrath of the citizens Yet In New England as elsewhere the Jolly spirit of Christmas finally prevailed aIth although ugh It was only in that Christmas was finally made a legal holiday In I Massachusetts However these Puritanical prejudices failed to extend to the nations nation's capital which early In our history was established In a a region where the old English Idea of a n Christmas s observance of Joy and good cheer prevailed so that almost from the beginning th the day has been appropriately observed observed ob ob- served In the home of the Chief Executive In a manner very ery similar to that in other American homes How the successive Presidents have observed observed ob ob- served Christmas is told by Alice Rogers Ha Hager er In an nn article written for tor the Washington Star from which the following extracts are ure taken Jeffersons Jefferson's loss of his loved deeply-loved wife before his hie election and his liking for tor extreme simplicity made his holiday seasons quiet on ones ones s except when some of his grandchildren came In a visit His Is t two o daughters were far too occupied with their own own families to be much In the White Reuse House Martha Jefferson Randolph was the mother of twelve children chil chil- dren and It fell to the lot of the wife of the secretary secretary secretary sec sec- of state to arrange such parties as were given But Dolly Ma Madison lson was equal l to those occa oc- oc ca loiS loi'S s quite as much as to later ones An Incident of Christmas eve 1815 1816 is told In the letters of Mrs Benjamin W W W. wife of the secretary of the navy in Madison's cabinet Last eve she writes on Christmas day we passed at the tool took Presidents President's took the girls with us Found several gentlemen there and a lady from Kentucky who Is come to malt make a n visit there She had the parrot brought in for lor the girls and he ran after atter Mary to catch atch her feet She screamed and an Jumped Into a chair and caught hold of ot Mrs Mathison MalIson MalI Madi son We Ve had quite a frolic there returning soon after 8 o'clock Tea was brought In after we wo went Monroe the Episcopalian began his with service at old St. St Johns John's and in 1819 there was great rejoicing In the restoration of the Man Man- Man Mati- Mansion sion slon It becomes now the White House louse both bout In name and in fact its ugly war scars having been healed with paint which Is annually renewed Mrs Monroe with her great love of punctilio and her familiarity with foreign foz-elg lands brings the formality of the court to the N New w Year reception when Ir 1820 the House Is again opened to the public The Christmas carols of today hark haik back In their popularity to the John Quincy Adams regime when Eli Mrs s Adams Adame American born and bred but familiar also with life lite abroad through her as association with her husbands husband's diplomatic yearS years made Christmas a timo of f merrymaking Bands of negroes went about the still muddy streets ets singing before th great houses Many tInny of the the- theold old English customs were revived along with the carols Yule log OK crackled and blazed on hearths from the Whit House to Lo the lowliest cabins and the first assembly of the season graced the week following Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas day Now ow the scene shifts with force and rapidity and the frontier crosses the threshold of the loal south tl portico In the person of Old Hickory Despite hi hiP grief grid for hi his misjudged and SOl ely treated wife witt- dead of her indignities just Juht three months before his Inauguration he be burled his personal reeling feeling and carried on his hia hod rough shod way with the forti fortU tulle tude of the groat soldier that he was Among his most mos human huma n characteristics his love lovi of oC children was outstanding an and his grandchildren the and arid the children of Francis ranch Preston Blair his friend were called In to help fill nil the aching ach ach- ing void The Tle most enchanting tales tale's are sp spun n 01 ol the the General an and this juvenile group with their tumultuous m celebrations lions of the Llie festive seasons season's s y The Tylers T lers hud had not only a year twelve d daugh ug ter Alice and n a ton son Tazewell but also younger f Cousins nephews and nieces and again the man man man- lion lcm resounded to the tb ring of children childrens voice o 11 lion Ol Ul of rho mo rItH Pierces t 1 day aU wn VII n v ni r s mss day a very eloquent discourse was delivered at atthe atthe atthe the Presbyterian church on Half Four street by bythe the pastor Rev Mr Sunderland The congregation congie congre gallon tion was v very ry large and among those present w we observed the President and his lady both of ot whom were looking extremely well vell The Lincoln boys were not too old to put boyish enthusiasm In Into o their holidays Probably the one Christmas s story ory that has gone round the globe globo from the White House Is the one about Tads Tad's indignant in- in In Indignant democracy He found one Christmas day a small mob of street urchins playing rather forlornly for- for outside the he executive grounds ground They looked cold and hungry to the well fed Presidents President's son Rn and from the depths of a generous heart beart he asked aake them In to dinner Followed a battle royal with the cook coole who absolutely ab ab- refused to have anything to do with su b. b rah Ma Master ter Tad or no Master Tad But Bu t the tho boy was clever as well as generous and like lII e. e a budd budding budding bud bud- d ding law lawyer r appealed his case to he Supreme court of the household Lincoln smiled and said Of course let them come and Tad victorious led the gaping youngsters In to a feast such as they had never dreamed existed In 1868 the Patterson children Andy Stover and Andy Jackson Jr had a fine ball given In their honor bonor at Christmas time the East Room being opened for dancing and of the youthful elite of the capital being bidden as guests And theo then I Jesse Grant a few years years' later had a party though not such an elaborate one but his master of ceremonies ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies was none other than his uncle General Sherman No special stories are extant concerning the Garfield Garfield Gar- Gar field or the Arthur children Arthur children but Cleveland brought a veritable fairyland onto nto he the old oM Mansion l MarryIng Marrying Marrying Marry Marry- ing there three of f his children were born during his Incumbency and gifts Sifts from practically every civilized nation In the world came pouring In to the feet teet of the little White House princesses from Santas Santa's best diplomatic pouches ouches So many came In fact that children who had less hope of wonder In their lives benefited materially from the overflow The quiet of the McKInley regime went out In the scurry of the Incoming Christmas became became be be- came a n. gorgeous event along with the 36 other gorgeous days of ot each year Once more Santa was hugely welcomed stockings were hung by the chimney with care and a special room set aside for the presents to which only Mrs Roosevelt and one maid had access The one fly In n the ointment ment meat however for a Christmas or two was that the President In keeping with his conservation policy didn't quite approve the tree Idea Ide and the boys w were r keenly disappointed Then a new Chr st- st mas inns came and there was much secrecy on the part pan of Archie and Quentin When the general presents PIN pies had all been given out their Impatience could no longer be overlooked and the secret came ut Leading the way to a certain closet Archie thie threw v open the door and disclosed his and Quentin's own private tree which they had smuggled in and dc dEc orated by themselves That tree became an institution Institution Institution tion and each year thereafter as long as the family remained In th the White House was held in Archies Archie's room Some delightful tales are told on BI Big Bill Taft and his Christmas adventures when his turn Lurn came is lS head of the nation On the morning of Christmas Christinas Christ Christ- mas inas eve 1910 1310 Mr Taft laet gave gaye fine turkeys to the mart married led members members' mem ers ers' of ot the White House staff and to the single men wh who had no hungry mouths to Lo feed reed other suitable gifts girts But the tho best moment of the day came when Christmas had Just turned the corner At the stroke of midnight a little band of singers debouched d on the White House grounds with trombone and hymn books booles in true wait walt fashion and began the march up the curving walk wall to the north I A startled policeman ran hastily out to turn them back but seeing who they were ere and what they were about to do do changed his mind and Joined them In Instead tead their voices In the lovely chant of Adeste they progressed musically to the thu POI porch ch and th there re stationed themselves for to a full service in a few moments a window above their heads was raised and the President attired broadly broad broad- ly in a blue bathrobe l leaned nned out and shouted Merry Christmas The window didn't stay slay up long lung because e a cold wind was blowing |