Show FANTASTIC C CELEBRATIONS EL end ond Moralities at Christmas In Middle Huddle Ages Kes During the middle egos agos Christmas was wall celebrated by the tho say gay fantastic spectacle of ot dramatic mysteries and moralities given liven by hy personages In gro sro grotesque tesque masks and singular costumes The Th scenery usually represented an un In III Infant ant fant In a cradle surrounded by Jy the Vic 1 Ir Irgin gin Mary Mory and aid St at Joseph Joaeph bush buds heave heads I cherubs eastern magi nm l and many orna ornaments I ments menla i iThen Then there were the Christmas car carols carole ole ola or some which recalled the songs of ot the shepherds at lit the nativity These Thew songs were svere Attended by dances to th the rhythm by thin of ot the various musical Instruments Instruments ments mente Everybody joined this mwry I making and the wild music and tin sing singing Ing III were kept up the livelong night Of ot these ancient Christmas carols enrols but Jut few re have been lilen to 10 us Ue The rho fore tore foregoing foregoing going se seemed med to bo be tho Iho custom of all Christian Uan nations during the tho middle ages in lit Italy It was waB the custom of oC the theli i li I minstrels to 10 descend from the mountains and discourse their wild willi music before betor the shrine of ot the Virgin Mary In England and on of tho the I neat nent the Ihl bells are Ille still rung at mill mid midnight night Among other revels of ot the tho I I Christmas season the Iho i II feasts of ot fools and asses aOI In which everything serious was wall burlesqued In j I forlorn dressed up ns as their superiors and great men amen becoming playful the whole showing the tho proneness of oC manto man manto manto to reverse tho the order of ot society and amid to ridicule Its Ita decencies In England I Christmas Is a term tern nt at once for tor n a 1 religious And merrymaking festival for every rank and age Rile the tha festivities commencing on Christmas ove eve and lasting till nn and l lov ov every ry day llY being n holiday till Night Jan C G In the isle houses of ot no nor nobles 11 bles blell a lord of ot misrule formerly was wu whose whole duty It uns to pro pio yule vide the tho rarest nod and anI whoso who hOO o orille rule rte from Crom All Hallow eve ove tin list They lived on the fat of ft the land and all of ot the tho tenants were In lit Invited HIll In to share Ihara the general fun and merrymaking Houston Post Pott |