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Show December 19 1961 19. 1961 The PARSON Intramural Standings STANDINGS BASKETBALL. Won Lost Jn'eam 0 2 Seniors r fjuniors jFrosb No. Trosli No. fFrosh No. Frosh No. tFrosh No. Par-- i Mont a itrangi of Segura. Clive Longden plays BOWLING STANDNGS 4 1 3 5 2 I was rd Third Round for the Men: Elliott Graves plays the winner of John King vs. Chris No. 6 JSophomore -- Seasons Greetings L. R. Tanner. Faculty aturday Page 9 are as of Monday standings December. l2th 4 Montana one o iat the ir. The by Jej table tennis I Round Second for the Girls: Chewning plays the jwinner of Carol James vs. Last .' Nancy Rose.' Edy Roark-vshe last Barbara Smith and winner led to Til-de- n e plays the winner of Leslie vs. Diane Tuck. letter also a 1 Carol Mon-erenc- e the trict 6 their A vs. 4; 5 vs. 3; 6 vs. 2; 7 vs. 1 High Gabes this week Men: Helgeson, 194 Women: Davis, 180 Tompson, 180 Bowling will be held Friday, Dec. 15, and next bowling schedule will be after Christmas holidays. 8 1 h i parti I i Christmas Around the World down a mountain a lighted torch in your hand . . . strewing hay on the floor of your home . . . knocking on neighbors doors broomstick who brings gifts to good children and ashes to had ones. (In older versions of the legend, she ate the juvenile delin- are some of the ways you might find yourself celebrating Christmas in other parts of the world. Americans are probably the spending champion more than $27 billion for Christmas presents in a recent year! The most popular gifts? For women, probably perfumes and colognes; at least 22 of the nations annual perfume sales occur in Dece-embe(In round numbers, this means over $7 million in Yuletide fragrances!) Men who think this high should remember that this figure includes not the world's most only Joy but expensive perfume Desert Flower, which costs a dollar a dram, $3.50 for half an ounce. Many countries find it so blessed to give Christmas gifts that they do it twice a Yule-tidWhile waiting for Befana to come across on January 6, Italian children and their elders draw small gifts on Christmas Eve from a jar called the Urn of Fate. The French exchange gifts on New Years Day, but the Impatient young fry are visited by Pere Noel on Christmas Eve. And leave it to the impatient British to establish December 26 as Boxing Day. On this pugilistic sounding occasion, servants and tradespeople are remembered with boxes of money! The date of the big Christmas dinner also varies around the world; many countries have it on Christmas Eve, before or after midnight services. Our traditional Christmas turkey does not appear on many menus. The French Skiing irsons1 with eascn, games ol of in a these aiders Peter Varoz, In token of Christs birth a manger, Poles spread hay on the floor and Lithuanians Hun in Moose have straw under the tablecloth at their festive Christmas Eve meal. The colorful (Mexican posada or pilgrimage and , beat-loom'- s dramatizes the search which led Mary and Joseph to the le lad idwaj the e led ho is game 3 Hill Paul .drian id Ed stable. For each of the nine nights before Christmas, a couple dressed as Mary and Joseph goes from house to .house. Only at the last house ,are they and the parade .of neighbors which is now following for them invited in supper. .. An even more novel procession may be seen in the mountains of Austria. Wood carvers the little town of Oberam-jjjerga- u meet on Christmas Eye and ski down the moun-,tai-n i be with irson, irgan, g the tages. slopes 1 flaming hands, sing lea--a the nting with ound i its as t with torches in their tag as they go! earns a and run ts of loach sitf cles" Just about every country celebrates Christmas has its unique bit of seasonal folklore or rituaL In Sweden, its the feast of St. Lucia I 'which e December 13, ushering in Christmas season. Each .community chooses a lovely iCiUcIa Queen to represent the young girl martyred for Religion centuries before tauent Rome. i with her in In families daughters, the prettiest the role of Lucia. Her privilege; to wait on every-u- e Piays loach j else for the But even the standard Christ-taa- s dinner, Christmas pres ats and Yuletide decora-uon-s have weal variations. picturesque Not only ,.es Santa have numerons ?ases (hes Julenissen in "enmark, Pere . Noel In France, the Abbot of Unreason In Scotland), but in he Is a she. Italian Jaly place r. scent-sational-l- y -- their' trust in' efana, an old woman on a' ? Jknurn reveillion, a feast which occurs after midnight mass, is apt to feature oysters and sausages; in the French province of Brittany, buckwheat cakes with sour cream are served. The Norwegian Christmas dinner features a fish called lutfisk. At a Polish Christmas Eve dinner, the number of courses is fixed at seven, nine or eleven; a Lithuanian Christmas feast must include twelve courses, one for each of the twelve disciples! -- day! holiday features ES gift-giver- s, e. 1 ill quents). symbolic pilgrimage CJfDSrO1 Methinksyou entd,Zeu,in the creation of Women-sh- eis illogical, jea! MONS0$E,ortU he cunningly endowed them wftH irms. During the Christmas season, Germans and Rumanians bake long, thin cakes that symbolize the Christ Child wrapped in swaddling clothes. In the Ukrainian part of Russia, cattle are given the first taste of the Christmas supper, because animals were the first to behold Christ. In parts of rural Germany, this is carried one step further cattle and their owners both fast the day before Christmas, and eat well on Christmas Eve! Deck the halls with houghs of holly is a tradi- tional refrain in English and American homes, hut in Spain and Italy, householders decorate with flowers instead of evergreens at Christmas time. The Christmas tree, popular throughout the United States and Northern Europe, is relatively rare In Southern Europe; the creche, or manger scene, usually replaces it. In Sicily, many families use Christmas trees, but they decorate them with apples and oranges instead of tinsel! This carries out an old tradition that all the trees bore fruit when Christ was born. In England and France, the Yule log is favored; in some districts of England, whole families go to the forest to select their Yule log. Pear, olive and applewood are considered best, and tradition says that the log must be large enough to last until New Years Day. Perhaps the most unusual Christmas tradition of all is the one still adhered to by some Swiss romantics. These folk advise a boy or girl to visit nine different fountains and take three slp3 from each at the time the bells are ringing for midnight services on Christmas Eve. After this odd rite has been completed, the future husband or wife will be found standing at the door of the church and a regular courtship will begin if the spell has worked. Us, well take mistletoe. |