Show how animals figure in christmas customs UE christmas customs in norway tend JL and are the most interesting of any country it ie Is time oc great rejoicing to show that there tire friendly feelings between every ane no in ibe 1110 household the shoes are I 1 laced in a row in the hall when retiring on christmas eve and like the german cut custa m candles are left bum burn las ing in the village windows all night to light the way for kristine Krist lne who brings the gifts the christmas trea tree Is largely decorated with mith candles and 1 I retty cakes arranged arrange ti in bright colored baskets all usually home made the richer households send good things to the poor and everywhere imong among both rich and poor are the animals and birds remembered saas our dumb animals the boys and girls up their pennies during the year for this purpose sheaves of grain are fastened to the window ledges la in town and in the country the sheaves are fast fastened ered to long poles and renewed every day for a week neek and many are the birds that epy this feast on the bain 1100 3 of the peasant peasants bowls of hot porridge are bet set for poor I 1 globin goodfellow to comfort him because he lie has no soul I 1 the cows and the horses share in the general happiness by having a double share of 0 food given them it Is to a big skip from the northland nort bland to the southland or tropical coun countr trica led inhere christmas Is celebrated without the evergreen tree to decorate and liang hang gifts on in brazil the holiday may be spent outdoors in the hainy u flower scented air they have quaint superstitions in these bummer lands relative to yuletide on the coffee plantations the tho old folk say that on christmas night the animals have the gift of speech an and 4 that it if only a child has nt courage to go out alone after dark it will hear on the stroke of 12 the cock crow in a loud clear voice fram his highest perch I 1 christo christ Is 1 born the bull in a deep sonorous baes bass inquires from a distant field I 1 where the sheep then answer in chorus em ent belem de juda judal ln in bethlehem of judea in turn all tbs domestic animals give to the world the glad tidings of the nativity many a child wishes it had the courage necessary to enable him to spend midnight outdoors and hear this wonderful ond erful conversation ot of the brute creation |