Show EAT REMAINS OF CANDLES christmas services among the eskimos of labrador part most enjoyed by the children somebody has said that when the world was being made the creator gathered up all the waste material ho he had left over and made labrador out ot of it some people say the creator never intended it to be inhabited but inhabited it Is with a sturdy taciturn band ot of eskimos who thanks to the moravian missionaries who hayo have penetrated to that country celebrate cele brata christmas in their own peculiar way As service time in the church draws near all the inhabitants old and young the men on one bide and the women on the other are waiting in eager expectation it Is quite dark by four and the bell rings all come trooping in clad in the best clothes they can muster no one stays at homo home from these services unless he is eick or lame and whenever it Is possible sleighs are used to bring these disabled ones to church for the little children the happiest part of 0 tile the services comes later when each child receives a lighted candle symbolizing the light of tho the world each candle stands in a white turnip which serves as a candlestick most alost of tho the candles are made from doer deer tallow which tho the eskimos bring to the missionaries alter after the services the children eat cat not only the turnip but what Is left of tho the candle as well one year only about ton ten persons mostly men could come from tho the nearest island the ice had been driven together and rather than miss alsa the christmas service they had bad risked their lives in crossing cros sluR over on that moving heaving broken ice to the mainland then they had to climb the mountains and walk through the deep snow until they reached the mis ala elon elan station after twenty threes three of at danger and a tearfully fearfully exhausting march through the snow how flow happy they were to be in time to celebrate the christmas festival in the houses of their dodl about all sl days later when tile the tea ice had formed all the rest of the people came but oh all so sad and downhearted lika alko little children they told the mission artes aries their tale of 0 sorrow they described how sad they all had been when they found that it would be impossible to come coma to the mission station tor for the christmas service |