Show 71 u I 1 Y T var varying fa it n ways 1 aj ar h I 1 d c sok 10 to i i alel 1 I r I 1 V the blessed alwa hi ids s tv birth f u Z ahe I 1 hearit cavity with addess an fn ay A I 1 there ere jv tit be 0 re bifora er 0 s a i I 1 e aal ora a my t 0 of hope lope ir C 0 than 7 if he be 0 of werry merr m and extravagant va gaw giff giving vill 7 N MANY millions of homes this icar 3 at there will be no merry many tones times in the polls bells that ring throughout the carl christian it world on an christ I 1 anaa day to mothers other w R Is li es S BH bre who he hit have loit last SO bona larl husbands amil lowers irs la in the world maders christ mas bells will sound as harsh metal lie clangor crystallizing sellers sadness and ad cl despair pair perhaps the women whose base men are in the armies will receive in tile the music from the church towers mrs lues lacea age of hope and ad but speaking metaphorically how bow the yuletide bells ring bad and just when they ting ring who rho rings them and ad how long are matters ot of national lade I 1 aste iste that will seem queer to you if while you happen to be in spain you think ot of sweden loading kneeling la in sol enmity or in ID england eating cating your way through christmas do dai joa on consider I 1 the he russians Itu chanting the it ileythe of the goddess of the see or 01 in italy ital y listening to the chil children dien reciting their guilty godly pieces in the sri sn sets acts you kamema her new york and its theaters rith special Clarl tan performances christie christmas in england never has hag re gained the measure of pule pine revelry it held before the reformation only the remnants of those hearty times when he land was glutted with epicurean richness are am what rest are an left tor for old en I 1 land today but these or are enough to make the celebi atton distinct in its p bad cromity cro sity wherever christmas is found in the british isles there Is a plum plan pudding padding that heaviest ot of edibles that seems to improve impale in taste with every pound tipped off on the scales armies la B 1 ireland cand they accompany a gen are sama slits able with fth long tit brinks of f what they ley call land lamb s wool made by bled bauls lag ing roasted masted apples apple maed with ale is I 1 or it if food and drink are the great er 1 parts part ot at jollity them a fire DO on mer riar Christ christmases mases in the land than these in reaid flat but there them 1 Is I little christ carlet teas a lot lore and ad superstition N now R and ad then jou will wj hear some old 1 it fireside foreside crony clocy drone BODY away beat about tile the bad con te of a r red I 1 it and ad dusky desky new year a da dai a or r I 1 peer out anxiously RI u 1 y tor far the a first vi visitor altor whose ster sex dot determines e r w hies eimil bood or til ill luck during doling the earn coming year car the authors have put into th chime me just what you would do it you were are passing pass I 1 your christmas day with the british at chat bass two time we so d deck tha me hall val with t in holly br branches wave brave 1 and I t tall with sturdy DID pine and ad hemlock ricot bright g ht and in th tula rub logs IW dancing coming light we tell old me tide tales of field aa W I 1 1 arsht at challow ilon at 11 christmas tle tl e we wa pile the th board jtb a llesh r and fruit bell and stored t led X 1 and I mid the abb 1 lauchter lau byh and oa 04 the blow ha tread a measure ore boft nod id eloff 0 o anil ad alb I 1 beneath the moul luo at car ami altna germany has no long ilbra ot at riot ous a chato ses to look back upon there I 1 is no country in peace times whom where the la Is mole moie whole he P 6 bomely emary than 1 in germany the germans begin ft a week bettio christmas a day day 1 to bring in evergreens ever greens of alt air SI elzea 1 which aich they pile up un in the public bies of the cities and ad towns tell until I 1 fit these hese look like forests of III alnea 1 and I hemlock hemlocks lem locks not one tree hot but two iwo each german family wast must have and those too poor to buy them are us assisted isted by those thos 1 who have plenty st SL nicholas la Is the i old fellow at tile the bottom of tins sea bonal merriment on the rho eve of st nicholas day december 8 6 the taa christ mom mas val begins that la Is the day when tha germao G I 1 child children reat te for a man who 1 is good at keeping S secrets imperial ian personages personates perso nates atthe attha star saint and nil goes around inquiring how the ehl ahll aco hive hale acted during ill the year HB be emiles cairies a bundle baroldi of birth birch with th him m and leaves them 1 fu the homes boom wa ri h be e thinks think they may lay be needed th the day before christmas in gre ger many say peace time germany b the lotheia trim tile the house flom top to bottom with strings of if hard filleted Chrls tm cakes and railing gre gres green s ft hen it co cornea mes to trimming the Cla bomes trees themselves taca you yen may sir play out cut 1 in the tha aard rd take a walk silt or get out of the way ma where here for this I 1 is alt be tween mothers and kris kria Pi on tab tables under the trees treas are the gifts surprising gilts gifts they would world seem to some a bomp soa proe 0 se an artificial flower knitted knit ted lace a to a christmas coke cake or a sausage I 1 or cluce cheese most of them have verses veree attached written in curious art meter menet not net until all six I 1 I 1 clock clerk 1 in the eve ow nine 19 or are the doors darra open for the fes fee ol 01 t y ot at the trees tree a tonight the horses boris and cawi OR of 0 the tha german a former farmers have peculiar gifts lf it t is 13 sold said that the cut cat tie kanom on christmas eve as bud and say a few animal pr prayers myer it la is a very ry great sin mr to lisiten abac I 1 to in their am conversa mia one else it would be recorded here if reindeer could talk on christmas eve the once that pull ill the tam zarohy ay sleigh or of tile lie lapps ot of lapland nil what R wouldn t they let tell 1 ot of long cimney loui jim neya ney over or ice fee end and snow now for days day before bedfor ichrist mas maa in order to hale their masters and the children at church on an clist nine maa mora morning ingi I 1 mil miles over the slow enow come the people of the north to hear the familiar me mono toned message ot of the bill blitva h of the ft aiom their gastons iacre ta is no lightness in this ceremony cert couL mony many nor any gifts for far the chit then dien nor gay music the tent or hut homes are tilled filled with guests for far the christmas holidays so full that the there is no room mom tor for ever girens or candles they take their christmas with faces us holgoin us aa mummies and it mole make the attendant tte collat ceremonies as bu joyful as aa possible Mil rigS air oPer performed formed dur ing big tile the season seabon childley chil dien dlen are sent seat to school fr toi a few weeks week bubble babies are a christened lars the dead are burled buried and liquor is sent around with lavishness this 1 is christmas for the lapps who will change with them amy muta outside of lapland I 1 has 0 more joyous time of it nom norwegian bm child he have christmas trees tree bud and lit tie gifts gift that or are wilde hidden I 1 I 1 in it out of ill the RBI wa corners lor for them to quit find every bad in norway must know of an ap pc preaching pro aching christ tor far the buy boys and ad sale tie oats and corn on the tree the ilia ferice fences the tops top of houses and barns and ad on an lit lh poles they in their yards so that tile the birds way may feast with thoin them inbur bat a chattering thorn there must at be 1 in N norway y B on christmas owl morn teat ing 1 after a day of feasting and church services little boys boyi with white mantles daml 8 find and star she shaped p ed lanterns I 1 car ryang a it dolla 11 to lapu represent e ent the tha virgin mary and the cluis hald sing lag carols in the homes strolling musicians musician sev serenade at twilight to be clan tor far christmas Is the problem that h haunts tm the swedish tt lious housewife calfe for days she ehe scours scotts and and washes not ot a piece of trimming or furniture Is left input dished all dirt Is sinful and must not be let tolerated led at tills this holy season while V his the cle cleaning mg Is going on do there 1 Is ill alie baking of christ christmas breads ring shaped ped th that t must nil dry y under ad the belsom beams tor far a week or two trio ind and it tha blowing 0 of spiced drinks A wine that bizek ge afas t the S swedish h women mike make with at wood cod and Is an aromatic quaff with B holiday smell never can there be a proper christmas in sweden R with ith out home mode made cheeses especially tile the sweet ones made of boiled meet milk bad and molded fantastically santa claus app appears are in person to swedish children a and ad distributes distribute lit his shut filed of gifts gift when h he has disappeared 1 red as mysteriously as acim he came they be jai join head hands and ad sing I 1 jingles until they work up a one fine appetite tor for christmas mush an all indispensable sect ric rice boiled a long it time 1 in milk ilk with chim cinnamon uram bud and sugar with bla blanched celled brands almonds tor far th flavor to 1 be eaten too wild ich cream christ mas mail fish in 11 sweden swede has the same stairs share of or respectability that rare a must beef be baa in england it la Is burled tor for days in wood ashes the hn boiled and berard with hot milk sled parties of forty or fifty sleds each go to church on christmas morning with the timing ringing of long lomi r rows of sleigh bills balls nod bud f festive tive trappings g s the th day itself Is 19 one of price peace and ad quiet but on the next mt day the tun full begins and continues until ail all four holidays holi daya are oler oer christ chint runs maa the day arter after the twelfth day tied and I 1 the 11 toe twentieth mirth the ceremony of the tree is aa a mum much of tt a frolic us aa its dle mether the there are on no house gr greeba a to take do don n because this id their also of mourning but there fitere are flotre if they can be ob pained christ christmas I 1 la denmark ar goes geese ill that at share been bonon ri at the christ mas treat frast with a special ill brind ad of if coke cake the salt cellar reci remains alm on th the table throughout just juat to uphold tradition at midnight on ban christmas eve those who have fruit trees treba take lan lanterns terre bud and a stick and ad find their way any luto let the orchards each tree la is track struck three times by the limit head ot of tile the house with the injunction R jo in im and be fruitful 1 I no one who he ran can possibly avoid it works from franc christ me mas until ater after new year a day greetings for the lords birth is ib the russian way of 0 saying I 1 M merry try christmas to which the answer 1 Is god be R with ith you besides rel ce lebrat bt lag ing the nativity the fLos sno hersh cherish a claral mise ical tam lore of at th d addeane ad deace of the suu sun iho bho at time was supposed bad to enter tier her sledge dressed la in gorgeous robes be and ad headdress and ad tarn tam her hoci horses ses lowarl summer here hem and there in tile p F tit country a vil lage lag maiden old tire dreisel d in white a and ad maw drawn on an a sludge sledge fr from h bouse S to a bouse represents tile the goddess ot at the sun li while lille her retinue sing carols carels ater atter attending allm a christmas eve service S in church it ss set t out to have a frolicking christ christmas I 1 in a community way one ona who has a S large house invites many other households which come bringing cakes and other sweets they would f freeze I 1 in I 1 their sl edges g clet rather the than alight before receiving the greetings greeting of host best and hostess th there r are a large feast games snowballing bud and radiation and ad go a sometimes mrs times rating lasting the night one wonders wanders how revolutionary russia resale anarchistic and ad warwara will col cele hunts brate t the h a holy childs child s birth this year franc frame has a quiet lug las less Dromi prominence nence to it than to any by of the other days day 1 in the tha holiday calendar r 01 old folks in ID the provinces ten tell d also about t times OS ill bhea christmas am waa a gay season celebrated with great romp and joy the shopkeepers furbish their stalls for the gift season and the confection ers make those dal delicious lebous 11 little tie cakes with sugar forms form ot the tea t on top scraps of r yul yuletide are dearly held i to the tha homes home of some a of the tha peasants in amite the th aphea she of the great yule log are thought la ht tt ug to be prote protection tion a against R most lightning and bad ludi the old tit I 1 log g Us has music magic power to jail fill with peppermints peppermint bohocs left beside it and its ita alb dropped let into medicine be have wonderful curative pow era an I 1 reach french children childre he ha e christinas christian trees and ad little cradles made ad of ever gilena representations represent a tiona of the holy merger manger fiance biance sings einga carols crough tl tile the whole month of it december stroll steel ing musicians clana playing their noels NIs frum from h house to hieble ibe th p ments ot I 1 soldiers there this year un mr will bill alti ilia ancient mis cus toms tam of the people somewhat christmas in italy means a childrens children s season otte wherein rala the little tolka fOlks mrs ta themuel th emeel by S singing 91 H and reciting pieces in the tied in spain it menne means no end of social gaiety gayety aiming the young in folks I 1 ka almost to the point of such each ros roi troug a aa Ammil was I 1 in on halloween Hol loween 1 in america it seems to be a get gala to corn bl bi nation nathin at 0 those these old world customs and ad there others with a little more or lavish ness and good gand time them display from I 1 yuletide Sule tlde in many leads lands by mury mary P pringle and clara A |