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Show America came into being. This child was Virginia Pare, granddaughter of John While, a leader, whose small lioanoke island colony disappeared without trace while White was on a journey home for supplies. Rodanthe is only about a score of miles from Roanoke island and n part of the same chain of banks, with Kitty Hawk, where the first successful uirplaue flight was made, only a few miles away on the same chain. So what better place could be found for the support of tradition, tradi-tion, even though there be some uncertainty un-certainty whether it is in observance observ-ance of Old Christmas Eve or Old Christmas Pay that fishing nets are laid aside? St. Louis Globe Democrat. OLD CHRISTMAS STILL KEPT UP Had Origin in First English Colony in New World. Each year we read with sentimental sentimen-tal interest descriptions of the celebration cele-bration of "Old Christmas" by tish-erfolk tish-erfolk and other residents of the ancient an-cient village of Rodanthe, on the long and narrow outer barrier islands is-lands that impound Pamlico sound off North Carolina. Sometimes we read that the celebration is held on January 5 and sometimes that It is held on January G, the difference being be-ing that Twelfth Night, or Old Christmas Eve, may have greater emphasis in celebration than Twelfth Tide on Twelfth Day (Old Christmas Day) as the villagers continue a celebration that extends back to their forefathers and even the time of Sir Walter Raleigh and establishment establish-ment of the first English colony in the New world. However, if we search the back-districts back-districts of the Missouri Ozarks, it is quite likely that we could find this belated celebration of Christinas much closer to our own modern homes, as well as hear the belief expressed ex-pressed that on Twelfth Night cattle of the fields kneel in greeting to the new-born Christ. This tradition tradi-tion and refusal to accept the calendar corrections of Tope Gregory Greg-ory were brought to this country coun-try by early settlers from Britain and persisted for many generations not only in the barrier Islands that protect pro-tect North Carolina from the raging sea, but in the mountains along the eastern seaboard, spreading even to the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas Arkan-sas as the mountaineers sought new' homes. It Is fitting, however, that the tradition tra-dition had its spread only by family and that the outstanding community expressions remains near the place it was introduced to America, in Dare county, North Carolina, where the first white child to be born In |