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Show A Period of Good Will Christmas as a period of good will, rejoicing and the interchange of presents pres-ents . is readily traced to the Roman Saturnalia, which was celebrated at about the same relative time of the year as is our modern Christmas. During the Saturnalia there was universal uni-versal mirth, friends feasted together and exchanged presents; gifts were made to the poor; no war was declared de-clared ; no capital executions were permitted to take place and even the slaves were granted the right to speak, although usually speech was denied them. George Newell Moran. |