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Show Norway, Sweden Babies Are Loaded With Gifts IN MANY districts of Norway and Sweden every baby born on Christmas Christ-mas day Is the recipient of many gifts and bounties from all quarters. He receives a bounty from both the ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical und civil authorities, and in some districts these bounties amount to a considerable amount of money, which Is generally Invested until the child Is of age. The children that are horn to some classes of the people In Naples on this happy day are visited by "Wise-men" "Wise-men" who nre selected by some philanthropic phil-anthropic SK'lely and are presented with Imitation stones which are valued val-ued highly by the children In later years, even supernatural qualities being be-ing ascribed to them. |