The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel. [volume], December 26, 1924, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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PAGE SIX
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS
| IN HOMES OF OTHER NATIONS
Mrs. Bdgar Metcher read the fol
lowing very interesting paper be
fore the ,'s'ympony Club at their last
meeting: !
“In the days of the ancients as
early as two thousand years before
Christ, Yule-tid> was ceiebrated by
the ‘Ayans, who were sunworshipers
Their custom being to ceélebrate the
birth of the sun, believing that the
sun wouldl gradually become weak
er,‘but\lnitefid, it grew stronger and
stronger until they believed that
the sup had been born again. They
called ‘'this the turniny point or
Yule-tide. Certainly Yule-tide was a
very merry season among the an
cient people, who feasted, drove
and danced in honor of the return of
the sun, t‘,'he God of light and new
e,y
When . messengers went through
the various countries bearing tidings
of a new religion and of the birth
of a Son, who brought light and
‘new lite into the whole world, they‘{
endeavored to retain as many of
the established customs as po'sslblel
‘but gave the old-time festivals a
finer jchdra(iter" and signiffcance.
The date of the twenty-fifth of De
cember, Christ’s birthday, was set
tled by Pope Julius, who relgned
from 337 to 362 A. D. Holly, lau
rels,“mistletoe and other greens
were used as decorations of the
season,
The Greek and Latin churchesg
#till term Christmas the “Feast of
Lights” and make it a period of
brilliancy in church and home.
- No country has entered more
heartily into Yule-tide observance
than England. From the earliest
known date her people have cele
brated this festival with great cere
mony. The Celts observance was
principally religious but they also
added mirth; while with the com
ing of the Saxons we have a jolly
sight. In the center of the halls,
with their open hearth, blazed a
huge fire. Stretched from one side
of the room to another was a long
table. There was an abundance of
food for the Saxons were great !
eaters. It ;was the Saxons who'
s s mmmnrres
ROGERS
FULL CREAM CHEESE, POUND ------------ 28¢
QUAKER OATS, TWO PACKAGES - --------- 21¢
AUNT JEMINA GRITS, PACKAGE ----------11¢
: THREE MOUNTAINS COFFEE
Without a doubt the finest coffee you
can buy, at the price of ordinary coffee, ;
per pound 60 C
ROGERS PERFECTION LOAF BREAD
Bring 12 wrappers for a set’of drink
ing glasses before January Ist. A ](5l OC
ounce loaf for
ROGERS FRESH HOME MADE
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Medi jar
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gave to the Celts the pretty name
of mistletoe or mistléton—meaning
a shoot or tine of a tree.
Later during King Alfred’s reign
there was greater comforts and lux
uries. In te fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries the magnificence of the
Yule-tide observance may be said to
have reached its heights. It was
con.sidered ‘unlucky to have the hol
ly brought into the house hefore
Christmas Eve, so throughout the
week merry parties of young peo
ple were in the woods gathering
green boughs and on Christmas Eve
with jest and song, came ip laden
with branches to decorate the hall.
Later on men rolled in huge yule
tide logs emblematic of warmth and
light. England of all countries has
probably known the merriest of
yule-tides.
If England has enjoyed the mer
riest of yule-tides of the past, cer
tainly Germany enjoys the merriest
of the present, for in no .other
country is the day so fully and
heartily celebrated. It is a great oc-‘
casion of the year and means much
to the people. From the palace to
the hut, yuletide is a season 01’1
I-eace, joy' and devotion. For three‘
‘days, that Is the day before Christ
‘mas, Christmas and the day after,
all business not absolutely neces
sary to the welfare of the com
munity is suspended. Many of the
poorer class of Germans' do not eat
much meat, bhut at Christmas all in
dulge in that extravagance, so the
markets are usually crowded. Every
one ig busy for ihe great ocmslon.l
Germans purchase liberally of the’
toys and confectionery offered at(
bazaars, and no where are prettier[
toys and confectioney found than |
in Germany. The country which
furnishes the most beautifn‘l toys in
the world. Churches are not trim.
med, nor are they made attractive
with flowers or songs or in any spe
cial way, but the people go to listen
with devotiop to the telling of the
old, old story of Christ birthday
‘nd of the first Holy night at Beth
lehem. Holy night as the Germans
term—the night of Dedication is the
MAYONNAISE
Small carton
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Medium carton
time of family reunion, fun and
frolic. Not alone in homes, hospitals
prisons, barracks and elsewhere is
the pretty betinseled tree to be
seen on Christmas, but in burying
grounds, on the resting rplaces of
the dead stand these fresh green
tres in evidence of keeping the
loved one’s memorry green.
In the far north of Scandinavia,
just 19 degrees of the mnorth “pole,
we also find the Christmas spirit
existing. Each tribe turns ‘its reln-“
deer toward the nearest settlement
containing a church, that it may‘
listen to the old story, which is told
year after year by the -pastor. They}
have no games, no gift for music
they never dance, but year after
year drag out an existence living
within low earth covered huts or in
tents. In their low stuffy home
which at Christmas are filled with
guests from the wonderling Lapps,
there is no room for the pretty tree
‘and decorative evergreen. The joy
afforded there peorle at yule-tide is
in the reunion of friends, in attend
}ing church services, in the uniting
of ouples ‘in marriage also in
the abundance of liquor freely dis
tributed during this season. The
children are made happy by being
able to attend school from Christ
mas to Easter and are made even
more happier by working hara,
craving the knowledge of books
and religion. [The Lapps are{ only
a small part of the population of
Norway. Norwegian children have
many jolly times around the Christ
mas tree. These people begin their
“hristmas with divine services, af
ter which they meet for the feast
to follow. Christmas is a great. day
with therr’ also, for they cling to
the old songs and customs.
In France we find the Ileast of
relebrations. It was once a very gay
season, but now Paris scarcely
recognizes the day excepting in
churches. The shops contain a great
variety of sweet meats and taste
fully |trimnfed trees. /Although the
cities are filled with yule.tide
shoppers and lovely wares, in ‘or
der to enjoy a veritable merry
Christmas one must seek some re
tired town and if possible gain ac
cess to a home of ancient date,
where the family keep the cus
toms of their ancestors.
While in Italy, early in November
preparations are begun. Shoppers
crowd the stret during the eight
days peceding) Christmas. Tn some
provinces shepherds go from house
to house inquiring if Christmas is
“GONFINED “TO BED'
Birmingham Lady Took Carduf
for Relief of Change of Life
Troubles and Says It Helped
Her “So Much.”
Birmingham, Ala—“l first took
Sardui for that tired, worn-out feeling
that comes from beingl dreadfully run
iown,” says Mrs. Catherine E. Smith,
of 2106 Stout Street. “Twenty-five
years ago, I was suffering from wom
anly weakness.
I read of Cardui in an almana¢, and
thought I would try it. I got a bottle
and it helped me from the first. After
‘hat, during the whole of my married
ife, I took Cardui when I needed it.
“About four years ago, change of
'ife came on me. . . I grew weaker
ind weaker, and was confined to my
bed, where I lay on my back for days.
[ was told that only a severe operation
sould do me any good, and this de
oressed me very much, for I dreaded
wuch an ordeal.
“I vemembered how Cardui had
relped me for female trouble in the
sast and I had read of how it had
leiped other women during chan%e of
ife, so one night I told my husband
;0 go to the drug store and get me a
sottle. I began taking it at once.
From the first dose I could feel myself
getting stronger. . . I continued to
‘ake Cardui until I was entirely
through this very trying period of a
woman’s life.”
Cardui. at all dealers’. NC-158
DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOP
PING AT
E. R. OVERBY'S ART STORE
AND NEWS STAND
Full line ‘of beautiful Xmas.
Cards, Seals, Tags, Ribbons,
Tissue Paper, all colors.
Bijg Line of Toys for the little
ones. Come look them over.
E. R. OVERBY‘S ART STORE
AND NEWS STAND
Suwanee Hotel Bidg.
CORDELE, GA.
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
lto be kept there and if so a wooden
'spoon to mark the place, ‘and later
lbrlng their bag-pipes or other ‘mu
sical instruments and rlay ~'belpre
it, this being the principal feature
of an Italian Christmas.
In Spain, the land of romance and
song, )q frost and flowers, where
at Yule-tide the mountains wear a
msntle\ of pure white snow, while
flowers bloom gaily in field and
garden, the season is rigidly oh
served in churches, but otherwise it
loges it spirit of devotion in that ot
wild revelry, music, mi*th and hi
larity are the leadirg features ofi
the occasion and the home and
family* pleasures are secondary af
fairs. /
Last, but not least, we find our
own homeland “America ”—Our
Christmas carols appear to have
come from the Holy Land itgelf; |
Our Santa i({laus srom Holland;
our stockings hang on the chim
ney from Franckf and Belgium;
and our Christmas cards and verbal
Christmas greetfngs, our yule-logs,
our boar’s head, aur plum puddvings
and our mince pies from England,
Our turkey is seem’.inély our own
gonb‘ribqtiion. Our customs seem
simple, yet great old Santa is al
ways on the srot. Love, peace,
freedom, cheerfulness, yet sacred
ness exists evrywhere.
“But Christmas is only the mill
mark of another year, moving us to
thcughts of self examination, it is a |
season, frcm all its associations,
whether domesfjc or ’\‘ rel',igious,‘
suggesting thoughts of joy. A man
dissatisfied with hi§ endeavor is a
man tempted to sadness. And in
the midst of winten when his Ilifc
‘runs lowest and he is reminded of
'lhe empty chairs of his beloved, it
is well that he should be condemn
ed to the fashion of = the smiling
face,’’ s& says, Robert Louis
'Stevenson. T s
. At ghe end .’ nearly two
:thousan dyears Christmas shows no
‘signs of decrepitude or weariness,
}its danger lies not in forgetfulness
but in preverted uses and overesti-l
mated activities. Carols are still
sung in almost numberless
churches, trees are set up in in
}umerable homes, and mobs of merry
children sin_c’ and dance around
them, stocks are hung gaping with
early Maranders -on Christmas
morning, while host of men and
women keep the day in their hearts
in all peace and piety.
The time draws near, the birth of
Christ.
The moon is hid; the night is still;
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From far and near, on mead and
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