on Wednesday. December 22. "147, the siolid townsfolk of the alIliL'llL tlathedral city of Canter-l tiury noted an:.rlly through their n ..rc-que .S'lI".'.lLS. ' 1-'ui' nearly a witch they stoned tun blutlgcoiied and maiihandledl :lL”lF angry way around the city. il('illhlE.Vl3l)' stop-pressed: ” . ii.-5 tuiiitiiiuul in arms until Tues- izlv morning. Tntre are none as .i1 1ll'8(.l. but diverse tmanyl dan- utltltlsly iinrt."

lie letidcd with shocked propiity. list the riotclts had lJl'0kC'll every tllltltlll in lil'.' mayor's house and ilt'lI tried to set tire to it. n tlhat had happened winch so oiiscd the people of this slum- ot-iin: backwater?

Just this: dictator Olitcr Crom- tl'il and his sin-sniffing Puritan iltillrlilllilll had decided that Christ- iiias as a least was to be banned lIll'lllIH.hOUL England. And the good i.i,iyoi- of Cantcrbuly had been ill- .-dxlscd enough to send out his liMll'Cl'lCl' with the anliouncenicni ili.ti '"'l'he Protcctoris" edict was Jiiiii: to be enforced in Canter- iitii)!

-.ts it happened, the (,'aiitcl'liul'y outburst ended in a conipromisef the ritiicrs turned in their wea- inoiie in c.xchali;,'e for an official- iiitdt-lialiliig that there would he liil prusccutioiisl.

The townsfolk of Canterbury tlt'I("nUl alone ill their anger. llll'tIuL',ll(llll the county of Kent and ll l.olitlon. Oxford and Ipswichl -lots flared. And as in Canterbury,

When England Had No Christmas

- who.

was typical. There is little doubt that overnnient would have loved to

scripts by Ben Johnson and decor by lngo Jones. world famous arch- G itect. . . :

.1" ""3 early dais 0' their I'e- liii oantIct:Tmia1!nadtioi1o'l; gime the Puritans were uncertain uhwh chnnunas Day was 10 "mm n "l hW'-l” "WV "Wld 3” l" almli But thcv were politicians enough ishinit Christmas. This unve.tain- to know that a nationwide revolt

in was sensed by the populace. might be touched on n they wennwerelordered out to do their aup- to ipressing.

therefore, did not pay too um 13,-, much attention to Parliament's an- So they confined themselvgs to; ti-Christmas laws. I

on other days of the year. still put ed- "gflllfd"

led rnetr vlews even more ruth-'known that he felt such action! nleasl) but .ur the flare of riotingjwould be contrary ”to the libeity

lot which the Canterbury uprisingno! conscjencg so much own the Protector and his friends." With his unparaTleled gift having his cake and eating it Crom-i well let himself - publicly - be P91" .sueded that. despite the nobility. .of his conscience. he was bound to; do his unpleasant duty. The troops;

Soon afterwards

' pinpricks. People who went open-land his Puritan For ingtgnge, shop, Mm-n had ly to church on Christmas Dayicrumbled. Charles II. the Merryl henn ordered (0 nenuun nnnn an stood in danger of being arrest-gMonarch, G3l3P0'5lYl9 bland with him came Christmas a-

returned

up men. shnuenn at L-hnmmns Roundheads and released after atgajn,

nnnremntesvfeiv hours detention fealculaled to

scare them into keeping in linet.l Such a onenwas John Evelyn. thei ,famous diarist. who was a staunch.

while masters and made merry in traditional style.

There we.e a few face-saving and token arrests of harmless of- fenders. But the punishmenls met- ed ltlll to them were light.

In short, the country in gener- al quickly thumbed its nose at dic- tator Cromwell and his self-right- W5 h9"C'"""'- Hitherto they had been baked sp-

Bl-ll Cl”0mll'f'll ' M10-59 l3('llL'5 propriatcly in the form of the cribl would not be out of place in pres" of the Infant Christ. But to the em day international politics - had --p,.n1n(.lnn-v and his friends nhis a trump to play. he turned the snnnured of none”. and so in or

ll-Episcopalian. He was arrested ash he left Exeter Chapel on Christ- mas Day. 1657.

traditional

. t a it d' 5 Christmas!

the restoration.

iPuritan lchristmas did not become a law- ltul holiday until 1856.

The Mystery Oi God's Firmamenl

" The .”Sl'.-til” which signaled the first L'lil'isllnas' may be ll1l9l'PIleled ill malty wavs, ii; all lll4'll ”ll0FlH'etations we must put l”"'5elV"5 3” "Carly as possible in- me Wmll 3"” Psychological frame of mind of those whom we l-l')' to untlcrstand The astronomer knows that iliiuiigli the ages the word ”star" has been used to in-

” "'9 Thmneldlcate alliiosl an) celestial phen. omcnon. we still speak of "tailing ll-US" Dr ”shoottnL' stars" which

edby

for

Cromwell died Commonwealth

But even in the roaring days ofiwu knnu. nune Mn are nut Man

-before Cromwell. In fact it was a better Christ- word coma.

lmas. For it was as merry as be- Planets were Under CromweIl's influence Eng-lfore. but without the old excesses. stars '. 3S,tIpt)tt.N('tl lo the "fixed

Christmas neveriug nu. quite got back to what it had beenl

In more ancient times the ucomet was called a litany star" land was derited from the Latin nieaniniz hair. The the "wandering

Elsewhere. thouzh. the Puritan- :.lJ”'5-" and lmm the Greek woi'd

mince-pies changed their nhape.,uinni innunnne persisted.

In Massachusetts pilgrims

r wanderer we derive our word "planets."

The Star of Bi-lhlr-ht-iii r ld have been am of llleslk It ('l(:lLlild even have been a "licw star” or nova which sutldenlv burst forth

, where early had settled.

lS400,000 Federal Surplus Anticipated For The Year

OTTAWA it'i-i government is looking to it 5400.-

000.000 l)ll(l'.!flal')' surplus for thettions it appears Mr It would belshow an over-all surplus of be- inltween s30o,ooo.ooo and 5400.000.-i 000, the biggest since the 5595.500,-l said' 000 in 1948-49.

currciit llE('dl the largest eight years Flllantf Friday the

i"ar federal surplus llliiisit-r Harris uuteiiiinient surplus

rose in Noieinber by S46.54B.000. rose to S-1l5.ll3.000 from 8354.287.- This boosted the total for the first 000 a year ago. the fiscal year eight - month. to S1ltl7.tiotl.tl0tl. a sharp gain from total to 53.22-l.tl27.o00 from 32,713,.

(lot) in the similar pe-1974.000 .

eight nioiilhs of the 3105 riod a 3 ar ago.

The expected surplus is well beyond the Sll1l,00(t.000 forecast last April by Mr. Harris for the

entire lllfili-57 fiscal year ending lllgll l9mP9l'alUl'(' Ul 39 d9EI'E05 ffor Dec. 21 was recorded hern- nthe first day of winter. The old ,record of 67 was set in 1879.

March (ll RI-ZVI-ISLE INCREASES

The finance minister": regular monthly statement showed a con- liiiuiiii: llcavy flow of reteiiue In

Niitcinbfr lliroutzh indiyidual, cor- poration and other tax t'(lllCc- tiuns

The t13iiIral4327,0(l0 from S2,ti08.320.00fl. i

l

the bell whose chimes mean Lon-

l Mondav. Dec. 24. 1

more than five months. The boom- llltllh Ind ll” 9l0ck hi" .”' ing bell, in St. stepiieirs clock itettlnx I lbofouih 0V"'l"'lllN tower at the houses of Parlia- since July.

On the basis of current Indira- llarris will

Total revenues in November- increasing the

April - Not ember

RECORD HEAT ATLA.N'l'A. Fa iAPi.sA record

BIG BEN BOOMING AGAIN LONDON

'llPulCI'sl,BlK Ben,

glbema. JOHNSON cincl JOHNSON

.562 To One And All

DRUGGISTS

956 The Guardian. Page

full force of his puppet press on to an anti-Christmas propaganda tampaign. -

The Mereurius Ci'.'icus" went so far as to tell its readers that it was far more probable that Christ was born in September than

To

in December. And it urged those 3!"l of its renders. worldly enough nu Lngland in secret.

want holidays, to -"keep the fifth of November (anniversary of the - Catholic plot to blow up parha-.

der to enjoy this traditional deI- u . hie,-,9, nvunuu, (nan of persecuuunv abhorrence of Christmas. ante-dat-

bakers and housewives changed ed Cmmwellls Campaigns by near- the shape to the normal round- '37 ' llllndlled V5375 "9"" rally

And the Scots who had in their

rn, whlnh exist, mun), ,officially acknowledge the, exis- Sn. Croniucll .nr no. Cliristmas "9"" 9' Ch”5lm'”' p'.el"”"g Lo its celebration persisted inf;':9l9l"!l-B Hogmany thew Years ve .

Who could hold out the ' , t

.Croniwell or the people? In the last year of his life came

BALLOON CAUSES DEATH

Wllll I ln3ll.VrlllUlISalt(l-lUlCl increase in brilliance. due in some great. stellar eatasiroptie "tile-e are all explanations of what the "star" could have been llad ll been any of the above. it would hate been seen by main iimipltw, and in literature would hate been (mind references to the appearance of the object which aili-acted attention But nowhere in the literature or

mncmillir nge '," llax.mlle"ull”'.”' don and home to Britons all over exteede; a uoyranr Etillllofll). gar the worm. M” ..bmadCaSt.. again my an int ease n expen .t- Sunday mnmmg an” 3 rest of

Tlicse rose in Nmeniber ml

Corner Prince and Kent Streets

31168 563.tltlll ti-om 53-l0.l6h,00l.l ai year and lixpenrlilures for the; eight months increased in 32.837.-

ccs exist. i From this we are forced to con-.

int-y were touched off by the town- ii-it-r.s' proclamation banning the tune. i'l'lt'lll”dllUII of Christnias. l The ..Kingd0me-' wnnkiy Mus. r . - t Al . .i?”f;.fe"'1ii1?”nlflfifgil "W "W" W "F i ":"”:; .1” '”".i i a prick: like Decem er t . tu- will" in June of that year Cromanarly known hy the name

mentl and other days of that na-

iiiltllhlllllelll. And they had order- every Decemhnn 25th

cniliit;

fll troops to suppress

the sign that Cromwell was weak-I DENVER Mp, A batman glgllal he wallledv 50meh”wwlrom a Christnias party was to niollily the people. 'blamed for the death of a seven-

He was approached by zealots.

”hPnlll9IIlSlI" lodged in her throat, a coroner's

lit-l1's parlianiclit had ruled that -1 D ,-i , . . . . . ”'” lliatl M l-""'”ilm"5 5h”"ld n0iC);.:lsrl?;&:I:BnLa)llS9ll slutlmuslr lL'- iiitlziiiiggs among Christmas M2 l i)cpt?t:ie imsreliil tiiiirhiiia still- 7l""" h' llbwnfd um" pal" ofinored Christmas DRY by Slum? Publicly Cromwell let it bel totem to begpwith her

l . .

Hi, too. that from then on town- By 1647' cmmwnii was mm. cricrs throughout England would Vinhed thnl the propaganda ma. ii-mind the people of the new lawlnhinn had nnmnieied the soften. a few days before Christmas. They n nnnun prunes, and damped dim-n Iiad to tell the growling mobs that nomnleteiy nn (nu celebration of "Cliristnias day and all other sup-lchristmnsu erslllious festivals" were contraryi The singing of carols and the '" the 13"" ”"d "'3' market "Mum l sale of carol broadsheets were ban- ”' kel” lmd 5h"p' ”"”'l" ”l”"lned. As in every suebu case. they ”" pccemlmr 2'5"." immediately went "underground" Th” W” ""9 Chm” "l 5 "Noland the broadsheets were often t1Al2'n the Puritans had been wag-n;hIn(.k,mu,.ketnd hkn seditious mun. 1'”: "r mm” y.”"'5' ' anda. Carols were sung indoors when the Civil War broke out-afhne lonknunn ken! wmnh gnr pa. in 1M2. one of the first moves of "omng Ruunuhnudu or govern. the Crnmwellian rt-bet parltamenti meni inyni-mars, titristmas celebrations. The purihnn, might hnvu nngnrc. Tliere was certainly room for nlti(i('I'3Ii0Il. for by tradition. t'llllSll11'l'i was it time of unbridl- rd extiaiaganre in England. Dur- nu the festive period the usual niilhorities at all levels good-nsl- iii-dly relinquished their offices; to Lords of Misrule (usually men who were underlings of one kind or iiniittier for the rest of the yt-arl.J t pre-Croinwellian poet describ- (Ni it thus: you kInL2S and queens poor sheep roll-c trontsl have tziil male with everybody: Tin liont-st men now play thel Llilivi-. l ind wise men play the noddy mull. i 'llit- Lord of Misrule was on oc-- .i no provided with a "lady"; ulio ”nl;trrieil" him in the ac-i ii'lltl.llllllll'III of l'Pat'illlL!S from the? Knuth of t'onimon Prayer. and dis-1 tilt-llx reports a contemp0I'Bl'.V .-i;,-oiii.-it-r -.. "the affair was car-n ftt'tl in its titiiio.-at extent." tin; before the Puritans under tltilllillll SPl'I,('(i power. they had ll.tli'Il tllii-tstiliau, Tliey never did liiip in sec pt-uiile euioy tlirltiselt'- r: .mil, in addition, they associat-

etl lltr lizitionwide Cliristmas revl u . u

Cll.1'K with the extriiv.'ii'.iint'M ill Cortllally Wlslllllg yllll ill

in. ll(I)t'Ll Court which they lie , ,

........, I lolly Yuletide Season! st their first lclitziliie mow

tiiiiii tlicy took over the reins of club iiincill was to suppress the lrnilllional (ihristnius plays. These

Queen Street

lll.lls l':lm20(i from the humble "ni.iitniiiii: of rustics lsonle tit ti-will xitrilie rvett lodnyi to the

rvi.it.ti::ln1as of the Court with

Illilllil l1lllllS'IlllllS

Man happiness ring in uour

ltolidaius and no-zornpanu uou

through this glad rearonl

GRAFTON STREET ESSO SERVICE. STATION

PETER DesROCHE. Proprietor

nil

Just poppirf in to wish you a very. very Merry Christmas!

Kennedy's Lodies' Wear

0 166 QUEEN sr. DIAL 8925

so

I . I year-old girl Friday night. Debbie jg who wanted his permission to sendi Newton was asptiyxiated after tin

in the folklore of Hill” of the peoples noted as astute ohsci-ti-i's of celes-l tial phenomena dn these i-oft-rah,

elude the appearance of the starl was a hlllhl. given only to thel Wise Men to see. i ,

Blessings To All . . .

All of our stah joins with us in wishing you

I The Many Blessings of Christmas Happiness .. ..

THE WINDMILL

DIAL 7131

Your CV35” .. ""."h:' to 5

M01 by III the btmlw ""' l'V' "

Gosfivo HOIHUV 5"”"

ATLANTIC WHOLESALERS LTD.

CHARLO'I'TI-IT(')W.V. P. E. I.

A jriyous Chrstmas is otir sincere wish for our fric-lids and neigliboors. May good will and good fol low sh i p be yours

tliroutzliout the coming

New Year

HELEN'S DRESS SHOP

3-I GRAFTON STREET DIAL 9388

MayO6oOn0IIlIIQNo0 Mlshollqhrlnbuplaoca ooollauuoyyoobavoo Vlaodar9slGIrIahts.u

N. D. MacLEAN

1.") KING SQUARE

Ono again in pane in: balloon Inhlls to honor on any In salhuara and Mauls.

Gromslly we soy: huh. and sorry Chrluuiu.

,' URBAN MCQUAID

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