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'- cl Peace. m nearly 2,000 yaarl zithat day has been celebrated by

tmaalflah giving throughout all

.. Christendom

The Great Yule Feast

December 25 was chosen for the celebration of Christ's birth prob- ably because it was the date o! tho great Yule feast, when many pagan countries celebrated the passing o! the shortest day in the year.

First Christmas Trees Originated in Germany

0N THE wild, sandy heathllnd ct

the North German plain the dark-leafed fir trees have flouriah~ ed for many mnturies. It is not strange, therefore, that thg “Christ- maa Tree" should have its origin there. It dates back prior to the days o! Christianity. The early Egyptians used to employ decorat- ed trees in their festive season oele- brations. I; ls a lac; wall known by all botanists that the palm tree puts forth a shoot each month, and at the time o! the winter sol- stice, a spray o! palm, bearing twelve shoots, was employed in the temple o! Osiris to mark tha com- pletion o! the year. Curiously enough, England did not adopt Christmas trees until the middle oi the last century. The prince con- sort, shortly alter his marriage to Queen Victoria, introduced them into Great», Britain.

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~N0rway, Sweden Babies

Are Loaded With Gifts

IN MANY districts o! Norway and Sweden every baby born on Christmas day is the recipient o! many gifts and hounties from all quarters. He receives a. bounty from both the ecclesiastical and civil au- thorities, and in some districts these

T bounties amount to a considerable amount of money, which is gener-

'_ ' 811)‘ invested until the child in of . l'.' 83e-

The children that are burn to " some classes o! the people in Naples 0n this hoPPY day are visited by : “Wise men"-who are selected by

ifaoma philanthropic society-and

' are presented with imitation stone: which an valued highly by the children in later years. even super- natural qua-lilies being ascribed to them.

Shepherds and Wise Men

It l5 not clear from the Scriptur- al allusions that thg shepherds who visited the new-bom Jesus were

l the same as the wise men who saw his star in the East. Only Matthew records the story o! the magi, and "my Luke mentions the shepherds. Mark and John do not reier to

either the shepherds or the wise 171811.

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‘l ’ One Sad Thing About k Christmas

The aaddst thing about Christ- mas is that the good fellowship u" d1! lawns u» olten withers with

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ACKhadnotbeen homo in seven

gone quickly enough in t!!! way that years will go, but now that ho was bank. it seemed al though they rimmed lonnr- I" bad misled somuch.

It was not that thins! had changed. 0! course, there were changes in the looks o! the town. ‘rhera were lew slelghs lined up gm‘ m, main street; instead there were automobiles.

Ho had been thinking how the sleigh-bells would iinsle M ti" bu”; pulkd the sleighs over the gfbp winner mOW. But instead o! alelgh-bells there were the sounds 0i flnn rubber glyes creaking over tin Ironen snow-covered streets. Then had been automobiles used in that winter o! seven Years past bu; ghey hm no; been predominant The aleighs had a chance.

Now the sleighs were quite mil- sing. The automobiles had charge.

He wondered if he stayed away for another seven years l! he would nee lights from airplanes and hear them buzzing over the buildings. Yet, even it he did, he did not feel a. though the place would really

‘iange.

There was something about the town that would never change. They might build more modern shops, airplane landing might taka nho places oi’ so many garages as the garages had taken the places o! blacksmith shops, but the essential qualities o! the town would never change.

Always Christmas would be Christmas here with its holly-tilled. windows, its wreaths over doors, its trees 1o;- Chirstmas lining the main street. Doubtless that was the way Chrbtmas would always be in many places. But here it would seem morg important. Christmas would be deep in the whole heart oi’ the town which always expanded and became

It Barely Was Wonder-In! to be

Back Again so generous and b1! find "l!!! l?- this season of the Year.

Probably because it was. Christ- mas did seem different here from that o! any other place.

He remembered the Christmas before. There had been Bayly decor- ated shops, hurried, happy shop- pers, lighted Christmas trees in the streets, crisp snow and Christ- mas greetings.

But it hadn't been the same. Christmas seemed to belong no much more to his own home. In that other place he had felt a lit- tle lonely and a little out of it. But here he had no feeling oi‘ loneli- ness. Even though he wu just but and as yet had met few o! the people he knew and had Hillel! recognized some who were grown up now who had been children ba- iore he left. ha did not feel out of it-

They might not recognize him.

iously completg Iiflicn. 8c had gone Into u noon m ha

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to Her Home.

knew. Just outside he not a gnaw o! men who had been graduated from high school in hll clall. Thay were picking up some o! the now falling snow and throwing mow- balls at a group o! laughing, rgq- chccked girli-

"You remember thml." he was told. And then it was explained to him that these grown-up you“ people were the younptara q! anon years ago. ‘

He joined in the snowball batty. Evidently he was a good ghot, (or a. loud shriek irom one o! the gh-fi proclaimed (hag, tact. r

“Oh, oh. that's no fair! mowball went right into my taco. Lucky it was fresh mow or rd have finished you!"

“I'm so sorry," he said to hat and recognized her then as that nine littleAdanlskidheuaedcoteachto balance 0n her bicyclg and yhqg B01100! bl! he sometimes carried home tor her.

81w hid been vwneflr than ha but aha had always been loch a Rod little sport, read! to enter into everything, eager go try.

“I'm Jack. you remember ma, don't you, Connie?"

Gonna-aw Adams gasped just a little.

"Why, o! course I do!" aha ax- clairned "But I didn't expect to find you hitting ma with snowballs. That's a fine kind o! greeting!”

How beautifully ahe had changed. All her same nice mentlal qual- ities seemed Just the aamc, but her changes were merely additional at» tributes. She dressed with more talfo than aha had when a young- ster, she was graceful now instead of tom-boyish.

she was like the town. ln its spirit, its homeyneas would llwaya be the same, no matter with what succeeding iaahlonl and cuatoma ll bept apacc.

‘took bare,” he aald abruptly. "wouldyoumindiillaltthamall homo and then came around tar a nice chat with you?"

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