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IHIRIY-THIRD YEAR Or- PUBLICA1ION
H"iK
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W F Paynt R C Canby. O ATMartin. A U Sharpe. and John P Ramsey
EL PASO HERALD
Lditonai and Magazine Fage
Thursday December Twenty-fifth 1913 '
AN INDEPENDENT DAILY NEWSPAPER
DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE THAT SO GOOD CAUSE SHALL
LACK A CHAMPION AND THAT EVIL SHALL NOT THRIVE OWOPPOSED.
H- D. Slater. Eaiter-ia-Chief ana controlling owner has directed The Herald for 15 Year;
G. A. Martin i News Editor.
Christmas
ntirnmuip I- At.- 1 ; a.m A wlat
CHX.ia JLBlAi IS LUC JJiailHWlilT; UOJ T.Ut. Ui "v .w . Jl 7 -a
spavined old and gray we uprise and upon the children beam playing like
a four-horse team till we see the' gladness gleam in their eyes. For a day
man shakes his years and the ancient chap appears playing with the laughing
dears on the floor; for a day our hearts are thawed by the warmth that's all
abroad and we loosen up the wad we adore. Far from all the business grind and
the ares that warp the mind for a day we're good and kind full of glee; for a
day we make life good to our little neighborhood for a day we're as we should
always be. We could bear the Christmas heart in the workday mill or mart
and from grouchiness depart if we'd try; we could wear the Christmas face in
our dingy trading place letting kindly smiles embrace passersby! Yes of griefs
we have a raft but away they might be laughed; we could work this Christmas
graft always bow if we'd only try to see how absurd our quarels be and the
Man of Galilee shows us how.
(Copyright by George AC Adams.) -WALT MASON.
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Reviving the
CHRISTMAS has become the great national holiday even more widely and
more vitally celebrated than Thanksgiving and Independence day. Being
first of all a great church festival the vast body of citizens immigrants as
well as natives are born and reared in the knowledge and love of Christmas. But
more and more as the years go by the day is taking on a new and broader
significance: that of a great national holiday upon which all the people are
moved to give expression to the best human sentiments and whose observance as
a festival of renewed good cheer and happy human contact has a profound effect
on the social life of the time.
In no way is tie new development of the Christmas festival more noteworthy
than in tie tendency of the cities to establish an annual public Christmas celebra-
tion with at least a public tree brilliantly decorated and plenty of music by
massed choirs. In this new enlargement of the Christmas appeal the people of
the United States are recognizing in a practical way the need of public play but
they are really only following the general spirit of European centuries wherein
no social institution has been more vital in its influence on the character and art
of the people than that of the Christinas festival.
Last year 50000 people massed around the municipal Christmas tree in
Madison square New York on Christmas eve and a week later on New Year's
eve 80000 filled the square singing to the music of many bands and led by
hundreds of choir singers. The immense tree that is now: set up -each year on
the lake front in Chicago is one of the great sights of the city with its 50 or 60
feet of towering height covered with sparkling ice deposited from spray and its
thousand twinkling lights of many colors.
So the municipal Christmas tree is spreading all over the country. And in its
wake there is aroused a new spirit of Christmas a new conception of the beauty
of the festival of gifts. With the tree comes singing and with the singing
awakening memories in hearts long dulled to tender sentiment.
Following the new arrival of the Christmas spirit has come a general revival
of the old custom of singing about the streets. One of the first towns to revive
the old custom was a small place on Long Island near New York where many
actors artists and other professional people live. Starting just with a few
men singers who stopped near the houses where people were known to be ill or
in trouble or grief and sang the old carols the idea has grown until a number of
little groups bow spend the midnight hour singing up and down tie streets each
singer wftrring a quaint red robe and cap and carrying a staff and a lantern of
ancient pattern.
New Jersey towns have had the custom for a generation or more. The choirs
in traditional costume wait in the churches until tie chimes tell midnight then as
the chimes play tie Christmas hymns tie singers issue forth and go about tie
streets singing the carols of the Babe of Bethlehem and of tie Shepherds who
watched their flocks by night and of the message of Peace and Good Will.
In Boston hundreds of men and women prominent in social and professional
life join in neighborly Christmas caroling. A number of groups are formed and J
these are later joined by tie ciurci choirs as services end. About tie streets
they go singing and when at midnight tie ciimes play tie familiar iymns
silvery toned trumpets play an oldtime "flourish" to announce the hour of tie
Nativity and the people have fallen into the habit of reverently pausing wher-
ever they be or whatever they be doing so as not to seem indifferent to tie
touching midnight ceremony.
Scores perhaps hundreds of cities had some sor of a municipal Christmas
this year. The number having 'street singing is still small but the custom is a
beautiful one and too good to go unused. One of the most necessary- things if
the custom is to become firmly reestablished is for someone to publish a new and
cheap edition of the old carols with words and musk so that there may be general
familiarity and participation. At present it is very hard to get the old songs in
any shape practical for general use. And even the old hymns have too largely
been replaced by new songs not half so simple so tender and so lovely.
It is to the old world we must go forxtie basis of this revival.
There is a wonderful opportunity for the cities and smaller communities all
over the country to revive tie old customs
Christmas period. While the festival is primarily a religious one it has long
since been broadened to appeal to men and women who make no pretence of being
religious and the festival of gifts has become the great annual holiday of the
people when the hearts of men are mellowed in the contemplation of others'
pleasure and when the children rule the ways of their elders and direct them into
the paths of good desire.
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Saving the
WHEN the currency bill finally became a law there was no panic no bank
failed or went out of the national system stocks did not drop Europe
did not "dump shiploads of American securities" into'Wall street and
things went on just about the same as before. True the number of men out of
employment in this country is probably the highest on record 100000 being re-
ported by the Associated Press as being out of work in the Pacific coast cities
alone. The number of unemployed has steadily increased since the new tariff act
went into effect. But the currency bill so far has not had any drastic destructive
effect as it certainly would have had if it had not been thoroughly amended in
many particulars during the last days of the debate.
A note of exceptional and most gratifying reassurance comes from the admin-
istration in the report of the secretary of commerce Mr. Redfield. His discussion
of the effect of the "trusts" on their own lines of trade and on general business
is unique in government reports and indicates the coming of a new understanding
of business problems and a real though slight tendency to get away from
academic theories.
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The debate between Mr. Clancy of the S. P. and senator Fall at the chamber
of commerce dinner the other night has already become a matter of comment all
over the country. Nobody was hurt and no doubt both men enjoyed the sport.
14 Years Ago Today
from The Herald This Date 1899.
K. J. Murray of Las Cruces is in the
city today.
Mrs. Carroll returned from Dallas
this evening.
Charles West returned from Las
Cruces this morning.
Mrs. C. Curtis and Mrs. J. H. Gra-
ham went to Alkmogordo yesleioay.
President C. B. Eddy of the White
Oaks went up the line this morning.
Maurv Kemp and judge John Harper
left this morning on the G. H- for a
hunting trip several miles down the
road.
A welcome Christmas present was
left at the house of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Y. Hadley by Santa Claus. It was a
baby girl.
Special treasury agent W. E. Pulliam
returned Saturday night from Nogales
here he has been installing collector
ldoey in his office
The pbjMcal and chemical laboratory
nnr MTM 3rn thrnWTI flWSV. and. thOUPh
Old Customs
for botb public and private use at tie
Pieces
of the El Paso High school is being
remodeled during the Christinas vaca-
tion under the direction of professor
Geo. Roach.
Lieut. Constant Cordier of the Bor-
der Rifles returned yesterday from Ft.
Leavenworth Kansas where he re-
nntl t otiAil -a aiinoccfiil atq minatinn
(""for the post of lieutenant in the U. S.
army.
At the regular meeting of El Paso
division number 69 Order of Railway
Conductors held In the hall on El Paso
street December 23 the officers for
1900 were elected. O. II. Baum was
elected legislative committee man.
The total assessed valuation in -El
Paeo is over $6000000. The rate of
taxation will be $1.75. "The total
amount rendered" said city assessor
Smith this morning "is $5350122. The
city's fiscal year does not begin until
after March 1.
The Christmas exercises of the First
Presbyterian church were very inter-
esting. The following participated:
Bruce MerilL Helen .New ell. Anna Shu-
ton Mabel Kraus Milton Newell Misses
Alice and Grace Marvin Ben Merrill
and IMgr.r Kavser F C. Morris of- I
ficiatea -s Santa Claus. 1
ABE MARTIN
It's' funny a woman don't shut a car
door once in a while without thinkin'.
Mrs. Myrt Wiley who left her husband
an 'twin babies .yisterday wore a beau-
tiful goin' away gown o' purple serge.
Too Ycung
The Dally Xovclctte.
Ob children -watch your mamma
Anil watch jour pcnus too.
They uNCd to make you slop a dance
They now are trjlnjr to do.
IT "WASN'T till he promised to show
her some new dances that she '.old
him he might come to see her. So
that Wednesday he came.
"UaYnma and papa want to meet
you" she tola him. "They are very
curious to see the new dances.V
"Delighted to have them look on
he lied and she called her parents.
"First I think I'll show you the Jack
Frost slide the very latest"
"What's that?" she asked.
"Oh you just skate along" he ex-
plained and showed her how while
papa and mamma looked on.
"Now I'll show you the Mexican
tango" he said.
"What's that?" she wanted to know.
"Just one revolution after another."
he told her and they did it and then
he said "and now. for the Glue Glide."
"What's that?" she queried. '
"One of the close ones" he replied
and they did it.
"S enough!" cried her father loudly.
"The entire exhibition has been dis-
graceful. Out of my house young man
and don't ever setfoot in it again!"
II.
The next day papa stopped In to see
the man who owned the sign which
fCrraiinns of t his
WE alwnjs picture Santn t'lnus ns
ruddy -plump and jolly
Snugly wrapped In fur-lined
coat gajly decked with holly;
"Whirling through the crln night n'r
Hhot lvlth bright Mnr-tivinkleM.
While beneath hlH reindeer' feet the
snowflnkc xenrccly crinkles.
The Snnta Claus vfe alivayn dream
benrx upou bin back
A bully. biirNting bountiful joy-
creating pack;
And if hli ChrlHtnin Ini-?onn huouIiI de-
plete his brimming store
All he need tlo Ik turn hU team and
speed right back for more.
The Real S
v i1 w--"
Achilles
BY GEORGE .FITCH.
Author of "At Good Old Slvrash."
a CIIILL.ES was a famous warrior
Pk who lived in the days when be-
- lieving things was the principal
amusement of the people. No one ever
saw Achilles' birth record but he is
said to have been the son of Thetis a
lady who lived in the sea and was
intimately acquainted wim mcuuaiuo.
Thetis realizing the unhealthiness of
the times took Achilles on the River
Styx and dipped him wetting every
part of him except the heel by which
she held him. This we are asked to
believe rendered Achilles invulnerable
except on the heel which was always
tender and subject to chilblains caus-
ing him great discomfort.
Thetis entered Achilles in the West
Point of those times and he grew up
to be a great fighter and excessively
fataLto his enemies. Fighting Achilles
was like hacking away at a Kansas
tornado with a cavalry sabre. It
amuses the hacker but didn't hurt
AchSUes and presently the hacker
would be taken back home in two or
more parts and insurance rates on per-
sonal enemies of the good looking
young warrior would go up another
notch.
' Achilles wnen sun young biubku
! with the Greeks under Agamemnon
ana went over iu aia xiiivi . .
make hash out of Paris and the Tro-
jans. For nine years he ravaged the
country around Troy mowing down'
men as if they had been chickweed
and becoming far more unpopular than
smallpox and other popular diseases of
the day. .Nowadays the young man
who puts stovelids under his vest and
brass knuckles on his fists and goes
out with this undue advantage to fight
his way to fame is looked upon with
considerable disfavor but nobody
seems to criticise Achilles and as
champion after champion bent his
sword on the -young man's case-hardened
hide and hastened up the flume
full of vain regrets the Grecian army
became madly enthusiastic and the
usual result happened.
Achilles' head swelled out of shape
and he began to boss Agamemnon. He
demand- more gate receipts than a
rising v ung prize fighter and when
he couldn't get it he sulked in his
tent for months playing the harmonica
while the Greeks were being chased
rapidly around the walls of Troy by
their reviving foes. Finally Patro-
stated: "All the modern dances taught.
We stop at nothing."
"How about teaching my wife and
me some of the very latest the Jack
Frost and the Glue Glide for instance?"
he said. .
-(Articles liy tills noted writer are reg-
ular features of The 131 Paso Herald.)
WOIIAS OH VXGES MID ABOUT
GOIXG TO FIUSOX CHRISTMAS DAY
Seattle Wash. Dec. 25 Mrs. Linda
Burfield Hazzard the'" socaIed "star-
vation doctor" who is under sentence
to serve two to 20 years in state pris-
a am nn nnln ixvhtaw tn nQliattlW Vl
1 death of Miss Claire Wilson a wealthy
aula Clans
BY HAT COFPMAX
Noted Carto-inW a- " -lures of The
B
UT. alns the RKAI.?mnta Clnus Is
often thin aud vienk.
And no finale of the -nintry
nir brlngM color to her cheek;
And oflen on the Christmas eve the
ChrlstiiinH nnlrlt mocking
She nee beslile her empty hand the
tattered empty stocking.
Bat cliililixh hope is lohcr-llvcd and
childish fnlth Is ntrong
And the stockings wait each Chrlntmns
leMt Santa come ulong;
So ehr fklniim nnj tnres and struggles
to Bet the hnlicM n toy.
For Flint's IIKR cold and hunger to
her children's dream and joj. i
v i&e v55SSsssssSfc.i iirumu. -s-' ..iiBmsi
clus an old college chum of Achilles
borrowed his armor and .succeeded in
getting himself killed. This so enraged
Achilles that he went forth being care-
ful first to rustle up another suit ol
armor and after killing Hector the
times around the walls of Troy by the I
ioo- whil he was finishing his un
mannerly job Paris a young Trojan
T.. ..- 4-nnrn nrhn KaH OQllSAd t H
man auuui .uf " ....-
whole war by eloping with another (
.
"Fastening the armor nronnd his giz-
I zard Instead of nronnd his heel."
! i
man's wife shot a poisoned arrow into
Achilles' bum heel and he died in great I
agony to the great relief of all present. I
i Achilles was made a god by the t
Greeks and was greatly admired. We
cannot agree with them on three
counts. First he was a cad for fight-
ing with a sure thing. Second he was
a coward for fighting in armor when
he didn't need it. Third he was a fool
for fastening the armor around his
i gizzard instead of around his heel. He
' was as foolish as the statesman who
spends All his life refusing interviews
to newsoaoer men. and then writes a '
letter to a personal friend with a post-
mark reading "Burn this."
(Copyrighted by George Matthew
I Adams).
(Articles by this noted writer are reg-
ular features of The EI Paso Herald.)
English woman whose last appeal to
the supreme court was refused changed
her mind about entering prison on
Christmas day and sent word that she
would not set out for Walla Walla un-
til Saturday.
VICE PRESIDENT HOST IJT
PROXY TO SENATE PAGES
Washington D. C Dec. 25. Vice
president Marshall was host by proxy
at dinner to 16 page boys of the senate.
.Edwin A. Halsey. chief of the pages
sat at the head of the table in place Of
the vie e president who had left Wash-
ington for Indianapolis. The page boys
ieceived many Christinas remem-
brances from senators.
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El Pi-o Herald.)
SUna-"
SO when yon think of Santa Clnnfi
the one who's plump and jolly
The one whoN kuiir in fur-lined
cont and smiles through wreaths of
holly
The one who of his plenty lavishes
Chrlstninn joys.
Where jojs abound nlrendy on favored
girls and bojs
Oh don't forget the others the weary
on en hdiI worn
t ho rentier of their scanty store to
brighten Christmas morn;
Vnd In the pleasant bustle of this hnppy
scnNOu pniis?
To lend a htind nf helpfulness to the
RU 1L Santa Claus.
WEX JONES.
$
" 1 his Is My Birthday Anniversary"
WHEN Gen. Booth desired at one time to send a greeting by telegram
and cablegram to all the Salvation army posts in the world and
at the same time felt the need' of saving expense he aek&4L a
single word to express his thought and that was the word Others. The
spirit of Gen. Booth's message is found in the Christmas story. It is in
doing for others that we find our Christmas day happiness.
The names of the El Paso boys and girls fdrtunate enough to have bee
born on a Christmas day are:
Mary Epstein 13.
Alvis Stafford Cochrane 15.
Christa Lovekidy 13.
Marv Pitman. 11.
Norman Hamilton 9.
Each one of the above named young folks ean secure a ticket f tie
Unique theater admitting two by applying to "Miss Birthday- at The eraM
office The tickets are presented by The Herald with the eofflpltaeats ol we
season.
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Christmas Ancient Feast
Constantlus Observed the Day But
It Was a Pagan Festival In
Britain; Signifies Magi's
Offering.
Oy FTedcric J. Haskln
WASHINGTON D. C. Dec. 25.
-Christmas is universal through-
out Christendom and it is ob-
served by Christians sojourning in
heathen and pagan countries but the
menus on the Christ child's natal day
are as varied as are the countries
themselves. While we are stowing
away all that for which the dyspepsia
tablet doubtless was createa what
viands and wines will cause similar
havoc in Merrie England in Germany
in France in Latin America? Whc
started this habit of Christmas gorg-
ing anyway? ..
Oddly enough it seems now the set-
ting of Christ's birthday as of Decem-
ber 25 and the custom of feasting on
that day as a tribute to Christ came
together by no design. Indeed when
the birthday of Christ was held to be
any one of a number of other dates
notably January 6 or March 28 or
April 19 or 20. or May 20. or Novem-
ber 17 the idea of gormandizing on
the birthday of the Saviof was repudi-
ated by early Christians. The sage
Origen in his eighth homily on Lev-
iticus scorns the very idea of "keep-
ing the birthdav of Christ as If he
were a king Pharaoh." Disputants
were discussing the dates previously
mentioned before December 25 was
put forward by certain men claiming
to speak with authority. The first
authentic mention of the day now ac-
cepted throughout the world was a
Latin chronographer of A. D. 354
which was first published in its en-
tirety by Mommsen in 1850. It says:
"Year 1 after Christ m the consulate
of Caesar and Paulus the Lord Jesus
Christ was born on the 25th of De-
cember a Friday and 15th day of the
new moon." Even here however noth-
ing is said of feasting on that day.
Ancient Feast Shares Honor of Day.
Now. December 25 was a Mithraic
feast day in those olden times. Hence
those who believed that Christ was
born on December 25 found that the
ancient feasu shared the honors of n
day. The two festive occasions might
eventually have merged solely for this
reason but the fact is that the adding
of a feast to oilier ceremonies or cus
toms attendant upon the-eeiebration of j.
Christ s birth was due to the tneoio-
gians. As the custom of baptizing
adults waned both west and east in )
favor of infant baptism those who
celebrated the feast of the Epipnany
gradually conceded as baptism came j
n. viIah iki4 an llat- irk human OYTUr1 I
AAA 1.. hk cniritnoi oioment An-
tered. coincident with baptism soon nished an excellent illustration of what
after birth This was the theory of rseverence and honesty of purpose may
those who believed that divinity was M .- . . . . irc. "'
present in the Chirst child from the . accomplish in the face of almost rasur-
beginning and did not come only with J ir.ountable obstacles. At the age of 14
his baptism in his young manhood at yOUng Roach landed in New Yosk penni-
the hands of John the Baptist as was f.' m -n uw. -
asserted bv others. As the baptismal .ess- f working three years in an
feast of the Epiphany lost ground iron foundry he removed to Illinois
favor was transferred to December 25 where with $500 of his savings be pur-
wwmb."'.'? thC ChriStma3i chased some land which subsequently be-
is Started by Constantlus. j eome the site of the city of Peoria. The
As early as A. D. SJ3 Christmas failure of a business partner a few
fcSjSZ &S&S2? it!--ths later again left hhn pennfless.
began to take hold in the west in -Mr. Moach returned to JsTew York and to
Thrace to be exact spreading east- J his work in the iron foundry. When he
ward rapidly: Following the example . Jaid saTed $1000 he airf fd
of Constantius the patriarchs of Alex- . .kKvj ;j ....
andria Crete. Jerusalem and Antiocn
ImnAllAJ thAii- fAllnuravn tv .In lilrAwittA
aa timA WAVit An H'hfk iltita nf ita nAT '
manent adoption in Jerusalem was 410
at the behest of bishop JuvenaL
Formerly a Pagan Feast Day.
A fact of great interest to Ameri-
cans who inherit their Christmas cus-
toms and bill of fare from the English
is that December 25 was a pagan feast
day in Britain centuries before the
Christianity. Bede is authority for the
statement that "the ancient people of
the Angli" celebrated December 25 as
the beginning of their new year and
he insinuates that the night of that
day was given over to doubtful cere-
monies which were called modranecht.
or mother's night. Either from mod-
esty or his natural indifference to
pagan doings Bede fails to describe
the ceremonies in question. The jolly
times around the Christinas board
were put under the ban by an act
pushed through parliament by the
Puritans in 1644. on the around that
it was a heathen festival. The day
was observed by fasting until Charles
II revived the custom of feasting air
though the Scots adhered to tne Puri-
tan view until long afterwards.
Rnrly Chrlstmcses Horrible Orgies.
The Christmas feasts of tne eaily
Saxons were horrible orgies. In com-
mon with Jill their feasts but the
Christmas dinner of the English peo-
ple today is about what it has been for
generations e. e . hot spiced ale called
wassail from ancient times a baron
of beef roast turkey stuffed with
forcemeat roast turkey stuffed with
with sage and onions plum pudding
with brandy mince pie peacock pie
more wassail and then ' snapdragon.
which is brandy poured over raisins
and set afire. Peacock pie is always
put at the end of the table It is pro-
fusely decorated with the beautiful
but now usefully unhappy bird's head
and neck. All the plumage the cause
of the peacock's proverbial vanity is
attached the magnificent taiKcovering
all of that part of the table. The pop-
ular Christmas beverage wassail. Is
always drunk hot. and is served in a
huge bowl. Mine host or ye honored
guest drinks first and then starts the .
bowl around the table with the words.
"It is the ancient fountain of oood
feeling when all hearts meet to-
gether." This quaint custom has been
handed down from the days of the
Saxon for it is recorded that the fair
Rowena came into the presence of
king Vortigern with a cup of gold
filled with wine and saiji as she
bowed low "Waes hael (wassail)
hlaford cyning." The modern English
version of this is. "Be of health loid
king."
Minifies Offering of Magi.
How man in England and the
United states who eat their fill of
plum puddinr ever December a
know Its legend' It' is suprosed to
signify the three fold offering of the
Magi gold frank-incense and myrrh.
Then there is the mince pie. It is sup-
posed to represent the sacred manger
of Bethlenei.i In the old das a favor-
ite delicjuv was ule douMi. which
nit ant fi.it .ikes in ide in thi -.h ipe of
a babv With thi hinds folded on the
Lewis Epstein IS.
Mary Hill 16.
James Vaseer 17.
Franeh Peach 17.
Esther LaastoH 4.
breast the eyes being represnted by
currants.
A pleasant custom in the nort or
England and Scotland which has fallen
into disuse is that which obligates iae
wealthy folk to serve to all their poor
neighbors and tenants an "himKuwu
meat pie fashioned like a coffin. In
some sections the shape taken Is that
ne n niir. around which lighted eandtoe..
are placed so as to be in front of each-
guest-
a r-intnm which still prevails
Cumnar Hrfordshire is the free dis-
tribution of beer bread and cheese to
all who call at the vicarage. The
boar's head decked with rosemary
blossoms still graces the center or
many an English table although it is
a rarity in New England nowadays.
The groaning boards of Queen's col-
lege at Oxford are never without it
and it was always a feature of queen
Victoria's Christinas dinner.
Scandinavians Like Rice Padding.
In Scandinavia fish rice pudding
spare ribs and rich delicacies made of
butter sugar and milk compose the
average Christmas spread which is
enjoyed as a rule on Christmas eve
and not on the 25. The fist is first
prepared in a lye of wood ashes anil
is allowed to soak in water for two
weeks before Christmas. The rice pud-
ding generally is a huge affair upon
which all hands fall with great gusto.
The fish preparation belongs especially
to Norway but it is no stranger to the
yule time feasts of Denmark and
Sweden. The Scandinavians continue
to observe the ceremony of lighting
the yule log from a portion of the yule
log which was used the year before.
The Normans carried this custom to
England but in this form it is no
longer general there.
An entire article could be devoted to
Germany the home of the Christmas
tree and "the fatherland oL most of
Christendom's yule time practices ami
legends including that of gift giving.
Ana when it comes to feasting -on that
day of hallowed festivity the children
of the kaiser are the most favored ot
mortals. Fortunate indeed is the way-
farer who celebrates the day when
saint Nicholas Feigns within the
boundaries of the German empire.
In France Italy Spain Caba 'and
the countries of South and Ceneral
America Christmas is more of a re-
ligious holiday and gift exchanges are
not common. However the week to
January 1 is one of friendship and
good cheer in which enemies are
reconciled and all men are brothers.
Friday: Butterflies.
100 Years Ago Today
OXE HUNDRED years ago today in
county Cork Ireland was born
1 ""' John Roaeii. 'whose carpr fnr-
i """ lrau mcmcciu jc-
tory. The business prospered from the
i scan oui in 1000 a oouer explosion ae-
stroyed the works and Mr. Roach was
again financially ruined. With borrowed
capital he rebuilt the plant added to it
by purchase and in a few years pos-
sesed one of the great engine and ship-
building concerns in the country. He
constructed the ht.gest engines haflt in
the Unifced States also the first com-
pound engines while his shipyards at
Chester Pa. turned out scores of ves-
sels. Mr. Rcaeh died in New York ia
1S87.
MABEL STERNER
Wnen Mabel Sterner
gets a present
Her rude remarks
are roost unpleasant.
"I don't like thisl"
"1 wanted thteJ"
"Yours h the best!"
and so k goes.
How can she be
so mean and hateful?
She Is a Goop
Goops are ungrateful.
Don't Be A Goopl
(li.alicinv f this "S -ilci! CnrtooniM are
regular features of The IU Paso Herald.
G -O O P S.
y GELETT BURGESS
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