Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1949 — Page 13

L dA y, DECEMBER 22. 1949

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FZ.; ? ♦ * ■ * • r j END OF THE BAI.NBOW ... The rainbow of at least one homan desire bad fulfillment at the end when Judy Sue Warscbauer found herself face to face with the doll of her dreams—and It was the very one she wanted for Chlrstmao. Au /4SU U olU4tfM4 ( “S Rojdertvom Xristovym.** That's what a Russian would say to you if you were in Russia on Christmas day and he wished to extend the season’s greetings. The phrase is the Russian’s way of saying: "Merry Christmas.** In the past, the Russian’s Christ* mas was closely associated with his church; but how the day is observed now that the religious life has been subjugated in the Soviet, one would have to be behind the ’’iron curtain” to know. But It was not always like that. In other days, the Russian Christmas was much like the Ukrainian. There was • Santa Claus known as •'Dedushka Moros” and there were traditional gifts of red boots for children and golden slippers for young girls. In sertaig parts of the country the "baboushka” (grandmother! was the legendary dispenser of gifts. According Io one story, she repented of unkindness and ever since has tried to make amends by distributing gifts to children at Christmas. il l IVOIUTION I Os I I % Christmas has rolled around once again and Banta Clans with round red cheeks. Jolly smile and chunky figure looks the same as he did nearly 90 years ago. His creator was Thomas Nast, one of America's greatest cartoonists. During the enrly 1860's he was asked to Illustrate Clement Clark Moore's poem, A Visit to St. Nicholas, bettor known to us as •' Twas The Night Before Christmas.” The result was Santa Claus as we know him. Santa's creator waa born In Bavaria In IBM, son of a musician in a Bavarian army band. When be was a fat little boy of six, Thomas’ father left Germany to enlist in the United Stales navy, and Thomas* mother brought the boy to New York to Hve. Along about the time stocky Tom- ( my was 1J he landed his first Job as , an illustrator for Leslie's Weekly at ' M a week. By the time he was » he was sent to England by the New York Illustrated News to sketch the Heenan-Sayars fight, an outstanding sports event of the day. In IM2 he Joined the staff of Harper's Weekly and began the series of emblematic drawings which continued throughout the Civil War. From those he created certain trademarks that have been the inspiration of cartoonists down to the present—notably the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey. Famous as the political symbols are today, Nast's Santa Claus probably holds first place in. the hearts of Americans. Before Nast's day, a few artists had drawn Santa on one occasion or another, but could j not seem to agree on how the old J gentleman should look. Nast changed all that. Be located Santa's home at the North Pole and gave him a sleigh drawn by reindeer. He drew the familiar, fat, merry old fellow with red eheeks and white beard, dressed in red. nearing a rap and boot*, carrying a park of toys and smoking a short pipe. The artist then gave Santa a spy-glass so that during the year he might pick out the good children from the bad. and also a big book in which to write their names aad keep their records. This conception of Santa Claus first appeared tn IMB. Since that time, the pictured Santa has been the same, although the spy glass and pipe teem to have ban grepped by the way.

4A ;-tnenca/ne ' TTlenf l\g. K J Legend not only has identified the Wise Men as Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar, it has crowned them and given them the kingdoms of Tarsus, Arabia and Ethiopia. It has symbolised their gifts as symbolic of what Jesus was to become—gold tor a king, frankincense for a high priest and myrrh for a great physician. The Gospel text's specific wise men from the east logically identifies them with Zoroastrianism—an ancient monotheistic religion of Persia. Zoroastrian priests were called Magi; they were powerful in public and private life since they, and they alone, possessed the priestly mysteries involved in the worship of Mazda—who represented the Zoroastrian power for good. The Magi may or may not have been fabulously wealthy: St. Mat- i thew does not elaborate their treasures nor the amount of gold, frankincense and myrrh which they presented to the Christ Child. The gifts may have been mere tokens of their treasures, or the sum and substance thereof. And if they were soothsayers, mystics and possibly clairvoyants they were also truly wise— in as much as they did not return to Herod, but departed into their own country by a different route. ■ " ■' —

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