Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1950 — Page 21

THURSDAY, DECEMBEK 21, 19i0

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ll nit rd States Jj CkriUmat Carol ‘-Alerting Place’ IN TOWNS AND CITIRB threeghout America, to ahurchee, pubße square! and atoag htoM«Abed streets, over mintOM Os radlet and public address systems eosne toe strain's ot the werWa Yuletlde melodies—old as bygone eenterlee. young as "I'm dreaming of a white Ctatal mas. . ." The United Staten, meeftog place es carols from aft CTotetendons, contributes yearly to the traditions of OctoMMa music by wriilag now songs and popularising sM Obes. The carols of Europe arrived with the peoples who came to America to settle. “O Come, AU To Fiithful” (Adesto FMetesl, eventually translated into lit languages and dialects, belonged to M «M nation but was the common gift at the continent. From Germany came Luther's hymn for children, "Away in a manger, no crib for a bed. . ." England sent "God rest you, merry gentlemen, let nothing yon dismay. . .” And France provided the beautiful "Cantlque de Noel” or "Q Holy Night” Three American composers did much to revive the ancient Custom by writing new songs which are, today, among the world's best beloved carols. "ft raae Upon a MMaigM Clear" srue the laipiritiia sf Edmuad ft. dears, a Musaarhesetts Unitarian minister, to IMSLess than 10 years Inter Dr. John Henry Hopktoa. dr.. Bptecopal reetor from Wllllamspert. Pa., composed both the words and mesic for “We Three Ktage of Orient Are.“ Perhaps the best-known American carol. "O Little Town of Bethlehem," was written in KM by Phillips ■ Brooks in Philadelphia The young Episcopal mmfrter, later bishop of Massachusetts, was inspired to write the poem by th* memory of a trip to the Holy. Land two yeary ear her. The rollicking "Jingle Bens," though non-rellgious in theme, also came from the pen of a churchman, John Pierpont, and has enjoyed almost a century of popularity. More to Mistletoe Than You'd Think In America the high - hanging mistletoe is treasured chiefly ter its power to invite a kiss from a pretty girt. The bulk of the holiday decoration comes from the Carolinas. Tennessee and the southwest where off-season agricultural workers gather the branches for shipment throughout the nation. lYie white - berried plant also serves as a winter food supply for mockingbirds, robins, and wanwings. These small birds are responsible tor the spread of the tree-damaging parasite. After eating the berries the birds clean their beaks on the trees, firmly planting the mistletoe seeds they do not eat. The tap root of the seedling pierces the tenderest portions of the tree—young branches or buds—and the tree sap Is drawn into the thick leaves and transludual characters of deslruatlve kiDcr and promoter of love, superstition has it that the plant can switch roles in a twinkto. For inStance. If the yuletide mistletoe bough isn't removed from a house by Candlemass Eve (February If, each leaf left will produce a goblin to plague ,lhe careless occupants during the year. Christmas Saasaa Evakes Spirit at Trust, Faith Indicative of the Integrity and trustfulness prevailing throughout the world at Christmas time, people of Holland often entrust gifts to total strangers requesting the passerby to leave the package on auch-and-sueh a doorstep. Half-way across the globe. Negro families in Virginia long have observed the table-covered-with-e---sheet custom. The dining room table Is covered with—a sheet. Names of everyone In the houkte hold are written on of paper and pinned to the sheet. Gifts are sneaked under the sheet when everybody is Supposed to be asleep, and even the youngest child refrains from 'peeking' until the gifts are unveiled Christmas morning. * RK.HT FOR THE BOLE . . . Flaying oanta Cleos ter yoMg vtellms of peUa and cerebral palsy, to Spera star LaerHs Melrhier, shewn reading a I brittle as btory to Themes Freetown end Fotrtete Fwlto.

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New Year Observed March 25 la England Before Calendar Change Frier to England's adoptlou us the- Gregorian calendar in I'sl New Year's bay was observed on Marek M, ami of course; New Year's eve was March 24. The English always had a big time o* New Tear's Eve and after the Puritan government sboHsbed Christmas and absolute ly forbade any solemnisation or! celebration thereof, the people seated aR their holiday spirit on. the New Year. — Even after the restoration of the Btnarts brought about a re rival of CbriMmae customs ani traditions, Christmas never rent-

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talned its former eminence, but Now Yeur w«M right "Along. »ur wiring PurlUnlsiu and later, in 1752. the switch in <aleudar>- auu the date us its observance mficectcicifiCKtct wwto 1 w w'wto'to’wtotoa I T 1 A i SL

p-J&p. Aioort, cdulltor " 0[ 'Might JSe[ or *> ! W’aJ edikamed ol 3t 1 1 Everyone knows and loves the ■ !! | poem which begins— K Twas the niglrt before Cbririmas, when all through the I b *f r *i Not a ereatare was stirrlag, not Seveo a mease:— but the man who wrote it. Dr. : ! Clement Clarke Moore, was airhamed of it and would not allow it to be published under his name 4 for more than 20 years i i i>r. Moore, an aloof professor of S' Greek and Oriental literature In the Episcopal Seminary in New J York, wrote the poem on Christ-, [l mas eve 1822 and reed it *» his

seven children. He bad not planned for the poem to go further than his own family, but a relative who was visiting the Moores put a copy to her dairy. The next year the relative's father sent it to a newspaper. Other newspapers printed the | jingles and they quickly became • known all ever the couatey. I%e dignified Dr. Moore was embarrassed and considered it beneath a man of his scholastic standing to be the author of children's jingle*.— Twenty-two years later, however, he finally publicly admitted authorship of the jingles and it was published in book form under bis name for the first time. Ironically, the professor's serious works are forgotten today He Is mentioned in encyclopedias because he wrote the celebrated -Christmas verses.

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