Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1954 — Page 26

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Ft Christmas A Scrapbook Compiled by Clark Kinnaird fl /CHRISTMAS trees came to this country from Ger- fl Lu many. Homesick Hessian mercenaries set them up fl in their camps in our War of Independence. Gayly deco- fl rated firs and other evergreens were familiar sights C I thereafter wherever Germans settled. The custom be- fl came national in the 1840*a on the crest of a tidal wave fl of immigration from northern Europe. & In ancient times, Teutonic peoples worshipped Odin's fl sacred oak. Missionaries, who had been instructed by fl the Church not to destroy pagan customs which could fl be woven into the fabrio of Christian ceremony, per- fl suaded the people to substitute for the oak an evergreen fl tree decorated in honor of the Christ Child. Much later, fl Martin Luther fostered the Christmas tree. fl TO THE FIR YrEE ' fl O Fir-tree green! O Fir-tree green! ■ jg Four leaves are constant ever, i fl Not only in the summer time, ; — A fl But through the winter's snow and j ■ jANk fl rime jfc M O Fir-tree green! O Fir-tree green! JOSRm j fl £ Fou're fresh and green forever. 3 fig O Fir-tree green! O Fir-tree green! fl £ / still shall lore you dearly! fl How oft to me on Christmas night fa W Four laden boughs have brought aMDRMfa fl W delight. fl £ O Fir-tree green! O Fir-tree green! fl y 1 still shall love you dearly. fl y —From the German fl M Hans Christian Andersen, Henry Van Dyke, Eugene fl £ Field,; Lucretia P. Hale and Christopher Morley wrote fl S stories about Christmas trees that it is a pleasure to re- fl read each December. Three of them can be found in fl fig The Home Book of Christmas, by May Lamberton fl gscQhristmas y A Scrapbook Compiled by Clark Kinnaird fl jjrf yrrHO first coupled “merry” with “Christmas” in the -fl g W coinage of the most familiar seasons, greeting? fl Sr Perhaps George Wither, 16th century English poet who fl W wrote: fl Sf "For Christmas comes but once a year, fl And then they shall be merry. fl Hang Sorrow, care will kill a cat, - ■ y And therefore let’s be merry.” to sis An Irish poet was moved to comment: J M "For Christmas comes but wanst a year, fig And when it comes it brings good cheer, ’ -S £ And when it goes it laves us here, ? y And what'll wc do for the rest o’the year f” K £ . The extent to which the present national character of M w Christmas observance is of recent origin is indicated by fl fie turning back to a popular encyclopedia of a century ago. fl £ The following is the complete entry on Christmas in tog 9 The New American Cyclopedia, 16 vols., 1859 edition: fl W "in the United States, since the Puritans were at first fl W stem opponents of Christmas pastimes, the day has been fl £ less generally celebrated in New England than in the fl y middle and southern states. It has been made a legal fl 2? holiday in some of the states, and is usually observed fl •Sf— bya-ceUgiouesercice and by making presents, and not fl ~ £w infrequently by trimming houses and churches with fl £ evergreens, and by imitating the German custom of fl 1? Christmas trees.” fl If This Cyclopedia has no reference to St Nicholas-or fl Ktf Santa Claus. fl W This [-»] was the fl Jj? popular concept fl £ of Santa Claus in fA those days. It is ~ the fl tiM-d by Harper's ' fl g .-Magazine with Its fl Is publication of < fl y ('. Moore's “A fl 3/ Visit from St. -. fl 3? Nicholas” in the fl Christmas issue, " fl Ujf 183 I • joyous £c)hrlstinas tor I,el ua hi (he humble spirit of the shepherds* find renewed inspiration in the message of Christmas. E. F. GASS STORE ■“ ' ‘ I

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