Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1925 — Page 15

FRIDAY, DEC. 25,1925

SCHOOL CHRISTMAS - The T T __ _ O History of the Day We Jq Are Celebrating. OwTiiflil. Compton's Pictured Enerolepedln restore Service

1 1— , 1 ROM the early centuries of In I Christianity, the anniversary • 1 *of the birth of Christ has been celebrated by a special church festival. In early England this festival was called Christes messe, meaning "Christ’s mass,” whence we get our word "Christmas.” At first the date of the celebration varied in different places, some churches observing it in December, others in January, April, or May, because of the absence of historical record as to the exact date of Christ’s birth. Jan. 6 was the usual date observed in the eastern church, as it still continues to be in the Armenian church. The celebration of Dec. 25 spread to most parts of the Christian world in the fourth and fifth centuries, but differences in the calendar still cause differences in the time of the celebration. One of the causes that worked to establish the new festival on Dec. 25 was probably the fact that this day marked the beginning of the great winter solstice festival of the pagan Gauls, Germans and Britons. As in other instances where pagan festivals were replaced by Christian, many of the old pre-Christian customs and symbols were taken over. The yule log, holly, mistletoe and wassail bowl are all relics of pagan observances. Greatest Fete During the Middle Ages, Christmas became the greatest of popular fetes. Churches were adorned with rustio decorations and quaint little plays were gliven portraying events connected with the birth of Christ and his early years. Even today such nativity plays are still performed every Christmas In some of the old cities of Spain. Some of the Christmas carols sung in our churches and at our community Christmas tree celebrations have come down from these early plays. Nowhere was the Christmas festival celebrated with more pomp and merriment than in England. In Shakespeare’s time the festivities lasted until Twelfth Day or Epiphany, twelve days after Christmas day. Work was given over and all, high and low, old and young, gave themselves over to feasting and merrymaking. The Puritans, however, regarded Christmas observance as a relic of Catholicism, and in 1644 Parliament went so far as to prohibit any festivities and ordered the day to be kept as a fast. Puritans of New England also passed laws forbidding the observance of Christmas. After the Restoration, the old observances came back, somewhat subdued. The jovial old Dutch settlers of New York, however, brought with them across the ocean the joyous observances of the fatherland. We of the New World owe our Santa Claus to them, for this jolly old saint is none other than St. Nicholas or San Nicholas—the patron saint of ohildren —as pronounced In Dutch. Children’s Holiday Today the observance of Christmas is well-nigh universal through the Christian world. Everywhere it is above all the children’s holiday. In England and America the little folks hang up their stockings In a row before the fireplace, and Santa Claus, we are told, rushing down from the nqrth in a sled drawn by reindeer, scrambles down the chimseys and fills them from the great pack on his back. In some of the Baltic lands the gifts are supposed to be brought by the Christ child (Kris Kringle) himself. In France the children place wooden shoes on the hearth to receive the presents which “Bonhomme Noel (Father Christmas) brings. Norwegian children have a lot of fun hunting their new toys which have been tucked away in unexpected places. In Italy presents are drawn from the “Urn of Fate," a custom which originated in the Urn of Fate of the ancient Romans.

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Some of the parcels are blanks, and so there is great excitement at the drawing, and disappointment at first for the little folks who do not understand that In the end there will be gifts for all. Christmas Carols Almost every land of Christendom has its own Christmas Carols. In England “waits” sing under windows on Christmas eve, as they have done for countless Christmases. In Russia the ancient Kolyada songs, once> sung to pagan gods, now dedicated to Christian saints are sung about the streets. The French Noel songs and the famous German “Kristlieder” are hear wherever there is Christmas musio. In our own land, choir boys and school children hold carol parties and go about singing these old-time songs for “shv.t-ins” and other unfortu nates. The Christmas tree with its golden star and lights, and its imitation frost-trimmed boughs, is as much a part of the celebration as is the Christmas song. Some trace its wigin back to Roman days, but its first appearance as a regular in stitution was along the Rhine some time in the sixteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the fashion spread all over Germany and by fifty years later had conquered Christendom. In the New World, where people gathered from all the Christian countries of the earth, many of the special observances of various kinds have become a part of our celebration. Thus the practice of preparing a bird’s Christmas tree supplied with bits of apple and suet, cookies, nuts and seeds, and placing It outside in a safe place for our feathered friends has grown from the old Scandinavian custom of placing a sheaf of grain on a tall pole in the dooryard for the birds on Christmas morning. The elaborate street festivals of Italy and Spain, with their bonfires and fireworks, are in the United States, often replaced by the community Christmas tree. A great illuminated evergreen Is set up in the

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