Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1950 — Page 53

“EACH DAY 1 think I can stick it out another * day and ‘sure enough, I can.” : Miss Ruth Smith of the Park Board and chief worrier for the Christmas musical

signs, despite what the thermometer reads, to a chipper season for Miss Smith. Most nt.-to a lady wha spent six weeks in bed ar fighting pneumonia and who vowed she 't be out in the cold this year. ® ¢

YOU'D. THINK a person would learn after taking a count of nine. Most persons, yes. Miss no. : 1 asked her the other day why she had broken her promise to friends and is out in the snow

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“It doesn’t seem right for me to asked all these choral groups to stand here and sing while i loll around a warm office or in Mr. Kreke’s office,” she answered, (William F. Kreke is the superintendent of the Monument.) ...She also argued this is a much better year than last despite the cold. Last year there was rain and the temperature went up and down. ; ° .

=~ TO BETTER understand Miss Smith's interest 4n Circle Christmas programs you have to, go back to 1944 when the Monument was decorated with a few small Christmas trees, no lights or other trinkets and a total of 12 singing groups made with the music.. A public address system seemed too much to even think about. : :

Can't stay away... Miss Ruth Smith saw Circle carol from a few boughs of holly

ing grow and a fra la to 1200 singers for a day's program.

Americana By Robert Ruark

+ NEW YORK, Dec. 20—The sweet season of peace on earth, good will to men, seems a little less hung with holly this year, as mayhem is festooned all about, and sound and fury draped

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straint of man to be formidably muscular in the presence of other men is as evident as in the old tough years when the Italians were blooming bomb-roses on the .Ethiops, and when the taut biceps were being worn in Europe. There appears to be little room for measured discussion any more. Sen. McCarthy takes _@ punch at Drew Pearson, writer, then, in his usual breezy fashion, MeCarthy accuses the wearers of the hats Pearson plugs of favoring communism if they happen to wear Pearson's brand. This was said, of course, under the cloak of nal immunity, and so is not subject to a libel suit. It is one of the first times in history that a hat has been charged with complicity in global destruction.

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THE ANIMALS, also, have been conscious of tension in the world. I was duck hunting recently, and shot a she-mallard as she approached the blind. Duck fell into the blind, hit guide in chest, “knocked him tail-over-tincup into his canoe. This demonstrates that even the dead are malevolent, this year.

of violence. A mass-con--

be turned over to someone and as the time came to Miss Smith merrily floated into Most choral groups sing for 15 and at a time that is agreeable chairman of program and to singers. On sion there are unscheduled performances. Three years. ago the house mother of the Lutheran Children’s Home, 3310 E. Washington St., brought without advance notice the children to the Monument to sing Christmas carols. She explained they had heard the program on the radio and wanted to do their part.

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They brought no music, no accompanist, just -

the will to sing. Miss Smith played the piano, as usual, with her .gloves on: and the youngsters sang to their hearts’ content. : ® © A GROUP of teen-agers gave a program one evening about 11:30. When a Monument guard questioned them, they explained that at a meeting their club voted to sing on the Circle. That night seemed like a good time to get it over with. He let them sing. : On one of the prettiest nights Miss Smith can remember, when the snowflakes were as large as half dollars, a group of blind children sang carols. She said it almost made her cry. The habit of playing the piano with gloves began when it was necessary to do something to keep warm. Often she would chip the ice off the piano keys and then pound them with her gloved hands to work up some circulation. ® © #

RECENTLY Miss Smith had 1200 singers in one day. To some that would have been a madhouse, a chore. To her it was a happy day. And ghe never tires of hearing all the familiar carols. Mr. Kreke came over to where we were standing and said: “There are nine of us here at the Monument and I gave orders to everyone that the first time Miss Smith coughs or starts to get hoarse, she is to be shackled and taken home.” Miss Smith laughed and said she felt fine. She was warm, too. Why shouldn't she be, one of the 75 groups was singing “Silent Night” and doing a bang-up job. Miss Smith didn’t even know what ‘day it was let alone the temperature.

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Je ne sais quoi, and may some day become a stock flavor, like raspberry. * © ¢

THIS WAS the year when the President of the United States threatened to kick a music eritic—in--the-groin;—at-least-for inference, and directly promised him a bloody nose and a bruised eye. This was the year when the Army and Navy football teams, having at each other in Philadelphia, appeared to be fighting Communists instead of rival military academies. On the TV I saw at least one Navy gridder square off and knock an Army man kicking with a punch in the chin. No penalty, either. Disenchantment was abounded. Miss Elizabeth Taylor, popularly suspected to be the prettiest girl in the world, has announced that her idyll with young Nicky Hilton, the hotel heir, has been something less than fun, and has gone home to mother. Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, his dewy bride of 11 years, have quit their melded blessedness. : :

The long-distance telepho t. were tired of conducting

co-responden matrimony over it. Down in Florida the Southern Bell also took the rap for a bookie inves- . tigation. Charges were that bookies got phones easier than other folks. : From the conversations I have heard round the country lately, nearly everyone's nerves seem edged. Hoary reservists are talking war, as they talked it years ago. Youngsters have tucked away their plans in mothballs, as they figure they must

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joy, and every few minutes back into the living room to

home town.

except he was a great deal taller,” she'd say time after time. The children - examined their

uncle and the new cousin from all angles and were obviously

antly to their endless questions. Every year the children were firmly resolved to fast the day before Christmas so that, in the evening, they might see the promised ' golden pigs running about the room; but they never succeeded in keeping the fast all day long. Their intentions were good enough, but their flesh invariably proved too weak. ” ” »

ON CHRISTMAS EVE everybody received a goodly share of dainties; and even the poultry and the cattle were not forgotten when the Christmas loaves were cut. After supper the grandmother took a part of the contents from each dish and threw half of what she took into the brook in order that the water would remain pure, buried the rest under a tree in the

{orchard t the soil runka’s, oe In. order What brushed imperfect. She thought, “Neither

might prove fertile. the cumbs carefully off the table and threw them into the fire, 80 ‘that no witch could do them any damage. 5

doors and, shaking it, recited: “Sweet elder branch, I shake thee, Tell me, ye dogs who wake jme,

Then she listened to ascertain

the direction in which the dogs were barking—for that's where

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1950

Babicka

By BOZENA NEMCOVA

WHEN THE Christmas holidays were drawing near, the conversation was invariably interspersed with talks about the baking of Christmas rolls, discussions about the most desirable fineness of the flour and how much butter each

The girls also talked about the traditional “melting of lead” —usually tinfoil—and the children of the good Christ loaves, and about how these children sailed lighted candles in nut shells. The very little ones babbled of the Christ Child and the presents he would bring them. It was the custom at the mill, the gamekeeper’s lodge

oever came on Christmas Eve

of Christmas Day would get all he wanted to eat and drink. In fact, if no one would have shown up, Babicka, the grandmother, would probably have gone to the crossroads to -

HER joy can be imagined when, “unexpectedly, her son Kaspar with her nephew from Olesnice arrived the day before Christmas! For an entire half day she wept with

she left her baking and ran look at them, and to ask her

nephew how this. one and that one were doing in her old

“Your grandfather looked exactly like your uncle here,

ther future husband was at that {very minute! » . =» IN THE living room the girls {were melting a mixture of lead— lor tinfoil—and wax, throwing the

{molten mass into cold water to

much pleased with them, espe- giyine the future from the bizarre cally since they replied pleas-ignapes jt assumed. The children

were sailing lighted candles In {nutshell - boats representing the {ships of life. John secretly gave ithe pan of water a little push, {and the shells merrily sailed from {the edge to the center of the wa- = Then he cried joyfully: {- “Look, I shall travel far, far {into the world!” “My dear boy,” his mother said softly while peeling an apple for (him, “once you get out into the stream’ of life, and the waves {threaten to dash your boat on the |rocks, you'll think longingly of ne quiet haven from which you i ed.” 8 | And she cut the apple crosswise through its widest part, “for The seeds made a star,

two were imperfect and Laying the apple

and again the star was ‘one of them will ever be perfect{1y happy!" Then she cut Willy's! {and Adelka’s; and in those the {stars were clear and sound, but

After all work was done, PT four rays. took a branch of sweet elder out} ® & = : *. “PHESE TWO will probably be | mapper” she mused. Adelka in-

terrupted her by complaining that

Where my intended might be!” her nutshell-boat wasn't going (very far away from the shore, and that her candle was almost burned down.

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when you left.”

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to enjoy their tree and the presents. “Of course, I remember, ma-

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isn’t going very far,

neither be seen nor heard?”

‘once they find themselves adrift in the world. Away from home, one always loves to remember this day! Certainly I found this to be true. wa ” . 2

strict, and I managed to have a good time during my apprentice years; and yet, I always thoi ‘Oh, if I could only be home wi my mother tonight, and eat pudding with honey, and buns with poppyseed sauce, and peas with cabbage!’ I would have gladly ex~ e all the good things I had ; for that homely fare!” Tok “Yes, our Christmas food!” : granny smiled. “But didn’t you forget the mixed dried fruit?” “And so I did,” he replied, nodding. “But, you know, I never did care for them. Though I thought of something else just now—in Dobrau they called it ‘music’. “Oh, T know what you mean! The shepherds’ Christmas carol! We sing that here, too; you'll hear it before long,” his mother said, and she had hardly finished when the shepherd's horn was heard near the window. First the melody of the carol was played upon the horn, and then the shepherds sang: “Arise, ye shepherds, arise! Glad tidings to you we bring: Today a savior was born to us In a manger in Bethlehem.” '

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e either!” said Willy. At that moment someone pushed against the pan, the water was all waves, and the boats in the center sank. “See, see, you'll die before we do!” Adelka and Willy cried in unison. “That doesn't matter a bit, we're going to travel far anyway!” Barunka replied, and John agreed with her. But the mother stared sadly at the extinguished candles, and a presentiment took possession of her soul that, perhaps, this innocent, childish play might, after all, foreshadow the future.

“WILL "THE Child Jesus bring the table had been cleared.

rings the bell.”

us something?” the children asked their “granny” in a whisper, after

“Now, I don’t know,” she answered; “you will know when he

granny asked them. “He is in His heaven on a shining throne and sends His gifts to good children by angels who bring them down on golden clouds. All you hear is the bell.” Listening piously to what Babicka said, the children still kept staring out of thé window. Just then a gleaming light became momentarily visible outside, and the tinkle of a bell was heard. They clasped their hands, while Adelka whispered: “Grandma, that was Child Jesus, wasn't it? ~ . » GRANNY nodded. Then the

» . “YOU'RE quite right, Kaspar,” Babicka remarked. “If I didn’t hear this song, it wouldn't seem 3 like Christmas to me.” Then she Fy went outdoors and loaded the : singers down with dsinties, = On Stephen's Day boys went a to sing carols at ths mill and at the gamekeeper's. Indeed, if they hadn’t shown up, the miller would have thought the ceiling must have dropped upon them, and she herself would have come around to the old bleachery to see what had happened. And afterwards other boys came to sing in return. Now the Christmas holidays

door opened and the mother came in, telling the children that Child Jesus had left gifts for them in their grandmother’s room.

bounds. Babicka herself was not

familiar with this custom since

So the smallest of the children/it was not a common one among

they'd see him.

took up their post at the window,|the villagers, but she was m hoping that, when Jesus went by,|pl

with it, and long before

Christmas, had seen to it that a

“Don’t you know that Jesus can |proper tree was provided, and shel Anton Chekhov.

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When they saw a beautiful lighted tree, their joy knew no

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were over; and the children already began to talk of other -hoiy {days, such as that of the Wise Men from the East, And then the schoolmaster dropped in, sang a song of Christ's birth, and iwrote thé names of the three Wise Men on the door: Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar. ...

TOMORROW: Vanyka, by

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