People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Christmas Changes. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Changes.

Tho Yule log lias given plnoe to the steam radiator, the furnace register and the base burning heater, but wo who are warmed by any. of those moans on Christinas eve aro quite as likely to enjoy Christmas as wore our forefathorsand foroinothers, who used to celebrate its festivities when gathered about the old tiino fireplaces. There have boon changes in heating apparatus, but human nature and Christmas remain as they were and will probably so remain after tho present apparatus has been displaced by electric heaters. We grumble about our furnaces, our radiators and our stoves and will probably grumble about our electric heaters, but in Yule log times our ancestors were often roasted on one side and frozen on the other. tit. Nicholas, as the patron saint oi the children, now termed fc'anta Claus, was canonized, died, according to tradition, at Myra, Italy, and was then buried in the cathedral crypt. Six hundred years later his body was taken to Bari, and there in the eleventh century the great priory of San Nicolowas built. It is at that priory that on May 9 each year the festival of St. Nicholas is held with great rejoicings by pilgrims from all parts of the world.