Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — Christmas Feasting. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Feasting.

During the middle ages ths whole Christmas season was given up to revels and-jjollity, in which eating and drinking bed a prominent part. The Saxon instinct of our English ancestors led them to make of every holiday an occasion for feasting. Plenty to eat and to drink was their idea of a festival, no matter how sacred might be its associations. On Christmas they not only lined their stomachs with good capon, aa did Shakspeare’s justice, but stuffed themselves with all sorts of rich, qourishing food and strongly compounded puddings and pies.