Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1903 — A Gorgeous Christmas. [ARTICLE]

A Gorgeous Christmas.

Probably the most gorgeous Christmas spectacle in the world takes place ip Lima, Peru, where a wonderful procession several milet long winds fhrough the streets, bearing figures of hundreds of saints and W-cred pictures of the cathedral. Many thousands ot soldiers in their bright uniforms, Indian women, decked with ribbons and flowers, and asses heavily laden with choice fruits and harnessed with strings of goldeq bells all appear in line, and on the stands passed by the parade are representations of scenes from tbs Nativity. At night the whole city makes merry with guitars, castanets and weird '•stive dances, and the celebration ends with great public feasts where dc|> and poor alt dowa together and exchange greetings. '