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On the air —sovery Sunday wight «Atwater Kent Roadie Hour listen inl Prices slightly higher west of the Rockies Fhoto by lncterwood b Underwooq’ KENT MANUFACTURING COMPANY may be seen throughout the year. . 8y ELMO SCOTT WATSON HRISTMAS would Christmas for if we could not have a Christmas tree in our which not be homes we decorate with all sorts of gay orna. ments, around which we pile the presents on Christ mas eve which children scampering ext About the ree has gathered a «rent poetry and The Norse tree, Ygdrasil, the fir tree of St. Winfred, the yule log of the Druids, the mistletoe—all speak of our forest for man has ever been a tree-loving being And the Yule tree, once a pagan symbol but now an essential part of the Chris tian holiday, brings to us the mem ories race lived trees and the “groves were God's first temples.” Although we always of the evergreens—pine, spruce or fir ~~with the idea of the tree, it Is a curious thing to that the first Christmas was an ork. The incident from which the idea of the Christmas tree can be di rectly traced took place early in the Christian era. According to the end, it occurred about 724 A. D. when Beniface, a missionary from England with a small group of followers reached Central Eure ® at Yuletide One evening he came to a in a forest. Beneath a magnificent oak tree he found that thé pagan in habitants of that region had erected an altar to Thor, the god of thunder and of war. A large assemblage of Thor wor shipers had gathered, for the annual sacrifice was about to be offered This year the most beautiful horse of the community was to be sacrificed The worshipers were to drink his blood and eat his flesh in the belief that his strength would enter into their veins and make them mighty agninst their enemies. This year there was also to be au human sacrifice, for crops had not turned out well and the god Thor had to be . propitinted. Boniface, asked what he wanted, sald he had f message to deliver from the Chris tian church. He was told there was no time now to listen, The priest of Thor went to a group of small children playing near by laid his band on the shoulder of a boy of about twelve years of age and asked him if he wanted to geo to Valhalla that night. The little boy suid, “Yes, I am not afraid. 1 will just take my bow and arrow and go. The mallet of the priest was raised and about to descend on the head of the boy, when Boniface intercepted the blow with his staff, which was surmounted by the cross of Christ The priest's mallet was shattered on the stone of the tar. The volce of Boniface, steady and and to the come early the Christmas wealth of morning legend. heritage, when men close to associate one Christmas note {ree leg clea~ing Dm A dias — aa sams 0 NITE | | r | = The Christmas €T ree, - TN o 0 u + 1 am familiar with the wind's wild bands That to my bending branches, all might " long Brought melodies of distant, lands, And from my song. But now through branch and tinseled twig thefe sings The harpy laughter of a child's delight; And | bave learned a song of dearer things 1 Than ever wind could teach me in the” night - dreaming rooted silence drew @ i am accustomed to the stars’ frail rays, That perched like birds upon my tess. | ing crest And gilded all my darkly brooding ways And made of me thelr silver, shining nest But now small, tender bands have made me fal With crystal globe and ropes of gold and green, And set a star within my dusky baile, A gayer star than ever | have seen I am familiar with the chains of snow 3 With which the winter bound my slender grace, And with the flowers of the frost, aglow, And delicately woven as fine lace, But now the holly warms me like a flame, And ribboned gifts bave budded from my bark, And sow | kttiow it was for this | came Up from the soll and from the forest dark y ~Faith Baldwin in St. Nicholas. a : PUTS NSA clear, made itself heard. He stepped to the altar and made so impassioned on appeal for mercy for the boy and for the Christ whom Boniface and his followers served that the Thor worshipers deserted their god and the pagan rites and made the God" of loniface thelr God, The great oak tree beneath which the altar was erected became the symbol of the new religion and hence, In a way the first Christmas tree, The custom of decorating the Christmas tree has {ts roots in an ancient Norge custom connected with the observance of the Yuletide, ac. cording to Agnes MeCulloch Hanna, writing In the Indianapolis Each village selected a tree as the object of its veneration at this sea. son. The tree was usually a great evergreen “in whose branches were contained the dwelling places of gods and men, giants and dwarfs. Our earth, or midgard, a silver ball, they placed near the center of the tree; asgard, the home of the gods, a blue ball, sear the top. The earth is con. nected with asgard by the rainbow over which the gods descend to visit the mortals on earth, In the branches feeds a she goat, whose milk is the food of the gods. A little squirrel frisks in the branches carrying gos sip of all that Is good or bad on earth, to the gods. The early Ten tonie people added to thelr tree the animals that were srered to the gods, such ns the wolves and the raven of Odin and the cat and the boar of : Freyer: the oxen, lambs and fish that were used as sacrifices Knowing | that after the winter solstice the days {| would the } {trees i thelr worl worked lengthen, evergreen begin to people decorated small with tallow d ps in { nash. This : : | 1.04%) Sours | i ] | honor of idea was well before Christ, or ago, i years YAbout Christ three hundred lomans were years the in the habit a tweiveday festival, usually riotous {or the Saturnalia). and the increasing light which was to be expected friends exchanged branches bearing lighted tapers, ‘Here Is the new light of the One of the fo eof of trees, ing, ' year. “MY twelve days ren, This the Catholle grew in popularity. Its leaders substituted for the Saturnalia Mass of Christ, as the day ns His birthday fell 2: that time of the year. Friends then said. ‘1 you Christ, the Light of the in place of the old ‘Here is the new light of the year’ In greeting one another, was fenture given over was reiained by as It charch the solovted give world, “By 1700 the custom had developed still further. In of Ger many the annual slaughter of beasts came in the late fall and early win ter, and was celebrated by feasts that often Iasted for days. To celebrate the feast (at which certain parts of the animals were given to the poor) the peasants decorated thelr huts with small trees, and any branches that were flowering out of season, fruit trees or hawthorn. The rumor was current that certain trees would bear fruit on Christ's birthday. In order to obtain that result, the simple peas ants began to fasten fruit and flowers among the bragches or In sumil trees, giving us precedent for flowers and fruit on our Christmas trees. The priests and the Protestant clergy tried hard to discourage this practice. but it gained popularity, The chosen fruit was the apple, because the day before Christmas was sacred to Adam and Eve. At a later date the tree was called ‘Christ's tree’ although that was much disapproved of by the church fathers, “When it became evident that the tree was an accepted feature of life churchmen made an effort to provide the correct symbols for it. Candles, the animals used In sacrifice, the mistletoe (once the flower-of-light, but now vulgarized into the light-oflove) : the symbols of the church sacra: ments; the loaf and fagon, which typify the communion; the bleeding heart of Christ, the red rose, ascen. sion lilies, fishes, bells, anchors, churches, and crosses wade from ap ple-wood, the fabled material of the true cross” the forests Den Colo.~A novel solution of the C a8 tree problems has been found 5 ety through co-operation of city government and United States forest service authorities, The scheme meets the arguments against wasteful use of forest resources, and at the same time assures abundant supply of holiday trees for the children. The Christmas season of 1027 saw ghe cutting of 40000 evergreens to i supply the Denver market. Until the new plan went into effect the holiday season saw widespread destruction of the forest area around Denver, caused by reckless cutting of trees. There Is clways an oversupply, resulting In many bonfires after Clirlstmas for the disposal of the surplus, Instend of following pepular demand for a ban on all Christmas trees, the authorities devised a method which prevents waste and brings actual ben efit to the forest areas. The plan re quires that all trees Shall be sold by Heensed vendors and that every offers ing shall bear a tag certifying that the tree was cut under proper regula. tions, . Along the roadside In the Pike na- tional forest, just west of Denver, the government authorities have erected signs Inviting the cutting of trees This cy Is followed for the purpose of thinning the stand nnd securing In. creased growth for the trees which ve main. The best forestry practice has demostrated that thinning the forest Is necessary to satisfactory production, ATWATER 4764 Wissahickon Ave, A man stood before Vvaomen in feeling the nssembly room hotel, wrlorn He wa ation of and he yearned for a fa token of ition friend. 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