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laborers who speak their parts in an ancient anglosaxon dialect handed down by father to son over the centuries curiously none of the mummers knows why he should reenact the story of st george at christmas tune what is certain though is that the ceremony takes its rightful place among christmas customs the world over christian tradi tional or frankly pagan that have their origins m the forgot ten past children at heart in contrast is the recently inaug urated custom of the arrival of the three wise men in los angeles by air from mexico city even hard headed businessmen it seems are children at heart when it comes to dressing up for when they arrive to greet the may or of the celluloid city on behalf of their president they come dres sed in robes more glamorous than the magi were ever likely to wear they wear gold crowns and carry an outsize in stars and christmas being above all a children s festival they come la den with sweets and all kinds of gifts on the pther side of the world in australia an innovation that has taken on the hallmark of an an cient tradition is the ceremony of carols by candlelight two decades ago an australian radio announcer thought up the idea with the aim of helping sick j children to his surprise no few er than 10 000 people gathered candles in hand at princes bridge the gateway to melbourne to sing the favourite carols they or their families sang back in their coun tnes of origin in the old world now etery christmas eve more than a quarter of a million people take part in the ceremony and guest artiste travel the world to be present since the prince contort set up a tree in windsor castle in 1841 tor the roai children the christ mas tree has become a centre of festivities in england his action had its repercussions in amerca todaj american cities vie one another to set up in their city squares ever larger trees around which they sing carols record height so far is 200 feet belgium and france while not forsaking their traditional new year festivities are becoming christmas tree conscious and are increasingly adopting english german christmas customs in brittany and southern france the traditional custom of burn ing the yule log still holds sway- as it does in the northern parts of italy and spain a belief held in common is that the ash from the log has some miraculous powers the breton believes it ensures protection from lightning the italian and span iard never fears hailstorms when be has some of it in his pocket yule lo the ceremony of burning the yule log varies from country to country in southern france the whole family goes out on christmas eve to collect it wine is poured over it and as it burns the head of the family calls for a blessing on the house in italy blindfolded children beat the burning log and then the whole family sing an ave compos ed especially for the occasion another ancient and much loved tradition u that of the cribpre- sepi to the italians or puts to the germans and germanamericans the custom was started by st francis of assisi who in 1223 set up a nativity scene which included live animals in a church in grec- io italy to show how christ was deprived of all comforts at his urth the most elaborate cribs can be seen in italy not only in the chur ches and private homes but also in banks chain stores and rail way stations they are prepared with extreme care and the figures of the holy family the shepherds and the wise men with their finely car ved features are elaborately dres sed with clothes w cribs farmers in northern europe spend the long winter evenings re pairing their cribs which some times contain so many figures that a whole room bj filled with them in many parts of germany ausj trie italy and sooth america i there are clubs where children learn to build their own cribs being encouraged to use their im agination in producing different styles and shapes americans of german descent in pennsylvania go put visiting at christmas that is visiting one anothers homes to view their friends cribs which might contain hundreds of figures fanciful land scapes waterfalls bridges foun tains and sometimes whole vil lages bind parents among the worlds more unusual xmas customs is that of the yu goslav housewife sprinkling the tablecloth with wine so that a guest who happens to knock over his glass need not feel ashamed for in that country it is no disgrace to get drunk at christmas another yugoslav custom is for children to bind their parents in chairs and release them only when given their presents in america garlands of ever greens and holly on the front door symbolize goodwill from the householder to the passerby while tn the west of england such a wreath is intended to keep the devil out and good luck in at queens college oxford on christmas morning the feast of the boar s head is celebrated for centuries the provost and fellows have walked in solemn procession to the great dining hall while old carols are sung the boars head roasted and stuffed with an apple in its mouth follows held high on a silver dish this was the englishman s tra ditional christmas dish long be fore the turkey arrived from ac ross the atlantic and is believed to be a relic of paganism from the time of the danish conquest in the seventh centurv in denmark toda as in th rest of scandinavia fish fo nn the chief item on the juletide menu bitter almond the danes follow this by eating s rice pudding which has a bitter almond in itthe finder is guar anteed good famine the serbs tilde a lucky coin in their cake like the lucky charms in the english christmas pudding while rumanians bake cakes made in folds symbolic of christ s swad dling clothes in the tyrol milk is left out when the household goes off to midnight mass on christmas eve a gift for the child and his mother but what about st nicholas or i santa clans he makes his ap- lpearance on december 6th in ma ny european countries the chil dren welcome him eagerly for his arrival means an early delivery of presents one of the more elaborate cere monies in switzerland at this time of year is the arrival of st nich olas he has a bodyguard of about 50 white robed dancers wearing six foot tall hats resembling stained glass windows thru which cand les shine pagan origin while hanging up a stocking is the more widespread custom bas que and dutch children put their shoes or sabots on the window ledges into which the three kings can put their gifts christmas boxes are believed to be of pagan origin the practice of exchanging gifts being part of the roman saturnalia and nordic yule festivities the custom of opening the poor into which sailors and travellers on long sea voyagse put thank of fenngs to the monks for saying masses for the safety of their ves sets these were presented to the monks at christmas the custom of opening the poor box by the parish priest on st stephens day dec 26th and the distribution of its contents to the need has added an extra da boxing da to england s christmas holiday regardless of opening the poor 7gmsm87x8ms778m8m8ll box by the parish priest on st stephens day dec 26th and the distrubtion of its contents to the needy has added an extra day boxing day to england s christ mas holiday regardless of how presents are exchanged the fact remains that life would be bleak without the pleasant anticipation of receiving a christmas box whatever its shape or value and ofcourse the pleasure in giving one district scouters council for town last thursday georgetown dis net scouters council received its official blessing from district com missioner david dills acton at a meeting of the north halton dis tncl scouters on the previous monday georgetown 2nd were host to scouters from 1st and 3rd georgetown and 1st glen williams at a meeting in st george s par ish hall decision to form a dis trict council was made at that meeting the new group will formulate ideas and correlate programs for social and scouting events it is planned also to have a weekly news column in the herald vic 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