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PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950 Superstitions About Christmas | Significant meanings surround Christmas, according to superstitions believed in various parts of the world. In Holstein, Mistletoe is not only supposed to be a cure for all green weunds, but will insure success in tae chase and give strength to the wrestler. Early Norsemen believed for cen- turies that the Mistletoe would give protection against both bodily ail- ments and evil spirits, A person who is born on Christ- mas will have power to see and com- mand spirits, according to a Scottish belief French peasants - believe that babies born on Christmas have the gimt of prophecy. If a baby is born at sermon time on Christmas Eve in Middle Europe, it portends that someone in the house will die within the year, Daughters born in the Vosges, France, on December 25 will be wise, witty and virtuous. A baby born on Christmas in Silesia will become either a lawyer sor a thief. Girls in the ancient Duchy of Swavia seldom missed the oppor- tunity offered by Christmas to look inte the future at their future hus- bands. On Christmas Eve they would go to the woodpile to draw sticks, If a girl pulled a thick stick, her hus- band would be sott ul afi; gno b(C band would be stout; if a long stick, he would be tall; if a crooked stick, he would be deformed. They would determine the business of their fu- ture husbands by dropping melted lead into a pan of cold water. The molten metal would form various shapes in cooling, and thus resemble the insignia of his occupation: ham- mer shape, a carpenter; shoe shape, a cobbler. Every piece of lead re- sembled some occupation to the old wives. A maiden in Switzerland who ac- cepts a bunch of Edelweiss at Christ- mas also accepts the man who prof- fers it. All animals in the German Alps can speak on Christmas Eve. It is believed in the Netherlands that nothing sown on Christmas Eve will perish, Even seed sown in the snow will live. A Bohemian wife will die within a year if she burns a Christmas cake. To insure an abundant harvest in Deumark, some of the bread baked on Christmas is kept until sowing time, when it is mixed with the seed. It is said that bread baked on Christmas in England never be- comes moldy. Ashes must not be thrown out on Christmas day in some sections of Europe, for fear they might be thrown into the Savior's face. Some families in Scandinavia place all their shoes together on Christmas. This will cause them to live in Harmony throughout the year. Bull-Fight Fans Start Arguments In South Africa 4 Johannesburg, --(Reuters)--Sport fans in the Transvaal are deserting football for bullfights with the same enthusiasm that Spaniatds are de- serting bullfights for football. Johannesburg, Pretoria and other! towns provide a cavalcade of hund-! reds of motorcars for every "corrida" held across the border 4n Lourenco Marques, capital of Portuguese East Africa, a round trip of 700 miles. | The Afrikaners are said to be even more enthusiastic than tle Portuguese "afficionados" and the bullring resounds with Dutch ejac- ulations. When the South African fan con- ducts his sporting post-mortems the talk is as likely to be about a favorite caballero and his dart work as the last heavyweight fight. Battle Royal Results The vogue has aroused consider- akle controversy, with resounding sniffs from the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals. The afticionados fight a battle royal against the disapprovers in the sporting columns of the newspapers. Some Transvaalers dashed off angry letters of denunciation. the day the first modest bullfight report crept into the sports pages, some- where near the bottom. Typical was one letter which asked "why he: this disgraceful abuse of an- imals been brought here? I suppose for lucre and to pander to depraved tastes." One of the fans replied: "If an animal must die in its prime let it die in glorious passion: The writer (of the earlier letter) shows a craven lack of self-control 'when he is confronted with the thought of blood. He will eat meat, but others must kill it." One of the more diplomatic thrusts was a letter from J. B. Per- reira of Lourenco Marques who said 'we Portuguese consider it a breach of friendship and a want of gratit- ade on the part of certain South Africans to criticize publicly our nabits and ways of thinking." In Portuguese bullfighting the matador does not kill the bull. "It iz a sport, an art, and it is not cruel," said Perreira. "The darts that are thrust on the bulls' necks give them the sensation of an injection which they hardly .feel because they are wild animals. Besides, the bull has Its horns for defence, and many a bullfighter has died in such sport." Another Portuguese fan wrote: "The bull stands every chance and holds every advantage, inasmuch as the matador cannot kill him, where- as the bull is authorized to kill his opponent if he is not quick enough on his feet." Hong Kong High On Red List Said one of our cabinet ministers on tour the other day: "There is nothing wrong with our broadcast- ing range from Hong Kong. It can be heard clearly in Kowloon," Frank Owen writes from Hong Kong to The Montreal Star. True, and we should hope so. For Kowloon is a mile and a half away across the bay. Probably the right hon. gentleman meant Can- ton, which is a further couple of hundred miles off. On Red List But we cannot be sure he did. For few in Britain appear to know much about Hong Kong, our far- thest Far Eastern outpost. Yet we should, for it stands high on Sta- lin's list, maybe next. Hong Kong rises out of the China Sea, a rock like Gibraltar, except that Hong Kong itself is an island. Opposite, on a densely built up shallow shelf under the mountain wall, is Kowloon, its mainland sub- urb. Both were ceded to Britain by treaty. Before Britain made her one of the greatest ports in the world, there was nothing--except rock and mud. Beyond Kowloon are the New Territories, leased to the = Britisn about the turn of the century. for 99 years. So for the next 40 or so years, 400 square miles of a moun- tain land also belong to Britain. What are we doing with our es- tate, and our tenants As EYEE where else In our war- : war-obsessed world, 1 thers is overcrowding. But few " 4. places have had, as Hong Kong has, to cope with a three-fold rise in population, which probably 'now stands above 2,000,000. \ Probably 2,000,000--because, as Commissioner of Police Macintosh, whose hardest task is to check not rogues but refugees, admits: "No- boa really knows to within 100,- Postwar Troubles Hong Kong stood battle, bomb- ing, and enemy occupation and liberation. But here it was the liberated who did the looting--and, of course, they knew better where to look. The British brought in coal and rice and began rehousing. A prompt result was that the hungry and homeless from beyond the border poured in. By 1946 the population of the port had doubled and many were sick with malaria, cholera and smallpox. Infant mortality was nearly 90 per thousand. Tue British had to bring back | health, too. Two million people were vaccinated in two years. For long it was not possible to build new hospitals, but existing accom- modation was doubled up, private nursing homes mobilized, 9,000 mid- wives registered. . Day and night the doctors and the nurses worked. They deserved to win, and they began to do so. But it is a campaign which is never won, The fact that nearly twice as many more babies (55,000) were born in the colony last year than in 1946 has something to do with it. Meantime, established hospitals like the famous Queen Mary and the Tung Wah strive to take care of the wounded of everyday life, and a fine new one largely helped by the outstanding private gener- osity of Hong Kong people, rises on the peak. Example Set There is another field, education, in which Hong Kong sets an ex- ample. More than 10 percent of the This star drew nigh to er Bethlehem it took Refrain: Noel, Noel, Noel, A The First Noel The first Noel the Angel did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they | In fields where they lay keeping their sheep On a cold winter's night that was so deep. They looked up and saw a star Shining in the East beyond them far, And to the earth it gave great light, And so it continued both day and night. the northwest, its rest, ind there it did both stop and stay *ight over the place where Jesus lay. "hen entered in there Wise-men three, "ull rev'rently upon their knee, ind offered there in His presence, "heir gold and myrrh and frankincen- Born is the King of Israel. 4 White linen gleaming in candlelight has the elegance traditional with Christmas dinner; the centrepiece, made entirely of fresh vegetables and cranberries, arranged in an arc of graduated candles, has the simplicity typical of modern design. The first course of quick frozen shrimp is served in cups made of paper thin turnip slices. colony's total public expenditure goes to shape the minds of its to- morrow's citizens, In its 800 schools are 160,000 children; it still leaves 50,000 more outside, a matter to which ener- getic action is being directed. Is there crime and violence in this model colony?" \, Oh, yes? Also in London, the most civilized city in the world. At blazing noon, in Aberdeen (Hong Kong's own fishing village), an ollskin cape and a little comi- cal hat lie on the pavement by the quay. They cover the slight body of a Chinese child, dead, He was killed when a vengeful man took a time bomb into his enemy's shop and blew the place apart. But a bobby was walking on his beat, where he should be and not The Hong Kong police generally are, Classified Ad and the deal is made Want to buy or sell or trade -- a filling up forms in triplicate, and [of his island police station, when resolutely he went for the killer. 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