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Christmas Section St. Mary‘s Journalâ€"Argus: was driving when you â€" hit that car? Drunk (triumphantly): *"None of us we was all in the back seat." So this day, dedicated to the memory of the birth of a child, belongs to all children. It is their carols, their laughter, their happiness which makes it sweet. And we older folk should on this day at least share their kindliness, their tolerance, their purity and their Saint Niholas. So this day, of the birth 0 children. It laughter, their it sweet. And this day at lea: that he brought back to life three schoolboys who had been murdered. An encyclopedia attributes the name by which he is known in America to the carly Dutch settlers who called him San Nicholaas. But it little matters whether he be known as Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, Kris Kringle, or a dozen other names, for the presence of his spirit on this climax holiday of the yvear is the imâ€" portant thing. It enters every home in the four corners of Christendom and touches the hearts of all the men and women in them. Moreover, it is essenâ€" tially the spirit of childhood, the freshâ€" ness, the courage, the eagerness of young lives. Saint Nicholas may seem old, but he has none of the fears, reâ€" grets or prejudices of age. He and his children stand on the threshold of the world. Their banner is good will and their goal is peace. The dictionary merely tells you that Santa Claus is a contraction of Saint Nicholas (see Nicholas, Samint). A turning of the pages reveals that Nichoâ€" las was Bishop of Myra or Smyrna in Asia Minor about 300 A.D. He was the patron saint of old Russia, and was beâ€" lieved to offer special protection and comfort to "seafaring men, thisves, virâ€" gins and children." His affection for children was based on the assertion Santa Claus, St. Nicholas. Christmas, Kris Kringle And they heaved a mighty breath, every soul on board but me, As they saw her nose again pointing handsome out to sea: But all that I could think of in the darkness and the cold Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old. She staggered to her bearing, but the sales were new and good, And the ship smelt up to windward just as though she understood. As the winter‘s day was ending, in the entry of the night, We cleared the weary headland and passed below the light. They lit the high seaâ€"light, and the dark began to fall. "All hands to loose topgallant sails," I heard the call. "By the Lord, she‘ll never stand it,." our first mate, Jackson, cmed. "It‘s the one way or the other, Mr. Jackson," he replied, And well I know the talk they had, the talk that was for me, Of the shadow on the household and the son that went to sea; And O the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind of way, To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed Christmas day! O well I saw the pleasant room the pleasant faces there, My mother‘s silver spectacles, my father‘s silver hair; And well I saw the firelight, like a flight of homely elves, Go dancing round the chinaâ€"plates that stand upon the shelves. The bells upon the church were rung with a mighty jovial cheer, For it‘s just that I should tell you how (of all days in the year) This day of our adversity was blessed Christmas morn, And the house above the coastâ€"guard‘s was the houwe where I was born. The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam; The good red fires were burning bright in every ‘longshore home; The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out, And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about. We gave the South a wider berth, for there the tideâ€"race roared; But every tack we made we brought the * North Head close aboard: So‘s we saw the cliffs and houses, and the breakers running high, And the coastâ€"guard in his garden, with his glass agzainst his eve. All day we tacked and tacked between the South Head and the North: All day we hauled the frozen sheets and got no farther forth; All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread, For very life and nature we tacked from head to head. We heard the surf aâ€"roarit break of day. WY The sheets were frozen hard and the cut the naked hand; The decks were like a slide, where . seaman scarce could stand; The wind was a nor‘wester, blowin squally off the sea, And the cliffs and spouting breaker were the only thing aâ€"lee. Christmas at Sea THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO umbled 6 anter, wi 3 evenson 1€ op re the li ind Christmas, which seems to have been first officially instituted a church feast day by a decree of Pope Telesphorus, between 142 A.D. and 154 AD., was a movable feast. Indeed, it was the most movable of all the Christian festivals. It was usually celebrated by the eastâ€" ern branches of the Christian church in April or May, while in the western part of Europe days in January or other months were observed as Christmas. In A.D. 337, St. Cyril, bishop of Jeruâ€" salem, obtained from Pope Julius I authority to appoint a commission to determine, if possible, the precise day of Christ‘s nativity. From the chronâ€" ological archives of the Roman censors, establishing the times of occurrence of certain events of the same period of the Roman government of Palestine. tihie theologians of the eastern and westâ€" ern divisions of the Christian church agreed upon December 25 as the date of the birth of Jesus, and thereupon this became the officially decreed and generally accepted Christmas day. Why Christmas Day Is Observed on Dec. 25th Then beginning at the base of the breast bone, carve toward the wing, reâ€" moving the meat in thin slivers. (Note: Don‘t try to split off the meat by running the knife along the edge of the breastâ€"Done. If you do you‘ll find yourself having to cut the choice white meat up into chunks.) Qutline the leg with the tip of the knife, loosening and severing the leg and second joint all in one piece. Lift the drumstick and separate this section from the carcass. Cut the drumstick and second joint apart at the joint. Do the same by the other drumstick. Dislodge the wingsâ€"if they have not already been taken off and cut up with the neck and giblets for use in the stuffing or gravy. Take one drumstick in your left hand. Holding the carving knife in your right hand cut the cord that holds the drumâ€" sticks. Edmond Schunk, prominent New York chef , for instance, has a very neat system. But he recommends a couple of preliminary flourishes. Place the bird on the table broadside to the Fuests, he says, so they can get an apâ€" petizing preview. Then you pivot the bird a quarterâ€" turn so that its neck faces you and proceed thus; However, while carving the turkey in eight easy stages is a minor achieveâ€" ment, it can be done with a little prazâ€" For it is admitted to carve and disâ€" tribute a fowl at the Christmas table with due dignity and despatch is no sitâ€"down proposition. It needs weight, reach and precision. sporting proposition, to demonstrate a much higher average of efficiency in this traditionally domestic art. The Men of the North should rise up and show them. It seems opportune for Canadian household heads this Christmas as a (From Leamington Post) A New York observer believes. only one American husband in 50 is a caryâ€" ng enthusiast and recommends the other 49 have the turkey carved in the kits hen to lessen the strain on taut tempev The Baby is the great Christmas gift. More than nineteen centuries ago the Blessed Babe in whom is all our salvaâ€" tion was born in Bethlehem and ever since when Christmas comes again and the newlyâ€"made Father and Mother realize the sublimity of parenthooit t makes Christmas a New Day to them and the world a New World. Advice for Mere Men on The Christmas Carving More frequent holidays are probably all to the good so far as health is conâ€" cerned. But whether it be for one day or for twenty there will never be any holiday like Christmas when "The bird of dawning singeth all night ' . . . So hallowed and so gracious is the : MAme." Christmas always seems to bring a new hope, as if a new day were at hand. The Baby‘s Influence The New Day is at hand. Aril the Baby brings that New Day. Generation after generation the miracle comes to pass, since the Divine Advent. The young fellow who was a boy only the other day has become a father since last Christmas and he knows now a world of things that he never knew beâ€" foreâ€"the very existence of which he never dreamed of before. He was so surprised at the joy the baby brought. "Nurse, did you see our little girl?" he saysâ€"as he sits beside the bed, with both his arms around his two most precious possessions: his wife and their little daughter. There is a world of meaning in the young father‘s question. In the snow and the rain After twelve months We shall see them again." Christmas Celebrations Christmas festivities in England once lasted twenty days, clasing on Twelfth Night, January 6th, the twelfth n.¢ht after Qltistmas when "The Kings Ride Away," not to return for twelve months. Modern sholidays have become more rumerous and the summerâ€"vacation habit,; the motor car and the increase of leisure, seem to have had some inâ€" fluence in shortening the Christmas holiday. Christmas Brings a | Hope and a New Day (From Port Hope Guide) The Kings ride away aby‘s Influence Is Great at Christmas ew Thursday, December 23rd, 1937