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Thus ag" o 10 0 30 10 /A 4 KE L. P L. P ~Hâ€" KE L P KE SP C sday, December 22nd, 1938 Goldfields Hotel Block Third Avenue W UGreeting friends. e this opportunity to extend Holiday igs and Best Wishes to our many . _ May joy and happiness be yours hout the New Year. d things in life, includâ€" realth, happiness and prosperity. Timmins Timmins 3 See how from far upon the Eastern road The starâ€"led Wizards haste with odors sweet! Oh, run; present them with chy humble ode, And lay it lowly at His blessed feet: Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet, And join thy voice unto the Angel From out his secret altar touched with hallowed Tfire. And that farâ€"beaming blaze of maâ€" jesty, Wherewith He wont at Heaven‘s high councilâ€"table To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside, and, here with us to be, Forsook the Courts of everlasting Day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay. To welcome him to this His new abode, Now while the heaven, by the Sun‘s team untrod, Hath took no print of the approaching light, And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright? (By John Milton (1629) This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven‘s eternal King, Of wedded maid and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That He our deadly forfeit should reâ€" That glorious Forn sufferable, Ssay, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the Infant God? Has thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, The setting up in Latin ch Christmas crechs, that is a picsing the birth of have been begun by St. . Assisi. On the Morning of Christ‘s Nativity herec ol the 302 I" â€" pended uary 6. 440 the In Britain December 25 was a feéstiv day long before the advem of Chris tianity. The Venerable Bede relaves n his writings, "the ancient peoples 0 the Angi began the ‘year on Decembe 25 when we now celebrate the birthda of the Lord; and the very night whicl is now so holy o us, they called i their tongug, "modra necht," that is the mothers‘ night, by reason, we sus pect, of the ceremonies which in tha nightâ€"long vigil they performed." The forbidc ment 1 lease, And with His Fath petual peace. 44 â€" 3 $ from "Mass of Chris‘% the celebration of Dece birthday of Chriss is T quity. The earliest id that date is a passage 11 Antioch, possibly spuric fect chat the Gauls C because they celebraied Our Lord on Decembe tion should be celeberat preés?nl taken "streng Y C Plays are usually sections, the prologu and cthe anteâ€"masque the performance a â€" up. Actors wear costumes daeco strips of coloured paper. C black their faces. During cthe last century were seen in many parts of counties of England, in Wilth fordashire, Goucestershire an land. piays seom to dae when England was Mummery is a thro cient sacrificial anc of the Druids. The most charact senied is that of t Turkish knight by to rescue the daugh Egypt. After the re complished the knig comic quack doctor. 800 years words ha from cone he nE THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Som e the Crlu ason but Th JY 1p a € id 1ST Day ome years in then civilized Rome) the b to the baptis In Rome i obsC word Facts About Christmas j @ln 1 1644. > <but the 1 1 I T‘¢ rV t the birth 1 baptismal f: ‘me from C iknown ce of Christmas was igland by Act of Parliaâ€" King Charles IIL revived NnPjSsUM 1M m aDou lebrated iGvernty ~ofâ€"cCAriSsâ€" e Bede relaves in clent peoples of ar on December rate the birthday very night which , they called in necht.‘" that is, in Antiâ€" dentification of in Theophilus of ‘ous, to the efâ€" contended that d the Birth of r 25, Resurrecâ€" ted on March 25. 16 mbet arIGS 1 ish. p€ w. n Theit NU muimmer ‘ ishire, Ox tern part is late as 11L 11 Kin ht un h 3680 to pet 101 1A C Whatever else be lost among the years, Loat us keep Christmas still a shining thing; Whasever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, rememberâ€" inz Iis poignant meaning for hearts ot men, Lét us get back our childlike faiti again. B most of the legendary customs +o which mistletoe is associated are handed down ijrom paganism, when forest worshippers looked upon the oak as the tree which embodied the spirits of the gods. The mistletoe, the paraâ€" site which grew on (the oak, was ~hought closely akin to the gods and deserving of blood sacrifices. Worchestershire farmers once gave a beugh of mistlewoe to the first cow that calved after the new year. The practice, is was claimed, averted bad luck for the whole dairy. In Holstein the mistlecoe was considered good for all green wounds, ensured success to the chase, and gave strensth to wrestliers. cusvom of laying a branch over a pledging peace and friendship of those who entered, to be sealed by a kiss. Monks, at some time or other, have named mistietoe the wood of the sacred cross, and it is probably thar conâ€" nection which caused Shakespeare to refer ‘to it as the "baleful mistletoe". In Brittany, the berries are crushed and suained into oll, used as a curs2 for fever and to impart vigor. In the same Brittany, if ‘a maid mzets a man under a bough from which mistletoe hangs, she plucks a leaf and 2 berry from the mistletoe. For Binding Love After eating the berry she retires to her room to place the leaf inside her corset next to her heart. It binds her love as long as it remains. vided. If the last couple is sufficiently deâ€" termined, it‘s quite proper for them *to ask for fresh mistletoe even if it does piw them to some embarrassment. While there‘s no regulation to keep a person from stocking a whole carâ€" load of mistletoe, there‘s always the chance that the request for a fresh sprig with plercy of berries on it will bring the answer: "I‘m sorry, but we have no more mistletoe." To prevent such a let down, it‘s betttr to do mistlectoe kissing early. Scandinavian Myth In the language of the flowers, misâ€" tletoe mgans "give me a kiss." The authority for mistletoe kissinzg comes the mISstIETOE. ~MOr restoOration of her son to life, Frigga, the Szcandinaâ€" vian Venus, goddsss of love and bseauty, is said to bestow a kiss upon anyon: who shall pass under the miscletoe. It is from this legend that the kissingâ€" underâ€"theâ€"mistletoe custom is beliteved Chances of Marriage But legend or not, in some counvries, girls who fail to get kissed und>r the mistletoe on Christmas believe they won‘t marry in that year. So dear is plant to Scandinavian antiquity ‘hat at one time ensmies who met by chance under the mistletoe laid down their arms and made a oneâ€"day truce. From this may have arisen the cuscom of laying a branch over a door, pledging peace and friendship of those authnorilty for mislleloe Kissing comes from a Scandinavian myth, in which Balder, the councerpart of Apollo, was given a charm by his mother, Frigga, or Venus, which protected him from harm of four air, water and cearth. Lok1i, ong of Balder‘s enemies, made an arrow of mistletos and placed it in the hands of the blind Helder, inssrucâ€" ting him to launtch it against the apâ€" parently invulnerable Balder. The dart struck Balder to the ground, and his mcther‘s #tears became the berries on the mistletose. For the restoration of Rules for Kissing Beneath Mistletoe AL je techniqu 1 mistletoe Of cour: the hC O A 1 1€ age Suggests the Idea of ‘Shop Early." reached their allot ses, the‘couple shoulc ike one of the berries leaves the next coup and one kiss less. this theâ€"mi e come 10 V 10Uugnht to Uhng emergencies whicl irise in connection with mistle ing. In that case, there migh pare branch thoughtfully pro Sertous 5 giving e more kisses than ale berries hangin branch. Definite Rules, Alas innvo the timeâ€"hono Or here‘s nothin ing decrees that upon their allotred number iple should walk away the berries with th>m. next couple with one Disadvantage the first couple all the leave the last couple t a serious disadvanâ€" no Theore are itely that 5 romanilicailly inâ€" ilk a shy maid and r ruby lips when she the mistletoge., reâ€" 5CC deot l way mng ing afterwa to be s chance having given zyencies which 10red LT he nuit id about irds, but followed ward THE TIMMINS NEW METHOD LAUNDRY S J OSE CSE CS CS IFâ€" IL . IP IFâ€" SHL SE IP P L. PE 54 : TA N TX bre Cne e re 1e e e 37 First Avenue Spruce Street South Cedar Street North May you find among your presents on Christmas morning the priceless gifts of Health, Happiness and Contentment. We take this opportunity to thank our friends and customers for a Prosperous Y ear. We offer Greetings and Good Wishes to all our friends in The Poreupine District. We sincerely hope that there are many pleasant surprises in store for vou in 1939. May the joy and happiness of this Christmas season hover over you throughout the Coming Year. We pledge ourselves now to merit your confidence and loyalty. MEXN‘‘s AND BOYS FUBRNISHINGS COAL AND FUEL MERCHANT ‘hristm Schumacher Timmins Timmins