Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 21, 1917, Page 13

~ Christmas . “Waits” Sing ANTA CLAUS belng about to de- sert the city streets for his annual Teindeer ride over the roofs, the *waits” prepare to sing their centuries old carols, .- In several American cities has been revived the beautiful old custom of the 5 - -ftxy_aua” going about from house to 3 house singing the familiar old songs. Light the Christmas candles in your i . window if you want them to stop be- fore your home! God rest you merry, gentlemen; let (e nothing you dismay— k - : they will surely sing that, perhaps the lbest known of all old English carols, -And this too: " b -Hark! The herald angels. sing, " ) 'j‘ Glory to the newborn king. Ve And, of course, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Perhaps, too, they will sing what is said to be the earliest known Christ- mag carol, dating from the Anglo-Nor- man days of the thirteenth century, which begins: Lordlings, listen to our lay— ‘We have come from far ewoey To seek Christmas. In this mansion we are told He his yearly feasts doth hold; 'Tig today! May joy come from God above To.all those who Christmas love. This carol ends with the toast of . those days: “Here, then, I bid you all wassail, cursed e he who will not say drink- hail.” Wassail” meaning your health and “drinkhail” being the usual and courteous acknowledgment. ©One of the best known of all the old carols, although not one of the oldest, was written by Nahum Tate in 1703 i - d is called the “Song of the Apgels.” " 7 %befins: : 5 'hile shepherds watched their flocks by night, ‘ATl seated on the ground, The.angel of the Lord came down And glory. shone around. Many are the carols in which Brit- ain’s. ancient holly figures. “Then drink to the holly berry,” pledges one writer of songs, while another in “Un- der- the Holy Bough” summons “All ye = "o = { Singing at the Doors. \i who have scorned each other or injur- ed friend or brother, come gather here.” And then there’s that grand old hymn “Adeste Fideles,” sung in every church in this land and in others, at thiy Christmas season: " On, come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant! . Come ye, oh, come ye to Bethlehem! Christmas would not be Christmas, of .course, If the “waits” were to neg- lect one other of the most beautiful of old carols: Holy night, peaceful night! Through the darkness begms a light. Holy night, peaceful night!, U TRrough the darkness dbeams a light! Yonder, where they sweet, vigils keep O'er the dabe who, in: silent sleep, Rests in heavenly peace, Rests in heavenly peace. It there are any of you who have in mind an after Christmas dinner even- ing of song Lo the accompaniment of a harpsichord, a spinet, a lute or a piano or even the modern and much adver- 5 tised disk machine, it might be well to try this on the company: " >, #“Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” i Hark! The herald angels sing, 3 Glory to the newborn king; \ Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled! Jouful, all ye nations, rise, Join the triumph of the skies, ‘With the angelic host proclaim Christ is born in Bethlehem. Hark! The herald angles sing, Glory to the newdorn kingl A, S e TELLS ABOUT_MERING SHEEP |} * * * * LRt » * Writer Accounts for Thick Folds in Ficece, Not to Be Found in Other Popular Breeds. Just about every so often I get to feeling sheepish, as it were, and have to write something to show my famil- iarity with those animals, says Strick- land Gillilan in Farm Life. The other day I saw my wife coak- Ing a leg of lamb. Now and then she would open the door of the oven and flip some water over the meat. Thus I learned how, when we start to roast somebody, we may be said' to be giving him a lamb-basting. You have often heard of sheepfolds, haven’t you? Well, if you want to see a sheepfold look at any merino sheep, which accounts for the way the folds show on them. When merino sheep wer® made, hide was cheaper than -mutton and wool was a drug on the market. So a wee bit of sheep was wrapped in several sheepskins, necessitating a lot of over- laps. It seéms easier to shir a sheep than to shear one. There is an old rhyme which speaks of the “folded flock.” Those must’ have been merinos. It is some nifty stunt to de-wool & merino and leave on more of the hide than of the wool. | It is the only accordion plaited sheep in the solar system. If merinos had been washed in green persimmon juice all their lives they couldn’t have been puckereder. Evidently their mammas didn’t use (that kind of) soap. The Southdown, Oxforddown, Shrop- shire-down, ete., are sheep with clean dresses and dirty hands and faces. The only sheep that wear bustles are the fat rumped sheep now being raised at the state college at Brook- ings, S. D. They carry a trailer, something like a locomotive, only there isn’t a tender behind, except for eating purposes. GOLDFISH MARKET OF JAPAN Koriyama and Tokyo Are Leading Centers of Industry From Which Good Returns Are Gained. Koriyama is known throughout Japan as the great gold-fish market, the city of Tokyo ranking next in im- portance, says a correspondent. The waters around the former city seem particularly suitable for the culture of the many kinds of gold fish. Generally speaking the gold fish lay eggs in April, the eggs being hatched in four or five days. No food is given the younglings for three days, but they are then fed finely ground yolks of eggs mixed with water, the yolks be- ing first boiled then strained through silk cloth. This diet is later changed to the larvae of mosquitoes. The most valuable fish is called the “Lion Head,” which gets its name from the crests or head fins that have the appearance of a lion’s mane, Three-year-old fish of this variety com- mand prices ranging from $5 to $20. It is the usual custom to keep the fish in glass bowls, although the fish cannot fully develop under such cir- cumstances. Flat boxes made of wood free from lye or shallow cement ponds are considered ideil for keeping the fish, Monks and the Silkworm. About the year 352 two Perslan monks stole furtively out of China with scanty luggage, but treasuring an ordinary bamboo cane. They set out on foot and made their way from China into Europe. In that cane were a mul- titude of the eggs of the silkworm moth, which the monks had stoles They carried them to Constantinopi. When the time came for the hatch- ing of the eggs the monks tended the little caterpillars, fed them on the leaves of the mulberry, took their co- coons ‘when they spun, and ‘from them derived the first silk produced in Eu- rope. Silk had for centuries before been a treasure of China, and its man- ufacture, like the insects which pro- duced it, was jealously guarded. The monks, while on a missionary enter- prise to China, had witnessed the whole process of silkworm rearing and the wmanufacture of silk. Experts’ Perilous Task. One of the thrilling and hazardous duties which sometimes falls to the lot of game experts and wardens in mountainous regions of the West is to search out eagles’ mests, rob. them of their eggs, and “perhaps take the voung captive, says Popular Mechan- ics Magazine. The perile of the task are not all passed when, with a rope ladder or by other precarious means, he has ascended or descended to the aerle, for then the intruder must face the “powgrtul” grown birds at close range, and often whén he cannot de- fend himself to advantage. The #éarcher for the lofty, nests also finds that the young fifty or sixty days old, can become disagreeably aggressive. Flchln; Village That Floats. In the shadow.of the huge Manhat- tan bridge which connects New York proper with Brooklyn nestles a wverl- table fishing village consisting of nine two-story houseboats moored side by side so as to form a solid row and sheltering the fishermen and their fam- ilies, on whom New York city is de- pendent for a good part of its fish sup- ply. But unless you are familiar with the vagaries of fish and the localities In which they school in certain sea- sons you need not go in search of this village. Often it disappears from a locality overnight, without any fare- wells, reappearing as quietly & ‘{tew months latez.~Popular Science Monthly. e 4 s s THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ERTY e * LB R R R R EREEE & R R RS Mrs. Myrtle Pitman has returned to Devils Lake, N. D. Enroute, she was accompanied to Bemidji by her mother, Mrs. Cornelia Pierce, and Walter. Misses Lydie Hayes, Edith and Agnes Hayes returned to high school Monday. . Wilbur W. Smith was a Wilton visitor Tuesday. Mrs. Ole Jacobson and her daugh- ter, Mrs. Everett Wynne, visited the Deer Lake school Friday. James F. Hayes. was a Bemidji I‘;uslness visitor Monday and Tues- ay. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hanson were Bemidji visitors Monday. There was a special meeting of Dist. No. 1 school board Friday night at the home of Ole Jacobson. Miss Ruth Owen had tendered her resignation of teacher of the Deer Lake school, hence the meeting. It is regretable that Miss Owen is to leave us for the children like her very much. 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