The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 20

» TH g % “There are a lot of men out in the lumber camps in the lumber regions that aren't going to get home for Christmas,” Margaret kins told a group of young men and women at the country club early in November. “I want » get a Christmas bag for every of them. Who'll promise a hristmas bag?” “I'd like to help,” said Nick Lor- nly thing is I'm green at of thing. Do you sup- you could get someone to ke a bag and fill it if I paid o Yes, I've thought of that” said | t. “I've figured out that bag can be got up for dollars.” A little later when Nick Loring found Margaret alone he told her Te wanted to be responsible for ten of the bags. “I'll send you the check in the morning.” Margaret pressed Nick's hand and looked up gratefully into his cyes. “You're the most generous man in the world,” she said. Nick yearned to take this op- portunity to tell it seemed, would be to taint with celf-interest the tenor of his gen- | erosity. The afternon before Christmas Margaret telephoned to Nick in his office. “I want to tell you, Nick,” said garet, “that I filled all the s and they were so wonderful. Each one cost just three dollars. | Now 1 find that there is just one left over after all the men in the ave been supplied. As it is all filled. I can't return the money, but I thought maybe you knew of some poor fellow who might like one.” Nick thought a moment as he Margaret just| winter. b A a little of his ever-increasing Jove | Harry, on his return. for her, but to do it now,| The cabin seemed deserted. Nick fdrced a dow and walked in was not to be found. in his pocket for a match, ches he had none. Then ped around Harry room, g Was no more success | “Yes, I've Thought of That,” said Margaret. | as he had hoped, a bag of matches with the cigarettes and tobacco in the bag. By the time he had lighted a lamp, found fuel and warmed himself the storm had covered the roads so that an at- tempt to return that night would be an act of folly. So Nick spent Christmas in poor Harry's forlorn shack. Fortunately for Nick, he carried Chelsea - Square, . = .| to Santa h nearly frozen fingers he \m-i 0 an In did the wrappings from the Chns(-l rmax bag, opened it and found,| | Moore Next Children’s Hearts . . . of the season? mas eve, delights repetition of: “'Twas the night before Christ- mas, And all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.! The stockings were hung by the fireplace with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.” ‘Who would have thought that the composer of this familiar rhyme was a noted member of the faculty of the General Theological seminary, New York—teacher of Hebrew and Greek! This man, the son of Bishop Benjamin Moore, was Clement C. Moore. He gave to the seminary the land it now occupies, known as Clement Moore in his car, a box of groceries, ba- compiled a Hebrew lexicon, requir- con, bread and butter as a pres- ing years of research work. But ent to Harry, to help through the| i was not as compiler of the He- From the | ful day, indeed. | Much of, this he left for hrew lexicon, nor as professor of | % Hebrew and Greek at the Theo- | rest he made his own rather mea-||ogical seminary that he is re- ger Christmas dinner. But if “‘membered, hadn't been for Margaret'’s bag,|the quaint bit of verse that he | Christmas would have been & dole-|wrota for his children in a care- It is as composer of free manner, when the jolly boy When Nick went to see Margaret |in him came to the fore. on his way home on December 26, | he found her in a state of real agitation. the whole thing,” said Margaret.| “You were responsible for the| fact that I had a rather pleasant | | Christmas, after all. 'You kept| me from freezing and starving to| | ceath, you cheered me with a| | zood book, smokes and a mouth |organ, and kept me from degrad-| | tion by means of soap and a held the telephone recciver, “I do|Comb. That bag was a godsend.”| know a fellow” said he. to work for us. “Used Then he quit and |eves very tender. “Oh, Nick,” said Margaret, with | “I feel as if| went to farming over in the next|I knew you so much better be-| county. over to him.” Sort of a luckless fel- | cause of this low. Suppose I take that bagi “Margaret,” said Nick. “I've | {been trying to get up nerve for, So after the office closing at | three months to tell you T love you five, Nick called at Margaret's for | —to distraction.” the bag. He planned to drive the | fifteen miles to the shack where Harry Smith lived and back be- “And ever since you sent me the | check for the bags, I've known_r I wanted to hear you tell me,” ‘The children instantly adored “The Night Before Christmas” and |it spread like wildfire, eagerly quot- “Somehow I felt responsible for ed by people everywhere, handed | down from each generation to the next. When Clement Moore died he was buried in the famous old Trinity cemetery, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street New York. | Recently a children's service, called the “Feast of Lights,” has been held in Intercession chapel in Trinity cemetery on Christmas the children, pouring into the church, even as they flocked on a distant day to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, The capacity of the church is 2,000, but on this oc- |casion extra seats are required. After the service every child is rovided with a lighted candle, Broadway and | E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRF, SUNDAY, DEC. 18, 1932. Clement Moore. Trinity temetery Peacock Dinner English N — i3 terraced, sloping down to the | Hudson, | ing its way downward through the twilight, animated face in the light of the Ilittle hes, is a scene of quaint beau- in the midst of America’s larg- {est city. 3 Alfred Tennyson Dickens sor |of the famous Charles Dickens also was buried there, when h | died in America, far from his Eng- lish home. Upon his grave, too |is placed a wreath, a tribute tc | the immortal “Christmas Carol Then the little ones return tc Doesn't the thrill of Christmas |tne entrance, where they sing car- lie in the spirit and atmosphere |qs What, on Christ- | Passersby listen, and in their hearts cames a peace and jo children and |ag the beautiful old melodies flo: pleases grown-ups more than athrough the dusk on the night be | fore Christmas. | —_— e !(‘hristmas Essentially | | the Day of the Child | | December the 25th is the Da of the Child. It is upon this day of days tha countless men and women and lit- tle children barely able to speak their language utter the great rejoicing. For unto us a child i born, unto us a Son is given. Even those who hold creeds ir vhich there is no Christmas fee! the splendor ol that ecry and those who have no formal creed at all still known there is one of the 365 portions of the year which is essentially the Day of the Child. It is the day when even the most unsentimental adult long since con- gealed and hardened by the years, can hear in his heart, the foot- steps of the little ones. Today they are running about as eage: all over the world pattering to see what good gifts may have been received, ardent with a hope any only young hearts can feel. On this day the austere sclen- tist who has almost quit believ- ing in the very lats of astronomy which recently seemed as sure and siable, but which now seem dis- solving in a mist of relativity— this careful professional skeptic becomes as a child himself, and considers it hard indeed if he cannot believe in Santa Claus, the bearded fairy godfather of the | children. “Almighty God, heavenly Father, who hast blessed us with the joy eve. Trumpets herald the ser-| vices, and from all directions come | and care of children. Give us light and strength so to train them that they may love whatsover things are true and pure and lovely and | of good report.” For on this day of the Child we all remember that the most precious gift we can bestow upon our children is a capacity for feel- inz just such tender and generous and helpful emotions as today stir in the breasts of all good men and The procession, wend- | fore his seven o'clock dinner. | answered Margaret. _— Sincere Greetings for a RIGHT MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR To Our Friends glnd Patrons ZYNDA HOTEL S. ZYNDA, Prop. and the eager band goes forth to| women —(Seattle Post-Intelligenc- |place a wreath on the grave of |e:) Custom Many Years Ago shions in Christmas dinners and go. In olden days at Christmas feast in England, next importance to the boar's head a Christmas dish was the pea- )ck. To prepare the bird for the ble was ‘a task entailing no lit- ¢ trouble. The skin was first| refully. stripped off with the image adhering. The bird was ren roasted; when done, and par- 1lly cooled, it was sewed up once| ain in its feathers, its beak} ainted with gilt and so-sent to e table. Sometimes the whole dy was covered with leaf gold nd a piece of cotton saturated th spirits placed in its beak nd lighted, before the carver| mmenced operations. This “food | or lovers and meat for lords”| vas stuffed with spices and sweets isted with yolks of eggs and erved with plenty of gravy. The noble bird was not served common hands; that privilege vas reserved for the lady guests rost distinguished by birth or eauty. One of them carried it to the dining hall to the sounds ¢ music the rest of the ladies fol- wing in the order. The dish was| t down before the master of the cuse or his most honored guest. The latest instance of peacock eat- ng recorded was at a dinner given | o William IV, then Duke of Clar- 1ce, by the Governor of Gren- —ee— Great Yule Feast Given By King Richard in 1399 Christmas in England, of course, an old feast day, though the santa Claus and Christmas tree traditions come to us from another scurce. Willlam E. Mead’s “The English Medieval Feast” (Hough- on Miflin) quotes from Stow's Survey of London” an account of he great feast which King Rich- d gave in Westminister Hall in the year 1399, just after rebuild- ing the hall of William Rufus. “A most royal Christmas with daily joustings and runnings at whereunto resorted such a number of people that there was every day spent 28 to 36 oxen, and 300 sheep, besides fowl with- out number; he caused a gown for himself to be made of gold, garnished with pearl and precious stones, to the value of 3,000 marks; he was guarded by Chesire men and had about him commonly 13 bishops, besides barons, knights, squires and others more than need- ed; insomuch that to the house- hold came every day to meet 10.-| 000 people, as’' appearth by the masses told out from the kitchen to 300 servitors.” R . S S ! Read the ads as carefully as you | read the news articles. in cases. today. 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