The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1936, Page 5

BRINGING UP FATHER o cne in the E McMANUS ity ocien service Homestake 'to; Eag | 7 & “Each request for mission to 00 Bonus e fiu SO roNE A <] b B el | IZED TELL MAGGIE THAT I/ A BRASS BAND MY WIFE 1S SHE'S GOT TO S by the esignation 21. — Several | COMPOSED OF A MEMBER- INTERFERIN WITH from the foreign service for such more firms have been added to the | WOMEN AND THE HOME LIFE OF acticn os may be deemed appro- long list of those making wage 1 Ih'c\:kk\{"llll:'&:NdEo\l/'aED THESE_ MEN- priate.” Bl i ases or paying employe bon- { Ol KANE GOES SOUTH Homestake Mining Company an- | — nounced a Christmas bonus of $100 | After arriving from Hoonah Fri- for all employes, with the distri- | day with Pilot Sheldon Simmons in bution totaling $310,000. the Alaska Air Transport Nugget, Two thousand tive hundred | Mr. and Mrs. Steven Kane took pas- workers at the Beloit plant of Fair- age from Juneau for the States banks Morse and Company were yesterday morning on the Princess given a pay raise of approximate- Louise. ly 5 per cent, effective January 1. L { Mr. Kane is a prominent Hoonah A | merchant. il . SPENDTHRIFT SENTIMENT ' Wins Whiskey Bet and Loses His Life If there ever was a time when | ~ B1i000. King Pesiteds IBpiiceia I World Al fessrves should be spendthrifts in sen- B Tak ST TN i e % DENVER, Colo, Dec. 21. — Toe A iment it is at Christmas. . - e e _ — - S U SR e e -~ — late Crawford ii. Sto thirty- | .o x o . brandy is still blazing about fat | tion arouse a serious flutter among Czechs, Hungarians, Spanish, Rus-| QN PRINCESS LOUISE four-year-old 4 Denverite, “Reld 6 l'ls mas ea“s plum puddings, crackers are being | the alien debutantes of the foreign sians and no end of other Europ-| record .of drinking a quart of whis- ‘ 'pulled amid much merriment, time diplomatic corps. He has stamped ean nationalities were among the! smone the through passengers ©o) D eleven minutes. He died om | ! g . |honored toasts are being drunk, upon him as plain as everything, |foreign wives. |ppamong (he INIOUEN PASSCNEETS the way to Denver General Hoss | | and roast turkey (an American | “No can marry, lose jobbee.” One source credited Ambassador! ypiah was in 1 g g Pital a few minutes after setting | | Vi : | which was in port here southbound (ne new mark y | nspiration), plum pudding, and | He may marry all right, if his Bullit with touching off the order v iorday mo S N f . 1 | mince pies are still undiminished. Bt i 3 L T . or’ 1685 Shangs - reLlYooerday mariing, Ate ‘= Ppolice said Storrie drank the li- | slender resources can be stretched With a more or less chance re- j . Thite Pass Routs sxesitive El But while early England i head, White Pass Route executive, guor on a bet that he could drink | atle early REER AWas out to take care of a wife, but to mark. as recited that he gave|p. Whitehorse, Y. T. 3 gt japplanding and condemning Christ Y i : 2] 4 v dov < A Bk b o] S MICROLNS X, K ) B - a quart in thirty minutes. mas, Germany, passing throug! 1 keep his place in the foreign ser- a dinner for his staff in Moscow Taggert, commercial broker, from i g ug! |vice he must find an American Which resemoled a League of Na- e . e Ao } i j:r;o Reformation, added two more R < e = e e s gl 0L Us | GIFTS AN ANCIENT CUSTOM . . . . | pleasures to the Christmas tradi- | oy AYER OU The giving of gifts at Christmas Miss Mina Baclanova Be- Holiday Has Long History | fion-the lighted tyee and the | Foreion Service Officials! RN a3, T p F.,nm:‘%“‘:;,:;")\l;l‘ \“)): r Jlayeq Probably originated in one of the comes Bride of Vladimi But Analyzed Total children’s carol singing. g5k Many Foreign Wives s reomsic, WAO DAYCS Christ Child stories, that af the | es bride o adimir ut An ) end = Must Now Have Onl | Must Resign To Wed Alien !baseball for the Moose in the Three Wise Men who brought to | Solovieff on Saturday : Up to Happiness YT gk é 5 Yy . Ven thes@ate. Department PUD-| The State Depariment made it tinueau Channel League last Sea- yno wolo Baby gifts of gold, frank= | . i DESPERATE REMEDY American Wives lisied the Presidential deerce di5- | ymply platn it was @ handicap for 50N, i5 an outbound passenger from | ncorea’ang monts : Culminating a romance that began' Joyeux Noel! ) In his announcement on a Sun- “a N i b “”“r“”'-‘“” an aspiring foreign official to have here on the Princess Louise. He e | when they first met at the Russian Schtastlive vianoce! |day morning, the vicar regretted| WASHINGTON, Dec, 21. — Poor |2V ‘.‘1“&-"“ 123 A ém f 5 A0 an alien wife. For instance, would 15 an Alaska-Juneau employee. ONE WAY TO KEEP WARM P Club in San Francisco during the; Giuchliche Weihnachten! |that money was not coming 1| Mad: erfly. The State De- | NOUNCEC ““‘. % ‘; @ -1" e OTCIN | 4 German wife do so well in France A R R Perhaps the best of all possible | banquet that celebrated the groom’s| Wesotych Swiat! fast enough, but he was not pes- cut her off now from : h“n ‘;‘-)‘n?l ]‘]’ 'L‘;;)m“:dqo'.‘z“‘;; just now, or a Russian wife in Tok- | e ;l RMAN .\V(n H ways to keep warm during the Yule- | N | y . s imi + oty ed alle Ve en. S had 2 vo? ecil Turman, welder connected e S S " 5 | graduation from the University of{ Merry Christmas! mistic. t youngit. - ikt A e |yo? J ) 4| tide season is to become employed as | California, Miss Mina Baclanova| Hundreds of ways to say it, and| “We have tried,” he said, “to down and be | the 724 American clerks in the for- * 4 yite gigging disclosed that two with Rice and Ahlers Company, is | the fully-outfitted Santa Claus in | and Vladimir V. Solovieff were mar- it all means the same — joyous raise the necessary money in the sericus on the ¢ ‘Huestion |80 service. Glgrks, CVEX, WEre officials with Russian wives had @ Ppassenger leaving Juneau for a basement top department. | ried Saturday night at the home of things—abundant health, steadily usual way. We have tried honestly. | Madame Butterfly'’s handsome|&X€mpt from the orde been turned back from good ap- the South on the Princess Louise. O R L Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hawkes- increasing security, new friends,' Now we are going to see what & young uniform was not a foreign No further details were an- pointments recently when their = 5.0y s i Christm vaits” get their name | worth. and above and crowning all, a love Christmas bazaar can do.” service official, but the spirit of nounced, but it was learned that no turns came. KNOX IN HOSPITAL from the Scottish word “waith” | It was to the strains of the Lohen- for the adventure of living such —to— the thing is in part the same. No foreign service officials had mar- If ever there was a paragraph| Harold Knox entered St. Ann's meaning wandering Or roving | grin Wedding March, played by 8 1O year has ever brought before.| Try 7Tne mmpire classifieds for longer can the brown-eyed, flat- ried Japanese, Malays or Chinese. framed to chill the love ardor in Hospital this morning at 4 o'clock Gradually the term was applied i Miss Frances Harland that the bride bChl'lSlmaS seems made to talk!quick results. cheeked second Secretary of Lega- One found his wife in Jama! the diplomatic breast it was the for medical attention. to wandering musicians. about came down the stairway to meet the Christmas, and no maiter zroom. With Mrs. Hawkesworth as B i how many gay and entrancing we have heard in our lives about QIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiIIIIIIIilIiIiIIl!l!ifllfl!iil!IIifllliIIlilllliillIII!IIIIIIIIllli!llll"llflilIIIII"IlllllI"II!II!IIIIII!IIIIIIHII'II'HIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH!HIIIIIIII|III||IIIIIIIIIlIIIIl|lIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAIIIIIIIVIIIg the 'bride's attendant and, Mr fie Nove BEErd b gur tives about Hawkesworth as best man, the mar-| ¢ *' by o 3 : lands—customs, oddities, and de- riage ceremony was performed by Hehtta): Tty # TR vt ightful native foods—we always e ALl love st e word, he bride, who has been enthus-| * yoyye doubtless heard it sa‘d ally welcomed in Juneau since = that Christmas a tremendously ival here from California a 14 custom—far older than the g0, was charming in a goWn gpening of the Christian era. That e lace. She wore a coronet is partly true. However, as a gener- nge blossoms and a cors [lally celebrated ecclesiastical festival and orange blossoms. 'S, Christmas is less than 1,600 years Hawkesworth'’s gown was of ping old, having brought with it the lace. midnight mass which is still the| The wedding supper, served from a center of the people’s celebration beautifully appointed table, was in all the Latin countries of completed by the cutting of the wed-'rope and South America, havin: ding cake by the bride. brought, too, the nome-made creche During the evening, Mrs. Solovieff|of the Infant, first worshiped in whose lovely soprano voice won for the Middle Ages, and still later her the first prize at the Allied Fes- brought the carol singing and the i S8 tival of Arts at Los Angeles last| gift giving by St. Nicholas, the spring, charmed her new friends|children’s saint. } with songs they requested and fa-! Yule L orite songs of her own. Toasts of LN the guests complimented her talent| But the other side of our Christ- and wished heppiness to the bride! ™aS gayety — the purely secular and groom. merrymaking—began to accompany bl ST |the carols and religious services LR Fhare. Wene experlenced | whjle England was still in the Mid- v the groom, from the time of the| gie Ages, and it was these ceremon- | revolution in Russia when he was| i i € WaS jes of the boar’s head, the Yule| attending the Czar Alexander’s Mlll-iLog‘ and the evergreen tree, the tary Academy, until his escape from| wassailing and feasting and the = Moscow to the Pacific Coast, by masking and mumming which | = borseback. He came to Juneau in|found their start back in far-off| == 192 vand was here two years before| pagan times and which, though . leaving for California to attend the now much changed in meaning University of California. Following and practice, still cling to our holi- his graduation in 1932, he returnedday merrymaking and speak of to Juneau. | hospitality, good will, and renewal Mrs. Solovieff, who is the daughter | of old friendships. of Mr. and Mrs. Feoder Baclanova.f All this while, xwetide gayety | Republic, Washington, is a talented|in Merrie England grew faster and | musician who has made a name for|faster, until, in the reign of Queen‘. herself as a concert singer and in|Elizabeth and King James it reach- | starring roles in opera and light{ed a sort of frenzied peak, to drop opera in California. She also at-|almost at once quite out of sight, tended the University of Califor-|with the advent of Cromwell and nia, then left the University to con-|the Puritans, who religiously ban- tinue her voice study under teach- ned Christmas by law. crs in San Francisco and Los Ange-| But before the ban at Christmas 1 In Los Angeles her voice at-| time every Saxon table boasted tracted Kathryn Meisle, famous|Wassail—the spiced hot ale swim- contralto, and Sir Hamilton Harty,|Ming with roasted apples and drunk conductor of the London Symphony | With toasts to -health, happiness, |= orchestra, who sponsored her con-|and long life. But the more the = tinued study and concert work. With Years the more the fare! By the = her various teachers, because of her| €Rd ©Of the Fifteenth century the |= exceptional talent, she was always a{fables groaned indeed While Henry|S= scholarship pupil. | VII ate his astounding reast ofj Guests at the wedding were Mr. one hundred and twenty dishes. IL‘ tnd Mrs. Hawkesworth, Miss Flor- | 0P€ed b the ceremonial entrance | 2 > i : of the boar’s head on a golden plat- | rnce Hawkesworth, Capt. and Mrs. George Tulentseff, Mr. and Mrs.‘-m and was climaxed by a roasted | k with tail outspread! Harry G. Watson, Dr. and Mrs. W.| Do c0¢ 118 Dishes riv'/ Councll, Mr. and Mrs. Julius| ang what of the other one hun- cpow, Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon Mac-| dred and eighteen dishes! One Lean, Capt. and Mrs. James V. Da- we know which was always present ' vis, Judge and Mrs. Gray, MIS. | in all homes from the king's pal- Smith Cass, Mrs. Mary Arnold, Miss | ace to the hut of the cottager was Ruth Coffin, Mrs. Katherine Hook- | the Christmas roast beef and the | oY, M Robert_ Bender, Miss Fran-| «minced pies” which were really| ces Harland, Miss Ruth Lundell, and| meat pies pure and simple. Of the the Messrs. Serge Mercurieff, Val-|rest we hear stories of swans, stur- entine Leonhoff, C. W. Arnold, geon, conger, herons, and blanc Sherwood Wirt. {mange cleverly formed into stiil Mr. and Mrs. Soloieff are livingimore animal shapes. Plum porridgs, in the Hermann Apartments. |or frumenty, were English favorites P A T |and probably the grandparents of | |their stiffer successors, plum pud- i ‘dings. | Roast goose was another old |time Christmas custom in England and probably entered trussed, spiv.—; YUL ited, and garnished somewhere be- |tween the board and the peacock. | The baron's cook would have told | |you, as will any old English cook Within recent years open house\book‘ that the true feast calls at breakfast Christmas morning for “green” goose which, being in- has been growing more and more terpreted, means a bird that is| popular. It all started when friends young and tender — a youngster and relatives dropped in to bn'ng‘of about four months, weighing be- gifts and found the late-rising tween nine and twelve pounds. members of the family still at The same test will determine its table. Mother made another pot of “greenness” today as in the old coffee, urged the visitors to join days. the family, and another of the most. And when goose “hangs, pleasant social customs was born. high?” S Nowadays the perfect hostess pre-| ‘Those words signify that the green pares for an indeterminate numbergoose has been singed, washed, at the holiday breakfast. and dried within and without and i generously salted. Today, in modern England, Only three days left to do your Christmas shopping but if you visit our store you will find it an easy matter to select a gift for each and every member. of the family as well as your friends. We are showing a wonderful variety of practical gifts priced within the budget of the average family. 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