Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1923, Page 12

T12 §0rigin of Yuletide Ceremonies | SANTA PAYS WS" | Veiled in Dusk of Antiquity TOHOSPITALS HERE. Christmas Cheer Especially Prevalent at Children’s and at Garfield. on the h pitals | and Santa ‘lays, in his annual visit Lo the city Jast night, did not fail to yemember he children unfortunate efioush to | he drexmning of Christmas delights on hospital cot instead of in their own | downy beds at home. Nor did old} forget to leave trinkets and| we its for them. 1f he Zotten any little s would have been added 1 broken bodies isted by his able hundreds of good There are chimneys Santa e them, Santa Claus, corps of aides, the f of Washington who remember Yuletide the joy of bri = to the little suffere to the ho never for- 1t reless, happiness Stockings by Beds. and hoed < this morning such in many hu @ ed | been stirred | many exuberant I faces th difficult smile came this eave their beds big tr 11 those ssembled for those a tree in nd the ilence 2 was rds ed. A dol and mechanic to them and ngly until n and the ymp until bed- d little souls. al_there o Christ- children gasping he grand deco- At s not so children | School were | any pres- day w . very differ- tine of arfairs, d to g s of allf Wl ot n- | nt cottages, s tree and | to bri { inmates, the sual ro the children, day was made 1 Hospital had e in Washing aching to the nurses at eluborate {th Through the laps: of the ages the { Yuletide scason, or the Christmas feast, transmitted to us from age to age, has been fraught with an un- usual portion of controversy as to its origin and celebration among the Christian nations. [ The original meaning of the word ‘ule” is In fact yet unexplained. Some have considered it to be related to Icelandic “Tjol,” wheel ing that at this period the sun wheels or turns the winter solstice. But it is explanation of the s e of the w s failed to leave pression i its iradi On the other hand, nected or assoc history with the indicating the no in Scandinay Uxe in England. In England the word was used originally to indicate the two months of the winter solstice, December and : hat is, the fo (Decem- b and (January) the lat- ter yuletide It seems in tho: Chr had Their Tasting im- onal z it has be Christmas lof substitute. the mre CHILDREN GUESTS OF HOSPITAL BOYS Forty-Three in Annual Round- Up at Walter Reed, With Tree and Santa. Out day a at Walter Reed Hospit bunch of fellows ‘on er and in bandages are Young Washingtonians, ranging from three to ten or eleven years in age, having the time of their young lives as their guests. simply b Santa Claus had trouble o something before reach their houses in morning. Dol use motor he his could airplane toys, candy, turkey. 1 all types and evolution Shortly after noon bile from the hospital the sections in the city where youngsters live. That was half e party itself—piling them and getting them ready for the trip Some time later the machines started plodd: the gates, with voungsters' y and aiscordant so- prano clamorings hearlding its com- ing. Into the Red Cro hospital went t} them—just : year and m same. in building at the Tree and Santa Claus. And then things started aga ¥ saw was a Christmas 1l presents and everything grouped around it then there was Santa Claus, That Santa Claus, by the w. ho_postponed until after Christm: could officiate as th mas. He wouldn't cons name us In fac of Ciub, who | and sang carols ! Casualty Hospital | Hospital «lso had their lub composed of nurs District jail and the work Gceoguan, s 1d ‘the di majestic t night ! lly the quan, 1s given out to all the inmates made the best possible in the “HOLLY BALL” THURSDAY. December | 1" one of | in | hursday ajor iow eral at which night i ¥ of towns and, r northern neck, | will at- | “queen | all selected | a_crowned | MOVING, PACKING & STORAGE. | METROPOLITAN \VAREHOUSE €0, | STORAGE NG AND SHIPPIN i Fhone P'nts 2 a0 Floridn _Ave. N | SMITH’S TRANSFER & STORAG LOCAL & LONG DISTANCE MOVERS nooern FIREPROOF BuiLoin WE CRATE., PACK AND SH: H PHONE NORTH 3343 1313 YOU STREET N. W1, ‘MOVING & STORAGE | candy and | ty don't want Don’t_want publicity,” said they. But this Santa Claus is going to be laid up in bed until next Christmas is almost here, 1 After-Christmas Specials Coats, $177.75 Cloth and Luster Pile Fabrics Trimmed with big Collars and Cuffs of fine Fur. These Coats are right out of our regular stock and are the wanted models and materials—excellently made. KRIEGSPXPRESS PACKING 616 Eye St. J.W. CLEA DRY RAGE FOI venfent on. W SHIPPING main 3013 FURNITURE given. Con- - Who Moves You Is Just as Important as “Where You Move, Thone Muip 6900-- Our and_etperieuced and careful in our fireproof furniture wai reasonable rates Merchants’ Transfer & Storage Co., 920-922 E Street N.W. ‘elephone Main 6909 o T W, 13 _UONION i STORAGE COMPANY i Fia. Ave, SEPARATE ROOMS, $1 .0%% Looal and Long-Distance MOVING. Ny Careful Men. Rotes Heasonable. STORAGE_CO. TNITE] Vis SHIPPING. STAT) MOVING, "PACKING, EHONES: M, 4228, indicat- | tehes | watching forty- | this | ughter | a big automo- | started tour- | having | the | 402-404 Seventh Street THE EVEN HAPPY FOLK HA SANTA IN GOTHAM Babel Rivaled as Peoples of Many Tongues Hold Christ- . ceremony that it was carried to the house attended by everybody, old and young. The ceremony of rolling it into the |fireplace on Christmas eve was one that was attended and enjoyed by | every niember of the family. If lhal {108 burned steadily all night on the [hoarth good Tuck was thought to e predicted ‘or the years to come; if it burned out, 1l luck was looked mas Fetes. upon as inevitable. The Yule log i | was preserved till the joyous season ame again when it was used for | lighting the new Christmas block. This, it is said, is an ancient Christmas ceremon n=mitted to us from our Scandin ncesto We hdve now the Yule, ristmas Yule' do n | #land the common make a sort of little | Christmas, which they Doos. The tradit hax mas tree is connected in some way with the ancient E ptian custom decs ting ho s with the branches |of the date palm at the time of the | winter solstic The Greeks call Chrietmas the of lights.” and that makes us k of the custom of putting lght Christmas trees. Ages and ages a famous minstrel named Wol- a_custom of his day of he sholds branches to v By the lated Press. NEW YORK, December 25 —Santa Claus parked his reindeer somewhere up north last night and trod his weary wi through the snowless the morth of | streets of New York city with such a D s i1 l0ad of festal generosity as the me- call * “Yule | tropolis seldom had seen. The city celcbrated mightily. The | financial district was extraordinarily generous with holiday bonuses, Chari- table organizations reported receiving record-breaking contributions and the spirit of Christmas was permitted to nter cheerless homes, where the Iname of Santa had meant only a for- lorn hope to thousands of destitute. Multitudes festal lights along of houses vay into play over un- ornamented crowds of holiday visitors lcome guests | of town. Throughout the S people were r to honor. ! cjy. 211y in fane s the Christmes tree cele o nieh whi to sladden the | kas Nent di i the howith ol Lo rowth ‘ule cake,” the candle.” the that the Christ- [ tni {on o Wash leh i and pu ¥ Christ- trec in sSectionn.’ scemed in i : |everywhere., Each of the nationalities { whose Jittle villages comprise the vast lower cast side had one. The Ghetto had its celebration; so did_Little Ita!~ and Chinatown, and Chelsea, and Greenwich Village, and Old Madrid and the Bowery. Shrines that seemed to have been lifted from cross-road places of wor- ship in the old countries appeared as mag'c on congested cor- & the tenements, each with ) Celebrate allow bon Block part Many Causes of Joy. stockings and_ underwear n, warm caps. dolls for the is—and the s nicely when ration, which | will | Warm w little fare and s th with ns chasing Ibroidered on the pockets and wh {nots spread all around them L B R i, =68 Were PTO- {1 Teplica of the Christ and the cru. o saic os a poor|cifixion banked - with flowers and | e s Non | iffusing a bright radiance from many | those youngsters cating [candles. _— Ze (d trimming and everythin The New York Central —reported e oy 2o home. | the ety on its iines i - And when they go home. | e 1t took 669 teains, of 6,011 cars, | a T %o handle Saturday’s outbound travel e nter |29 one. Fully another million passed through th Pennsyl terminal to trains of that lin § 1sland ad to spend with the home folks. Postmaster Morgan jChristmas mail was fully ten per cent greater than last year's. le also {said a goodly number of money or- ders were in Santa's list, declaring that fully $£1,000,000 in outgoing mon- ey orders had Leen purchased in the t four days. The old saint’s local t distribution vesterda miilior of dollars were spent thousands playe nta to the directly and indirectl M sions, churches, hotel clubs theater: 2nd countless 1haividuals co-operated. But one mote of sorrow crept in. This was the plea of the Amer! n committe r reltef of rman chil- mericans torget whatever | the mame rman may and provide millions of little one: 1lin Island Cel>brates. In all languages, by those of most creeds and colors of the earth, the | advent-of Christn was celebrated in the huge re hail of the im- migration station at Ellis Island. Of the ¥ crowd of S0 half were clinging to the hope that the {doors of the United States had not been closed irrevocably against them. in voungsters, too— worms em- - he | though b ners amo illows hington's and Joy alter” K Christmas t the boliday 1 bless us each and every one SERVICE MEN MADE GLAD. aids_started Welfare Qrganizations in Charge at In char- Two Hospitals. organizations in Christmas celebrations to- Welfar charge day at the in General Ho: were Reed 1 and Mount Aito Hos- | pital. An elaborate Christmas pro- sram was sta t Walter Reed wi | the Young Men's Christian Associ tion, the Knights of Columbus and the 'Red Cross joining in supplying Christmas cheer for the patfents at the Lig hospital he Lions Club of Washington will give a Christimas party at the Red Cross hut tonight at Mount Alto, and Army Band gave a concert at 10 % this morning. are orE: | Reed held « men for nzations at Walter housc today, while throughout the day motion pictures were shown by all the organizations. patients’ Christmas party was held fternoon at the Red Cros: aiter Reed from' 3 to 6 o with dancing to follow at 8 ck. night a Christmas tree party for all the patients was held at the Red { Cross house, and gifts were given to | an’ tne patients Mrs W. E. Brown of New Lon | Conn., now in her eighty-first | bezan a diary in 1859, when she |seventeen. and has a complete rec- ord of her life since that year. n fortunate companions to the carols of church singers and eagerly stepped In line to take a gift from Santa Clau who had something for all. The carols were sung in many languages. Carols Are Sung. The carolers and Santa also visited | 400 other fens lying abed in th station hospital. But for Henry H. Curran, immigrat commissioner, | many more would have spent Christ- mus at the island. Ten ships ar- rived vesterday, bringing P ! migrants, but only 200 were detained. | Next Door to R. Harris & Co. Dresses,$1 3-95 Copies of foreign and domestic models—featuring the new lines that have proven so popular. Velvets, Brocade Crepe, Trico and Satins. The materials are Poiret Twill and Silk—Canton Crepe, Some have panels, others plaited sides—every one a beauty. Skirts, $4-6° b Attractive models in the popular Poiret Twill and Camelair. Of course, they are plaited, and you have your choice of Plaids, Tan, Gray, Black and Brown. A Real Gamond Special. They sat and listened with their more || HAPPIER CHRIST IN GERMAN HOME RECALLED A happier Christmas of other days is recalled in a communication sent to The Star and signed simply “P. B.," although a local address s given the letter. The communication is head “Christmas in Germany,” and followa: { “We arise at § o'clock in the morn- ing, dress hurriedly, walk to the [ church through snow and darkness. The church is beautifully lighted with many, many candles. The service is beautiful and simple. A choir of ‘six | voices sings ‘Holy Night’ We go home, line up In the living room, father glves us a talking to, showing where we have been good or bad and how we can do better. All of a sud- den a little bell is heard, the parlor doors open, we dash in. There, in the middle 'of the large, round table, stands a large Christmas tree, with innumerable candles and glittering | hings. Beautiful beyond description. ‘Around the tree ai the large plat- SSO0,000_INSURANCE GIFT. Goldenberg’s 800 Employes Get| Policies for Loyal Services. For thelr faithful and loyal work during the past year 800 employes of Goldenberg's department store were | rded yesterday with fully up life insurance policies rangin rom $500 to $2,000 according to the and position of the totul of insurance pre- ' sented by firm wmounts to con- siderably over $300,000, In presenting the policles me: of the firm said their gift refl personal interest In (he welfa thelr employes K money present has been given here tofore by the firm. AIR MAIL RECESS. Four-Day Lapse in Service Ordered at Reno. RENO, Nev., December 25.—Air service from east to west has been discontinued u; January 1, ac- cording to advices recelved last night | by the Reno A'r Mail Field and the | Reno post office, The lay-off {s out of respect to the emory of the four alr mall pllots ho lost their lives this year, and to permit a rigld inspection of every air plane In the service. dividual m.l‘ Some of the deportees—stowaways, sllens who have served prison ter other undesirables—were guarded. When they were back to quarters a count disclo: that one was missing. That was Sea Fox,” a sixteen-vear-old Polish boy, who has stowed away eight t in hope of entering the United : He had slipped under the benches and crawled to where a group of nocent-appearing peasants were se ed with whom I v when apprehende Poland on the next ship. The entertainment was given un the auspices of the general committes n immigrant aid at Ellis Islund NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY., DECEMBER 25 1923. 't helpless due home bein, | boy is given a whom h |Brings Cheer to Needy for 3oth|% i adx atou Consecutive Year. 3 W Dorted ; | made b For the thirty-ninth consecutive | vear Issac Gans. president of Saks & Co., and the Washington Chamber lof Commerce, played Santa Claus and | personally s vised the distribution | Lieutenant to Take ©f one-hund overcoats to the needy youngsters of the city Regardless of . orecd or ed, have ng cases to Mr. Gans yvercoats have been given. In ad-|born C. Wood, son and a dition to this. Mr. ans handed out n. Leonard Wood dollar bills to the youngsters of ex-|his post here and rct ceptionally deserving cases in order | States about th t they might ta some sort of a| Lieut. Wqod expects ent home to t r mother.” * | military commission and Some of cases are pitiful, one |cial school for trainin hoy's moth dead, his fathér men- | to entering the diplom MAS FEASTS MR. GANS AGAIN SANTA. ne and fers, one for each member of the ! family, containing the _Christmas presents, toys, sporting things, use- ful things and good things to eat. Everybody makes a rush for his or het platter, examines the gifts, shows them to the others, thamnks the giver: This delightful time lasts until the candles burn low. We are allowed fo blow them out, and then we go ter Diplomatic Service. By the Aswociated Press. MANILA, December 2 race the reported and the back to the dining room to enjoy a | beautiful breakfast, hot chocolate and homemade Christmas cake. ‘Alas, this coming Christmas we poor Gérman children will get very little. And many of us will not have || enough to eat even on this holy Christ- mas i r. 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