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Christmas Customs Brighten Many Lands WASHINGTON - The magic glow at Christmas reflect i la any oomars at the world. to Jamaica's country towns, local (roups celebrate the holiday season by dressing inrags, feathered headdresses and black masks with features outlined In white. They dance and shout to an African rhythm at drums and flutes, braadlahlng wooden spears and aaaa. The festive and religious aura of Yuletfde begins December 16 In the Philippines. At 4 a. m., church bells announce early morning services. Afterward, families decorate the windows at their homes with rainbowhued paper and bamboo lanterns, the National Geographic Society says. Rap Closed Doors On the same day In Mexico, houses are readied to receive visitors who with the family enact the drama of Mary and Joseph seeking lodging In Bethlehem. On each night for nine nights family members or guests walk from room to room knocking on doors. Hardhearted "innkeepers" refuse them entrance. But on Christmas Eve doors •r* flung wide. Candles blaze and all sine the praises of the Lord. Children smash the plnata, a hollow pottery animal figure that showers them with gifts and candy. An AnoBl brings toys to some Swiss children. Italian youngsters look forward to the visit of Befana, the old woman who carries treats to the good and ashes to the bad. The youngest camel of those which carried the Wise Men brings gifts in southern Syria. Children leave bowls of water and wheat for the little animal. Christians in Iran fast from the first of December. They eat no meat, milk or eggs until the fast is broken with a splendid meal on Christmas Eve. Aimenians Eat Spinach Most holiday dinners relish fancy foods, but Armenians favor boiled spinach. They believe that the Virgin Mary ate the greens the night before the birth of Christ. Englishmen of the Middle Ages set the style for lavish Yule feasts. At one Christmas dinner. King Henry III Christmas is, or should be, a time (or Joy and thanksgiving. So many families and friends are reunited and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual good will, which is a source of pure delight. So many old recollections and dormant sympathies are awakened. .We were invited to the home of friends to help them celebrate a "Traditional Christmas." It was something to warm the cockles of your heart. He Is past 90 and she is approaching. Many young and - passed middle age attended. "Joy to the World," "Come All Ye Faithful", "Little Town of Bethlehem", "Holy Night" and "Gloria In Excelsis Deo" rang out from hearts and voices attuned to the true spirit of Christmas. Appropriate rt a lings added warmth and meaning. As time marches on in a~ tangled web of changes, I think too, that Christmas Is a time for reflection. Many times I go to my copy of Elbert Hub" served up 600 oxen. His guests finished off the meal with salmon pie and roast peacock, washing it down with brew from a wassail bowl bobbing with apples, toast, and roast crabs. Swedes begin the season with a modest but more colorful meal. Long before dawn on December 13, lights flicker on in each home as the blondest daughter of the family tiptoes to the kitchen to prepare fresh coffee and buns. She then slips into a long white gown, and carefully puts on a glowing crown of candles. The girl carries her steaming tray to each bedside and brightens each dark room, symbolizing the light that will soon lengthen the days. The ceremony begins a month-long bollday season. On January 13 the Christmas .. tree Is lit for the last time with the wish: "May God bless your Christmas, may it last till Easter." Pie Originated ta ^ Greece's Golden Age RALEIGH—A delicious, succulent piece of pie Is a favorite dessert at many people. But few of us know how this dessert came to be. According to extension home economics specialists. North Carolina State University, pastry originated in Greece during Its golden age. Later Romans sampling the delicacy, carried home recipes for making It. Tte fame of pastry spread throughout Europe, via the Roman roads, where every country adapted the recipes to their customs and foods. When America was discovered and colonized, pioneer homemakers followed suit. But they made several changes in their pies. For example, pies In this bard's Scrap Book. Mr Hubbard was born In' 1856 and dl«d In 1915. His scrap book was published , posthumously, In 1923 by a publishing company which She founded. Since I have derived so many moments of satisfaction from this book, I thought, perhaps, my readers would be interested in some of them to reflect upon at Christmas. "The wise men must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future; and his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die." — Herbert Spencer. "A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Selfknowledge Is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results Disraeli "Science is a trim friend who never betrays,"—Confucius. I think this is true of pure science. However, in man's greed for power and prestige, the application of science and technology Is leading us into extreme difficulty In many areas of econo socio endeaver. This is one I like very much and I hope, and believe, that the trend Is now In this direction. "Science, when she has accomplished all her triumphs in her order, will still have to go back, when the time comes, to assist in building up a new creed by which man can live."—John Morley. "It Is only those who do not know how to work that do not love It. To those who do, it is better than play - it is religion."—J. H. Patterson. "Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of Indifference."—Sir Walter Scott. MERRY CHRISTMAS; country were round, rather than square or oblong. And for good reason. Food supplies were scarce, so pioneer women used roimd pans to cut corners and stretch the Ingredients. For the Mme rdUon, they baked shalLater, when the orchards and berry patches planted by pioneers started to supplement the fruits of the wilderness, plump ]uicy pies, as we know them today, came from the oven. Since pioneer women were limited to the foods grown on or near their homes, regional pies developed. Pumpkin, a native vegetable in New England, was used there; chess and pecan pies became popular in the South; and "nervous" pies, or quivering custards, were teamed with fruits in Pennsylvania Dutch kitchens. In contrast, today we can draw Michelangelo's Sistine jmtMmK f v- I' Ceiling Is Re-Created WASHINGTON - Michel angelo's magnificent frescoes sweep serosa the Vtflcan'sSUUne Chapel wMh all the freshness end vigor of the golden a«B called the Renaissance. Botticelli, Peruflno, and other artists filled the lower walls with scenes from the lives of Moses and Christ. Then, In 1506, Pope Julius n commissioned a young Florentine sculptor to paint the 85foot-high celling. "The place is wrong and no painter I,", protested Michelangelo Buonarroti. The lonely artist who had made his mark carving marble and mistrusted his skill with the brush produced a masterpiece. Under his Slstine ceiling, the College of Cardinals now gathers to elect new Popes. Visitors from all the world gaze upward in awe. Holiday visitors to the National Geographic Society's Explorers Hall in Washington, D. C„ are experiencing something of the same awe and beauty. Huge color transparencies reproducing Michelangelo's celling and equally famous "The Last Judgement" will {low in the HaU's spacious auditorium until mid-Jan on the world for pie Ingredients, such as chocolate, vanilla, bananas, pineapple and coconut. Pie recipes have multiplied and keep multiplying. From the Greeks to the Romans, from the Americans, from the American pioneers to today's modern homemalcers, women continually adapt pies and pastries to changing conditions and ingredients. A gold mine near Johnsville, California, may have been, the home of America's first ski lift. In the 1860's, skiers slid down the mountain slope there on Sundays, riding up again aboard the mine's chain line ore buckets. «ary. Michelangelo, who had never painted on moist plaster, executed a sweeping design of the atory at creation tor his celling. Exalting the human body as a reflection of the divine, he drew pllastera and niches as frames for titanic figures. On the Slstlne vault, some 350 figures from the Old Testament and pagan antiquity swirl above the viewer. Lying on a Scaffolding, with "my head turned back over my spine," Michelangelo labored, four years to achieve his masterpiece. Fiery-tempered Pope Julius II added to the artist's problems by complaining about his slow progress. Once when thu painter asked leave to visit his family, the Pontiff drubbed him with a cane. When will it be finished, Julius continually asked. Michelangelo replied, "When I shall have done all that I believe required to satisfy art." The veiling was unveiled on October 31, 1521,movlngacontemporary chronicler to marvel that Michelangelo had lighted a lamp for art "which casts abroad luster enough to Illuminate the world." The work extracted a toll. According to one story, the artist, prematurely aged by his effort in the dark chapel, could barely stand sunlight and found It easier to read by looking upward rather than holding a page beneath his eyes. Michelangelo returned to the chapel a quarter of a century later to portray "The Last Judgement" on the altar wall. The explosive work centers on a majestic Christ surrounded by somber saints. The elect rise on Christ's right; the damned fall to Hades on His left. Figures contorted beyond nature heighten the Intensity of feeling. A prelate who protest •d ( <x) the nudity to the » •*< '• ■ » ' T i.. J ,w..v js# *- B itniMniiw —linn ir't Ift ml* T,. SB 5R
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