The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-25


With HIS blue and tapping tongue
Many OF you will be stunE,
Snap, snap! Dragon!
| For he snaps al all that comes,
Snatching az his fesat Of plums,
snap. snap! Dragon!
But old Chriy.mas makes him come,
Though he looks 80 fei IA fun!
snap! snap! Dragon.
Don't zee fear him-be bat bold
Out he gota his flames are cold
snap! snap. Dragon!
This was one of the mild games, and
required no Lord of Misrule" 70 pre-
side over it.
The Bears head" or Drawn is also q
constantly recurring theme. This was
a faYorite Christmas dish. The follow
ing verse l copy from Homes" Every
/ Day book. Ii is in "antient" spelling,
which our young folks will have the OPP
portunity to read and 'decipher."
Novel;, novel;, novel;. novel;,
| Tyding code thing 10 tell
The bUry's hede that we bryng here.
BetOkenth apnce with Owte pere
Us born this day 20 bye r'dere.
Novel;, &c.
The word novel;" also spelled
noel, often appears in such verse in
this season, and some uncertainty ex-
lists in regard TO its exact meaning. II
is of Norman origin, and some say il
means Christmas, and some carol-per-
hsps il means both of those words. The
ceremony of brinring in the boar's head
/ is still observed on Christmas at Queen s
College. Oxford, st Johns College, Cam
bridge. England, and at the Inner Tenn
pie, London. Ii has also been revived
| by the Century Club"i in New York, at
the bsnquets on Epiphany or Twelfth
Night.
MIScE PIE, too, ispeculiar by Christ
mas dish. and is one OF the few things
! that the Puritans, Notwithstanding
some abuse, tolerated; at any rate the
forefathers Of New England seem not to
have had a particularly tender con-
sclence'bupon the subject.
The learned DR.. Parr says Of the
mince pie. which under its changed
uame, continues to maintain its cele-
brity, that il should more properly be
called The Christmas pie, the term mince
having been given TO IL By the Puri-
tans; instead, IN the seventeenth cen
fury, the eating OF this pie became q
confinement and in distress for a COM
fort1ble meal, is said 10 have refused TO
injure his morals by eating it, the Puri-
tans of his day holding it to be super
stitious abomination. For
The high shoe lords of Cromwell's making
Were not for dainties-roastlng baking:
The chiefest food they found most good in
Was rusty bacon and Bodybuilding.
Plum-bOth was 'POpish, and mince pie
o that was fat idolatry. Poor R0bia's Al
ulGTdct, 1855
Perhaps some OF our good housewives
would lac TO know how they made
these pies. The following are the con-
tents of one made Just a century ago.
Two bushels OF -four, 20 pounds of
butter, geese, turkies, . rabbits, 4
wild ducks, 2 woodcocks. 6 snipes, and
1 partridges, . meats tongues, > curlews,
. Olackbirds and pigeons. Ii is sup
posed this very great curiosity was
made by Mrs. Dorothy Patterson, house
keeper at Aowick. Ii was near nine
feet in circumference at the bottom. and
weighed about u stone, or los pounds.
IL is one of the good signs OF the
times that Christmas observance has
revived OF late years, not with the bois
ferrous and rude reyelry of ages gone
OF the middle ages particularly-but
with revvrent love, sincere genera
sity, sn open-handed giving, a genuine
Christmas .oy. The old Puritans did
well to rebel against the abuse of the
day, which was most fragrant in their
time; they did not so well to eradicate
1t root sud branch. 1t Is not generally
known that in New England, two humid
red years ago, there was most string
ent law against the observance of Christ
mas day. The stocks or the whipping
post awaited the unlucky Episcopaiian,
80. oil. -. II.
sumo 10 keep the feast" of his Saviour's
birth. / am happy 10 note, however,
that the descendants OF the Pufitsns.
yet calling themselves such, are with
the children Of that church in the JOY of
the time. Perhaps with too many Of Us
the festivity does not draw its inspira-
ton from the proper source but we
viii not complain, because Of the bless
ings distributed aRd enjoyed this happy
season.
In conclusion. amidst the Joy of the
Gme-a Joy in which may not the an
gels partake, because of the kindness,
gifts and good feelings that everywhere
abound and lift up poor humanity-let
me commend 70 all the spirit and
thought in the following carol:
WELCOME MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall,
Prepare the song. the feast the ball
To welcome merry Christmas.
And OH remember gentles CAV,
For you, who bssk In fortunes raw,
The year Is all holiday,
The poor have only Christmas
When you with velvets manEed DER
Defy DEFENDERS tempest's roar,
oh, spare some garments from your store
To clothe the poor at Christmas
When you the costly banoue. deal
To guests, who never hunger feel,
oh, spare one mOrsei from your meal
To feed the poor az Christmas
When generous wine your care controls,
And gives new JOY % happiest souls.
Oh, spare o1e goblet from your bowls,
To cheer the poor AZ Christmas.
So shall each-note Of mirth appear
More sweetio heaven than praise or prayer,
And angels in their carols there
shall bless the poor AZ Christmas
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