Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-12-29

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greatest vigor in the HebrIdes, the High
lands and ia the Shetland islands. In the
latter. at Lerwick, the children and youths
prepare for the day for weeks IN advance.
The most fantastic and outrageous cos
TUNES are invented. The elder ones tax
ing part in the bacchanal are called "Gui-
zers' and the lads and iasses "Pecrie
Guizers,' or little disguised ones. They
learn some fine carols, bur most Of their
songs are OF the ver.e-- local dogZcrei.
AttIred boz their weird costumes they pro-
coed from house 10 house, shouting A. they
enter:
Ho-m3uay,
IrullulAE.
Civ, Us your white bread.
And none Of Your grayl
I'm Lerwlck they are accompanied uy
musical Instruments, and agreeable music
i, often furnished. They are invariably
offered refreshments. Dancing aud other
amusemeuts are INDUCED in. for there are
Away, crowds awaiting them at each
house, and they are often given money al
their departure. This is kept up through
the entire night, varied by the explosion Of
drecrackers and rockets, and the dragging
through the narrow old streets Of the
quaint Dutch built town Of numberiess
blazing tar barrels.
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Christmas time more thoroughly observed
and enjoyed than in England. In what
ever else the English people are changing,
Of the peerlessness Of this time and hour
there can be no doubt True, England can
no longer boast Of her royal Christmas
Mosques, costing often a quarter Of a mil
lion Of our money. and o.. court Lord Of
Misrule Is "A per image % a.. past. But
royal and noble .... .Hs. cIE. md l-
c-entIousnes-, ua.v given plt.. l.. nr...Iu
tenderness % a.l.p-. reg. up4.-. - BIO
help 70 human .Iu-
Whatever f.ty be- rfr jugs 100
general Of the ..-, -s u..4.. q. ys -...
be credited with -p.eua.d m.niiceuc- ar
this time Of the year. The WHOLE area ..
their Dependence j. blessed ..4 a..-.
enei during the Christmas holiday season.
II began away back ia ElizsDeth's reign.
In 1859 there WAS such e crush al the royal
masque that an order was issued to the
gentlemen Of suffolk and Norfolk. direct
ing them 10 leave London before Christ
mas and give their attention 20 Keeping
Christmas ia their re- pective residences.
II is an lnvlOlable social rule Of the nobil-
ity 70 this day. Wherever the English
geutieman'- or uoblemau's family may be
during all the rest Of TIE year, they are at
their country seats and castles AT Christ
mas.
This manor house sends it, folk and
servants 20 that one. or the gentlemen
from a dozen ~congregate at another. With
the gentlemen, shooting, COursin- OF attn
letIc games, and with the ladies gracious
calls upon teuauts OF each other, with
most brilliant intercourse and always a
devout attendance al the little parish
churches, rule the sweet aud genial day.
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over the crisp country roads. At the cas-
ties 10 Is the same, save that the retiuues
are greater. the feasts more tremendous.
and more respect j. paid 70 prOprietie- aud
form. But 10 may truly be said that there
is not a dependent, "A tenant or tr~adesmau.
and not a human Icing suffering from
sickness or poverty discOverable in the
neighborhoOd Of these people Of quality
who is not generously remembered, prac-
tically aided and tenderly succored by this
class at Christmas time. Politically we
may abuse its members at will: but this
custom mak a better Christmas for them
and the world than any olden Yuletide Of
wassail and debauchery that ever was
known.
Many Of the olden English Christmas I
customs are truly disappearing, and good
radiance 10 them. But there is not one 4
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has not been retained. Roast beef, plum
pudding, Christmas pies and buns, snap
dragons, with the mistletoe and holly, are
all cherished with olden zest and zeal.
Even the boar's head, decorated with rose
mary or prickly holly, is still brought in
at thousands Of English Christmas boards.
The mummerS are nearly gone and only
llnger, a feehse reminder Of their former
-paganisms, in remote districts Of Devon
shire and Cornwall.
The Yule log may be today found in ,
more English homes than in the Tudor
Christmas times, and no home j. 50 poor
England that the glowing Christmas
tree we have all borrowed from Germany
may not be found within il. The Christ
ma, bell, Of England chime truer and
sweeter than ever. / nave sometimes won
dered il one could find a spot on English
soil where their tuneful voices could not
be heard. Much has been written ~ Eng
lish carols IN the vein Of heir having dis
appeared. 80 they ~have-those Of mex
pressible grossness and ribaldry that were
common from the Fourteenth century TO
the Eighteenth. But in their place, from
Penrith in old Cumberland to Penzance
in Cornwall, there may now be heard
throughout all England, from Christmas
to Christmas MORN, such sweet and
tender words as those Of In the East a
Gray Light, " 'Hark, the Herald, +" "Hark.
What News "Hail, Smiling MornI' at
tuned TO mob song.
The Christmas Of England. aud for that
Of all Britain, and our own Christ
mas are blending into one. Protestant and
Catholic, puritan and prude are getting
upon common ground in adapting and pre-
serving all thar d. best in CHRISTMAS I'M all
lands. Church and home -anctuaries glow
with q radiance less and less dImued by
ranking wars Of creeis, while Christian
humanity q theirs closer with IT'S strong
tender clasp the poor and the desolaUe
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