The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-03
ALL THE WORLD OVER.
G., s:alss Day Is Colobrated Ev-
c-ywhoro Nowadays.
Tow tho Nations Keep It-EngIish, Cor
man. french, italian. Russian and Bull
;,arian--In Partibus Intidclium-
Taris Dolls In tho Far last.
lcopYRlGnr, 1927

thoughts.
Wherever / went it was the same.
Men with prcoccupicd faces turned
from their business to hear but Il sem
tencc before they broke into broad
grin and called 10 each other across the
desks, and others came up to sec what
it was all about
AT the British consulate, for instance,
sick seaman, an iratc doctor and dis
gusted clerk We're having Il triangular
duel Of words when Icntcrcd, but when
spoke the clerk looked relieved, the
doctor and the seaman amblcd off to-
gcthor. while | was shown into an inner
room where sat Consul Gilbert Fraser,
and his blondc-beardcd face lighted up
with smile, too.
For it was OF Christmas l spoke, and
its observance in many lands varied,
but always with core of l<indliness
and home-fccling running through it.
IN GREAT BRITAIN.
"Christmas in England has not
changed of late or grown in its obscrv-
ance." said Mr.. Fraser. 1T couldn't
very well, for the British have ALWAYS
been famous ut yulc-tidc merry MAX
ing. OF course the lord of misrulc and
his twelvc-day court have gone, for
Englishmcn are now too busy, though
not So busy as you Americans, to give
up so much time"
Then you think we do work hardcr?"
"Oh, dear me! yes; twice Us hard
One OF the greatest things about the
English Christmas is the way in which
1T has been carried round the world
ycw and holly, mistlctoc and bay. snap
dragon, plum pudding and abby Eng
hsh people. In Australia, New Zealand
Or Madras, in spite of the burning heat,
you will find the English Christmas
Shiploads of holly and mistletoe go out
to the far colonies. Between America.
and Great Britain flow two uncndinr
streams of holiday gifts at this season
of The year. With this we have, of
course, no official connection, but the
numberlcss queries we get about rates
OF duty and money orders tell Tie
story"
CHRISTMAS IN TIE FATIER!.AND.
Herr Ferdinand Ritschl, vice consul
of Germany at New York, has q broad
and good-hunorcd face, which grow an
inch broader when l explained nlv CT
rand. AS You see the German Christ
mas in America he said so it is mt
home. On Christmas eve The tree i;
dccl.cd and lighted and everybody is at
home. There is the first holiday and
the second, for December &c IS a holt
day. too and the tree is kept decllcd
until New Years day. Your Santa
Claus is our kriss kringlc YOU know.
Oh, the German Christmas has gone
round the world and is fast conuucring
this country. America is learning
Christmas from its German citizens"
SC .,
many?"
TcS, the spruce and The cedar"
''Und tanncnbaum auch?"
Yes. the tanncnbaum Chcmloclz),
too; that sounds good. Hundreds of
thousands of young evcrgrccns from the
schWarzwald and from local forests are
used every year"
CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE.
II. Maxine Durand. at the French
consulate, assured me that France has
a Christmas, too, of somewhat differ
ent pattern-rather a church than
lN:-lc festival, and without SO much
ose-srcen mixed up in it,
And do the children hang UP their
stockings for Santa to FLIP"
"No, not their stockings, but their
boots or shoes. And not at Christmas,
sacred to gift giving, and not for Santa
Claus, for we have nothing akin to him
unless it be our Perc Noel French
children are rather tooEational to care
for such INVESTIGATIONS. But they ap-
precate the gifts and the home visits
just as we'll without"
N SCANDINAVIA
Mr. Christopher Raun sat in his Office
-, L.. Z
puzzling over don't know what astute
problSm when the mental conception of
n Scandinavian yulc-tidc was substi-
tritcd, and he straightway became clo- !
Quent and drew me an enhancing pic |
turc OF a festival around the bonghs of |
the big evergreen and of pretty girls |
from the sactcrs hard by with long |
haXen braids hanging down their backs, |
who dance al night with Axcl, of Chris |
tiana, or Asmund, just back from Min |
nesota, with pocket full of dollars. |
There is plenty of snow on roof and |
field, and the birds have scant prov
endcr So, if it be farm or hamlet
not in the city of coursc-up goes plump |
Johann and fixes u shcaf of wheat upon |
the ridge of the roof for all the wander |
ing ones of the air to feast ut and make |
A4'~' y VIZ W liiIc Iilt TulltrS ring WIN |
the dance and the laughter below
CHRISTMAS IN EASTERN EUROPE.
At Arnautkcui, at the narrow en- |
trance to the Black sea, every year the |
water is blessed by Il priest in presence |
OF as many Greeks, Bulgarans and |
Russians as can be present. After the |
blessing the priest filings his large,
silver crnciiX into the river. Strong