The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-24
DAYS OBSERVANCE
HOW PEOPLE OF BUTTE WILL
SPEND CHRIST16ASTIDE.
WILL DOUBTLESS BE QUIET
Everybody Will Eat Turkey and Sit by
His Own Fireside - Social Fes-
tivities-Children Will Be
F. Happy.
WILL DOUBTLESS BE QUIET

How will all the good people of Butte
pass Christmas?
That is a question that may be of in
terest to the public. 1t is probable that
it will be passed very quietly. as that is
the usual custom.
Christmas is generally a quiet day. 1t
is day on which the domestic virtue OF
staying at home with the family is
given chance to show its merits.
All good Americans eat turkey on
Christmas day-when they can get 1t.
Butte is prosperous place, and doubt
less an exceedingly small number will
| miss the festal bird this year.
The people Of VAUDEVILLE, Meaderville.
| Centerville South Butte, and all the
| other subsidiary and suburban places
| surrounding Butte will pass their Christ
mas very like the Butte population.
All People Will Celebrate.
! Tomorrow will be Christmas day, and
nearly all the different kinds OF people
in the United States barring the Indians
who are uncivilized, the Chinese and
| other Asiatics viii celebrate the great
| Christian festal day.
| AS to Christmas. the Americans are
| homogeneous in their customs. and
| Christmas in Butte will not differ greatly
|! from Christmas in New York or Cali
| fornia.
The weather of yesterday promised to
make the day in Butte look greatly what
it does on the green shores Of the Pa
| cific, with rain-dripping roofs and
streaming streets.
to make a Northern Christmas of the
, most approved pattern-such a Christ
! mas as the New Highlander knows and
| revels in from his babyhoOd.
| That is the sort of Christmas weather
| Butte is most accustomed to, but some
| times the warm Chinook winds of the
rainy coast of Washington change the
aspect of the city with quick thaw.
| such as the last two or three days have
| seen.
Plenty Of Gaiety.
Notwithstanding the customary peace
| fulness and tranquility of Christmastide,
there is always enough gaiety and fes-
tivity in this city during the Christmas
| season.
There will be house parties and din
! ners and dances and many festivities to
! enliven it in a quiet social way, and
| happiness will perva lie the homes of all
! the people, from the highest to the low
| est, no doubt, and the children always
| find it day of great rejoicing.
| The toy drum and the toy horn, re-
sounding and resonant, will be heard
| in the land, and the little folks will be
| in clover weather housed in the humble
cottage of the miner or smelterman, or
in the pretentious mansion of the mil
lionaire.
To the babes a jumping jack is joy
that rises above all material conditions.
And to them-who have no worries and
no memories of brighter days and no
thought of the morrow-there is no past.
no future and no present sorrows: just
joy, pure joy, pure and simple, of the
most perfect kind.
Better to Be Boy.
It is better to be boy with a new pair
of skates or a girl with yellow haired
doll than king on Christmas day, for
kings have troubles.
The Butte Chinese, of course, will take
no interest in the anniversary of the
birth of the Christ. and in that they will
not be in touch with their Christian fell
lowmen.
Their quarter of the town will stand
out, as it were, in the celebration of
Christmas day, and they will miss the
apetizing turkey and the brown gravy
and the mince pie and the cranberry
sauce. But who ever saw a Chinaman
who could appreciate cranberry sauce?
The Montana Indians who have been
Christianized, Of whom there are very
few in Butte, will join in the festivities
of Christmas with their white brethren.
The naturalized citizens of the differ
ent European nations represented here
and those who are not naturalized will
introduce some of the customs of their
fatherlands in their celebration Of the
day.
Customs Not Different.
But America absorbs her adopted chill
dren very rapidly. and the customs of
the people of Meaderville will not differ
materially from those of Dublin gulch.
Everybody should have a good time