Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-12-25
SUPPER,

SUPPER.
Hasty Pudding and MIN.
Sliced Ham, Dreamed Potatoes.
| Doughnuts. Cheese
Cider Apple Sauce.
Standing close to the threshold of the
new year one imagines n mighty rustling,
as all Christendom waits. moistening It's
| forennger ready at the stroke or l. TO
turn the fresh leaf that shall present n
spotless page to the bookkeeper of the
new year. We have, all of us. much to
regret I'm the past. Sins of omission and
sins of commission. Blots and stains
Blunders and absurdties! Bad spelling
and worse grammar. But tomorrow is a
new day. Let us begin 1t we'll and Sc
renely and with too high a spirit to be
weighed down by past failures.
| While New Year in this country has
been shorn of much Of its past glory by
the Importance now attributed to Christ
mas there are many pleasant little fam
lily customs still in evidence-and there
are others that 1t might be well for us
to borrow from our ncighborS over the
sea.
What for instance, is more charming
than the custom that has obtained from
time immemorial at Frankfort-on-the
Main?
On New Years eve the whole city keeps
festival. In every house lights burn
bright all care is laid aside and song and
games and joyous cheer prevail. Just as
the first stroke of midnight sounds from
the great dome of the Cathedral every
window IL thrown wide open, and from
its easement lean young and old. with
glass in hand ready to invoke prosperity
for themselves and neighbors. Then with
one accord the cry goes up from thousands
of lusty throats.
'Prosit Neu Jahr.' Happy New Year,
What wonder that the love for home
ard fatherland is Unborn with the Teuton.
whose earliest recollections are of united
family and civic observances?
Among our old Dutch forbears of New
Amsterdam the children had a pretty Gus
tom which is worth reviving
As the sun went down they ate their
bowls of suppawn and milk, then gath
ering around the immense fireplace, sang
in low voices their New Years hymn to
the good Saint Nicholas:
Santa Klaus. goedt heilig man!
Knopybest Van Amsterdam,
Van Amsterdam aan SpanJe,
Van Spanje aan Oranje,
En- brang dezc kindjis eenige crops
(Santa Claus, good, holy mani
Go your way from Amsterdam,
From Spain TO Orange
And bring these little children toys.
Stint Nicholas myn OGDEN virend,
TX had altYd mel gedend.
Ais Ky my me not wilt geben
Zal TX dieucn ais ny n lehen.
tSaint Nicholas. my dear good friend,
TO serve you ever was my end
II YOU me now something will give.
Serve you | will as long as liVcD
In those days gift giving prevailed, and
Tremendous eating ana drinking was {
continuous performance from morn unit
night Every door was thrown wide open
, 1t was a breach of etiquette to omit any
, acquaintance IN the annual calling ana q
hearty welcome was even extended TO the
: stranger within the gates.
While the abuse of these privileges a
last led to their abolition. it is their spr!
!, of hospitality and of civic union that w
might we'll consider. and to some extern
adopt In the crowded city, even in thu
much malinged ''tlat' house, it Will do NJ
harm.
TO PASS THE SEASONS GREETING
: with the neighhor across the hall, tn,
janitor, the butcher. the baker. The ten
, dency nowadays IL to hold ourselves toe
! much aloof. Even the children seem t
grasp the idea that it IS mira dig to hav,
: anything to do with those not in thel
"us fellows" marks the line of social de
marcation as truly as did the old man
; petition:
: God hles me and my wife. my soI
? John and his wifo-us four and no more.
} That is not the spirit to cultivate. W.
: are all citizens of one country ana in IN
furtheranCe of that citizenship there mus
be appreciation of the universal brother
hood of man So let the chimes once NOR,
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic Islander and the spite;
Ring in the love Of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
While on New Years Day the menu o
, the family dinner is apt TO have a les
: conventional makeup than either IN
e Thanksgiving or the Christmas dinner
descendants of the old Dutch familie
cling with persistence to certain Of thei
y traditional Knickcrbocker dishes, while
the Scotch and Germans hold quite a
. tenaciously to the little cakes which hay
10 always been associated with the day IL
their own homeland.
Among these holidays cakes there ar
none more popuar than
: MARZIPAN.
/. which. though coming back to us from
! Germany, is really an old English disl
las we'll. Sometimes il is made witt
a blanched almonds, sometimes with PTS
:, tachio nuts. When the latter are use'
/, liz is quite exquisite pale green. Whel
> almond is used alone it is of cream color
. Recipes for its making vary. All cal
: for nuts for sugar and the white of egg
but after that the formulas differ. som
Iuse no "wetting AT all, Others emplo.
grape juice, milk cream or sweet wine
while sesame seed, coriander poppy, anis
- or caraway seed are added according t
national preference. Sometimes II is still
A further enriched by the addition of fires
!, or crystalzed fruits, preserves jelly o
lam Its form is also matter OF custom
and taste. Formerly in Germany tn
cakes were heart shaped, ornamented wit
= llitti, turtlndoVes made of mink sugar n