The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-24


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Ye Joyful Christmas Day.
Blow, bugles of battle. the marches of
East. west. north and south let the
long quarrel cease:
Sing the song of great joy that the an
gels began,
Sing of glory to God and of good will to
man!
Most of the long established important
American holidays are significant only
to those who can look back to a long
line of American ancestors who lived
through the events which gave occasion
for these especial celebrations. But
Christmas is humanity's. broad day. The
day when every class of people in every
land should enjoy a good time; should
feel that the spirit of peace, good VIII
toward men" extends to even the least
of them.
Let the spirit of love and good will
open the hands of love who are blessed
with plenty and scatter bounty and
blessings on every side; and let there
be none left to grieve alone on this day
when the very atmosphere seems
breathing ioyousness and love.
! TO many, Christmastide brings little
but the memories of happier days. But
in such homes let not the hearthstone
grow cold or the heart of the mistress
closed; for if home ties be broken, there
yet remains her kinship with all hui
mainly and to some of these. at least.
she owes obligations of hospitality at
this season. if at no other time.
| Remember that Christmas is a day of
giving 10Y to others and if that giving
be done through spirit of brotherly
love- an unselfsh desire to make others
happy we will find that in the pleas
ure of doing we will see the face of hap
piness, and pleasures that come unlock
ed for are thrice welcome.
While Christmas day is one of family
reunions, its significance gives it
broader meaning than an occasion for
mere qualification in eating, drinking
and enjoying the companionshiD of
those most near and dear to us. The
day is most opDortune for putting into
practical working the familiar admoui-
tion@f'Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Not thy rich neighbor, but the one to
whose envious eyes your lives are SEEM
ing Christmas all the year round. If
because your means are limited you feel
that it is not incumbent upon you to
make a feast and bid him to it. better
send him the turkey and "Sxins" as
sacrificial offering on your part and let
him enjoy this ore day OF the year
not only the luxury of a real Christ
mas dinner in his own home, but the
knowledge that in one heart dwells not
only the spirit of peace, good will to all
men, but brotherly love, one for an 9TH
err that can so far efface all thought
of self as to forego the qualification of
this part of the days pleasure, that a
| less prosperous brother may have this
yearly feast of JOY.
| With our Christmas remembrances to
the poor, let US see to it that the true
spirit of the day encircles them round
| about like loving benediction and no
suggestion of charity that hated
word among the honest toiling poor
shall creep in to jangle the sweet bells
out Of tune. Remember that he who
rudely filings a crust to q beggar has,
| indeed supplied food for a hungry body,
but has robbed both himself and the
beggar of what was their due-hinselt
of the joy of showing forth the spirit of
Jesus and the beggar that feeling Of
fellowship with God and man. thar
places him in the good times that the
spirit of the day should imoart."
THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.
Christmas dinner seems to be one of
the fixed considerations of life, but i'll
many homes it has ceased to be such 3,
although it is still given with utter dis
regard to all dietetic rules in most
I households and it is a brave reformer.
indeed, who will suggest any very rad
zeal change in the menu of a good, old
! fashioned Christmas dinner
When we look over the list of dishes
which were considered necessary for the
Yule-ti feasts of merry old England OF
long ago, we marvel how they did It,
Think of serving up
Salmon, venison and wild boards,
I By hundreds. dozens. and by scores,
Hogsheads of honey. kilderkins of mus
ta<d.
Plum buildings. pancakes. apple pies
and custards.' etc
And the labor the preparations ia
VOWED.
1t is well to bear in mind Emerson's
definition of true hospitality when we
invite friend or stranger within our
gates to enjoy this most democratic of
all our public celebrations 7 pray you
O most excellent wifei cumber not your
self and me to get a curiously rich, din
ner FOR this man or woman who has
just alighted at your gate, nor a bed
chamber made ready at too great a
cost; these things, if they are DESTROYS Of
them, they can get for few shillings
at any village inn; but rather let the
stranger see if he will in your look1
accents and behavior. your heart and