The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27
CHRISTMAS JOYOUS
ONE IN SALT LAKE
Day Was Crowded With Every
Joy, Festiyity and Family
Reunion.
ELABORATE SERVICES
IN SEVERAL CHURCHES
People Blessed With a Prosper
ity Never Before Enjoyed;
Zion Was Happy.

The Christmas season of 1906 in
Salt Lake City was crowded with every
JOY and festivity. Blessed with a pros
perity never before enjoyed with the
most enhancing and alluring prospects
for the coming year, there was every
occasion for rejoicing. It was sens;-
bic, real American Christmas, albeit the
snow was lacking. There was reason
IN the feast, and the flow of soul was
not famboyant, but sincere.
Christmas today is celebrated muc n
the same as 1t was by our forefathers.
There is the feasting and the gift Civ
ing, the visiting and the fluctuations;
the spirit is the same. never changing,
peace on earth, good will toward
men,
were conducted in all places of public
worship, including the big Tabernacle,
a new departure in this latter. AT the
hospitals in the city the season was OBJ
served, those visited for the time by
sickness being cared for by the sisters
of the institutions At the various
charitable institutions, the same loving
mindfulness of those less fortunate
brethren was manifested, sumptuous
turkey dinners being served. and the
Christmas tree, with It's presents for
rectitude is not hawless and who for a
time are being cared for at public ex-
pense, were not forgotten, for at the
jails and at the State prison work was
abandoned for the dav, and they were
feasted royalty,
In the homes of rich and poor alike,
for the former made it their special
mission to see that the latter were not
lacking for the good things. there was
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season and brightness and cheerfulness
reigned supreme.
To the children, God bless 'em, the
day was a revelation. for never before
were there so many toys, and candies
and good things to eat, as there were
yesterday; and the little ones ate and
thought naught of the morrow and the
nasty things that Will have to be taken
to get them back to their normal con-
children were not alone in this respect,
but, then, indigestion is like the poor.
There was n complete cessation of
business; nobody worked. not even
father, except the newspapermen, and it
is their duty TO work. The street car
and railroad men worked also, but they
will get their reward.
Yes, it was Joyous Christmas, an
occasion of peace and plenty, and let
INC Dt IHdI lNc luluTe contains
for Salt Lake and her people many
Just such Cbristmases
Services in the Churches.
Beginning at the peep of day, with
song service at the Swedish Lutheran
churches, taken up at 9 clock By
children s voices at ST. Mary's, and
bursting forth in one grand chorus from
all the churches at II clock. the
strains of Christmas music floated out
from all the places of worship Tues.
the Christ child; told how once more
the time had come for the repetition
of fpeace on earth good will toward
men," for the telling of the old, but
ever new story. in words and music
For month the choirs of the different
churches have been carefully going over
the music for the Christmas celebra
ton, and Yesterday in flower and
greenery decked churches came their
reward.
Through the darkness at o'clock
resisting the temptation of a good
mornings sleep, the devout Swedish
people hurried to their little church
The services, while wholly in the Swe
dish tongue. were most impressive. and
the festive appearance of the little
church added much to the occasion.
In Sc. Mary's
Nine clock mass at st. Mary's ca
thedral was sweet with chorus of fifty
children e voices, the ST. Cecilia society
| assisted by the wee girls singing the
mass music and Christmas hymns. The
little church was massed in palms and
flowers, red and yellow and green, Civ
ing the true Christmas touch, At II
o clock the choir, to the number OF
forty, sang the glorious solemn high
mass of Maloche, the swelling "Glo-
ria' and solemn Sanctus being con-