The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-21

Let nothing YOU alright
This day is born a Savior
OF a pure Virgin bright
To free all those who trust in Him
From Satan's pow'r and might
The Shepherds at those tidings
Rejoiced much in mind,
And left their flocks afeeding,
In tempest, storm and wind;
And went to Bethlehem straightway,
The Son Of God to find
And when they came to Bethlehem.
Where our dear Savior lay,
They found Him in a Manager,
Where oxen feed on hay;
His Mother Mary kneeling down.
Unto the Lord did pray.
old English Carol.
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Unless the stern hand of maternal
y law holds itself inhexibly for
breakfast there is apt to be a slip in
the cog on Christmas morning. The
children are wild to get at their stock
ings, anxious to begin immediate con-
sumption of the sweets that adorned
the Christmas tree, and every mother
knows what comes next
In many households where there are
children the Christmas breakfast--and
it must be a rapid transit in its pre-
paratiOn and serving-comes first, be-
fore the children are allowed even a
peep at their stockings. OF course, it
| needs be an unusually early one and
the elders may have to forego their
customary forty winks"; but Christ
mas comes but once year." and min
utes are hours until those stockings
are investigated Have the dining
room lights bright and the table pref
tily set with a Christmas card or
greeting at each place. This can be
done the night before, after the chill
aren have retired.
in one dear California home, where
breakfast first" was the established
custom, a small boy writing his Christ
mas duty letter to his grandfather
said: "On Christmas morning we all
woke up early so we could look in our
stockings, but we had to eat break
fast first. We then all marched in in
line, mother leading, and all singing,
'Hark, the herald angels sing to the
folding doors, but after that it was a
confused mass"
In this home the time-honored way
of hanging the stockings in a gradual
ed row over the fireplace has always
been preferred according to family
tradition. Where change is desired
there are new and attractive ways
that can be followed On Christmas
morning last year the children COM
ing in another home to breakfast
found in the bay window of the din
ing room a Santa Claus house. This
had been built of the boxed presents,
each wrapped in a sheet of colored pa
per. Presents that did not come al
ready boxed were inclosed in empty
boxes kept for such emergencies, so
that there was abundant material for
the structure, which presented fine
architectural effect. Green branches
set in flower pots made a grove about
the building, while two dolls dressed
as Mr. and Mrs Santa Claus stood
Hospitality outside their door
Christmas without holly wouldn't be
Christmas, though it may be helped
out with other green's. A pretty idea
is to hang the chandelier of the din
ing room with greens and holly and
MALE to each corner Of the room,
forming a conopy for the table. If the
presents are to be given in the dining
room after breakfast, a garland wound
on a cord may be stretched tightly
from the door handles, wainscote
! height about the room, tying to this
the lightweight gifts with scarlet rib
| bons Larger gifts can be heaped on
| tables that rise to a level with the
garland and serve as support at the
| corners Of the room. 3unches of holly
over the corners of large pictures and
sprays of green in all the vases make
the rooms bright and "Christmasy,"
For those debarred the pleasure of
having genuine trees with their bal
samic Odor there are cunning little
artificial trees from Nuremberg that
are a good investment, as they can be
used from year to year, accommodating
associations that give them added
value, These trees are only about
three feet high, including the founda-
tiOn wooden NOT with their connie