The Dolores star., 1923-12-14

running on the joys of Christmas in the home
JOYS which have no end For, aside from it's other
maliiold aspects, Christmas Day is pre-eminenty
holiday of the home and the family And Its
syniDoi Is the Christmas tree Its basic idea is
u'e christmas cradle in Bethlehem. And the sof-
tehing influence of Christmas in the home radiates
us influence everywhere until he is queer
indeed who does not wish in all sincerity his neigh
Dor Merry Christmas"
yes; Christmas time Is a vertable contagion OF
happiness overfiowing into merriment. Childhood
thrills at the thought of it. Youth halls it with
ueheht Maturity gives it welcome. Old age
grows young again IN its joys. Our social instincts
have fair play for once. Hospitality into
It's own 1t is a beautiful season. Writes Shake
speare:
Some say that 'gaInst that season comes
Wherein Saviours birth is celebrated
The bird of dawnng sinseth all night long,
And then they say spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are whoesome-then no planets strike:
No fairy takes, witch hath power O charm.
80 hallowed and 20 gracious is the time.
Another picture-that of great turkey ranch
In California-ses mouths to watering for
the Christmas dinner And why not? The man
or woman or child who doesn't await 1t with
eagerness Is not normal and should be put in soil
tary confinement for the day. Nature gave us the
joy of satisfying healthy appetite and 1t is not
hard to believe that the good old dame created the
turkey especially for Chrstmas-and Thanksyiv-
ing If anyone dare deny that cooking is fine
art in the presence of the Christmas turkey-oh
what's the use!
Great is the good cheer" of Christmas time
But there Is more to 1t than the Christmas tree
and the Christmas feast. And in our heart of
hearts we all know it-every of US That
is why all the world celebrates the day. The
spirit Of the day Is kindpess, gentleness forgive.
ness, liberation. This spirit appeals to all of us.
1t could not appeal to us If we did not believe in
our capacity to respond to it. Century by century
the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth has forced home
these points. says Prof. Hartley Burr Alexander,
in Mature and Human Nature:
First. refuge for the weak. aims he poor
freedom the slave; then chivalry. all that
fine devotion the of the helpless the
brought of Illumination into the barbarism
of the Dark Ages; and finally. under the of
years, tie recognition of the rights polit-
cal and economic and fumnn, of all men and
and children. 4 all humanity. to participation In
great hope of n. tnkind These things have
affirmed by Christianity from the day
founder: and 1t is the vigor of this affirmation
which has put into democracy a spiritual power
and a living fore.
The World tore away the foundations of
our conceits' and "stript us of our suficiencies"
But the world has attempted to supersede the
Gospel with various artifiSes of reason and logic
Who shall say that 1Oes not believe in and
want goodness and beauty and feel the dearth of
them? Who shall say that the salvation of a cha
Otic world is not "The Golden Rule'-the spirit
of Christmas extended to every day of the year?
says VIII Irwin in "Christ Mars:
another with Judaism on this single issue
should start the worl. of educating their and
daughters in the illusion and immortality of war.
we should within year mark the changing mood