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SAINT FRANCIS STARTED CAROLS
By DR WILLIAM J. PHILLIPS
Organist to the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
IN
TN the tiny Italian village of Grecia, near Assial, St Francia and his brethren made the frat Christmas "erecho" and sang of the birth of Christ.
St Francis caused a manger, an ox, nn oss, and all the trap- pings of a stable to be set up in the church, as a realistic re- production of the surroundings of the first Christmas.
The population flocked to the church with their torches, and the friars sang new canticice, which were listened to with the eagerness of people used to the ministrels and "troubadours of the time.
To
whip poor Lazarus AWEY, They had no · POWER to
strike a stroko But
their whips
Bung
away.
In the end, when Dives dios, two perpents come for his soul; Riso up, rise up, brother
Dives,
And come along with me, For you've a place provided
in bell
To sit upon a serpent's
kneel
CRADLE SONGS TATURE carols there are
In
plenty, and quite possibly they derive from some ancient form of tree worship. In parti- cular, the holly and the ivy havo This simple performance in become sacred to Christmas, and times they have boen tho Tuscan hills at the begin in old
the ning of the thirteenth century looked upon as denoting
of carol two sexes-the real origin singing as well as of the Christmas mystery - plays; and since then the only break in the continuity of carol singing took pince in the time of tho Com- monwealth.
was the
In 1052 Parliament even went so far as to forbid the eclcbra- on of Christmas, and Evelyn the diarist was arrested for re- ceiving Holy Communion Christmas Day.
on
The words of the old carols were alwaya sung to folk tunes. Formerly, carolling was identi- fled with dancing as well as singing,
old French, "Carolo" signified a dance in a ring. Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, used to be known as the Glant's Carole.
UP
THE CHERRY TREE
1
IP to the seventeenth century the apprentices were accuS- tomed to dance in the nave of York Minister on Shrove Tues-
and even day
today in the Cathedral of Seville the choir- boys perform a religious dance three times a year.
Carola were alpo sung no a kind of incidental music be- twoen the scenes of mystery plays, though later they were Incorporated in the plays them
nelves.
the holly young men, and the ivy the maidens.
Then wo have the cradle songs-and what could be more charming than this old carol?
Now tell me sweet, my
darling son,
That art to me so dear, How should I keep thro
every day
And make thee glad of
cheer?
For all thy will
I would UBI,
Thou knowest it well in
fay;
I will theo kles,
And make theo bliss,
And sing Bye Bye, luliny, Oh, Lovely Lady, Mother
dear,
Tako
thou me up aloft And pet me down upon thy
k00
And dangle me full oft, Within thine arme Thou'll keep me wann And guard
day:
me night and
And if I weep
And do not sleep,
Then sing Bye-bye, tullay.
THE WASSAIL
THE WOLMil is one of the THE
Toboggan
Trouble
DIANA DORS, the young star of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, had a little toboggan trouble when she set out to deliver her Christmas presents. But a little upset will not spoll Diana's Yuletide spirit.
YOU THE
CAN DODGE CHRISTMAS
HANGOVER
D
ON'T be persuaded into between Christmas and Twelfth
foolish
much more You are feeding at Night
likely to get a billous attack.
· Christmas ́ ́meroly because other people are
oldest known forms of the doing themselves too well. English carol. Most of tho
Please don't think of me great Christan festivals were grafted on to the feast days of as a spoll-sport. As a doctor, the heathen gods, so that in I know how stimulating a many of our carols today welttle relaxation of your
tast of and the old Saxon
1 Euggest that you Avida the festivities which accompany Christmas into two groups those which are harmless and these which, noed watching.
by
ANTHONY WEYMOUTH
First comes the turkey, ae- companted, like a general with his staff, by sausages, stuffing, sauce, gravy and two kinds of vegetables.
And, at this point, let me ex- Carols take many different
plain that there is no need for ΣΟΣΙΤ We have, for instance, "Was hack" and "Drink heel." usual habits can be. A few the story-telling cirola, such as
MONG the first group are you to choose turkey, in pre- Poor days' break and a thorough The following from for Almanack The Cherry Tree, which
customs like hanging up ference to other birds, merely telis Robin's
1693 change from your ordinary how, on Uludr way to Bethlehem, shows how royally they feasted occupations do more to tone mistletoe and burning the Yule because you think that you are long-established thrice Now
you probably know, foliewing welcome
log As
For the turkey is a up your mind and body than mistletoe, being an evergreen is custom Christmas Which brings
good a pint or two of so-called symbolic of life-it is green newcomer and was, in fact, in- when the leaves of ordinary troduced only in the sixteenth "tonics".
trees have died for the winter. century. and pics
plum porridge,
At the same time it is a poor Custom says that you can have
as there are Plum pudding, too, is a new- Good ale and strong beer:
polley to return to your work as many kisocs
comer. It was unknown unti with a
head berries on the branches. With plg, goose, and capon after Christmas
about 1730. Very nourishing The best that con ba
which feels like exploding any
(And that's the The Yule log. alas is only this dish is minulo so don't be misled by for those fortunate people living trouble there is too much And our stomachs agree.superstition into thinking that
Mary and Joseph passed a cherry tren loaded with fruit. Alary asked Joseph to pick some of
the
cherries
but for her. Joseph
refused, brusquely whereupon the tree bent down and offered its fruit to Mary.
The Carol of Dives Lazarus hao humour
and
ft, certain rough
Dives rent out his merry
men
cheer,
Mince
So well doth the weather
Its name is nourishment about at Christmas Christmas would not be you'll have a yent of luck it in the country.
11. you eat a mince ple every day derived from lol, a wheel, and time)
symbolises the passing of the scasons.
Christmas without the carols.
THE CUSTOM OF THE
CHRISTMAS
By
TREE
(But, if you are lucky enough.
to be ablo to add the Yule log
to your celebrations don't
forgot that it must be brought MINCE pies follow as a ritual;
home on Christmas Eve.
dessert, almonds and raisins, crystallised fruits, chocolates.''
oranges.
Then there is the stocking, This must be hung at the right I've just worked out how spot-which is near enough to much in excess of our require the fire for presents dropped ments you and I eat at the tho down the chimney by Santa Christmas dinner. This is Claus to be caught in it.
result? One meal such as wo eat on this day contains enough This custom, I believe, orl calories for two whole days. ginated from the fourth century And when it's followed by a n solid supper. Nicholas of Myra, who hefty ten, and saint, HE old Italian proverb blare of brass, is a poor sub- by a palm tree, and each month was so shy that he hated doing no wonder the disgusted stomach Twhich runs, who has more stitute for the voices and strings by one of its branches, because, wat he rols.
of a less sophisticated age. ag Volney tells us, "it is the for where he could be seen. So climbed a roof and of the tree to produce he once
E. BEREFORD CHANCELLOR
YOU'LL" probably agree that all
Firel, a light breakfast-00 bacon, eggs, or sausages, Some truit, toast, and coffee, You laow the sort of thing. Then we elther have our Christmas dinner in the middle of the day or in the evening. BUT NOT
business than English ovens
Well, that's that What is to Many people suppose that, in nature at Christmas," sufficiently common with such observances a branch every month," and a dropped a purse of gold down be done about it? I'll tell you Indicates the world-re- as these, the Christmas Tree is pray of palm bearing twelve the chimney! (Santa Claus in my scheme for Christmas Day.
WILS old shoot
used by part and parcel of the
the corruption of Saint Nicholas). nowned character of our English Christmas; but this is Egyptians at the time of the Yuletide festivities. Indeed, hardly the case.
winter solstice to symbolise tho from the Royal Household Aa a matter of fact, our completion of the year. downwards all classes wore Christmas Tree, hung with
Tights and tinsel and multi- The custom seems to have wont once to celebrate this
coloured triffes, the delight and entered Europe by way of Italy, scason with observances wonder of childwood, is to be where the palm was replaced You these doings are harmless BOTH. more complex and peculiar traced to Germany, where it by a fir tree, which was decoent enough. Now we come to the than is the custom now. was a very unclent institution, ed with lighted tapers in honour other group, those which need If the former, then supper Is
Its passage from watching.
very light, the latter, we The Mummers and the Lord with which the grave Luther is of Saturn.
have coup and mndwiches for of Misrule, or Christrans Prince, pleasantly Identified. There is the Continent to English thorea
print showing the was n a belated one, extant a
And what needs watching at lunch. And. I insist on a walk us he was sometimes called,
Introduced it caught the this season is-food. You may between the midday and the whooo pleasant duty
carola around on
And cut. evening meal according to old Slow, "to make singing
and bedecked extent that it remaine today, or a plum pudding for twelve that afternoon ten; for I agres
many earlier. obser- months and So your mouth boholders,"
of the Chrstmas Tree; while his at when so
with the Frenchman who de are things
festival is vances hava disappeared, the waters and you feel ready for, scribed this meal as a "reflec remote past, and our datumalia sortation with the
As the Dutch say, ton on your lunch and an in- aro conducted with a restraint brought home to us still more most cherished emblem of the the assault. which, it
it does not exactly clearly when we remember thui season which "comes but onca "You lay your cars back is ult to your dinner" bear out the dictum of the he himself was accustomed, in a year? French as to the way in which his more youthful days, to figure
but once
it was. Great Reforiner with his family, an imagination to such annot have seen either a turkey the rarist pastime to delight the illuminated WINDSORS'
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we take our pleasurea, is at among the waits. "At the time
of Christ's birth least in marked contrast with of the festival
them
the manner in which we were he writes, "we went from house formerly accustomed
to enjoy to house, and village to village,
singing
Christmas popular Nowadays four things may carols in four-part harmony": be zaid specially to characterise de-
an English Christmas the coration of churches and houses,
...:)
introduction of the Christmas Tree into our
the waits, the Christmas pud- festivities to actually of relative ding and the Christmas tree.
Tho
the recent date, and, as a popular supremacy
symbol of the season, probably Christmas pudding remains un- owed its origin to that member challenged, and it is eaten with of the household of
Qucen
a disregard of consequences by Caroline (the wife of George IV) ali good Englahmen, who, as who is said to have constructed has been well said, never know what he called a Christmas Tree when they are benten..
for a party of children in Lon don. It is described as being "A branch of an evergreen AHE walls, like the poor, arb al-
to al fastened on a board, hung with zdik aanges, almonds, ut, and among themselves every whit' as having beneath It m model of
of men much as Cacour tells us the farmhouse with figures of various part of Gaul did. They and animals." can, on occasion, be-musical; " * Modern, (i) therefore, as the and sometimes they actually Christmas Tree L là "England,
when, my the village on the Continent it was choosed to rosum nightly: micient, date, and, no dour
* CELLIER'S
readiness".
out
R JOHNSON once said: "Sir,
DJ stairs, but I cannot
bo moderate". And it is Böenuse 1 bellove that most of us; it wa are honest enough to admit it, ano
bulit in the same way that I.:: advisos only one good meal on Christmas Day. It is easier to abstain when the food. lan't there than to see it and be moderato,
A.
And I cannot doubt that your
I stomach, and mine aro in- capable, however willing of dealing satisfactorily, with two | really heavy meals on the same
dayogie
All the same, I thin may festored #young
on thla
and
day
that you