1939-12-22 — Page 24

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 22, 1939.

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E celebrate Christ- of travesty of it, became popular pies and their contents were land the Turkey became

so much cluо was travestiert. we eat in 1939. Turkeys and in about 1660. 1603rd anniversary This was the Snapdragon a plum puddings were not known

W mas in 1939 on the fat the Christmas festival when precisely the same as the ones Christmas dish in old England.

It was known here before of the day that Julius, dish of lighted fruits, which the as Christmas disnes then-the that. Sallora from the New And Gone with them are the old-Bishop of Rome, first fixed tuests had to pick out of the traditional fare was the boar's World returned with some speci fashioned methods of waxing the for Christians to com-flames with their fingers. head, decked with rosemary and mens as far back as 1640, when In the West Country a jug served with plenty of mustard. Archbishop Cranmer forbade his of cider in which a lighted candle' has been fixed is drunk at But 200 years before Bishop Christmas. It is called a flag

carriage.

Have you been using the same aula memorate their Saviour's

simply through birth.

Don't use

wax for years. force of habit? horse and carriage auto wax.

It is no longer necessary to work all Julius the scattered congrega-dragon

day, to wear yourself out

totions of the early Church had

elergy to have more than one turkeycock served up at a single meal.

RUB and RUB, In order to attain & been honouring Christ's birth-came the carols, the earliest go origin or some of its ceremonies, HE original plum pudding

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QUT when Cromwell abolished Christmas under the Com- With the Mediaeval Church

monwealth, disliking the Pagan back to King Henry Hl's day,

was served with the first And for many centuries be- and the stockings and Santa he abolished the hoar's hend fore and after these celebrations Claus.

along with it and that dish was course as a special Christmas

bread. have been added to out of the mythology, the folk-lore and the nint of Bari, who gave all his

He is St. Nicholas, the patron never restored.

Charles II. brought Christmas were mixed with the dough and Currants, spices and raisins history of all the nations. patrimony away in gifts to poor back to England, though he the whole compound camo in a

The Christmas that we know girls so that they might be never could persuade the Scots special dish called in England has borrowed its furnished with marriage to restore the old feast when porridge. In the course of the trappings from many sources portion. St. Nicholas' Day is they restored the old monarchy. eighteenth century all the cle- over many centuries--from the December 6.

And in good King Charles' ments of a Christmas celebration Druids who first hung the Before the Reformation little golden days we find the first settled down into their present mistletoe bough to Albert Prince girls used to hang up their turkeys and the first plum place. Consort who introduced the first stockings overnight in the belief puddings.

So did the ingredients in the Christmas tree.

that before morning came St. The turkey does not come plum pudding, which was well Nicholas' would visit them and from Turkey. It was called a established in its modern förm fill it with his gifts. But after turkey derisively by the Greeks by 1798, when the poet, Cole- the. Reformation abolished St. because of the bird's pompous ridge described in his letters Nicholas feast the custom was strut and the scarlet "fez" on home how impressed he had be transferred to Christmas day. its head. Ita home was in New come with the Christmas tree The family and other relatives of the

But it was not until Elizabeth England and when the Pilgrim in Germany. He died 10 years late Mr. Walter Hung wish to thank their friends for their kind year.

had been on the throne for 30 Fathers celebrated their first too soon to see it introduced into sympathy and floral tributes at

years that Englishmen began to harvest after landing in the new England in the eighteen-forties the funeral.

The daylight, shortest on bake their pies in pastry shaped world in 1621 they naturally when, after Queen Victoria's December 21, has begun to to recall the manger where the feasted on the fowl that was marriage, it first set the seal.on lengthen out again; the sun, as infant Jesus lay.

most plentiful locally. From a every Merry Christmas. the simple peoples that once These were the first mince- thanksgiving dish in new Eng- adored it saw, gives promise of ja glorious return and the wheel the Yul is the Gothic word for it-has come full circle.

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Friday. December 22, 1939. Wyndham St., Ilongkong Telephone: 26615

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph is thed by the "Hongkong Telegraph to

THE last days of December were a festival long before Christ was born in Bethlehem.

They are, the turn of the

Before Caesar landed in Kent the Druids went forth when the days began to lengthen to cut caner the provisions of the Triecommun- the mistletoe from the oak, a

indicate news which is strictly copyright

calian Ordinance.

1924. Such new

bears the indication "Up" is treaived in tree held holy to the sun god. Jiangkong 'on the date of publication by

tie United Prexa Assariations, who fe They distributed a sprig to serve all rights and forbid republication, every home, where it was hung

arrangement.

god's protcelion, Marriages

Packing The Christmas

In The

Presents

site stilly or in part without previous over the doorway to invite the HALF the joy of receiving presents is the exciting job Healed by a kiss under the of unwrapping them. Remem mistletoe were held lucky. That

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Dinners

Past

The traditional British Christmas the ancient Christmas feast. So, too, TURKEY and Christmas pudding!} The swan was another favourlie at dinner. So, at least, it is popularly was the peacock, which served up supposed. Yet actually the Christ-

age and its beak gilded-a most mas dinners of our forefathers were decked with its own gorgeous plum- very different from ours.

ornate dish, doubtless, though by all What, then, did they cat at Christ accounts, not at all palatable. nas time? (Earliest predecessor of

undoubtedly the Strange Flavours

the turkey was boar's head which, decorated with bay and rosemary, was brought to the table with great ceremony amid a flourish of trumpets.

was 2,000 years ago; but we still ber this when you start to tie Mr. Justice Fraser's carefully kiss under the mistletoe bough up your gifts, and spend a few on attractive packing pence weighed comments in his judg. (when Christmas comes.

material. eviction claim, the text of which appear-

Fancy boxes, seasonably designed

Though much of the food was the same as we eat nowadays, it must ed in our columns yesterday, THE Romans, every schoolboy wrapping paper and tope, coloured

have tasted very different. Strange illuminatingly reveal the peculiar roads, laws and buildings. They can be bought cheaply.

is taught, brought Britain string, Christmas seals and labels,

Ideas of cookery prevailed in cen- The important thing is to see that turies past. Instead of separating premises upon which the Hong-also brought Christmas decora- With these additions you may the present is not lease in the paravours the alm apparently was to kong Eviction Ordinarice is lions, paper caps and Christmas dress up your gifts in their "party cel, but packed around tightly so that mingle as many incongruous ones as

A plain brown! based. Complaint is not direct-presents. December 25 was at frocks, and in so doing give double it cannot move.

the season of their feast of pleasure to the recipients.

paper wrapping, may be used to ed against the learned judge's Saturn, who, they said, had been

Sweet ingredients were freely cover the more attractive one in- But don't forget the commonsense

mixed with alt ones, and real decision; if anything, one can King of the Gods in the vanished part of the packing as well. Make side. The this round firmly with

The com- sympathise with him, for he was

golden age.

sure that your presents will travel strong string and stick on a gummed Savoury dishes were rare,

pounds were generally smothered la On the feast of Saturn, the safely, and not give your fiends the label

spices or condiments, often including at times clearly torn between houses were decked with bays wrong kind of surprise by sending

Here are A few hints which, if sugar, or, as that was then a costly the necessity of strictly apply and holly, friends gave cachi gifts whet, arrive in "pieces. Far followed, should ensure your gifts commodity, the native substitute,

destinations in good honey. ing the law and the inhumane other presents and for ten days cels are bound to get a lot of knock-reaching their

the social ties were broken anding about at this time of year if you condition and at the right moment:- implications which thereby Jack was as good as his master. send them by post or rall, so they

Rich men waited ол their must be well protceted,

Corrugated cardboard

became apparent.

CX-

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Address all labels very plainly block letters are best.

possible.

Confectionery of 1 sort existed. The medieval table was plentifully strown with sugar comfits, nougat, and quaint sugar shapes known as "subletles," and sundry other tit- bits. Colouring tinctures were ex- tensively used, particularly saffron. Coch'nen was employed from the

It probably comes as a shock slaves and parents on their

Put an addressed label inside the to many to know that under the with masks and coloured caps crumpled newspaper.

children and men made merry cellent shock absorber, and so is parcel as well as out, in case the

Tissue paper wrapper gets torn, Hongkong law, "hardship" for a land paper noses.

can be used, too, and has the ad-

Enclose sender's nome and address earliest times. tenant does not mean being The Romans departed from vantage of making any prezent look-In case of non-delivery,

G. O. J. asked to pay rent which is Britain-leaving their Saturn-more valuable.

alia behind them; the Pagan beyond his purse. Anybody in Norsemen came in.

such an unfortunate position, They came with a new Christ- says the law, must clear out and mas rite-the Yule log.

It was their custom at the get into cheaper accommodation, close of every year to light a even though that may involve huge log which was supposed to living in a house which is burn away all the hatreds and worries of the past 12 months vulnerable to fire dangers, has no and enable men to make another flush system and boasts only start. wooden staircases. Such dwell- ing houses are for the poor.

If

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Later the Yuletide log replaced by a giant candle-and

the little candles on our Christ-

you want anything better, you mas trees to-day are the last

must be able to afford it.

This sounds harsh, and prac- tice proves it, even though the law deny it. The Eviction Or-

relic of it.

C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.dinance may well be criticised on ALONG with the Yule log the

St. George's Bldg., Chater Rd.

THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The Soclety asks for

$35,000

in 1040 to meet the incrensing needs of

sick and destitute children in Hong Kong.

A copy of the Ataual Report for 1039 may be obtained from:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, O.A.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., -

P. & O. Building

Mr. HWOR CHAN,

c/o The Barique de L'Indo-Chine,

Hong Kong.

Hen, Treasurers.

Norsemen brought their: this ground, and justifinuie "trial by ordeal." An accused demands made for a revision of man had to carry a hot iron bar fundamental pliilosophy: upon a certain distance. If his scar which it is based. But the healed within a cortain time he pronounced innocent. A simpler method, and one which was

milder form of the ordeal, a kind would provide less headaches and heartaches for

in litigants eviction cases, would be the Introduction of Д separate not necessities." It hardly seems Government measure prohibiting possible, in these days of vaunted dwelling houses which

are progress, that the law should invitations to a Guy Fawkes demand such a statement. It is) bonfire, which have no flush high time the authorities turned ystems, and which, generally these so-called amenities into |speaking, require a stretch of necessities. Until they do,

the imaginatioh to be described Hongkong's lawa are likely to

as habitablo,

Carry B. stigma of far greater

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Mr. Justice Fraser called these meaning than Mr. Bumble's It's bargain when you stop to figure how wages and materials conditions "amenities which are cynical, qulp.

have gone up since the warl":

Wines And Wassail

Foreign wines, heavily spleed, were imported to nugment the native drinks, cider, ile, and mead. Also, there was the time-honoured wassall bowl, filled with hot spierd ale, in which roasted apples floated.

A Christmas dish di widespread consumption, however, was that termed "frumenty." This in its simplest form was hulled wheat, seasoned and boiled in milk.

After various enrichments, this frumenty evolved into a concoction termed

plum Porridge," which WI generally composed of raisins, prunes, gingerbread and sundry other Ingredients, slowed in beef or mullon broth

and richly spleed. It is dilcuit to imagine what it tasted like, but anyhow, from this ex- traordinary "Porridge". probably emanated our present Christman pudding.

The modern mince ple is another reproduction, though a nuch modified ono, of medinevat dellency Originally it was called "mutton ple"I' A fourteenth-century recipe for a Christmas, or mince pie includes phcarent, hero, capon, partridge pineon, eggs, pickled mushroom, sit,

In nepper, spico, and vinegar. directing the meat to be chopped up, the recipe naively advises? that as many bones be taken out as possiblat Our own Idea of Christmas plenty is positively abstemlous judged by the standards of other ages. One's nopetite Is mrfefted even by reading. the list of edibles offered to guests.

For a Christmas dinner in the relgu of Charles II there were provided two courses, with twenty-one dishes in each. Sirloin of beef is one dish, so is roast lomb, and swan pie yet an- others. Towards the end comes a diah "of "lärks," neats' longues, and unlted

goose.