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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 22, 1939.

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ARE THE HORSE

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E celebrate Christ- of travesty of it, became popular pics and their contents were land the Turkey became a mas in 1939 on the at the Christmus festival when precisely the same as the ones Christmas dish in old England 1603rd anniversary so much else was travestied. we eat in 1939. Turkeys and in about 1600,

This was the Snapdragon-a plum 'puddings were not known It was known here before of the day that Julius, dish of lighted fruits which the as Christmas dishes then the that. Sallora from the Now And Gallo with them are the old. Bishop of Rome, first fixed kuests had to pick out of the traditional fare was the boar's World returned with some specl- taxtaloned methods of waxing the for Christians to com- flames with their fingers. head, decked with rosemary and menu as far back as 1640, when carriage.

In the West Country a jug served with plenty of mustard. Archbishop Cranmer forbade his

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

of cider in which a lighted candle simply through birth. wax for years force of habit?

Don't use A

has been fixed is drunk at But 200 years before Bishop Christmas. It is called a flax borse and carriage auto wax. It is no longer necessary to work all Julius the scattered congrega-dragen. day, to wear yourself out

totions of the early Church had RUB and KLUB. in order to attain a been honouring Christ's birth- waterproof, weather resisting wax day then.

finish for your car.

Gone

Sold Here HONGKONG

never restored.

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

original plum pudding was served with the first

UT when Cromwell abolished BUT

Christmas under the Com- With the Mediaeval Church

monwealth, disliking the Pagan came the carols, the earliest go back to King Henry III.'s day, origin or some of its ceremonies, THE And for minny centuries be- and the stockings and Santa along with it and that dish was course as a special Christmas

he abolished the boar's head Try WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX for longer lasting beauty for your fore and after these celebrations Claus.

bread. automobile and less work for you. have been added to out of the Your waxing troubles, like the horse mythology, the folk-lore and the saint of Bari, who gave all his He is St. Nicholas, the patron

Currants, spices and raisins Charles II. brought Christmas were mixed with the dough and and buggy, wit be

history of all the nations. patrimony away in gifts to poor back to England, though he the whole compound came in a The Christmas that we know girls so that they might be never could persuade the Scots special dish called a plum in England has borrowed its furnished

to restore the old feast when porridge. In the course of the with ย marriage trappings from many sources portion. St. Nicholas Day is they restored the old monarchy eighteenth century all the ele over many centuries-from the December 6.

And in good King Charles' ments of a Christma, 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 form 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 lettera Nicholas feast the custom was strut and the scarlet "fez" on home how impressed he had be transferred to Christmas day. its head. Its home was in New come with the Christmas tree But it was not until Elizabeth England and when the Pilgrim in Germany. He died 10 years had been on the throne for 30 Fathers celebrated their first too soon to see it introduced into years that Englishmen began to harvest after landing in the new England in the eighteen-fortles bake their pies in pastry shaped world in 1621 they naturally when, after Queen Victoria's to recall the manger where the feasted on the fowl that was marriage, it first set the seal on infant Jesus lay.

most plentiful locally. From a every Merry Christmas. thanksgiving dish in new Eng-

George Edinger.

HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

THE

HE last days of December were a festival long before The family and other relatives of the Christ was born in Rethlehem.

late Mr. Walter Hung wish to thank their friends for their kind year.

They are the tun of the sympathy and floral tributes af the funeral.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

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

The daylight, shortest on December 21, has begun to lengthen out again; the sun, as the simple peoples that once adored it saw, gives promise of a glorious return and the wheel the Yul is the Gothic word for it has come full circle.

Before Caesar landed in Kent

TIKE prefix "Special to the Teterraph" the Druids went forth when the

is used by the Tongkang Telegraph to days began to lengthen to cut

indiest news which is sirtetly copyright

under the provisions of the Telecommnaf the mistletoe from the oak, a cation Ordinance, 1916. Buch newt as

bear the indication "Up" is receives in tree held holy to the sun god. Hongkong on the date of publjeation by

the United Press Anelations, who re. They distributed a sprig to serve all this and foreld republication every home, where it was hung

arrangement,

These were the first, mince

Packing The Christmas ·

Christmas

In The

Presents

either wholly or in part without previous lover the doorway to invite the ALF the joy of receiving

Eviction Laws

Mr. Justice Fraser's carefully weighed comments in his judg

eviction claim, the text of which appear-

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god's

protection Marriages presents is the exciting job sealed by a kiss under the of unwrapping them.

Remem- mistletoe were held lucky. That ber this when you start to tie was 2,000 years ago; but we still kiss under the mistletoe bough up your gifts, and spend a few when Christmas comes.

*

pence on material.

attractive

packing

With these additions you may

But don't forget the commonsense

Dinners Past

The important thing is to see that The swan was another favourite al the present is not loose in the par- the ancient Christmas feast. So, too, cel, but packed around tightly so that was the peacock, which served up it camet move. A plain brown decked with its own gorgeous plum-

paper wrapping may be used to age and its beak gilded-a most cover the more attractive one in- ornate dish, doubtless, though by al

with accounts, not at all palatable. side. Tle this round Armly strong, string and slick on a gummed? Jubel.

Here are a few bints which, if

Strange Flavours

Though much of the food was the followed, should ensure your rifts some as we eat nowadays, it must reaching their destinations in good have tasted very different. Strange condition and at the right moment: ideas of cookery prevailed in cen- turies past. Instead of separating Address all labels very plainly flavours the alm apparently was to block letters are best.

|-mingle-as many-Incongruous-ONCS-07- Put an addressed Inbel inside the possible. parcel as well as out, in case the Sweet Ingredienta were freely wrapper gets torn.

mixed with salt ones, and real Enclose sender's name and address savoury dishes were rare.

The com- pounds were generally smothered in splees or condiments, often including

Fancy boxes, seasonably designed ed in our columns yesterday, THE Romans, every schoolboy wrapping paper and tape, coloured illuminatingly reveal the peculiar roads, laws and buildings. They can be bought cheaply.

is taught, brought Britain string, Christmas seals and labels, premises upon which the Hong- also brought Christmas decora- kong Eviction Ordinance is tions, paper caps and Christmas dress up your gifts in their "party bused. Complaint is not direct the season of their feast of pleasure to the recipients.

presents. December 25 was at frocks," and in so doing give double ed against the learned judge's Saturn, who, they said, had been decision; if anything, one can King of the Gods in the vanished part of the packing as well. Make sympathise with him, for he was

golden age.

sure that your presents will travel at times clearly torn between houses were decked with bays wrong kind of surprise by sending

On the feast of Saturn, the safely, and not give your friends the in case of non-delivery. G. O. J. the necessity of strictly apply. and holly, friends gave each gifts which arrive in pieces." Par- TURKEY and Christmas pudding sugar, or, as that was then a costly ing the law and the inhumane the social ties were broken and ing about at this time of year if you supposed. Yet actually the Christ- other presents and for ten days cels are bound to get a lot of knock-dinner, So, at least, it is popularly

The traditional British Christmas Commodity, the native implications

Confectionery of a sort existed. which

thereby Jack was as good as his master. send them by post or rail, so they mas dinners of cur forefathers were The medieval table was plentifully became apparent.

Rich men waited on their must be well protceted,

strewn with sugar comfits, nougat, slaves and parents on It probably comes as a shockiiren and men made merry | cellent shock absorber, and so is! mas time? Earilest predecessor of biin. Colouring tinctures were ex- Corrugated cardboard is an ex-) What, then, did they eat at Christ- and quaint sugar shapes known as "subletics," and sundry other tli- to many to know that under the with masks and coloured caps crumpled newspaper. Tissue paper the turkey was undoubtedly the tensively used, particularly saffron.

their

Hongkong law, "hardship" for a jand paper noses. tenant does not mean being Britain leaving their Saturn The Romans departed from asked to pay rent which is alia behind them; the Pagan beyond his purse. Anybody in Norsemen came in.

They came with a new Christ- mas rite-the Yule log.

such an unfortunate position, says the law, must clear out and.

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

burn away all the hatreds and house which is 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-

Later the Yuletide log was ing houses are for the poor. I replaced by a giant candle--and you want anything better, you mas trees to-day are the last the little candles on our Christ- must be able to afford it.

relic of it.

This sounds harsh, and prac- tice proves it, even though the

law deny it. The Eviction Or ALONG with the Yale log the

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this ground, and justifiable trial by ordeal." An accused dermanda made for a revision of man had to carry a hot fron bar furadamental philosophy upon a certain distance. If his scar healed within a certain time he But the

Was pronounced Innocent. A

which it is based.

makanang mana penal consimpler method, and one which milder form of the ordeal, a kind

would provido less headaches and heartaches for litigants in eviction cases, would be the

Introduction of a separate not necessition." 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 authoritice turned systems, and which, generally these so-called amenities into speaking, require a stretch of necessities. Unill they do, the imagination to be described Hongkong's laws are likely to as habitable.

carry a stigma of far greater Mr. Justice Fraser called these meaning than Mr. Bumble's - coraditions:"amenities which are 'cynical quips

very different from ours.

boar's bea

honey.

substitute,

bay and rosemary, was brought to earliest times.

which, decorated with Cochineal was employed from the the table with great ceremony amid a flourish of trumpets

Wines And Wassail

can be used, loo, and has the ad- more viltable, vantage of making any present look

GRIN. AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Foreign wines, heavily spleed, were Imported to augment the nallve drinks, cider, ale, and mend. Also,, there was the time-honoured wasil bowl, filled with hot solendale, in which roasted apples floated.

A Christmas dish d♬ widespread consumption, however, .won that termed "frumenty." This in Its simplest form was hulled wheat, seasoned and Wolled in milk. After various enrichments, this frumenty evolved into in concoction termed

"Plum Porridge." which WOB generally composed

raisins,

of

prunes, gingerbread and sundry other ingredients, stewed in beer or mutton broth and richly spiced. It is diMcult to imagine what it lasted like, but anyhow, from this ex- traordinary "Porridge" probably emanated our present pudding.

Christmas

The modern mince pie is another reproduction, though a much modified one, of mediaeval dellency. Originally it was called "mutton A fourteenth-century recipe for a Christmas, or mince pio includes phenrant, hare, capon, Partridge, pigeon, eggs, plekled mushroom, salt, pepper, spice, and vinegar. In directing the ment to be chopped up, the recipe naively advises that is, many bones, be taken out as possiblet Our own iden of Christmas plenty Is positively abstemfous judged by the standards of other ages, Ond's appetite is surfeited even by reading the list of edibler offered to guesia,

For a Christmas dinner in the reign of Charles 11 there were provided two courses, with twenty-one dliter in ench Sirloin of beef is one dish, so is roast lamb, ami zwaa.pio yet an-

of larks, nests" tongues, "atid : #alled goose,

"It's a bargain when you stop to figure how wages and materials other. Towards the end comes n dish

"havo"gone up since the warl