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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1900
Page
12
A nostalgic poem recalls a late century Christmas with vivid imagery. The speaker echoes family warmth as stockings hang, a broad chimney, and Santa gliding down with grandpa. The piece centers on homey ritual and tender recollection across generations.
On late Christmas Eve a wealthy wife admires an expensive diamond dress while her husband Gordon misses the party. She recalls childhood memories as fashion fades into a hallucinatory sequence with figures from the past appearing in the drawing room.
A woman recalls a dreamlike sequence tracing her youth, Daisy Gordon, as she matures from a carefree girl to a married woman. The visions swing from moonlit romance with Charles Gordon to wealth and neglect, ending with a near-tragic financial panic and a vow to reform. The tale closes with a tearful reconciliation and a plea for faithfulness.
The article traces ancient roots of Christmas customs in England noting candles in windows on Christmas Eve and sun worship origins. It describes grand festival puddings with pork beef mutton and fish, boiled in large pots, served with honey sprigs of mistletoe and carried in processions by cooks and pipers seeking gratuities.
The Journal des Sciences Militaires reports serious consideration of using swallows instead of pigeons to carry dispatches. Swallows are claimed to fly higher and faster, reaching about 80 miles an hour, and to be more faithful and trainable. A key doubt remains whether they will resist migratory urges on liberty and seek warmer climes.
A verse reflecting on the Christmas gift exchange. The Magi’s gifts to Bethlehem symbolize pure love without expectation or pride. The speaker urges readers to give love as the gift, seeking spiritual reward rather than repayment.
The article describes a Montenegrin Christmas Eve ritual set in the mountains where a shepherd and the head of the house light candles throughout the stable to drive in the animals. A wine blessing, animal kissing, and peculiar superstitions follow to ensure a prosperous year.
A detailed recipe combines suet bread crumbs eggs sugar currants raisins flour and spices then brandy flavors and eight hours of boiling with serving tips. The text also describes the wishing bone fortune game in Virginia where two singles pull ends to guess who marries first and place the bone over a door to predict a future spouse.
For a small Christmas dinner substitute tender ducklings for turkey. Prepare a tasteful dressing with fried minced onion in butter, two cupfuls crumbs, a tablespoon butter, and half a cup stewed tomatoes. Season, roast rare, then finish gravy with stewed giblets. Serve with currant or plum jellylike accompaniment.
Wives are reminded as Christmas nears that a man who smokes wisely prefers one 25 cent cigar over many 50 cent ones. The note aims to promote peace and good will.
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