Christmas Eve Customs Across Europe and Pagan Roots
The article traces Christmas traditions from pagan Saturnalia to modern rites. It notes December 25 as Christ’s birth date accepted by the church, mentions Saturnalia decorations, mistletoe beliefs, and the Holland star bearer ritual with Gloria in Excelsis. It highlights prevalent German and Polish customs and a shared festive supper.
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M. EF. Munroe
New York Home Journal
Christ
Julius
St. Cyril
Holland
Saturn
Bacchus
Scandinavia
German Alps
Poland
Bethlehem
Germany
Christmas Eve at Kes Tong described in local notes
The passage notes Kes Tong holding its own on Christmas Eve with Christmas Day spent in paying and receiving visits and discussing the extent of Santa Char's attentions.
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Santa Chars
Scottish Christmas Grows As Folk Embrace Seasonal Spirit
The piece notes Scotland’s shift from a distant Nativity festival to recognizing Christmas with religious and social rites. Winter festivities once stretched six weeks ending with the sun’s return, Halloween marked the start, and Yule rites faded. Now the Yule of Thor lingers only through Christmas roast, turkey, and plum pudding as hospitality spreads during the fortnight.
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Scotland
Christendom
Chicago
Thor
Bavarian Toy Center Dominates European Market
The article notes Bavaria as the great toy center with Nuremberg Fuerth and Sonneberg supplying nine tenths of European toys. It highlights the French doll produced in Nuremberg and mechanical toys like walking dogs. Toy making is a family trade with children painting and assembling parts.
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Bavaria
Nuremberg
Fuerth
Sonneberg
Europe
Liver Sauté with Parsley and Bread Mixture
Chop liver fine and sauté in hot butter with chopped onion. Mix with four ounces bread, melted butter in hot water, and add chopped parsley plus beaten egg yolk.
Winter greenery decorations linked to myths of dryads
The text notes evergreen decorations for temples and homes in winter as a shared practice of Romans and Druids to aid the dryads and wood spirits who die without shelter from native foliage.
Special Watches Sale from November to December
A dealer advertises a limited time sale on watches including a gents 20 year hunting case with Elgin 17 jewel B W mar enen grade movement for 22.85 and a 20 year open face with same movement for 21.85. Also notes Hoffman’s gift line including guitars bans mandolins violins organs and Christmas presents and other items.
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E.S. Hovauron
Optician
Grand Opera Singers and Big Pay for Musicians
The United States welcomes Europe’s top opera stars this season led by Jean de Reszke with a 2450 dollar per performance fee, plus appearances by Sembrich Melba Nordica and Ternina. The lineup includes Van Dyck Saleza Campanari and others with Wagner and French repertoires, while Emma Eames and Nordica will miss or reduce touring due to health and commitments.
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United States
Europe
New York Sun
Maurice Grau Opera Company
Ignace Paderewski
Mile. Calve
Milka Ternina
Nellie Melba
Lillian Nordica
Johanna Gadski
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Lucienne Sreval
Margaret MacIntyre
Mlle
Breval
National Academy of Music of France
Grand Opera House
Paris
Miss MacIntyre
Mmne
Albani
Jean de Reszke
Mario
M. de Reszke
London
Romeo
Sims Reeves
Albert Saleza
Ernest van Dyck
Faust
Carmen
Siegmund
M. van Dyck
Russia
Covent Garden
Mmes, Sembrich
Melba
Mme. Sembrich
Adelina Patti
New York
Boston
Marguerite and
Juliette
Mme, Melba
Mme. Melba
America
Germany
Walter Damrosch
Mile. Ternina
Lilli Lehmann
Theresa Malten
Ternina
Mme. Eames
Isolde
Croatia
Mme. Schumann-Heink
Dresden
Royal Opera House
Berlin
Edouard de Reszke
Pol Plancon
Antonio Scotti
Giuseppe Campanari
Mme
Emma Eames
Nordica
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Scott
Turkey
White House
Hoffman
H. P. Dunn & Co
Bane
Grand Opera Singers
Jean de Resske
Sembrich
Oods
D. M. Clark &Co’s
Weoc Dorgs
Wave Crest
Methodist Hymopal
China Glass Episcopal
Cath and
Royal Bonn
Furs
N. P Bank
Front Street
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