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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1945
Page
8
Swiss winter beauty and festivals reach peak by Christmas. Traditions vary by canton with mentions of St. Nicholas being replaced by the Christkindle who brings a tree and gifts. Folklore includes onion weather divination and fountain drinking to glimpse future marriage prospects.
The Tirggel, ancient Swiss Christmas cookies from Zurich area, are crafted in wooden molds dating from the 11th to 18th centuries. Tirggel sentences like Sleigh riding is fine decorate many cookies, and a cautionary verse suggests using a Bible at Christmas Eve to count one’s years remaining.
The article traces mistletoe's name from the missel thrush to Phoradendron meaning tree thief. It notes the plant’s parasitic growth on trees, its showy foliage, and its mythical links to Virgil, Druids, and a Scandinavian kiss motif.
December 25 was decreed as the date of Christ's Nativity by Roman Emperor Julian who began his reign as a Christian but returned to paganism before his death in 363 A. D. The decree drew on Western church fathers and matched winter solstice festivals like Saturnalia and Yule. Some Eastern churches prefer January 6 and have kept that date for Christmas.
Notice states all lands owned or controlled by the sender are posted against trespassing. All persons found on the land will be prosecuted. All previous permission is revoked.
Kudzu, a long lived perennial plant, was introduced and first grown in Texas by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station about 1914.
Rutersville College founded in Payette county in 1840 was the first higher learning institution in Texas but was later abandoned, marking an early educational milestone now dormant.
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