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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1978
Page
1
A compact look at how the Christmas tree originated in Alsace and spread to Victorian England and America. It notes the German influence, Italian ceppo variations, Danish candle customs, and the shared symbol of joy and anticipation during the holidays.
The piece traces Christmas dating from 6 B C to 4 B C with Herod’s era and a Saturn/Jupiter conjunction in 7 B C. It notes the Bethlehem grotto, the UN sponsored birth year of 6 B C, and Martha Washington's Great Cake recipe and colonial holiday dining traditions including the Great Cake, baked fowl, oyster pies, and yams.
Lanterns served as the era’s portable light source for settlers in early Canada. Cardboard lanterns became popular as Christmas ornaments from 1880 to 1910 and are now reproduced for children to assemble. The durable replicas are sold during the Christmas season at outlets selling Yardley of London bath and soap products.
This financial guidance urges families to create a year long plan. It emphasizes organizing records to track obligations against income and to share budgeting responsibilities for a stable household economy.
The piece recalls how families once chose free hillside trees and made homemade decorations. It urges keeping the spirit by crafting ornaments from plastic foam with cookie cutters, sequins, and colored glue, highlighting shared work across generations.
Medieval England called Christmas Christes Masse and Europe uses Noel Natale Weihnachten or Yalen Jus for Christ’s birthday. Scholars say December 25 is not Jesus birth date and that He was likely not born in 1 AD. The December 25 celebration began in Rome in the fourth century, around 334.
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