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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
6
A rustic verse celebrates the Christmas season and the shifting mood of nature. The speaker greets winter and the old year with festive cheer, while acknowledging the fickle weather and the bittersweet memories tied to the coming dawn of spring.
A decorative holiday display features a large yellow squash as the main body with four big carrots for bulk, a slender carrot neck, a white turnip head with carrot ears, cranberries for eyes and a toothpick comb, parsley tail, and a toothpick collar. Additional fruits and vegetables form smaller animals and ornaments, including red onions with raisin eyes and toothpick legs, a cucumber cockroach effect, raisin turtles with cloves, and potatoes with toothpick legs and clove eyes.
A lyrical Christmas exhortation urges kindness and peace, followed by vintage culinary notes for a holiday pudding. The piece lists ingredients and steaming method, then recalls old time banquets with meats, game, wines, and festive sweets.
The article notes Ireland's Christmas observance centers on deep religious sentiment with widespread midnight masses in urban and rural churches. It recalls past bans on worship and contrasts with today’s free practice, mentioning long pilgrimages to morning masses and festive scenes including the goose and candle lighting.
A devotional poem pleads for divine aid for children suffering in hardship. It asks God to hear their prayers amid snow and sleet, to end their longing and bring a hopeful Christmas, guiding them with an eastern star and restoring joy in their hearts.
Uncle Peter explains fairies in Fairyland work by moonlight to craft toys for Santa Claus. They trim bonnets sew dresses paint engines and boats bake mincemeat pies and spread Christmas cheer with thoughtful labor.
The article surveys sources of Christmas trees and greens. It notes spruces and firs supply trees, holly grows in New England to Allegheny regions, mistletoe grows on certain host trees in the south and midwest, and Christmas greens or ground pines thrive on forest floors without seeds. It ends with a Christmas vision and poem imagery.
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