Wagoner County Record (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1914 Page: 6 of 8
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If Grandpapa Were Santa Claus!
If Grandpapa were Santa Claus how happy we would be I
When toyshop toil was finished he would take us on each knee
He’d tell us all his secrets and he’d name the pretty toys
He’d made and kept in hiding for the other girls and boys
We have a real live Grandpapa I He visits us each year
And he is quite a bosom friend of Santa Claus I hear
Although he owns no reindeer and of playthings no great store—
If Grandpapa were Santa Claus we' could not love him more 1
GENE MORGAN
EMOTIONAL VALUE OF DAY
Christmas Spirit Almost Universally
Felt But What It Is Remains a
Mystery to Many
The emotional value of Christmas
may be said to be universally felt
Something happens at Christmas that
If only for a day or two does the
whole world good What that some-
thing is remains for many a mystery
A number of persons who feel the
renewing impulse are like Faust when
the notes of the Easter song arrest
(is suicidal intent they take and en-
ioy the moment’s deliverance and con-
dnue to regard the source of the boon
is nothing more than mythology made
potent through human associations
Dthers are moved through supersti-
tious fears they approach the great
season with consciences crowded with
incomfortable memories Marley’s
host Is after them but unlike
Scrooge their new heart Is only for
l’hrlstmas week ' Another group sim-
ply fall in with an ancient custom
lid are surprised and indeed pleased
when the dry bones of their unbeliev-
ing minds come together take on
Besh and begin to live A vast mul-
titude meet the great day with buoy-
ant expectation take with thanks its
new happiness return to their work
In this exalted mood and ask no ques-
tions about cause and effect A few
philosophize on the phenomenon and
they are willing to stake their lives
on the substantial truth of their ln-
llght — George A Gordon in Atlantic
Monthly
JDon’t ab Bo
in Holiday Fire Caution
Do not decorate your Christmas
tree with paper cotton or flimsy
materials
Do not use cotton to represent snow
Do not permit children to light
candles
Do not leave matches within reach
of the children
Do not place Christmas tree near
window curtains or gas fixtures
Use metallic tinsel and non-inflam
mable decorations only
Use asbestos fiber to represent snow
Set the tree upon a substantia stand
A house of merriment is better than
a bouse of mourning
Have an extinguisher or a few
buckets full of water near the
tree ready for use in an emergency-
When and Why
"Po yon go to Sunday school now
GeorgieT inquired Georgie’a uncle
“Tep Christmas U cornin'!"
“Don’t you go except just before
Christmas?"
"Yep I go Ju before the summer
picnic too"
WAGONER
Gathering of Plant Sacred Rite
in Druidical Religious
Festivals
Also Considered a Potent Remedy for
Ills a Belief Which Still Exists in
Some of the Remote Places
of Europe
decorate our homes with
sprays of mistletoe at Christ-
mas time -but few of us
know the history of it as a
Yuletide symbol Pretty
girls are kissed under it and
a great deal of fun and nonsense is
carried on apropos of It but no one
stops to think of how ancient a dec-
oration it is or how sacred it was
once thought to be
Almost everybody has a vague
knowledge that the Druids of old had
something to do with the gathering of
mistletoe but just what that some-
thing was is not clear to the average
mind
The fact is that the ancient Celts In
their druidical religion had two great
festivals one in June and the other In
December the latter being equivalent
to our Christmas In both of these
great festivals the gathering of the
mistletoe was a sacred rita
Pliny in his “Natural History" de-
scribes the ceremony Speaking of the
Druids’ worship of the oak he says:
They believe that whatever grows on
these trees is sent from heaven and is
a sign that the tree has been chosen
by the god himself The mistletoe is
very rarely to be met with but when-
It Is found they gather it with solemn
ceremony This they do especially on
the sixth day of the moon because by
the sixth day the moon has plenty of
vigor and has not run half Its course
After the preparations have been
made for a sacrifice and a feast under
the tree they hail ifas the universal
healer and bring to the spot two white
bulls whose horns have never been
bound before A priest clad in a white
robe climbs the tree and with a golden
sickle cuts the mistletoe which Is
caught In a white cloth Then they
sacrifice the victims praying that God
may make his own gift to prosper
with those upon whom he has be-
stowed It
They believe that a potion pre-
pared from mistletoe will increase
their flocks and that the plant Is a
remedy against all poison”
It was believed to be a remedy for
many ills and this belief is still to be
found in many remote places in Eu-
rope In Holstein for example the
mistletoe is regarded as a healing
remedy for wounds and In Lacaune
France It is always administered by
the native people as an antidote for
poison
In the northeast of Scotland people
used to cut withes of mistletoe at the
March full moon these they bent in
circles and kept for a year to cure hec-
tic fevers and other troubles In some
parts of Germany the mistletoe Is es-
pecially esteemed as a remedy for the
ailments of children who sometimes
wear it bung around the neck as an
amulet
In Sweden on Midsummer eve mis-
tletoe Is diligently sought after the
people believing It to be possessed of
many mystic qualities and that if a
sprig of it is attached to the ceiling
of the dwelling house the horse's stall
or the cow's crib the trolls will then
be powerless to injure either man or
beast Branches of the plant are com-
monly seen in farm houses hanging
from the ceiling to protect the dwell-
lngsfrom all harm but especially from
fire and persons afflicted with the fall-
ing sickness think they can ward off
all attacks of the malady by carrying
about with them a knife which has a
handle of mlatletoe
Like their Swedish neighbors many
German peasants consider the mistle-
toe a powerful charm against evil spir-
its A similar belief seems to have
lingered among the Romans whose re-
ligion at a very early date was some-
what similar to that of the Druids
When Aeneas descended Into Hades he
gathered to protect himself from the
Infernal powers a branch of mistletoe
which Vergil calls the golden bough
OKLA RECORD
TERMIGHT T
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HIT'S de las’ thing I heah when I tun
out de light
“Is 'e coinin’ ternlght mammy? Cornin’
ternlght?”
En de good Lawd knows ' dough I sea
"Not ylt”
Dey’s a-astln’ me still whut dey gwlne
ter git
En I projick en plan en I skimp en
squeeze
En I hurries apas’ all de winders I sees
’Case de chilluns espec’s dat he’ll bring
’em a lot —
En dey think he’s de same dat de White
Folks got
'Is ’e cornin'
ternlght?’1
Lawd I wisht in mah soul dat ’e would
en he might!
I wisht in mah soul dat ’e’d come down
de flue
Lak 'I useter believe dat ’ sholy would
do
When de chilluns ondress en dey jump In-
to baid
En I tuck up de quilt ’roun’ each po’ ll’l
haid
Den I set down en wish en I wish lak I
pray
Dat 'e find out de place ’fo’ hit corns
Chris’mas bay
Why de chilluns believes! Dey ts sho’
dat hit so
En dey countin’ on him lak a man dat
dey know
En dey talk er de things dat he sutten
ter bring t '
’Twell dey set up In bald en dess holler
en sing
En I tell ’em w’y sho’ good ole Santy ’ll
come
Wld a doll en a sled en a railroad en
drum
En dey drtf ofT ter sleep wld a smile on
dey face—
En dey atn’ not a cent I kin spalh In de
place!
Hit’s de las’ thing I heah when I tun out
de light:
“Is ’e cornin’ ternlght mammy? Cornin’
ternlght ?’’
En I laughs wld dem all w’en dey plan
whut dey do
Wld de things dat he’ll bring— en I say
hit’s all true!
En de white chlllun up whah I’s wukin’
dey ’low
Dat ole Santy he’ll come en won’t miss
’em nohow
Is e cornin’ ternlght?" Lawd I wisht
hit ud be
Dat he’s com hyuh en fix up dls ’poblem
for me!
Except ye become as a
little child ye shall in no
wise enter into the joy
of Christmas time
The Christmas Robin
In many parts of England the robin
la associated with Christmas-tide
There le a belief that on Christmas
eve these birds will sing near a house
where a person Is dying to cheer him
Helpful Christmas Present Sug
gestions for Those Who
Are Puzzled
Unabridged Dictionary Will 'Be Appre-
ciated by Children of Kindergarten
Age — Other Suitable Gifts for
Young and Old
NUMBER of correspondents
who have requested sugges-
tions of books suitable for
Christmas gifts will find an-
swers to their queries In
the following
Among the many attractive gift
books for very little boys might be
mentioned Professor Rausmissen’s
“Analogy Between the Monogamous
Protoplasm and the Silurian Mole-
cule” We can think of no book that
would be a greater source of delight
to the child that Is not yet out of
short dresses It tells In easy words
of eight and ten syllables of the
sports and pastimes of the protoplas-
mic family and draws beautiful moral
lessons from the corpuscles ‘of the
carboniferous era It is handsomely
illustrated with representations of the
agile animalcule and will be sure to
delight the heart of the little boy or
girl who finds It In his or her stock-
ing as the case may he
Another dainty idea for a child of
three or four years is the Unabridged
Dictionary The simplicity of style
observed in this Interesting narrative
recommends it at once for children
who have reached the kindergarten
age The plot Is not so complex and
the characters are sufficiently varied
to hold the unflagging Interest of the
little ones We have In mind a gen-
tleman who gave his little son a dic-
tionary last Christmas and he as-
sures us that the lad simply devoured
the book
A pretty present for a child Is the
clinical report of the county hospital
This comes nicely printed on clean
white paper with bizarre illustrations
showing the rise and fall of the tem-
perature amount of protolds eaten
official count of the germs statistics
as to microbes and many other amus-
ing an d entertaining ideas A rare
source of pleasure with this book is
to have the little fellows pronounce
the long words first the way they are
spelled and then read them backward
and see what difference If any there
Is In the sound Some boys would
rather do this than go skating
In the line of pure romance there
Is nothing more entertaining from
Prof T L Escopex’s “How the Spec-
trum Caught On in Saturn” This
highly original historical tale tells
how the spectrum revealed the secret
of Saturn’s rings showing that the
planet was warm and dry and that the
two rings were for Ice water It
comes in four large volumes with 22
pages of logarithmic calculations that
are sure to delight young and old
As a gift book for a member of a
temperature family there is nothing
pleasanter than “The Complete Bar-
keeper” This tells exactly what goes
Into the stuff that men put In their
mouths to steal away their brains
and will be of valuable assist nee to
any person who wishes to apply sat-
isfactory tests and determine whether
or not he has been equipped with
brains and would inspire larceny
“One Thousand Ways to Cure a
Cold” by Burton Bales is a beautiful-
ly written book giving all the reme-
dies for cold that were suggested to
its author in one day There are 89
variations of the quinine and whisky
treatment and the other 911 reme-
dies consist of the same prescription
without the oltter quinine This Is
a good book to bava In any house
“The Servant Question and Its An-
swer" will deceive many people but
It might do for a gift to a young mar-
ried couple The answer Is quaintly
given: “Board"
WILBUR D NESBIT
“They are to be married on Christ-
mas day"
"Would you call that 'Yule-tied? "
insd£sasirjam
VALUE OF A CHILD’S GIFTS
Those Made With Their Own Hand
Teach Good Lessons and
Give Inspiration
If we stop to think about out
Christmas giving we realize that a
gift means more to the giver than it
does to him who receives If it Is
given in the proper spirit the dono
finds out to the full that It Is really
“more blessed to give than to re
celve ” a fact that Is lost sight of In
an age of the commercial spirit
With children there Is a great edit
catlve value In their present glvlDg
if it Is encouraged to be really their
own giving If the mother however
simply prepares some little remem-
brance and says "Mary this Is your
Christmas present to Aunt Ellen” the
gift has no meaning in the thoughts
of the young giver And not only
has it no meaning but It becomes
actually harmful for the reason It pre-
sents the Idea to the child that the
gift without the giver Is really a gift
And the child has put no thought or
self sacrifice Into the giving of that
present
On the other hand If the child "be
given pocket money which It may con-
sider its very own or better still If
It is enabled to earn pocket money and
Is then encouraged to set aside a por-
tion of Its very own money for pres-
ent making the idea of true giving is
acquired The sacrifice the fore-
thought the love necessary to make a
gift a real gift are there
The home-made gifts of children
have many valuable lessons to teach
the young givers Many lessons In
sewing raffia bead-work or painting
may be given under the guise of mak-
ing a gift In one family where the
elder Eister had never made gifts
and really never learned to sew well
until she was eighteen years of age
the younger sister a girl of ten in-
spired by the example of a small
friend wished to make birthday gifts
for her family Once she asked her
mother to teach her how to crochet:
another time to scallop and before
she was twelve years old she had be
come as proficient a little seamstress
as one would want to see
Thus practical lessons are learned
while the child Is Inspired with the
idea that “Not what we give but
what we share the gift without tha
giver is bare”
“Can you suggest something for q
to get for my wife for Christmas!
he asked of the shopkeeper
“You’d better get her a box of
cigars I expect" said the shopkeeper
"She was In here this morning sad
bought a lace parasol for you"
MORE SLIPPERS COMING
The time la at hand” aald tha praacher
With wrath ahowlng plain oa aach teach
"When allppera win be
8bowered down upon me
By arery feminine creacher"
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Foster, George H. Wagoner County Record (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1914, newspaper, December 24, 1914; Wagoner, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1721607/m1/6/: accessed May 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.