THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 15. 1M7. B CISTUMS WITH THE BEARD ON Pagan Kites and Ceremonies Boll Down the Road of Time. ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS Krutorro of the firrnt Festival Truer A llnrk a the Time When C'hrls lljinltr Assimilated Heathen and Ilia Wklni, "There In nothing new uniir the nun," Is an assertion peculiarly applicable to Christinas customs. It la curloua that not fine of the customs of the great festival Is Christian In its origin. Christianity had "to stoop to conquer" the heathen by the assimilation of their rites and ceremonies. Thomas Power O'Connor "Tay Fay" for short having boen exploring the tomes of nnthiulty, has this to say on the subject: "According; to I'llny, the snnclty of the mistletoe In the worship of tho Prulils was an arcldent due to Its being the most rom mon parasite of the oak. Any parasite Krowlng upon that sacred tree was sup posed to be CJod sent, and as the mistle toe which, by the way, seldom now Is f'Mind on the oak was then Its most fre quent parasite, It was honored by the sac rifice of a couple of white oxen, and some time even by human sacrifices. In Scan dinavian mythology the mistletoe so far from being what It Is with us, one of the Christmas weapons of Cupid furnished the wood for the arrow by which the otherwise Invulnerable Haider was slain. Raider, the Kod of poetry, son of Odin and Krlga, ter rified his mother by narrating to her a dream of his own death. In her terror KrlRa summoned all the powers of Na ture earth, air, fire, water and all animals, trees and plants and exacted from them an oath that they should do Haider no hurt. Thus secured, Haider took courage to Join combat with the gods, and bis Invulnera bility In buttle set bis archenemy, Lonke, to ferret out its cause. I!ike, In the dis guise of an old woman, praised to Priga her son's valor, dwelling so much on his mlrneulous escapes from death that Krlga disclosed to him the secret of his Invul nerability. "Nothing In Nature will injure him, since I have bound all things by an oath to abstain from hurting a hair of his head; except," she added, as though by an afterthought, "the mistletoe, which I had forgotten, but of course nothing so Insig nificant could possibly harm him." On this hint l.oake suggested to the blind Heda an arrow made out of mistletoe as tho only effective weapon for Haider's destruction; and with such an Insignificant weapon even the blind Heda succeeded in slaying the son of Odin. Vale I.ob; and Christmas Tree. The burning of the Yule log Is, like the hanging of the mistletoe, of Scandinavian origin, since our ancestors of this race used to kindle bonfires at their feant Juul, at the winter solstice in honor of Thor. Hy the way, you can cheaply Insure your house against Are by preserving an un consumed fragment of the Yule log In your cellar till the following Christmas and using it to light the log of next year, as llerrlck suggests i "W ith the last year's brand Light tho now bloek, and For' good success In hla spending On your psalteries play That sweet luck may Come while the log Is teendlng." Teendlng I. e., burning. Heathen and Scandinavian, again, are both the Christmas tree and the Maypole, symbolic of . the Scandinavian Ash, YggdraslI, the tree of time, whoso roots penetrate to heaven, to Oinnungagap where tho frost giants dwell and to Nlffholm, where dwells the great serpent, Nldhogg, and under whose root Is ilel heltn, the homo of the dead. The Christ mas tree Is usually supposed to have been Introduced Into England by Prince Albert, but the following passage from "The Grevllle Memoirs" shows that It was try ing to tako root there eight years before the accession of Queen Victoria: "De cember 27, 1829 On Christmas day the rrlncess Lleven got up a little fete such as Is customary all over Germany. Threo trees In great pots were put upon a long table covered with linen; each tree was Illuminated with three circular tiers of colored wax candles blue, green, red and white. Before each was displayed a quan tity of toys, gloves, pocket handkerchlefsv work boxes, books and various article, presents made to the owner of the tree." Tho custom was Imported Into America. An Abandoned Custom. From tjie Koman Saturnalia are derived many of our Christmas customs and among them that of masquerading. In tho year 1400 Henry IV i entortaincd at Christmas at Eltliam by twelve alder men ami their sons us mummers. Shortly afterwards, however, according to Fabyan, a conspiracy to murder that king was or ganized under the guise of a Twejfth Night Mumming. The plot wa discovered only a few hours before the time arranged for the assassination. Indeed, It was the numberless murders and other felonies which were committed by mummers thut provoked Henry VHI'a ordinance against mumming or gulslng, commanding that ail persons who went about thus disguised .o great houses should be committed to jhII for three months as rogues and vag abonds and fined at tho king's pleasure. "The lord of Misrule" Is also of Batur nullan origin. "If," writes Prynne In hla "Hlstrlomastlx." "we compare our Bac chanalian Christ muses and New Year's tides with the Koman Saturnalia and feasts of Janus, wo shall find aueh near affinity between, them both In regard of time and In their manner of solemnising that we must needs conclude the one to be but the ape or Issue of the other, llem-o Poly dure Virgil affirms In express terms that our Christmas lords of misrule (which custom, salth he, is chiefly observed In England) together with dancing, masques, mummer ies, stage plays, and such other Christinas disorders now In use with Christians, were derived from these Roman Saturnallan and Uacchanallan festivals; which, concludes ho. should cause all pious Christians eter nally to abominate them." Btubbs tells Us that these lords of misrule, whose reign extended from All Hallows eve to Candle mas duy, bad from twenty to sixty officers undor them and were furnished with an 1m- (Established JS;.) - Cunt Whll You Slp. Wheeplng'Cough, Croup, Bronchitis, Coughs, Diphtheria, Catarrh, Confidence can be placed in a rem edy, which for a quarter of a century oas carncu unquauueu praise, jkcauui uighu are assured at ouee. Cresoleat It m Booa to Asthmmtlcm AU Drugxistn v Send postal far V-d-eaolen. Antiseptic Throat TaUrt. fo (be irritated t broil, of your drumjial or from ua. Itkv iu atajupe, The Vjpo-CrttokM Co, 180 FsUaa St., H. T. 1 posing array of hobby horses, dragons, and musicians. Knork on I.onax Sermons. Apropos of Irreverence In church, t can not resist quoting the ever delightful Pepys' account of Chrlstmaa day In 1662: "llMd a pleasant walk to Whitehall, where I Intended to have received the communion with the family; but t cams a little too late. Po I walked up Into the house and Spent my time looking over pictures, par tloularly the ships In Henry VIII's voyage to Hullaen marking the great difference between those built then and now. By and by, down to the chapel again, where Bishop Morley preached on the song of the angels, "Glory to God on high, on earth peace and good will towards men.' Mb thought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the common Jollity of the court for the true Joy that shall and ought to be on those days. Particularly concerning their excess In plays and gam lng, saying that he whose office it Is to keep gamesters In order and within bounds serves but for a second rather In a duel- meaning the groom porter. Upon which It was worth observing how far they are come from taking the reprehenslona-of a bishop seriously, that they all laugh In the chapel when he reflected on their 111 actions and -courses. He did much press us to Joy In these public days of Joy and to hospitality. But one that stood by whis pered In my ear that 'the bishop do not spend one groat to the poor himself.' The sermon done, a good anthem followed." Here Is another characteristic Christmus day entry of that sly diarist: "Christmas day, lCti5 To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding In the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people as merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married peoplo have to see these poor fools decoyed Into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them." BUSY TIMES IN TOY FACTORIES Eight Hundred Varieties Turned Out by the Tor Kunndrln of Maine. Gaily painted sleds, doll furniture and miniature housekeeping sets for the little folk of every clvlllxed country In the world are turned out by an army of workmen In the great toy factories of South Paris, Me. There used to be a saying that all the toys are made In Nuremburg. At one time pos sibly that may have been true; nowadays, It certainly Is not. The United States Is tho greatest toy producing country In the world, and New England leads every other section of the land In originality and out put. Eight hundred different kinds of toys are made In one shop. Much of the work Is done by machinery. Buzz, and a chair seat Is sawed out and thrown to the next operator, and In a twinkling he has the seat ovalled and sand papered. All these things are done so quickly that one can hardly aee how, yet the finished product is even and perfect. One man can saw out 15,000 chair Meats in a day. In another department the rockers to the chairs and the rounds and braces are sawed out. Then the various parts are sent up stairs, where there is a hive of busy workers. Tlier are huge machines with a man seated before each, where the holes are bored In the scats for the legs. Then an other operator takes a drop of glue and places the parts together. In another department the rockera are finished, the backs of the chairs are pre pared and an endless belt delivers the var ious parts to a long line of girls seated be fore tables. A drop of glue here, a few well. aimed blows with the mallet, and then you have a chair! The expert operator places many thousand chairs, together la a single day. . When the toys are finished that Is, as far as the woodwork Is concerned they aro rushed to the varnishing and paint rooms. Here are large vats holding one hundred or more gallons of varnish, into which the workmen dip sled after sled. They come out beautiful and shining. There are the Dash, Speed, Flyer, Sham rock, Cofnet, Sharpshooter, Pointer and a host of others. There are horses, too, and railway trains. c Near by are the great moccasin factories, and the way the white man makes mocca sins Is another Interesting feature of the Christmas products. . The Imported elk skin that Is used la about the size of a common cowhide; it has a creamy tint and Is thick and heavy, but as soft as velvet. It wears much longer than common leather and la very soft and pliable to the foot. Low cut moccasins are made, almost entirely of what Is called elk skin, but la not imported. Tho skins are very small, containing only enough stock to cut about two pairs, and are much lighter In color than the real elk skin. The moccasins are made almost en tirely by hand. Straight lasts are used. They are bulky, clumsy looking things, rounded up at the heel like a follower, and with merely the general shape of the feet. Three or more pairs of stockings are expected to be used when wearing moocaslns. These afford the fot a protection against the clumsy fit ot the moccasin. Boston Herald. HOME-MADE XMAS PRESENTS Varlelr of LKtle Things for Practleal Vae, Easily and Quickly Made. There are a thousand and one pretty and useful little things that can be made with very little trouble and expense. For tho taunts and sisters, veil rolls are very pretty and most useful. Get some ordinary tnall lng tubes at any post oftlee and cover fhese with cotton on which aome sachet powder has been sprinkled. .Next buy some pretty flowered silk and cut it In the length of the mailing tube, allowing about an Inch and a half over at each end; then sew It together down the renter and at each end tie a bow of baby ribbon corresponding In color to the silk, then fray the edges beyond tha baby ribbon and you will have an extremely pretty gift, which has taken, at most, halt an hour to make. Another attractive little gift that can be easily made consists of two round pieces of cardboard, which can be covered with any old pieces of silk from tha scrap box. Join the cardboard with baby ribbon to which there has been strung a spool of black and white silk and a spool of black and white thread, or any color or colors that are desired. Add a bit of ribbon by which to hang It up, and tha gift Is complete. To make it still mora attractive a little pair of silver scissors and a needle book may be added. With some odd pieces of ribbon about a quarter of a yard long and an Inch or so wide a nice holder for safety pins can be fashioned. Buy some very small brass rings and but tonhole them around with pink or blue silk. Attach all the ribbons to thla ring; then at the end of each piece of ribbon at tach a. smaller ling that has also been buttonholed, and On thsss hang the safety pins. . To tha men cousins and uncles Christmas gifts are always a more difficult proposi tion, as a man la always hardur to please and there Is not nearly so much choice. A scarfpln, a pipe or a bok seem at first to be about the only tilings to give, but after all there are a number of small gifts that will appeal to tha masculine mind. Any girl that oan knit or crochet has an unfailing source of supply In ties, as they are all the rage now aVd can be made very quickly of . aluoat any color im aginable. But for the girl who Onda crochet or knitting work difficult a useful aa well as ornamental gift can be made with a compaas. Make a good sized circle on cardboard and then cut out around the line and cover the circular piece with silk. Next draw with a soft pencil two eyes, a nose and a mouth, and there results a good picture of the man In the moon. Then attach two pieces ot ribbon to hang It up with, and on the Mack place some shaving paper. For a cousin who wears glass cut out differ ent animals In chamois for him to polish his glasses on. Another present that la easy to make and will be much appreciated is made from a plain hoople stick and some ribbon. Attach the ribbon at each end with brass headed tacks. The ribbon Is used to hang over the gas Jet and the man hangs his ties over the stick. Money Is always nice to have around the holiday time and It would be a good plan for every girl to commence early to lay aside five or ten cents each day, and when Christmas comes she will have quite a little pin money to spend on gifts for all her friends and relatives. THE CURSE OF OUR TIME Steady Inerense of Nervous Disorders While Other Diseases Are Conquered. The progress of medical science has brought us face to face with a curious and suggestive fact. There can be little doubt that "filth" diseases, as they are called, are being slowly but surely van' quished. The brilliant discoveries of Jen ner and Koch and Pasteur and others have raised the great hope that at no distant day all the toxic scourges of humanity will be brought under scientific control. But there can be as little doubt that functional disorders of the nervous system are spreading with alarming ra pidity, and that In their presence the average physician stands baffled and be wildered. Alienists are agreed that In sanity Is Increasing; the sanatorluma for nervous troubles are crowded, and In some Instances overcrowded; everywhere the thoughful observer marks the signs of neurotic and disordered temperament. The rise In our own time of various healing cults, such as Christian science, faith heal ing, divine healing, Eeoterlo vlbratlonlsm, etc., points In the same direction, else such systems would have no ralson d'etre. The field In which the various "lrregu lar" healers win their therapeutic trl umphs Is very extensive. It Includes such miseries as neurasthenia, hysteria, hypo chondria, Insomnia, mania - depression, melancholia, nervous Irritability, fixed Ideas, obsessions of one kind and another. alcoholism, morphinism and cocalnlsm, loss of control, perversions of feeling, and other abnormalities too numerous to re count. Doubtless behind these troubles lies the dark Bhadow of heredity, yet the most recent science assures us that the greater portion of problems lies within our own control, that education, environment, self discipline, mental hygiene, and the In fluences of strong personalities over weaker ones are still more potent than the dead hand of our ancestry. Perhaps the most prevalent cause of worry Is overwork. The vaulting ambi tion that overreaches Itself and falls on the other side Is far too common, espe cially In this country and among business and professional men. The overworked man Is liable to become nervous, la easily put out, Is Impatient with his friends, and says things he worries about afterward. A distinguished nerve specialist recom mends that the nervous man should try In every way through suitable food and through systematic periods of rest to carry a comfortable amount of fat Men "that are fat, sleek headed men,- and such aa sleep o' nights" are panoplied for the bat tle of life. As Mrs. Carlyle wrote to a friend after she had been delivered for month from the speech of Thomas and the burdens of housekeeping: "Thank God for that blessed share of fat! It has made a new 'worna nof me." We all know what are the results of overexertion. One of the commonplaces of modern psychology is the profound unity of mind, and brain. Loss of memory and of will power, dulling of the power of at tention with concomitant liability to mis takes, blunting of the powers of observa tlon euoh are the consequences of a sort of blood poisoning by the chemical pro ducts of an overworked brain. These mor bid slates grow to a certain point, and we have then neurasthenlo and psycasthentc misery, and life seems utterly impossible Modern medicine emphasizes the' value of a hygienic mode of living. Rest at In tervals, a sojourn In tho woods or In the mountain tops, an occasional ten minutes spent In silence, so that we may have our own souls speak to us; attention to the laws of health, moral and physiological suc'ij form the true prophylactic against the curse of our time. Boston Transcript. DIED IN RAGS BUT HAD CASH Home-Made ''Safety Deposit' of Colo rado Miser Well Filled with Coin. Hidden in a goods box four feet square, which was filled with chlnaware and old cooking ustensils that appeared to have rested there for at least a quarter of a century, was discovered 12.052 placed In the bottom of a ten-pound lard can. The money was the hoarded wealth of Mrs. Georgian Horton of Denver, who was found dead In her kitchen. Tho discovery was made by Mrs. Frank Hackenberger, who was assisting Public Administrator John Morley to follow up the cursory search which a few days ago resulted In the finding of a few unlm portant papers and the fact that the In mate of the hermitage was a most pecu liar woman.. The room was the one Mrs. Horton le. fused to let even her closest friends enter It was filled with the queerest collec tion of useful and good-for-nothing prop erty imaginable. The money was In sil ver, gold and bills of an Issue which was placed In circulation during the civil war and la today a curiosity. There was $42 In silver, $870 In gold and $1,$40 In bills of large denominations. Mrs. Horton, who had been In 111 health for eight years since her husband's death, and during that time had been a confirmed recluse, was found dead by a neighbor. 8he had been a great sufferer from dropsy, and prevloua to her sudden death had been In such a serious condition that an effort was made to take her to the county hospital, but she would not budge from her little house, and, locking the doors, refused to stir outside for fear she would be taken unawares. She labored under the delusion that everyone was attempting to take her property, and so allowed but few to see her, and those few had to remain In the kitchen. Upon searching the house for tha first time nothing of any value was unearthed except two old watches and aome Jewelry of old-fashioned make. The boxes and cana and also tha cooking utensil were filled with balls of neatly rolled string and small tobacco sacka of buttons, which were put away with the greatest of care. 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