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The event o-penedv with a mus. icalJ programme and presentation in- the Woodfln'idge church, followed‘ later by a social hour in the Sun- day school room. In recognition of their work since 193-5, Mr. and Mrs. Roe, who left for Burlington last week. were presented with a silver tray. Messrs. Gordan McGihlivray andl Wlm. Dal- ziel officiating. Music included se- ledtions by the .Knox Quarteite, Messrs. Bill Lawne, Stanley Harp- er, Jack Nattress and‘ Rev. J. S. Roe, and: solos by Miss Oupha Farr, Mrs. Mae Bagg. Stanley Harper, Jack Nattres-s and Gordon McGilh‘- vray. I’tévms contributed to the meetâ€" ing's program were items from the Madras conference report and a talk on temperance by Mrs. Barrett. Woodbrid‘ge United W.M.S. mem- rhers elected Mrs. K. Stevenson as president for 1940 at their annual meeting in the Parsonage Wednes- d'ay. Other results of the election, conducted by Rev. C. W. Barrett, are: 1st viceopresq Mrs. D. Shan- non; 2nd vice_pres., Mrs. R. Watson; See, Mrs. N. G. Wallace; Treas., Mrs. J. J. Watson; Cor. Sec., Mrs. A. Hollingshead; Fin. Sec., Mrs. R. Sutton; Sulpply Sec., Mrs. G. D. Mc- Lean; Temperance Sec., Mrs. C. W. Barrett; Strangers Sec.. Mrs. G. Shore; Pian‘is'ts, Mrs. A. E. Kearney and Mrs. G. D. McLean. Reports showed that the allocation for the year had been reached. ‘OOWWOOWOOWW 1940 OFFICERS ELECTED BY WOODBRIDGE L'NI'I'ED “CHLS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21 st NUT AND STOVE COAL No. 1 ANTHRACITE . E. SMITH COAL ORDERS PHONE MAPLE 19W Priced as follows: SALT $1.35 per cwt. $120 per cwt. $1.35 per cwt. It seems to have been Mr. Pick,- Wick who imported the Christmas feasting of the Saxons into England! (though not into Scotland), and since then the Englishâ€"speaking peoples (but not the Scots) have been as confirmed -Christmas-keep- ers as any of them. The thirty Presbyterian Scots prefer New Year’s Day, which has no ecclesi- astical tradition. But note how harmonioust the two traditiorls have settled down throughout the rest of the English-spea1dng world; We go to church on Christmas morn- ing, then home to the Christmas turkey. Christmas, indeed, "is a very cur- ious blending of two ancient tradiâ€" tions â€" an austere ecclesiastical tradition and a pagan tradition of feasting which was anything {but austereâ€"and the story of Christâ€" mas-keeping Was for many centuries a story of the constant Warring of these two discordant traditions. To the ecclesiastical authorities feastâ€" ing on such a day was positively irreverent. But to the rude Saxons and Scandinavians who seem to have been among the earliest of the Christmas-keeping peoples midwim ter was a time for Bacchanalian feasting and shouting and gaming, and none of the early missionaries succeeded for long in suppressing these heathen doings. i Truly, to every generation its own iChristmas. The beautiful Bethlehem story, which gives the great festi- val its ecclesiastical name and dress, has never changed and never can change. But all the rest is change, and never a more whirling kaleido- scope of change than during the dizzy century since Mr. Pickwick and his friends t00k the Muggleton coach to Dingley Dell. Pickwickian Tradition The Pickwickian tradition of Christmas feasting fell naturally into the rhythms of rustic life. Farm work declines in the dead of Winâ€" ter, and there was every reason why a generation of redLnosed countryâ€" men, muffled to the ears against the cold, should devote the midnight of the year to a feast of gargantuan eating" and drinking, with plenty of green holly in token of the continu- ing vitality of nature. But even in Mr. Pickwick's time the English towns were growirg and country life was declining. The towns have continued to growâ€"and not only the English towns. More of us are townsmen to-dvay than ever before, and town life knows no midwinter interlude. If this were a strictly logical world, the SOciety for the Suppression of Christmas might easily have had a chance; but since it is illogicality which helps to keep humanity sweet, the mod- ern townsman continues: to honor the void rustic tradition of Pickwick. ian feasting. Frequently, no doubt, he honors it more in the breach than in the observance, but still a second' helping of mince pie is a reasonably good test of urban d‘i- gestions. if i ’%9€3%9%9€9%9%¥€9%9€4€%%¥€3§3€45ng§ What if Mr. Pickwick could e- merge from the greatcoat, shawls and comforters of the Muggleton coach and join us this year, bring- ing- his codfish and oyster barrels with him? “Aha!” said‘ Mr. Pickâ€" wick. “Aha!” said the fat boy. But what could the‘ old- gentleman think There are whispers going around, writes Clair Price, to the effect that Christmas, at least for the adults, is not what it once was. Nowadays, they say, there is never so much snow on the ground as there used to be and never so much crimson in the sunset and never so many berâ€" ries on the hollyâ€"excepting, of course, the synthetic Christmases of the big hotels and restaurants, where everything is made to order by experts. As for the Christmas turkey and- cranberries, and the plum pudding with the sprig of holly in the top of it and the mysterious blue flame playing around it, these are all in the proper tradition. But what of the modest scale on which they are consumed by this urban and sedentary generation? mgammgammmw i 1939 The Tradition of Christmas Feasting 2% CUSTOMS HAVE CHANGED SINCE DAYS OF DICKENS BUT THERE IS STILL GOOD CHEER The peacock, as a Christmas diish, seems to carry with it a memory of the days when knighthood was in flower. It is the kind of bird that would add distinction to the Christmas table of the House, of Lords, if the lords had no tables of their own at which to dine on Christmas Day. It was prepared bv dtisrCIbing' it of its lordly plum.â€" ae-e. the disrcfbing being done bv mrefuiiv removing- the skin with all the n‘umae'e ad‘hering. The naked him then (“disappeared into the oven to be roasted. This process com-- pleted, it was stuffed with spices and .basted with the yolks of eggs, and a rich mutton gravy, containâ€" ‘inq the goodness of a whole sheep. iwas made ready. The fowl was then sewn up in its plumaged‘ skin, even to its beak, and arranged on a golden dish with its head at one end‘ and its magnificent tail feath- Boar’s Head But the Christmas boar’vs head is not extinct, though the wild boar himself has not ’been known in a Wild state in England, probably since the reign of Charles 11’. Where the Worshdplful Company of Cutlers and Queen’s College at Oxford get, their boars’ heads to.day, nobody seems to know. There are Wild] boar in the Ardennes in Belgium. and it may be they come from there. But the Boar’s Head carol with which the great dish is borne in. (both at Cutlers’ Hall in London and at Ox- ford. is thoroughly English. and in- deed the boar’s head itself is one of the oldest of festive English dishes. As long ago as 1170, when Prince Henry. son of Henry II. was crowned. the boar’s head was served “with trumpets blowing before it, according to the ancient manner.” That was something more than seven centuries ago, and seven cen- errs at the other. The highest noble- woman present had the honor of bringing in this dish to the strains of appropriate music. In this stateâ€" ly role, it seems now to be extinct in England. Fittest Survived Probably there are families in England who still pass around the wassail bowl while their assemlbled‘ guests are singing and telling storâ€" iesinfront of the blazing Yule log. The method of preparing it seems to method of preparing it seems to vary, but the potency of this em- blem of Christmas joviality seems to be indicated] by the fact that woâ€" men content themselves with kissing the .bowl. The recipe which was most Widely popular down to the eighteenth century ran on this wise: Miix warm ale with cream which has been boiled with cloves and has had the yolks of eggs beaten and stirred into it; add sops of bread and pour sugar and thick cream into the mixture; stick blanched a1â€" mond‘s into it and add cinnamon, ginger and sugar. Thus the so-called “lamvb’s wool" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Darwin might easily have pointed out that Christmas in those days made for the survival of the fittest. And this brings up another aspect I of the great festival. Probably we are greater epi-curesi than ever to- day, for we have a vastly richer variety of good things to choose flunkâ€"turkeys, geese, hams, Wines. cheese” caviar, truffles, smoked salmon, pate de foie gras â€" very greedy some of the shop windows are looking just now. But where are the really old‘ dishes on which the Christmas tradition of good food was founded? Where are the boars’ heads, the peacocks, the cyg‘nets (somebody once said' they tasted “like hare that has been fed on fish"), and where are the stately oldv ceremonies which surround-ed' them before the whiteâ€"fleshed turkey swept them off the worldr's: Christ- mas tables? And where are the wassail bowls? Fittest Survived Probably there are families in England who still pass around the 1ivnnrn;l Lnnrl urlm‘ln Hmniv ocuovnlklnrll ireguizu‘ Illt'ELlnE on ‘Monoay evenâ€" inf‘r in the basement of the church with the President Mr. Newton Wat. son in the chair. It was decided that no Y.P.U. meetings would be held for the three following Monday nights but that the Social Evening would be held on the Wedfiiesdvay' evening between Christmas and' New Year’s. Mr. Bailey inrvited‘ them to hold their social meeting at the par- sonage and the invitation was ac- cented. Mrs. W. Benstead, the missionary convenm-, :had prepared the program for the evening but was» unable to take charge of the meeting so Miss» Masel Shaw took the chair and the programme opened by singing- a hymn after which Muriel Bell read a prayer. Alex Shaw read’ the scripture lesson. “0n the Atlantic Coast” was read by Masel Shaw afâ€" ter which Annie Corless readl “Land- ing on the Labrador”. Alrma Kerr and‘ Ola Egan then played a piano duet after which Masel Shaw read “In- a February Stonm off New. foundland”. Jim Stevens read! “A Winter Cruise on Sledv and! Snow. shoes” and Miss I. McKenzie read a s,tory entitled“ “A Little Bit of Christmas”.___The programme ended Good Cheer True, we no longer pretend to drain flagons of mead in honor of Wodin and Thor, as the -skin-clad warriors did‘ in their forests aIOng the Danube and' the Baltic. Measur- ed ‘by their heroic standards, cur feasting to_day is insignificant. But if the impression has been given that we no longer value good food on Christmas Day, let it. be correct- ed here and 'now. The good cheer that goes into hundreds of then- sands of poor homes at Christmas- ti-me takes the form of hampers of Christmas fareâ€"sufficient evidence of the high regard in which we hold- the traditi-bn of the wellâ€"laden Christmas dinner table. TliE LIBERAL, RICHMONU HILL. ONTARIO The December meeting of Edge- ley Women's Institute was held1 at the home of Mrs. Alf Bagg wihh a good attendance and five visitors. A quilt was left in care of Mrs. Bagg- from the members of the In. stitute to 'be given to Mrs. Wiilfred Symon‘s (nee Nora Bagg). l The delegate-s who attended the convention at the Royal York Hotel in November were Misses Ruth Smith and Edith Jackson, both bringing back splendid reports. Edi’th Jackson also gave a paper on part of the Local Leader work. There was a lucky number draw on the Exhibition quilt, the winner of the quilt being Bert Harrison of Brampton with :ticket No. 487. 2nd prize went to Mrs. S. Poole, No. 264, winning a 4 1b. Christmas cake. 3rd: prize, Mrs. N. Peeler, No. 335, 2 lib. Christmas cake. A bale of clothing was packed! for the Rainy River district. At the close ‘of the meeting- a “Pot Luck” Supcper was served and en. joyed‘ by all. “Do you ever go camping?" “No; we get the same effect by taking the screens off the windows.” LEST HE FORGET It was 3 o’clock in the morning, and‘ the guardv was rather suspicious of the man in evening clothes who walked slowly along the street, crossing and reeljossing the road. “Out rather late, aren’t you?” asked‘ the guard. “Perhaps it is a little late." agl’end the man, “but it’s 2b0ut the onlv chance a pedestrian has these days.” turies is a brief span m the story of the boat’s head. That story has been carried back as far as recordâ€" ed history'goes, back to the Scanâ€" d‘inavfian Yule feast in md'deinter at which! the wild boar was the tradd~ tional sacrifice. with a spelling mébcff The Kleinburg Y.P.U. held their regular meeting on Monday evenâ€" ing- in' the basement of the church with the President Mr. Newton Wat. son in the chair. It was decided that no Y.P.U. meetings would) be held for the three following Monday nights but that the Social Evening would be held‘ on the Wedlnesidray' evening between Christmas and' New Year’s. Mr. Bailey irwitedl them to hold' their social meeting at the par- sonage and the invitation was ac- cented. Two pages of the new book of Canadian ballads by John Murray Gibbon and published by the Ryerson Press. Toronto. J. M. GIBBON S in gin g of Canada -- sixty new songs of Canada have come to life over the past few months and now they are given to the World in John Murray Gibbon’s new- est book “New W 0 r1 (1 Bal- lads" which has just come from the Ryer- son Press, Toronto. It is a most attractive little book, beautifully printed and illustrated and for each ballad there is a pleasant singable old tune that Mr. Gibbon has dug from somewhere out of the past. 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The tunes selected and printed with the ballads are lovely old melodies which have been brought to Canada by settlers from the British Isles and from Europe. Some of these are dance tunes, some are tunes of which the words are no longer generally known or which belong to a lanâ€" guage that is not English. Mr. Gibbon has written the ballads especially for these tunes. The writing of ballads to fit old and well loved tunes dates from the time of Shakespeare. When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne of England in 1558. the Adverti sementâ€"In British Troops in France, equipped for any weather, moving up to the advance lines. This picture will bring memories of the last war to thousands or ex~servlce men throughout the country. British War Office Photo-Crown Copyright reserved -Courteay Canadian Pacific Oak Ridges P.O. ELECTRIC WIRING AND REPAIRS ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES, SALES AND SERVICE For Everything Electrical, Consult “IT’S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY” Electrical Contractor U. E. 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Shakespeare knew them, and in the snatches of song in "Hamlet", "The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “A Win~ ter's Tale” revealed how much he owed to the ballad singers. Up to the time of Oliver CromWell, lyric poetry was not yet consider- ed as something apart from music. so we find Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, George Wither, John Donne and Robert Herrick, all great poets, still writing verses to old tunes. Later John Gay took tunes from France as well as England, and We find succeeding poets, including Burns, Scott, Stevenson and Moore writing bal- lads based on a tune. New World Ballads is an ideal collection of songs to make the. music hour a memorable one in schools and camps as well as in homes. CEREALS. FLOURS. FEEDS CONCENTRATES & TONICS BALED HAY AND STRAW Phones: Day 139 Evenings 82W ‘ THE MILL RICHMOND HILL, ONT‘ Phone King 321 Ind farm PAGE SEVEm hill PM. «mm and"