CHRISTMAS ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 23 December 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

CHRISTMAS ANCIENT AND MODERN.

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:- : " ;!! : ' all ..iieV a.-i|uaintane. -. W a- ii i- been .!,-, hired on Mi-lb-toe - ■:..- v -re .-..:-.- ~i ,-,,- r.-x.-i-: There i- '- n, --i t.. ;■■': \,-a Z.'.ilan.ler- that it , .- a para-!' -. -it:.-,- it 11-niii-ln-- in New /■ ii- -i 1. .-.n Ih. i-e fanners. in many ;■-.•'- ■■' -i- .-.. mtrv. declare they have _■ a r.-d it -race cii.'uigh. but that -inc.-----u iv ;t I.MI-l _-. tiie way of evil doer-. \\ hat will li ij.pen remain- 1.. be -.-en. ; '..- -.- .•■:. Idle ch-.-kv mistlet ~- was -.-•it. p., ~1 ott -~ bet..re in England'- hi- - ..-.. »'.,.-:, :!,.- t .11,.wet- ~f i romwell : ... :.ir. I h.-llv. i.ii-ti-: ..-. and ,-.,-:, cake- ' at! i :.-- to >~- tt ip- -.-■ b.v Vit.ui to en- ; 1-n :i, ; ':.■ -...ii- ..!' m-n! still i: Hour- 1 . ■ : ii-: ii.i- and its peculiar .d.ser- : . : -.-. .. :!. -.-, -ii- -.. English thai it mm be a ■ -•!:;■-■.-,• t . i.-.iru Ih it it woiil i I, • dilli i.u'i to liud a greater eouglouioration o: 1 : -r.il: i .-.i-t en- t ha n I his. i' .. ,- ,_-.|. mien >aui a I lav« i- S.-an- j !:ii.i -. i.vi. the id.-a "f reindeer to carry: •',.- i--.ii- ..'.l > i -ell'- sack- oi gift - cine- , i'ro'l 1..(p1an.1: Christmas Trees were i .... .wed -tr.light fr-eii Oermanv: event •i. i.i-ird of s.,„ta Clans i- a foreign! ~!--, i iken tr...,, Ku-sia. The fashion | .1 .liling Father Christinas St. Nicholas j i- in no w iv English, nor. alas, can the I -,-... .i!„,iit tiie journey down the ehim :n,-v be ciaim.-d by anyone with any pre-, r.-n.-e to '~ iug Engli--h: while the i ule j ~\\ ■■■■■ -ur'pri-ing than ~11 i- i; to learn , Ith.l' I lie bestowing of gifts on the littlej I p....-ii.-. and big. i- no an.-ient rile at all. ! but' horn onl.v well within the last bun--1 di.-l y.-.it-. and even that was ••made in i i.i-rtnany." i j The story of tiie peculiar signilieanee of •ni-lieloe may be new to -"inc. That, i i ' ...... came from Scandinavia! H.-rc. according to a hi-torian of this ' w.-ek I oki '.'-a- the god of mischief, and I - ~-. -u'ch ruled over all the world. But | I • l.oki was at enmity with Haider, the j (polio ••;' the North, and strove t" in- | jure him. The ditiiciilty. however, was i jl'that Balder coukl not be hurt by any-; D :t-u ig whi-.h -prang irom nt : iril hn- ,; or water, and to overcome the almost ; "invulnerable Balder an arrow of mistle-j !-.„- was ,„a.le by l.oki. This he gave j t ■ 11.xi.-r the Blind to test, and the god l |..i darkiip—. in -hooting the arrow.' Ikiii.-d Balder. The latter was re-tor.-d ;j - , nf,. bu'. as a result of the s; ial I pleading of the gods and goddesses - j „ii-tb-toe wa- placed under the care oi j . ' ~, ,j., wa- it In be used a- an instrument I ~'. ~v j | until it touched the earth. When! t ;,' e.une in contact with earth, then it I 1 -in,". un.b-r the wav of l.oki. whose • - ,'..,..,,,,.„ was the world. So it is that : I!' ",;',.-.„. i- livvavs suspended, and when a ,'v.o p.-r-„ns of' opposite se.xes meet r.i.M.ler it they will kiss as a *ijro ... i ; .... and g.-dwill. to prove thai this I Juvsterious nii-tb-t".- still belongs to the „ : kingdom of Friga.