oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-05

"Lis o Santa" Many Extra Specials This Week MAMMA DOLLS $1.25 GO CARTS $1.00 UP Doll Furniture of all Kinds From the Little Red Chairs at 75c to Sets for $30.00 Shoo Flies $3.50 Kiddle Cars $1.50 Up Scooters, $2.95; Good Ones Boys' or Girls' Tricycles, $3.50 Up Electric Trains—We have Ives, Lionel, American, Flyer and Brig Trains, $5.50Up Wind-Up Trains From $1.00 Up GO CARTS $1.00 UP Doll Furniture of all Kinds From the Little Red Chairs at 75c to Sets for $30.00 Shoo Flies $3.50 Kiddle Cars $1.50 Up Scooters, $2.95; Good Ones Boys' or Girls' Tricycles, $3.50 Up Electric Trains—We have Ives, Lionel, American, Flyer and Brig Trains, $5.50Up Wind-Up Trains From $1.00 Up Xmas Cards and Xmas Tree Ornaments different than you find other places—Don't fall to stop at Orange County's largest Gift Shop and get a Hand Brush FREE. Toyland—139 N. Los Angeles H. J. EFKER 5000 GIFTS for Mother, Daughter, Wife, Sweetheart and Sister It will pay you to look at our large variety of Gifts Everything and anything you might think of Anaheim Novelty & Gift Shop H. J. EFKER 138 W. CENTER For your convenience we will keep one store open every night starting Monday, Dec. 10th Tell Santa You Want a Radio. "BUZZ—buzz—North Pole? Listen, Santa Claus. This is Jimmy Baker speaking. I've been a good boy. Please! Please! Santa bring me a Normandie Radio Set for Christmas." "BUZZ—buzz—North Pole? Listen, Santa Claus. This is Jimmy Baker speaking. I've been a good boy. Please! Please! Santa bring me a Normandie Radio Set for Christmas." Can't you hear your son saying that? Buy him what he wants—a Radio Set. We'll install it for you. Radio parts and sets sold here. WE WISH TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION ESPECIALLY TO OUR NEW Normandie Radio Set installed in a beautiful mahogany Writing Table. 4 tube set. complete, installed, $200. See it in our window. This Set is Selective Brings in Distance Stations We carry a complete line of DeForest Sets. Other sets from $5.00 up Normandie Radio Shop 217 W. Center St. Anaheim, Calif. Phone 167-J PLAIN DEALER CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT An American Colonial Christmas If you must have the whole truth, there really was no Christmas in the very early Colonial Days, at least among the Puritans. And when you go back to the history of those days and of those exceedingly brave old follows that built the town of Plymouth you can understand how there would be a strong feeling against Christmas. Time was then reckoned according to the old style. So that January 2nd was December 25th to the Colonists. That particular day found them busy constructing their first buildings and having to guard against Indians, as well. Bradford's note in his famous "Log Book" records the first Christmas Day as follows: "The day cal'd Christmas Day, ye Gov call't them out to worke (as was used) but ye moste of this new company executed themselves, and saide yt went against their consciences to work on yt Day. So ye Gov, told them that if they made it mater of conscience he could spare them till they were better informed. So he had activity was prohibited by statute later on, on account of the damage done. Stage coaches (with four or six horses) all piled full of people visited gayly from house to house. Substantial food was served with wine, bowls of milk punch, pitchers of eng-nogg. Cakes, special New Years' cakes were baked and delivered by the baker's apprentice singing a carol. Washington Irving gives us a faint idea of an old Dutch tea party, such as might have happened at New Year's in his History of New York. "The company assembled at three and went away at six.—The tea table was crowned by a huge earthen dish well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple plies,—but it was always sure to boast an immense dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat and called dough nuts, or oily kocks. "The tea was served out of a majestic Delft tea pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherds and sheep." We think Mr. Irving got satirical toward the end then he was apt to do that. The general observance of Years' Day was celebrated in less reams of poetry print the newspapers and deliver carrier. The following is continued on indefinitely and as well conclude our story: "The day devoted is to Mir And now around the social Friendship unlocks her springs And Harmony her lyre strings While Plenty spreads her hoard And piles and crowns the f" anta" their first buildings and having to guard against Indians, as well. Bradford's note in his famous "Log Book" records the first Christmas Day as follows: "The day cal'd Christmas Day, ye Gov call' them out to worke (as was used) but ye moste of this new company excused themselves, and sade yt went against their consciences to work on yt Day. So ye Gov, told them that if they made it mater of conscience he could spare them till they were better informed. So he led away ye rest and left them; but when they came home at noon from their work he found them in ye street at play openly, some pitching ye bar, and some at stool ball and such like sports. So he went to them and took away their implements and tould them that they should play and others work." (Stool ball was a game where balls are driven from stool to stool.) There is another brief note concerning the first Christmas among the Puritans. Twenty men were left on shore as guard and the rest returned to the ship, the celebrated Mayflower. Jones the Captain, had his mind on the return voyages and the necessary supplies for it. That very morning he had refused to give out beer, lost the supply should not last. Beer took the place of tea, coffee, milk or chocolate to the Puritans and meant much to them. However, the captain relented at night and as Bradford and his men were resting about the fire in the cabin he gave out beer in abundance, in remembrance of the festivities at home. The poor Pilgrims were still confined to the ships provisions, and so continued until summer, when their crops came in. A year later when seven houses and four public buildings stood in the little town of Plymouth, their crops were in, furs and lumber were stored for export to England, a peace treaty had been signed with the Indians, there came a season of great rejoicing. It was then that Thanksgiving was instituted. For two centuries its celebration was confined to New England, then later the day became general, to be observed by our entire country. The Pilgrims felt that the observance of Christmas was anti-Christ—the day having been selected by the Pope. In addition, in England there was on that day much license and excess which was another reason for opposing the celebration of that special day. For at least fifty years the Pilgrims used to display great simplicity on that day to show their complete disregard for it. In 1659 Massachusetts Bay made a law forbidding the celebration of Christmas under penalty assembled at three and went away at six. The tea table was crowned by a huge earthen dish well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies,—but it was always sure to boost an immense dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat and called dough nuts, or oily kocks. "The tea was served out of a majestic Delft tea pot, ornamented with paintings of fat little Dutch shepherdess tending pigs. — To Xmas Sa The Pilgrims felt that the observance of Christmas was anti-Christ—the day having been selected by the Pope. In addition, in England there was on that day much license and excess which was another reason for opposing the celebration of that special day. For at least fifty years the Pilgrims used to display great simplicity on that day to show their complete disregard for it. In 1659 Massachusetts Bay made a law forbidding the celebration of Christmas under penalty of five shillings. Plymouth however never had such a law. Gradually the prejudice melted away and Christmas came to be celebrated everywhere. In old New York, New Amsterdam then, the celebration of New Year's Day was similar to our present celebration of Christmas. Since the time of Stuyvesant, the Dutch and English observed New Year's Day by exchanging presents, receiving calls and with much noise, some what like our old noisy "Fourth of July." The young men went from house to house firing guns as salutes, until a crowd had collected at some outlying home or farm and all would fire at a mark. This noisy MARRIAGE LICENSE Samuel Glen Hartranft, Fullerton and Ruth Knoy Crawford Anaheim; Calvin Haxla McCylmonds, 20 and Opal Lewis, 18. Huntington Beach; Elmer R. Schmitt, 21 and Frances Luey Nilson, 16. Anaheen; Bernahe Calderon, 22, and Lucy Hernandez, 19. Talbert; Anderson Garcia, 21 and Mercy Costenada, 20. Orange Noel L. Gill, 21 and Lola Cline, 18, of Santa Ana. Shop Early— AT THE HOTEL VALENCIA Henry Koch, Compton; R. Porter, and H. H. Arnold, Los Angeles; Charles Merrill, Oceanside; C. R. Scott, Lindsay; A. E. and Florence Johnson, Duluth. Minn.; Robert C. Vacey, and E. Morten, Long Beach. Shop Early— AT THE HOTEL PLEASANT A. Adams, E. A. Lyons, and T. A. Baker, Los Angeles; C. N. Lanson, San Diego; and H. D. Kime, Redlands. Xmas Sale Only a short time left big money on your XMAS JEWELRY Our prices were always but now---oh boy ---price elsewhere try us Small Deposit Holds Article Dutton Jewelry 115 E. Center St., Anaheim Dutton Jewelry HELD AS GAMELERS AT SHRINE CIRCUS LOS ANGELES, Déc. 5.—Seven men conducting concessions at the Jinnistan Grotto Circus, staged by Los Angeles shriners to raise a Christmas fund for crippled and orphaned children, were free today on $250 bail each, following their arrest last night when the police raided the concessions on charges of conducting alleged gambling "games." Under a new order of Chief of Police August Voltmer, each of the men arrested were subjected to having their finger prints taken before they were permitted to ball. Those arrested were: George French, William Adams, R. E. Scolise, A. W. Angel, S. W. Carroll, H. C. Marshall and George L. Crowder. Try regulating the heat and ventilation of your home and office with a hygrometer instead of a thermometer. Keep the heat between 65 and 70, and the moisture near 80, and you'll increase efficiency for work and reduce susceptibility to "colds," "flu" and pneumonia. NO AMERICAN TOUR FOR PASSION PLAY VIENNA, Dec. 5.—Rumors that the famous Oberammergau Passion Play performers have decided to undertake a starring tour in the United States were denied by Josef Lang, impresor of Christ in the play, in an interview at Oberammergau. Lang stated that 12 villagers, including himself, intend to leave for America about the end of November for a three months' stay there. They are not going as players, however, he said, but simply as artisans, such as wood painters, carvers and poeters. He himself will exhibit his products as a potter in New York. The journey, he maintains, is a consequence of their present unfavorable economic condition. Clancy stopped his friend, Mr. Sweeney, on the street one day, says Everybody's. Give Something for the Car This Xmas A Thousand Gifts to Choose From Anaheim Windshield Co. JOE NICHOLS 206 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim A Thousand Gifts to Choose From Anaheim Windshield Co. JOE NICHOLS 206 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim as Sale t time left to save money on your JEWELRY were always less ow---oh boy! elsewhere then try us Holds Article 'til Xmas Jewelry Co. Center St., Anaheim