* Christmas Customs'
> In Other Lands
An Argentine Christmas dinner
features roasted peacock.
In Armenia everybody eats
spinach on Christmas Eve as a
tribute to the Virgin Mary.
As Hawaii has no snow, Ha
waiian Christmas trees are paint
ed white for Christmas.
Lithuanians cover their Christ
mas Eve dinertable with layers of
straw beneath the table-cloth to
symbolize the manger.
Brazilians celebrate Christmas
Eve with a feast of delicious fluf
fy pancakes served with codfish
cakes and toast; save their famous
cheese cake for Christmas.
Little girls in Switzerland re
I ceive their presents from Father
Christmas’ wife, called Lucy;
while Father Christmas remem
bers the little Swiss boys.
In Puerto Rico, the Christmas
dinner consists of such native
dishes as chicken with rice; pork
meat cooked with olives and rai
sins, and roast pig.
Finnish families indulge in j
elaborate baths on Christmas Eve
in special 3-room huts. One room
is for steam, one for rubbing, the
third is a dressing room.
On Christmas Eve the Cubans
have elaborate dinners of barbe
cued pig, beans and rice, and
plenty of candy and sweets after
each course.
The Chinese know the Christ
mas festival as Cheng Dan Jieh—
the Holy Birth Festival. Their
Christmas tree is called “Tree of
Light.”
The yule log had its beginning
in Sweden, when at Jul of Yule,
guests originated the custom of
bringing a log and carrying it into
the house with them when they
visited.
In Bohemia, outdoor Christmas
carol-singing is popular; singers
going from door to door, and be
ing rewarded with gifts of money,
bags of nuts and a Christmas cake
called vanocka.
At French Christmas gatherings,
the man who finds the hidden
bean in a cake becomes King for
the night and chooses his Queen
from the girls present. The pair
rules the party the rest of the
evening.
In Denmark the Julenissen, or
Chrismtas elf, is a legend. He
rides a goat instead of a reindeer.
The Danes leave bowls of rice and
milk in their attics on Christmas
Eve, it being a good luck sign if
; the milk disappears during the
night.
Mexican children put shoes in
I the window’ instead of hanging up
1 stockings and find them filled
with gifts in the morning. The
main Christmas meal in Mexico
may feature hot tamales.
A Danish custom is the break
ing of china and crockery on New
Year’s Day against the doors of
friends’ houses. The family who
has the largest pile of smashed
crockery before its door is the
best-loved. For this custom, Danes
hoard all their broken crockery
throughout the year, points out
Walter J. Letts, of World Travels,
a travel agency.
May the caroler’s song bring
you every joy, and may the
coming year be bright with
happiness and success.
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