SCROOGE NEVER HAD IT SO ROUGH:
English Yule Means Give, Give, Give
By EDDY GILMORE
LONDON (Jf)—(England, the tra
ditional home of Merry Christ
mas, once passed a law against
observing this greatest of all holi
days.
Bat the grim Puritan lawmakers
made little more progress than
did Scrooge who, as everyone
knows, didn't get to ye olde first
base. When the monarchy was re
stored with Charles II, he restor
ed the Christmas feast.
Unrestrained Joy
There was reason for the Puri
tans frowning on the celebrations
connected with Dec. 25. From the
Uth Century onwards, Christmas
joy in England had become in
creasingly unrestrained. There
was feasting, drinking, dancing
and game playing in the feudal
halls. Wild license reigned.
So the Puritans cracked down.
But as soon as Charlie got things
back on the track the people didn’t
take long starting up the celebra
tions with the old enthusiasm.
This time, however, they made
it a church and home festival—a
time for family reunions, decora
tions, carols and parties. It was
Charles Dickens, in particular,
who breathed the life of homey
good fellowship into the occasion.
His greatest contribution, the im
mortal Christmas Carol, was writ
ten in 1843.
Today: Give, Give, Give
And what about Christmas in
Britain today?
It’s a tremendous event and
even carries over to Dec. 26, which
is Boxing Day.
Having nothing to do with the
manly art of self defense, Boxing
Day originally was a time when
householders and bosses gave
boxes of food and presents to
servants and workers. This must
have something to do with the
give, give, give practices now
wrapped up with the Christmas
season.
Polite Requests
iCarol singers politely knock on
front doors and ask for a tip,
which goes in many cases to a
charity. There are three ways of
handling them: Ignore them—but
whose heart is so flinty at this
time of year? Tip them and thank
them. Invite them in for food and
hot chocolate and coffee.
Every year there’s a chorus of
complaints against the commer
cialization of the occasion. But the
complaints don’t get far. There is
a vast commercialization, all
right, but it hardly compares with
what goes on in the United States.
Millions of pounds change hands
at Christmas time, and thousands
of people are made happier be
cause of it.
A New Protest
The most recent protest came
from the Rev. Peter Churton Col
lins, a Church of England clergy
man at Dartford.
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