A Christmas Bonfire in Russia

A Christmas Tree in Paris

A Game of Loto on Christmas Evening in Naples

Christmas Festivity in Seville

Lighting the Yule-Log in Colonial Days

Children of Many Nationalities at Christmas Celebration in a New York
School




CHAPTER I.

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YULE-TIDE OF THE ANCIENTS

"There in the Temple, carved in wood,
The image of great Odin stood,
And other gods, with Thor supreme among them."


As early as two thousand years before Christ Yule-tide was celebrated
by the Aryans. They were sun-worshipers and believed the sun was born