Excerpt from Reflector, Vol. 10: Christmas Issue, 1931 At midnight bells ring throughout the land to proclaim the arrival of the holiday. Very early in the morning, the children, many of whom are very poor, go about the streets sing ing Christmas carols. Later in the day the boys and girls help to bring in the Christmas tree and the great yule log, which has been cut the preceding year, that it may be thoroughly dry before it is used. It is placed in the fireplace and lighted with a fragment of the last year's yule log, this piece having been kept for the purpose. The children believe that the Christ mas trees are gifts of St. Nicholas. The German boys and girls always have trees. On Christmas Eve someone, strangely attired, calls at each home to inquire if the children have been good. If they have, he opens a bag and tosses nuts about. If a child has been naughty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.