Artistic Decorations- Luncheon Party Table

Artistic Decorations- For The Luncheon Party Table 

ARTISTIC DECORATIONS FOR THE HOLIDAY SOCIAL SEASON 

Thanksgiving- Christmas-New Years Season

Artistic Decorations- Luncheon Party Table 

By Una Nixson Hopkins 
Photographs by F.W. Martin 

Red flowers in  a pretty woven rattan basket. Native American Indian style. Colors- red, green, brown. Decoration of the Luncheon table.

References:

Ladies Home Journal 1913

COLUMBIA'S BANNER

THIS IS THE OFFICIAL ODE TO THE COLUMBUS DAY- WHICH IS OFFICIALLY KNOW AS " COLUMBIA'S BANNER" SINCE 1892. FIRST TIME THIS ODE WAS ADOPTED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  AS A PART OF THE OFFICIAL CEREMONY OF THE  OFFICIAL CELEBRATIONS OF THE COLUMBUS DAY ON THE 12TH OF OCTOBER 1892. THIS OFFICIAL CEREMONY IS CELEBRATED EACH YEAR IN THE WHOLE TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND  THE COLUMBUS DAY IS OFFICIALLY CALLED THE FLAG DAY, AS THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS RAISED OFFICIALLY THAT DAY IN ALL THE COUNTRY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE COLUMBUS DAY AS WELL IS CALLED THE DISCOVERY DAY AS THIS IS OFFICIAL CELEBRATION OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA BY THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN 1492.

 Contributed by The Youth's Companion 

THE ODE FOR COLUMBUS DAY. 

"COLUMBIA'S BANNER." 

"God helping me,"-cried Columbus, "though fair or foul the breeze," 
I will sail and sail till I find the land beyond the western seas!"- 
So an eagle might leave its eyrie, bent though the blue should bar, 
To fold its wings on the loftiest peak of an undiscovered star !
And into the vast and void abyss he followed the setting sun; 

Nor gulfs nor gales could fright his sails till the wondrous quest was done.

But O the weary vigils, the murmuring, torturing days, 

Till the Pinta's gun, and the shout of "Land!" set the black night ablaze! 

Till the shore lay fair as Paradise in morning's balm and gold, 

And a world was won from the conquered deep, and the tale of the ages told!

Uplift the starry Banner! The best age is begun!

We are the heirs of the mariners whose voyage that morn was done. 

Measureless lands Columbus gave, and rivers through zones that roll,

But his rarest, noblest bounty was a New World for the Soul! 

For he sailed from the Past with its stifling walls, to the Future's open sky,

And the ghosts of gloom and fear were laid as the breath of heaven went by;

And the pedant's pride and the lordling's scorn were lost,in that vital air,

As fogs are lost when sun and wind sweep ocean blue and bare;

 And Freedom and larger Knowledge dawned clear,the sky to span,

The birthright, not of priest or king, but of every child of man!

Uplift the New World's Banner to greet the exultant sun! 

Let its rosy gleams still follow his beams as swift to west they run, 

Till the wide air rings with shout and hymn to welcome it shining high, 

And our eagle from lone Katahdin to Shasta's snow can fly 

In the light of its stars as fold on fold is flung to the autumn sky! 

Uplift it, Youth and Maidens, with songs and loving cheers; 

Through triumph's, raptures, it has waved, through agonies and tears.

Columbia looks from sea to sea and thrills with joy to know 

Her myriad sons, as one, would leap to shield it from a foe!

And you who soon will be the State, and shape each great decree, 

Oh,vow to live and die for it, if glorious death must be! 

The brave of all the centuries gone this starry Flag have wrought; 

In dungeons dim, on gory fields, its light and peace were bought;

And you who front the future-whose days our dreams fulfill- 

On Liberty's immortal height, oh plant it firmer still!

For it floats for broadest learning; for the soul's supreme release; 

For law disdaining license; for righteousness and peace; 

For valor born of justice; and its amplest scope and plan 

Makes a queen of every woman, a king of every man! 

While forever, like Columbus, o'er Truth's unfathomed main 

It pilots to the hidden isles, a grander realm to gain.

Ah! what a mighty trust is ours, the noblest ever sung, 

To keep this Banner spotless its kindred stars among! 

Our fleets may throng the oceans-our forts the headlands crown- 

Our mines their treasures lavish for mint and mart and town- 

Rich fields and flocks and busy looms bring plenty, far and wide-

And statelier temples deck the land than Rome's or Athens pride-

And science dare the mysteries of earth and wave and sky-

Till none with us in splendor and strength and skill can vie; 

Yet, should we reckon Liberty and Manhood less than these, 

And slight the right of the humblest between our circling seas,-

Should we be false to our sacred past, our fathers God forgetting, 

This Banner would lose its lustre, our sun be nigh his setting! 

But the dawn will sooner forget the east, the tides their ebb and flow, 

Than you forget our radiant Flag, and its matchless gifts forego!

Nay!you will keep it high-advanced with ever-brightening sway- 

The Banner whose light betokens the Lord's diviner day- 

Leading the nations gloriously in Freedom's holy way! 

No cloud on the field of azure-no stain on the rosy bars- 

God bless you, Youths and Maidens, as you guard the Stripes and Stars!   

THIS HYMN WAS OFFICIALLY RECOMMENDED FOR THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS AS THE OFFICIAL PLAY AND CONCERT ON THE OFFICIAL CELEBRATION EVENT OF THE CRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DAY ON THE DAY OF THE 12TH OF OCTOBER OF  THE YEAR 1908.   

References

THE HYMN IS PRESENTED AS IT IS AS IT WAS FOUND IN THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF THE MINISTERY OF THE EDUCATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR TEACHERS-THE INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL 1892, VOLUME NUMBER 10, MONTH OF OCTOBER.

The Discovery of America

 

The Discovery of America 

By BESSIE F. DODGE.

  OFFICIAL HYMN AND OFFICIAL POEM FOR THE OFFICIAL CELEBRATION OF THE COLUMBUS DAY ON THE OCTOBER TWELFTH,  IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS DAY IS OFFICIALLY CALLED THE DISCOVERY DAY AND AS WELL THIS IS THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND IS CALLED THE FLAG DAY. ON THE COLUMBUS DAY THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS RAISED.

A PLAY - For thirteen children each reciting one verse - one child at a time.

THIS PLAY IS COMMEMORATION OF THE REAL HISTORICAL EVENTS WHICH HAPPENED ON THE SHIPS OF THE CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN 1492.

October twelfth is Discovery Day; 
And I'll tell you one thing more- 
To discover is to find out 
What was not known before.

Hundreds of years ago, 

In fourteen-ninety-two, 

Christopher Columbus 

Sailed over the ocean blue.

Before that time, white people 

Lived on the other side, 

And between them and America 

Lay the Atlantic, deep and wide.

Columbus was an Italian, 

His home was near the sea; 

In school he studied geography, 

That he a sailor might be.

All but this Columbus 

Thought the world was small and_flat,

And if they traveled very far, 

Would come to the edge-think of that.  

He tried to prove to learned men 

That the earth is like a ball, 

But only a very few 

Would listen to him at all.

At last, Queen Isabella,

Said she believed him any way, 

And helped to fit out three small ships 

To sail westward without delay.

After sailing for many weeks, 

The men were filled with alarm, 

And planned if Columbus did not turn back,

To do him cruel harm.

Columbus understood how they felt, 

And said if in three days more 

They did not see signs of land, 

They would return to their homeward shore.

But before the time was over, 

Land was in full view, 

Indians were here and there, 

In wigwam and canoe.

Columbus in a scarlet robe, 

With Spain's banner in his hand, 

With the sailors went on shore 

And thanked God for the beautiful land.      

This country was named America, 

But some people think-do you?- 

That it should have been Columbia, 

For Columbus brave and true.

This fact then do not forget, 

Whatever else you do;

 Columbus discovered America

In 1492.     

THE HYMN IS PRESENTED AS IT IS AS IT WAS FOUND IN THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF THE MINISTERY OF THE EDUCATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR TEACHERS- PRIMARY EDUCATION, YEAR 1908, VOLUME NUMBER 10, MONTH OF OCTOBER.

Rereferences:

1.THIS HYMN WAS OFFICIALLY RECOMMENDED FOR THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS AS THE OFFICIAL PLAY AND CONCERT ON THE OFFICIAL CELEBRATION EVENT OF THE CRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DAY ON THE DAY OF THE 12TH OF OCTOBER OF  THE YEAR 1908.

2,The Real America in Romance 
BEYOND SUNSET SEAS THE AGE OF DISCOVERY 1435-1506 

EDITED BY EDWIN MARKHAM 

OFFICIAL SONG OF COLUMBUS DAY

 Verses

Read responsively the first thirty one verses of Psalm CVII 

SONG OF COLUMBUS DAY 

Contributed by 

The Youth's Companion 

AIR: Lyons 

 Columbia my, land! all hail the glad day 

When first to thy strand Hope pointed the way:

Hail him who thro' darkness first followed the Flame 

That led where the Mayflower of Liberty came.

Dear Country, the star of the valiant and free!

Thy exiles afar are dreaming of thee. 

No fields of the Earth so enchantingly shine, 

No air breathes such incense, such music as thine.

Humanity's home! thy sheltering breast

 Gives welcome and room to strangers oppress'd. 

Pale children of Hunger and Hatred and Wrong 

Find life in thy freedom and joy in thy song.

Thy fairest estate the lowly may hold, 

Thy poor may grow great, thy feeble grow bold,

 For worth is the watchword to noble degree, 

And manhood is mighty where manhood is free.

O Union of States, and union of souls! 

Thy promise awaits, thy future unfolds, 

And earth from her twilight is hailing the sun,

That rises where people and rulers are one.     

by Theron Brown 

THIS IS THE OFFICIAL HYMN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CHANTED IN THE SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON OCTOBER 12- COLUMBUS DAY SINCE 1892. THE HYMN I HAVE FOUND IN THE MAGAZINE OF THE MINISTERY OF EDUCATION OF THE USA- THE INDIANA SCHOOL MAGAZINE, NO 10- MONTH OF OCTOBER, YEAR 1892. THE HYMN IS PRESENTED AS IT IS.

INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL VOL XXXVII OCTOBER 1892 NUMBER 10