The Jewish children of this city hummed the Christmas carols, while the other children sang them, as a result of a compromise reached between the parents of the Jewish children and the school supervisor of music. Half of the school children here are Jewish and their parents objected to their participation in the adoration of the Christ Child, but the Gentile children wished to sing the carols at the exercises before the Christmas holidays. The suggestion that the Jewish children hum the carols for their musical beauty was adopted as a compromise.
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