EN We er. Ng = 3. 2m ae o ct Nat at, ir Royal Christmas Shopping! ST. LUKE 1: PR {| Old English Christmases i ee AS SU DC i iy . ot pie wy AE } to too much Christmuas-tife shovping ha: at- wonderful fund of common sense. | . . four or) Hive centuries ago, long Prva a ese ed tained such proportions and there ie The gifts are paid for in cash al-| ' . I WY ; ry a | before invention and the industri "Unliawful games" (which fn- Su. much ceremony and custom | ways. 3 x 2 § / AY {age had made travel anything nore { uded bowls!) Were permitted at rapped up in the scrupulous glving| Cn arrival at Bucldngham Palace y 4 ; ithan a huge adventure, when the } this seagn to the working classes; of presents to relatives and even | the presents are pack and His Ma. : aac Ne . 77 i 7 ; 3 jart of printing . had barely become and they were even. allowed these distant connections that it is of €pe- | Jesty himself writes a personal note Y . : f 7 J " established and books were aA [canjes. in the presence of thelr clal Interest to know that this is|to the recipient. Mostly he favors - A HH ilk 71 / iscarce as flies in winter, and whan {master in his house. There was ne of the strongest customs of the the useful gift. Thus his grown-up . p- 4 i 3 4 | public entertainments and amuse- always a "Master of the Revels" Royal Pamily and 1s due practic- | scns will receive something useful in | ] 7 / , | ments were something of a novelty, in every large household and in the a lo the initative of the . ig Bhi emoking ne and the rifts are | WY ' / p Hi (the Christmas festival occupied a (household book of the Northumber- Prince onscrt who was deeply 'Mm-{ by no means costly. The giving of | I : ' 7 { Hdd ivery large and !mportant part io land family (1512) the fee for this ied with the spirit of the Festive | éxpensive presents is not now in| = _ A ] ' Vi ithe lives of the people and much personage is entered as twenty sonson, | favor, An exception however is made | - 4 { y'/ \ 7 time and energy were consumed In |shilllngs. The Iuns of Court, par- Indeed the husbane of the late | In the case of his gift to the Queen, | A " 4 ; HY a { - [the elaborate preparations. The [ticularly Lincoln's Inn were famous "Queen . Victoria - introduced w new | This always takes the formi of V 3 ; A / spirit of joyousmes and revelry must for their Christmases; the King of nots into the Court Christmas which | some beautiful Jewel to add to Ler | A A fp . ¥ have sufficed to take the dullness : N Le wao In the early life of Her Majesty was | majesty's collection of gems Which | J ; off. the monotony of the daily | resided over these revels. more marked by sumptuous repast 1s already large and wonderful. | 4for thousands throughout the } In 1594 Queen Elizabeth was ene and post-prandial lbation than by | The gifts for the royal servants. | ? / Hl] lowing year. {tertained with great splendour at anything else. A plain speaking | many of whom have been in the 3 = ! ) 11 ! There wag ad part of England [Gray's Inn. Christmas rejoicings chronicler tels ug that rhe last | service of the Royal family for many \ §0 Isolated that it was not visited were carried on more or less sub Christmas spent cn earth by King | vears, are usually simple ukeful ob- ) ; \ {by itinerant singers, jugglers, pe:- [rosa during the time of Cromwell William IV was celebrated in "much | jects which are perscnally chosen s 4% ¢ {forming animals and stage plays in- who banished the festival by enact- feeding and guzzling". | by the King as also are presents in- = \ . y \ {eluding the immortal Mr. Punch. ment but the old doings were re- With the observance of the family | tended for the little band of old re- ' ! ' ay A 4 / {The mummings, strolling minstrels (stored to the full vigour of former Christmas by the royal father and | talners ut Balmoral and Sandring- 4 land disguisings must have made at | mother however and their unfailing | ham who are never forgotten by the |least a month of carnival, when all | 1, 1675 Christmas Day began to remembrance of their children and | ng. : |business, vexations, quarrels and be celebrated in the infant N. friends, Christmas shopping became | Unlike the King, the Queen makes ¢ > : / [worldly affairs generally were for- with "trumpets" a rib of i ibd in important part of the royal cer- | her Christmas shopping a labor cf - 0! \\ £2 s ; | gotten for the time being. Even [puddings and mince ples, and plen= emonies. | love. Her majesty Just drops into 3 % during the siege of Orleans In 12% [ty of good wines of several sorts." Queen Victoria insisted on person- | Any store Informally and casually, [there was a short truce for ChiTt- Mince ples were almost taken as ally supervising the smallest detall | no notice having been giving of her mas, "with a night' of minstrelsy [4 religious test; in shape repres- and touk a keen Interest in t.e whale] 1iterded visit, Latterly Princess TN ¢ 7 - ; A {ain thumpets ap clarions" tn tho lenting the manger and filled with Proceeding, so rych 80, that the Mary has accompanied t e Queen on br , 7 JAH | English. camp. ®> the splices brought by the three royal entourage regurded tre ordeal these pleasant shopping eXpeditions A y - - 3 oy y { | Gambling was permitted in the wise men, ro re regarded by with some feel'nge of anxlely espe- | and Is known as a speclally keen ; " A {relgn of Edward JV during the {many as a symbol of Popery: aa clully as the good Queen advanced! buyer. The. Queen Is very particular 7 ; S . Ws le {twelve days of Christmas and the such John Bunyan 1s said to have In years, tL: 4 moment's considera- | that all of her gifts shall be entirely / ¢ ? \ {Lord or Abbot of Misrui: wus paid *d to partake of them when 0 tion wii enable anyone tn realize | ¢f British manufacture and makes £ / \ 2, |by the court for his services: up to | d jail. There Is gu record of What an enormous undertaking sual} pointed inquiry on this when buy- 2 : ) Z [ihe ime 5 Henry EL recslyed i her pie of later date (1:70) a shoppinz expedition became. ng. § 2 the equivalent of $33 for his servic. hi was made for Sir Hephey Her Mares personally made es! The Prince ¢ Wales und his E n Z , es but this fee was Increased to (ira, Christmas by hie lhouse- the long list those who were to bel brothers are quite unconventional : % g {about $90 by the "Merry Monarch" keeper. Mrs, Dorothy Patterpon: onored with the royal favor and| In thelr Christmas shopping. They J = {Henry VIII who threw himself with |i contained two bushels of flour, then at, great pains selected the act- us and Purchase just whatever / ~ Li enthuslasm ints the Yulctide {20 1bs of butter, four geese, two ual gifts t TS for which | gifts strike .thelr fancy. A custom y : p rolics. | turkeys. two rabbits: four wild the uh i, Which of the heir to the throne is to buy : = LP - \ ~ 4 Indeed the magnificence «f ducks, two woodeoek, six snipe and ways favored. little gifts upon which he will have 7 S RE py { : ; this: monarch's entertainments very {four partridges, two neats' tongues, Wonderful -- changes have taken | hls crest place? while in buying / ' 7 ! olf x \ Sr probably had something to. do with {four curlews, seven blackbirds and Place in this particular since King | something suitable for those special 4 N / | \\ {his popularity; the King himself in. isix pigeons. Tt was nine feat George came to the throne and | personal friends numbered among 2 Rr A 4 y dulged freely in the revels, maakings round," weighed about 170 Ibs 'und While the appropriateness fs retain. | his close uequalntances. The Prince : p / z | \ {and Joustings nich. were usually was Mounted In a reat case fitted ed much of the Jabor is got rid of by | Will devote a deal of time-and troy. | A 70 3 A \ held at Greenwich. ' ' with four small wheels. Truly a the methods of His Majesty which | ble and will visit several shops in | bi; Ail \ ) \ ¥ i During Henry VII's reign vizors dainty \ dish to set before are prompted by economy and effi. search of what he requires, = . EN ee p. 7 A \ y : N {uring Christmas festivities were | tat! ES iA ST a-------- the clency. | Duke of York Is not so fastidious. For instance, it had been the cus- | The King's second son, it is not | Wry LN nN ' > = ee -- n-- iin il tom in court circles for years to al. | generally known, has a little work. | , I $r he bd 4] Ng! Ng . I 1 locate a sum of money for gifts tu| shop of his own in which. he makes ; pi Moe, 3 \ NN . [y " { other European monarchs which were | INany useful little objects some of 3 RA J ) : I h f X V { called "courtesy gifts" and also to Which are given as presents and | , #30 1 \ ABURRNN 1h e omance oO mas e { Sscme of the reigning Princes of | needless to say are much apprec- | x 2) ay 3 S RAN \ i : ' Small Germanic states which haa | aw » pt v } ; a J FEI ii amb. «tiie oe sp rn blcod ties with the British Royal | ncess Mary's Christmas shop - \ Nn N Y ] | . The evening of the 24th, of De- being who was lucky gz family. Some of these were in dus| Ping hitherto been done under i 4 ' Bl \ ; | Solita E>, Europe. is richer | abroad. os unlucky enough to be time swept away by the Great War | the guidance of the Queen. Now of 5 y ) s on throughout Europe, is richer Among the Southern Slavs a girl but even prior to 1914 King George | Course, she can exerclse her own / am : i In quaint customs and traditions than | 100 rng about her future husband hy : had substituted a personal letter for | Choice and has full scope for her | Christmas day itself. Ip many places | covering tho table on Christmas Five. iris these oats Feninders at the sume | iy acting Sr ou wn x CY > 3 "it 1s believed that the midnight cn Putting on it a white loaf, 4 piate, a me verting the money so saved | as ne it, 4 3 u z -- « - 4 . 1 Oh . i « | knife, a spoon ang fork. Mhe then to a fund specially set up by His | knack not possessed by many peo- Christmas Eve all cattle rise in thels | goes to bed. At midnight Hep Three Majesty--his own peronal gift Fund | Plo. oi : | Hid or ses) In adoration of the [}usbana win appear and fling a for the Poor--out of which the poor 10 owager Queen Alexandra . . . . . new-born King. The North Amerl- knife at her. If it hurts her sha will of Windsor and the East End of | has LdowiiClion of possible gins! 7. And she brought forth her first born dling clothes, lying in 8 manger, h the |S IIan applies the betiet to the | dic early: it ret not] wiih London receive every vear n sub-|Sent down to Sandringham ° from . . : . : uddenl there was with the! deer which "kneel and look up to the | husband and be happy aver after. stantial gift of meat and coal. | which she chooses the presents for on, and wrapped him mn swaddling clothes 13 And 8 id enily h | great spirit." | The young man varies the programme Our King's perscnal gifts are lim- | her beloved grand-chlidren and per- ¥ Taid hin angel a multitude of the heavenly ost |", Scandinavia no one ventures out [to know about his future wife, When ited strictly to the Immediate Royal | Sonal friends. Her gift to her royal . um oi. : | on Christmas Eve. Between cock- | the others are gone to church he must Family and are carefully selected | ®6n and daughter-in-law is always praising God, and saying, | crowing and daybreak 1s a most | sit in the darkness naked and sift from the stores by the Monarcl | the same--books. was no room for them in the inn. : 14. Glory to God in the highest, and | dangerous time out of doors as! ashes through n seive. The desired himself. His procedure is much the| Christmas time with the royal ' 3 . witches, trolls and evil spirits are [one will then appear, pull hig nose Same as that of most any indi. | family is essentially an ogcasfon for 8. And there were in the same country on earth peace, good will toward men. [Norn aboard and mischelvous. In [three times, and having given him vidual. He goes to the shopping dis-| family 1 d th fit rH : 3 : : - Norway and Sweden there is the this foretaste of married bliss, she Tier ant oes to the shopping lis. family reunion an 4 © Fits reflec shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping 15 And it came to pass, as the angels [For that on Christman. Five the | wii dooce equerries and visits certain stores | his family for those around them, watch over their flock by night. were gone away from them into heaven, |3gad Tavisit het old Homes sads ain] PI sacs nd some ath °r places favored with his custom. Notice of| Of all the host of Christmas shop- h h h d id t the Let us after the festivities and meal are over, | the rist-child is represented us ble intbnded 'visit is usually tele- | pers who throng he great em- 9. And lo, the angel of the Lord came the shepherds said one to another, and the family retire to rest. the | visiting the ages and bringing oned «| po A - ia | Place is le y and adorned. | presents an erforming a nds o pon Sr ae. satublishruent gee perry St Rh hay: te, Tear upon them, and the glory of the Lord now go even unto Bethlehem and sce this great fire is heaped up; candles are | duties. A girl wearing a ¢:own of will be ready on his arrivel. | that none is more kindly or con. shone round about them: and they were thing which is come to pass, which the | lighted. the Cable covered with the olde n vaper containing I'zhted These are ca=sfully gone through | siderate than the membe £ th . {best cloth and a plentiful supply of candles is chosen In one hand shé and {t is well-known that the King | Royal Family who adhere readeanne afraid. Lord hath made known unto us. { food spread out upon it. A Jug of ale | carries un bell and in the other a . : yf cted ances. | bas) 5 of swe cats. 8 ' gets value for his money, for he is te the happy tradition Inaugurated 10. And the angel said unto them, 16. And they came with haste, and | vy tor Hie $apected ariess. qasknts pd meals Hane in pien ony & business man with ain the reign of Victoria 1h9 Lived. F for, behold, I bri od found Ma and Joseph, and the babe [wiped ang in the morning us carota ly | hair. She ls frequently follownd by EE -- Te -------- ear. not: or, . old, A ring you go . . Ty, ? wiped again. If any small fragment | & masked man or boy, dressed in a tidings of great joy, which shall be to all lying in the manger. oy Sarth should be found it fs accepted | bearskin, with blackened Tyce long 1 (a8 a sure sign that some dead for- | beard and a rod with which he people. 17. And when they had seen it, they [ps a has sat upon the chair during the | threatens naughty children. The Girlie and the Ghost 11. For unto you is born this day in made known abroad the saying which was night. A warm bath is got ready for | children are saved from his wrath by ~ manger because there ow Gana Uhr Lis NI. . " > . . » the spectral party who may want a | the pleadings of the wirl, {the city of David a Saviou?, which ie told them concerning this child. wash before they dine and sometimes | A very widespread notion is that . . -3 .. | the household sleep on straw that the | water turns to wine at midnight on The Terdly: anal £ the Ra beyond, the blink of the f1 Christ the Lord. po 18. find all shey hat Leurd it Wondat | visitors may occupy their beds. ! Christmas Eve and in Guernaey there © nsion of e Naven- BY! , o! e fire. . . 3 r o ¢ , y i z . at those things which were to them | With the Tyrolese, food or milk is | is a story told of & woman whe de shaws was as quiet as the grave Something clanked and 'he master 12. And this shall be a sign unto you; & | Toft for the Virgin Mother and Ler | termined to test this belief by draw. on Christmas Eve, as quiet and as aMopped dead, bereft of ar eile! Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swad- by the shepherds. [riand. For the spirits the Yule pod- ing a bucketeof water from ooo: ove; ad heard that iri | y i i . re deadly chill. ' There were tears In before. The hair on his Tron Torus [ridge is set out with n But a voice i i er ------------ -- -- Te -- | cream DOW] and often a * | egend: the eyes of the young chatelaine | to move as a sound between a croak | | clothes and even spirits and tobacco. | "Toute l'eau se tourne en vin Mrs. Baker, as she surveyed the |and a moan came from the nursery. If | Thus freedom from harm during the | Et tu es proche de la fin", E #ally-decorated. drawing-roorh with | Len his eyes bulged as he heard the | New Year is brought. | (All the water turns into wine and voice of his only child, muffled, mis- . | In Norway It used to be believed | you are near your end). With this its festoons of holly and mistletoe, chevious. | he Best X mas Presents to 1vVe | that the old Norse Gods were etirred | the woman fell down with a mortal looking pathetically useless in the Oh Santa Claus, T saw you.' I} | to wrath on Christmas Eve and would | disease and dled before the end of absence of merry guests. ' heard the bells on your sleigh. Your . {come down from the mountain fast- | the year had passed away. "There's no one coming here to. | c/Ndsers must be movin', They'll | em | nesses with great blasts of wind and No time 18 so charged with romance night," she whispered, looking with side ont at he snow | Buying Christmas presents for his what they would like, receive the | priggish nephew. The gift of bags | wild shouts to carry off any human | and mystery as the Eve of Christmas, that wer Yes into the biasing fire fold the quaking father his bulosed | sisters and his cousiny and Nia Ta coe thee thin the gifts) Takin sale loeks und Imposing { ---- ees that was eating up the Yule log. "Girlie" was hiding beneath the ted- is probably one of the most batfling | It is simply Mot safe to take a | with snake like figures crawling over | | ana helping to make up a sentence. pS lbert Barker, a TaAutey + of Slothes ram He grisly spectre of 2 | problems which besets the average | chance on what Aunt Hilda or Cousin | them, is sometimes a solace to the | { This became quite Aifficult ns the venshaws, pressed a consoling arm . 4 k % rife will demand as their |' spirit ! Pa lo Gam | kame proceeded and caused a geod round her slim shoulders. He was a brave man Baker, but he | man In the course of vhe Journ, and Sneres ite this oy it is curiiug | On the other hand a man who rior es jdeal of fun and thinking. "So here We are all dressed up and | had once faced that ghost, and his | the task Is not made any the easier ask his | wife or awe "Famous Numbers" was also a wood . y always t elations | would | + Ply" saitertain. he = bantered lope felled Hw " by the barrage of advice showered tha I pearly WAY? Ihe soi the | heart what she wanted must surely for Chris tmas game. For this. the players took bravely. In other words they've all G3 Santa Joie awrly cold," came upon pater familias by all and sun- | real poetry of shopping is found in ! stand-a self-confessed failure. It is | | sides just as they sat about the room. Beard of the Ravenshaw's khost ad |G Files fled Dips. an Stock dr; Broadly speaking, however, | buying for our friends. | his business to feel the right thing | | Someone called a number from one they funk the visit. In fiction 'the / in quick! wi Fo mak ng the nussry Y : : : '| Considerable ingenuity, how ever | Intuitively. Of course when one is | c | 8lde which was answered by the other Buests are generully all very keen to { draugnty. Bakes rove sain to friends and relations are divided into | may be exercised within the | buying a present for the person cne | Continuous merriment should be the side with a famous fact connected asst the spook, { fenter Dut ir his ip 8 had been classes. The first consists of those | limits of our relations' Instructions. | likes Dest there is sure to he a de- | keynote of a successful Christmas | with it. Thus if "Seven were called wgut this cursed chained Shatls 01 [col stone they soul net have been {for whom presents can be bought | There is a measure of malicious de~ | pressing sense of inadequacy. Main | party, and nothing is more conducive | out, the answer might be 'The seven Sues lakes every adartment in turn |less Fesponsive. Through his reeling | fect certain'y and confidence, | light in fulfilling the desire of the | street has no treasure worthy of [to this than the proposition hy the | wonders of the world v, The even a ory pe occtpent to death. bran Jept Re uring the legend that [In patie: ou y i * | austere and religious Aunt who ex- | them. In dreams we would ransack | prospective hostess of a varied re- | Ages of Man," "We are Seven," "The Better if I had been on youngest son | If only the ghost were boldly faced |The second is made UD. Jf thuse | pressed a wish for an "improving" | markets of Fairyland und tear | Pertory of gumes and puzzles likely | Seven Days of the "Week" and 80 un, a SObUAS Of oid to, start in the land told Rr iy a eaptiously critical people whose | jitt1e work by tendering a collected | open the pack on the shoulders of the | to appeal to all the guests ard in | Another game suggested was "The world. instead of a cold venitentiary [laid for ev pr-jus pr a Druality desires must be discovered by either [edition of the sermons and theo goblin hucksters. It is one of the | which all can join. | Chor. Sd Juvil a Penny to keep It 30 rial. jad quelled the b ed Manise whe thod | logical writings of some eminent 17th, | crowning miracles of the world that | Sometimes na good deal more fun { In this game the players are divid- oe He Ghose would my A 8 (Wan its original. Open Dr fovrat.me 8. { Century Tscottish Divine. Again | people who deserve all this are very { can be got out of Impromptu games | ed into {Wo groups, one group being ana 3 ot tod be an Thos" he the gound of tle fot WIth this latter class, we, pay, and, ere is a stern sense of luty In un-! often actually thrilled just as mnuch | than from those which have been | blindfolded and each player sitting asset in the et instead of a curse. | on the nursery floor, and petulant they choose; and no chances can Pe loading the learned Professor |by some wretched little pictyre in a | pre-arranged. Here {s an Mea that | beside an empty c "Then the They oY wpsinal was a yatel- | treble: | tak Of course these rather tire- Muggin's "Theory of the Periodi:ity | frame, or a book of verse, ur evén a |a hostess once followed at Christmas | players of the sitting group autetly EE eg ) loft all aione a Tanta 1 vas_lum going so he I n have to be asked of Telephone Inaudibility" upon some | writing-case. | with great success. When ull her | giipped into the vacant chairs and at in the house chained by the log. He | cuddle you and whisper What {same Yolk who have te be a ' Be | Buests had arrived she announced | the word "Sing" from the Mistress of broke his chain when he got famished wanted, and you was'nt there." ~ re al aitived ol Anatunoed | he word "Sing" from the M stress of and died while he was wandoring | Again the patter of feet and the | Fm 10 comptes te hich me of them ea moniss, who led off with the liey: ~ about the place searching for a bite. | plaintive voice: a voice tr & with = 1 , Ing by suggesting a game, uo that {and their blind neighbours had to Ah well Shella, if none will give me [childish resentment. "Tt you dont everybody should have a really good » , . = | Buess the identity of the singers from oe omousand for Ravenshaws Ill | want Girlie go away! You're cold as. ™ ¥ thataid king a bowl from the (able | their voices. This game in only svc- get some kind of a job and--" ice and I can't take hold of you at | | she sald gaily! "I want each of You | cessful when the players have "Hush", whispered his wife and |all. On, £0 away apd don't come . [to think of a dandy game in which | heen able to talk together teforshand, clung to him trembling. She had back . Baker fia IRA jie \ all sah Join; write Your ine Ghee they are yery ell knawn to switched off the light and now was | the room = on slips of paper. Place them in | cach other it must be the business o witch at the | sembling a wisp anew Yanishod Ly three fat purses of gold down their| Immediately his trea~herous enemy bowl and then we shall all have 1018\ the singing once 1s try to camouflage athe » Soft foot- | the window with Justle and lank, 3 Tn aN Jxuds for arly on as Kitohon Hina It { the fashion the God of Evil made an arrow from | of fun." heir a as much as pogaible, ffled In un adjacent pas. | /Daddy, daddy" €ried the Mitle girl. | years Christmas has been mar in olden days to make purses some- | the mistletoe bough and gave it to &| The idea was nt unce selzed upon | Those who Kenerally sing in a high gor creaked. fia a shiver. | Youe too late. Tve seen Santa! various rites and ceremonies, the lynne lke th metre stocking and blind man to test. The arrow plerced |, gq 11, o few minutes the little bowl | key should sing in a low one And vice Jae, + ald ran noiselessly Into Claus. but be wasn't nice so I sent | 50" of Which are for the most part | (wisgeveloped into the present duy!Baider oni he was (FIIn. Later, yay uf of merey orn Here | versa, The blind players who fall the firelit room. The i iniay, my wiocking's wrapped in obscurity end are there- | custom. however, he was restored to life. is a brief note of some of the games | 1 guess aright must each pay a "Oh, ma'am", she whispered in : : The Legend of the Magi is probably | After this the mistletoe was declared so chosen. The first game selected | rorfers. All the while the game is ish. "The ghost ma'am: | t6ars. "Never mind, Girlie" consoled | fore interesting. one of the most interasting of ;Yuls- | harmless and it became an emblem of { "What Is it?" One player went | repeated twice, only the blindfold Janes of angaia afraid." *'| Baker, with a now resonance in bis For Instance not many people know tide lore. The origin is the simpls| love, : out of the room and the others decided | players may retain thelr seats the - Tm afral is it Simpson?" breathed | YOIce and eyes that shone in a - ite that the custom of hanging up stock-| story rin. St. ow's gospel to| In England today people fn cértain upon a subject either from fiction or | ingers changing places. fr a 1 Sim this time? | face. "Your stocking will be fil Ch Eve had its origin | Which something has been added al- parts of the country belteve (hat o history that had a nt tere Mrs. Baler, om Manel lan right. You deserve it for youlve | ings on Christmas Eve s [most overy century until the accu- (sunny noon on Christmas Dey means about At, such as'the Star of Heth-| . A witty individual one Christmas FL iin 0 Baker col. | filled Your Daddy's tonight. * _}In a legend about St. Nicholas. This mulated dutan lta submerges the|a plentiful supply of apples during |lehern, Sams. Claus, Cinderella. the | morning wagered that he worn ho "The Iutsary" € bands uneoR- tts --------. / stocking hanging was generally done original story. The number of the! ne coming year. '| original Christmas Tree, etc, The | fifty different persons the same Japaee 38 her husban np. Two merchants traveling at-Christ. | on December 6. the Eve of St. | Mag! was generally stated to be threa, There is an interosting relic of player who was "IT" came buck into question und receive fc sume answer 1a' er of the | mas were discussing trade depression din ntriag, | Melchior, Bal and Jasper; | pruigiest fire worship and possibly | the room and was asked to sues the | from each. The wit went to one and joi her and the number of deople who had | Nicholas, an BMS Lunia, 10 them and a of the tractiee of trial by ordeal 1 Subject (Chosen, whith he had to del to tnother wath hy ad esr 1d bought things without for | notably Belglum, this date is still] complete description given of each. |g "if FEOF of Fnapdragon. A by skilful questioning. <The only | whole ro. And this ts. how he won them. "And to think" adhered to. The story goes that! An old Scandinavian' legend has it & crime had tolanswer he wight recelve from the | the bet. He whispered half wudibly : 3 there was'a poor nobleman who had | that the death of Balder, the ADOlo [grip a red-hot iron bar cr plunge his | other Players was "Yes', "No," or [to each: "Bay bave sou heard thot the | nice iia Christ;as."| ree daughters aiid wos 100 poor to rg he North, was brought about hv | FUb,? red-hot as a test of fanocence. | "I don't know." | Smith has fafled 7 : "Never mind" said the other, "The g the mistletoe bough. His mother It was believed that superhuman Next came "Alphabetic Sentences," | "What Smith!" queried the whole season of peace and goodwill will be | provide the girls with a dowry. | had declared that he was incapable of | : 3 aPpeaE il oD & With a word end | fifty one after another; and It way ended soon. You can summon the | Good luck came their way one night | being harmed by anything which had{ald Would magically pp each player following on with 4: yther | decided that the bet nad been fairly blighters in the New Year." however, for St. Nicholas dropped | its Toot in earth, air, fire or water. person were not guilty. word beginning with the same initial | won. ANE 2X 0 I FRR we Sas i oe sata . ERT = 4 uch of Christmas |! LC AY