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4 The Babe ve | Then back d/ Save an uneven- - seedlings, be was born in Bethishem and swaddled by His mother, Arne meer: for, bed here waa to offer then; so very weary, ure, sle| ' While ; § Evie a nodding vigil kept. le anox and sole and the ass her master's stall So they stumbled tothe manger and, for all the beasts that be, They bowed their heads and Worshipped, each on its hairy knee. they @ept together, for they heard the hurrying feet 'hastening dow the path, the Holy Child to greet: And none had knowledge of the things within that lowly shed Angel singing goftly in the rafters overhead. But ever. on Christmas Eve, the beasts can speak by night, with one another all about that Holy Night. The Voice of the Christ- Piple, dogwood, pin sherry, hoch ™ Child. red maple, uh Toy Din cher sumach, The sa has grown cold with its bur- iron , blue! , witchhazel, ete! ~~ den of care, Et heed eso pans saath SI: tt AE Chega 1 Wwagd 1 Sous, which makes their presence undesir.| The heart of the jewel burne lustrous wood. Remember the old-saying about 1. trees: y usually better / and. fair, Ho iia. varieties in hg, And its soul full of music breaks forth on the air, \ + When the song of the Angels is sung. 0 "trees Lo Protect u - oy. oe M48 UID: Old earth, it 1s coming o- : ; igi On stow flakes winich covered the AaBHlY. to Wii Sent of US Ohrisi.ohiM. tat out with delight AE Thet mankind are the children of * God, un the sad and tie icnely, the wretch: 'ed and poor, The voice of the Christ-child shall © fall; And to every Rr OOP Of a hope which he dared hot 'dream of before, With 'a sunchie of blind wanderer opens the to , 4 welcome for ail. The feet of the humblest may wulk tn the field ; the feet of te holdest had By, oT --Phillips Brooks. i "Tommy Spills th y strange customs at Swedish weddings is that of giving the oom & shirt. | . The gift is made by the bride, and is ¥0U | worn on the day of the ceremony. Af. : 6 husband puts it away, again untth his buried in it, oie m. giv orld's inert and 1s me music ad prone upon its Bede 0 i ll the prayers of nature said. hs 8 the bedtime pravers o ! from my little folk! -- Walter Greenough: A A Father Ties Party For New Year's Eve, BY RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON. Old Father Time expects you here To spend the Twelfth Night of the " whate'er the wind or Time: 8.30 to 12. Date: Places" me! hostess, with the aid of a sheet and wig, can easily impersonate this old gentleman, and, like Father Time himself, will keep things moving. = As soon as the guests are assembl- ed, he might flourish his scythe and call in a loud voice, "Catch me!" This d will | {Eg pent il effectively break the ice." To the per- son 'lucky enough to catch Father Time he might award a rose and a bottle of grape juice labeled "Elixir of Youth." The next game will be a bit quieter.) . Announcing that a good bit of time has been lost during the year; Father Time will ask everyone to help him find it. Béforehand, small cards, with various' numbers of minutes, seconds, and hours printed on them, will have been hidden about the room. After a ten-minute search the person who has found the most time will be rewarded with a fine calendar, and the ome whose score is lowest will receive a small candle to help him keep track of the minutes. Now the old gentleman will give out 'papers and pencils '&nd invite everyone to write a new year resolu- tion in not more than eight words. After each Quest has thought out a resolve for 1928, Father Time will collect all the resolutions and mix them up in a hat. Thep, announcing with a sly wink thet other folks' re- solutions are easier to keep than our own, he will let each one draw a re- solution. Perhaps tHe girl who has written, "I will not oversleep," plucks a gem like them: "I will not smoke in the house." * Anyway, the mix-up will surely be amusing, especially as Father Time will insist. upon each per- son pinning his resolution t6 his chest. Some time before the party set two alarm clocks to go off about ten, Choose clocks With loud, shrill rings, and at the first algrm Father Time will dare the company to find them. "New Zealand voters have indicated their confidence in him by re-electing his goverfiment. Every one' of his ministers ; With Father Time himself as chief rrymaker, the last hours of the| oM year will fly indeed. The host or| | i | Desmond Fitzgerald The Irish Minister of Forelgn Af- fairs, whose ministry will probably prove to be an important one ju the Free State Government, One, if it is not too cold, could be hung out a window, and th# other concealed in a box under the sofa. The finders will be more embart: d than pleased when Father Time" gravely suspends the clocks on tapes around their necks, making as he does so a few little remarks about the virtues of early rising. Next Father Time might pass around his supper dates. These will be dates stuffed in-a special mawmner. In the ones for the mien, protruding slightly from the toothsome filling, will be little slips of paper containing famous dates. For instance, 1608, 1867, 1812, 1910, 1914, 1917, In the girls' dates will be the events corres- ponding to these dates: Founding of Quebec, Confederation, Battle of Queenston Heights, -Acoession of King George V., Beginning of World War, Capture of Vimy Ridge. ~~ Warn the guests not to swallow all their dates; and- when the papers have {been discovered, have the men j read aloud their dates, and the girls | wihizse events match will be their | supper partners. Supper itself will be best of ail, with its hot chicken sandwiches, cof- fee, cakes, and spicy fruit punch to (drink to the new 'year, The house i might be trimmed with Christmas wreaths, greens, and candles. | HK you have twelve guests and a ' round' table, you might tepresent a {elock. Cut the hands and numerals out of black cardboard and mark edch place with thé correct figure. = The hands will of course point to twelve, Small ba Ty candles at 'éath place will give a touch of color. And these should be lit just as the guests are { seated, for everyone knows. that a , bayberry candle burned gn New { Year's will bring luck and happiness, And now there is nothing left to do {but drink to the new year, and say [Each to" the other those grand old : words that go straight to the heart. {And I say them pow: Happy New Year, Everybody! The very happiest new year you ever have had! min | The Little Lord of Christmas | Day. The lite Lord of Christmas Day Lay ¢rad>d in the fragrant hay, And all about ttle stable dim 3 Soft lowed the cattle, hushing Hii: Oh, all the country folk of earth, They: olady this friend of country Disb Rip . , * oe Dede Idved fir a ltthe wn, With straggling Street and ~himble > door ¢ 2 And =Bavings cored upon the fiver.