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  2. CHRISTMAS.

    How has Christmas borne its transplantation from England to Australia, from midwinter to midsummer, from the fireside to the open air, from its ancient, manorial fields ...

    Article : 1,332 words
  3. CHRISTMAS DAY.

    English through the ages have made songs in honour Chairman Day. But the best song is almost the earliest. When, at the begining of the sixteenth century, ...

    Article : 888 words
  4. CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM ITS TRADITIONAL SETTING.

    THE TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS DINNER IS EATEN BEFORE A BLAZING HEARTH, WITH DOORS BARRED AND WINDOWS SHUTTERED AGAINST FROST AND SNOW. HERE THE FESTIVAL IS CELEBRATED UNDER CONDITIONS PERMITTING OF THE AL FRESCO MEAL SUCH AS THIS GROUP IS ENJOYING. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 45 words
  5. THE FAR EAST.

    A play upon the words Nikko and Kekko (splendid) is the Japanese rendering of a well-known saying—"Until you have seen Nikko you should not say Kekko" This ...

    Article : 1,658 words
  6. THE LORD'S COMING.

    As each recent Christmas Eve has come its fun has set in the midst of storm clouds of war and discontent, the day that it closed has hummed with the feverish restlessness of ...

    Article : 1,844 words
  7. SCOTT.

    We went off from Edinburgh town to spend a week-end with friends who had a farm on the Tweed. This farm was about as near as it could be to the centre of the ...

    Article : 975 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN. "IT'S STRANGE."

    It's very strange when Mother says. There's no one just like me. For me and Tom we took a string And measured every little thing ...

    Article : 100 words
  9. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

    The people in Sydney a hundred years ago, although they individually consumed the same amount of indigestible plum pudding, had not the facilities for enjoyment we have now. ...

    Article : 470 words
  10. SADLER'S WELLS.

    I am a lover of old books. A short time ago I came across a small volume, neatly bound in faded Morocco, it was "Mr. Philidor's Method of Playing Chess, together with ...

    Article : 992 words
  11. TOO MUCH XMAS CAKE.

    Last night I'd a horrible dream; My monkey had played me a trick; He had turned himself into a boy. And was making me climb up the stick! ...

    Article : 296 words
  12. "ONE MAN'S MEAT."

    One often hears the expression, "One man's meat is another man's poison," but it is not often that the saying is used in connection with actual food. Yet when one thinks of ...

    Article : 611 words
  13. WILLIE'S CHRISTMAS TREE.

    This is the story of a little boy who wanted a Christmas tree. He yearned for it as great men yearn for fame and riches. He had never even seen a Christmas tree. ...

    Article : 583 words
  14. JUDGED BY APPEAEANCE.

    Why senators get mistaken for Bolsheviks and financiers for bootleggers when an individual attempts to judge their places in life by looking at photographs. Is explained ...

    Article : 454 words
  15. THE NIGHT WATCH.

    Ye shepherds who watch your flocks by night, What is the news from Bethlehem? We see a star that is shining bright, And three wise men who hasten them; ...

    Article : 191 words
  16. A WISH.

    Here's a wish for Christmas and for the coming year: "Come no old grief, nor haggard care to mar the goodly cheer. ...

    Article : 97 words
  17. SYDNEY—CHRISTMAS, 1926.

    She calls to her people wide and far, And a vision comes to each Of the long blue days, and the jewelled nights, And the Harbour ringed with its golden lights; ...

    Article : 98 words
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