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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 356 words
  3. YULETIDE GIFTS

    Who invented Christmas presents? If you ask an historian he will tell you that the custom dates from the Roman festival of the Saturnalia, or from the ...

    Article : 442 words
  4. HOLLY, MISTLETOE, AND CHRISTMAS TREE

    The holly is a native of Britain, and a more lovely tree than this in the depth of winter can jea[?] be found, with its deep green leaves and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,405 words
  5. HOLY MANGER

    Tradition and legend have furnished the Holy manger in the stable at Bethlehem with many flowers and grasses (writes W. T. P. in the London ...

    Article : 422 words
  6. Christmas Jokes

    Aunt Nellie: Well, Bobby, dear, did you see Father Christmas this time? Bobby: No, auntie; it was too dark to see him, but I heard what he said ...

    Article : 43 words
  7. Entertaining Card Tricks

    Much amusement and entertainment can be derived from the performance of a few good card tricks. Below will be found illustrations of some illusions ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 831 words
  8. A GREAT JOKE.

    A football team which was playing an away match in the country on Christmas morning, turned up one short. ...

    Article : 71 words
  9. WHO BROKE THE BELL?

    It was the day after Christmas, and they hard-working postman ploughed through snow and a cold wind, a sack of unusual size on his back. ...

    Article : 78 words
  10. WHAT SANTA SAID.

    On Christmas morning the children were awake before the [?] and spreading the toys that [?] Christmas had put into their stockings on ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. PRESENTS FOR TWO.

    She was bubbling over with the Christmas spirit. She could keep it in no longer. "Dearest," she exclaimed to her ...

    Article : 101 words
  12. BUSINESSLIKE YOUNGSTER.

    "Merry Christmas, sir!" cried the youngster, cheerfully to the old gentleman who was walking along a quiet suburban road. ...

    Article : 98 words
  13. THE WAY OUT.

    Little Georgie had been watching, with his nose pressed against the window, all the afternoon. "Oh, mummie, I wish, it would snow!" ...

    Article : 121 words
  14. A PAYING CUSTOM.

    "The old custom of carol-singing seems to have died right out," said the old-fashioned man bitterly. "I suppose it didn't pay--nothing that doesn't ...

    Article : 141 words
  15. TWELFTH DAY

    Twelfth Day celebrations are passing out of vogue. The brief note in our pocket diaries, "Epiphany," carries very little significance to-day. ...

    Article : 547 words
  16. MAKING PREPARATIONS.

    Henry was a little man of six, which is the age of inquisitiveness, as his mother was beginning to discover. "Mamma," he said, for the two hundred ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. YULETIDE SUPERSTITIONS

    In many parts of the nor[?] of England Yule doughs are still made and given away by some bakers. These little dough cakes, which are plentifully ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. EVER BEEN HAD?

    The Christmas [?] were doing their best to create discord in the neighbourhood, when a stranger came up to the leader and said, "Come ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. BLIND MAN'S BUFF

    Folk-lore reveals the fact that blind man's bluff has a much more serious origin than its usual hilarity would suggest (says the "Sunday at Home"). ...

    Article : 311 words
  20. RHYME OF CHRISTMAS

    If there came a horseman. Clad in shining mall, I would give him good cheer, I would give him ale; ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. CHRISTMAS CAROL

    No book of Dickens did more to ensure his popularity than his "Christmas Carol''; no book did more to reveal that "touch of nature which makes ...

    Article : 267 words
  22. CHRISTMAS FLOWERS

    Sing, sing with me a Christmas song In happy Christmas hours-- Christmas hours! Of Christmas bush, and Christmas ...

    Article : 173 words
  23. CHRISTMAS BOX.

    Mr. Stingee was rather proud of his own particular method of dealing with his numerous Christmas callers, until the following incident occurred. ...

    Article : 147 words
  24. CHRISTMAS CARD

    Christmas cards, which owing to cheaper postage appear likely this year to gain some of their lost popularity, states the "Daily Chronicle," ...

    Article : 152 words
  25. MISTLETOE MAGIC

    "Kissing under the mistletoe" has the distinction of being the only Christmas custom which can claim an all-British origin, every other popular ...

    Article : 107 words
  26. BETHLEHEM TO-DAY

    It is not generally known that the birth-place of Christianity is the centre of a mother-of-pearl Industry which supplies heads, rosaries ...

    Article : 248 words
  27. SHOP EARLY

    Have a heart, make a start! Buy your Christmas presents every one. If you wait, till loo late. ...

    Article : 49 words
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