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gxplOfef, an exceptionally clever m,“ apart; from his ﬁehieg. ts, to answer one ques on. Md spent the previous Christmas Wm. one other Eluopmn not 1.0m the North Pele. What those bold adventurers talk about when they sat together isddled up m the perishing cold neﬁ? O O O O O

He laughed. bless hirnl "we had". he replied “one in- exhliilstlble themned of otmmon in- 8.

Barmecldeh Iicsst. we had no lﬂrdly dishes to Pile high with d°u0i°lls 100d. no out- glass decanters to fill with aged md noble wines no algnntznents mg adjuncts 01' the d ing-tlble, no laughing domes. flowers, ﬂcﬁ, s ing glass and silver. None the P's; we achieved astounding mats and feasts of the imagination. “And-you won't believe this __wh~-n imagination became I931- lty, when together we sat down to | perfect dinner on the night when we reached London. I my word that the authentic mat was not so exciting es its counterfeit prescnment. Our menus in our igloo were as varied as the dinners served by lirancatelll to the Greattvlfhiteﬁeuxn. gufn 51:3 turn sbou . H16‘ 9J1 happy hours submittitw Ourmlll of tare; we called ourselves the Barmecide Brothers limited.“ Salt t statement 8s you may, 11; rings rue. Next Christmas, i!

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Christmas brings with it seasonal thoughts and aspirations. How can we best welcome Santa Claus A child said to me: "He can't come down our olumnry, ‘cos Daddy has Just put s cowl 0n it." The sug- thst s sl-int could remove fowl provoked s rind and s Oen we change a fast int; a feast?

“my will have no stomach rur wsmsndising; many will have to sit down to s Bermeeides banquet. hat Illn-‘s crackers will decorate the tsble; the be-whiskelred farnnv

1" ﬁkﬂssc will once more enliven us;

hildren. eswdally those who are nearing second childhood, will (how they love "ilretendlng"l) that enough is ls good es a f ed slough, no more. Accordingly we m kid ourselva that enough is good enough. In that spirit we shall enjoy! iftuie-tide.

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Baptism. Be . romptiy: "Water and a baby." Had he been asked to mention the outstanding features of a Christmas dinner, he might have said; ‘Turkey and p awn-pudding."

But the greet apostle to the Gotiles had he posed the question, would have said "Yes, yes, if you can get them. If you can't, sub- stitute spiritual fare: Faith, Hope end Love. Make a feast of them."

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FAITH: a. fervent OOXlVIOZKOIl that 800d will triumph gloriously wer

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Winn she was a very little girl, m! daughter asked, “What would you would do if there weren't my ‘W?

' y." I answered. lighthearted- B’. "We'd have to invent some. We oouldnt get on without trees."

There ale quite a. lot of things — 109d. BIWIWI‘. clothing - we couldn't get on without, and s. number of wise men have made m! sllﬂwstlon-weki have to in- vent them. What we must have even more than these are food for the mind, shelter for the s irit, that which clothes the nuke css of mere animal existence, and gives wannth to human contacts.

We celebrate Christmas as a re- ligious festival, but a chrlstmas was celebrated hundreds of years be- fore Christ. The ancient people of the Angli, in what is now Britain, had in December a Modranecht, or "mothers night." There had to be s dsy set aside for kindness. and generosity, and l membe in; those we love, and those less for- tunate.

Before and since Dickens wrote his immortal A Christmas Carol, there have been a few rooges who cried of Christmas, "Bah, humbu l" I have heard modern Scrooges call it a shopkeepers’ non. day. and a nuisance. but for the overwhelming majority of us, as for Scroogeb nephew, it is "a good time; H kind. forgiving. charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the War when men and women open their shut-up hearts freely. . . . I say 00d bless it!”

There is a certain magic in a day when even strangers bid us be mer- ry: when the mail and telephone and telegraph and all the means of communication commonly de-

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rebuilt on nobler lines and sures foundations:

LOVE; the greatest. mcst scul- satisfymg thing in this plane existence orin any other. wi‘| be the crcwning/ benedicton. the grace bestowed by God, and return. ed hlllflbly and thankfully to Him.

voted to - business bring cheery wishes for "Merry Christmas!" Shopkeeper holiday? Bah! Hum- billﬁi It isn't a. necktie or a dollar b that we slip into the hand of the janitor or the postman; it's goodwill and thank you for s. year of service. It isn't a toy train that we put under the tree for Junior. 0r a. muffler that we wrap in red tissue for Aunt Julia, but the know- ledge that Junior has always want- ed s train, and Aunt Julia has needed s. muffler, and the lovinll desire that, just this one day, they shall have what they want and need, ‘and that we shall see the pleasure in their eyes. and feel the warmth of their 1o fui kisses.

Believe t or not. and smile if you like but, st-well, ssy 60. my wife and I still hang up our stock- ings. What a lot of love ariig laugh-

with for days ahead, in secret, we write messages, Ind wrap things in guy

sper, and hide them from one isnngother until the morning of mom-

s.

shopkeepers’ holiday! Was it only s. shavin kit I could have got for myself t at went into that starry package. or was it my daughter's

eart that remembered the time. a es ago, when I said. "Damn that od razor! Some day I'm going to have one that fits into my hand propcrlyl"? What about the crate of oranges that comes every Christ- mas from s colored elevator boy in moi-ids? I can bu better oranges, but I can't buy at comes with these. ~ We dine every day, but there ls onlv one Christmas dinner. For years that was a family festival, with all our dear ones about the table. Most oi’ them are gone now. and our Christmas guests are peo- ple who, whatever their means, have no home of their own. Why? Well, when I was 19, and awav from my home for the first time at Christmas, a very lonely lad.

of the mother of a chap employed in

the office with me asked me to her home. I never saw her again; me has been dead nearly 40 years. but she and that dinner live in my

memory. Last Christmas my wife and I had half a dozen old actors. fol"-

gotten now, and we laikcd of the great days in the theater, and liv- ed them again until long alter mm» night. Irene Franklin, who nad been the idol of vaudeville, sang several of her best songs to us, and a very old Shakespearean actor repeated-and howl-the soliloquy from Hamlet. It took Christmas lo restore their heyday for an hour or two, and that memory goes on our golden pile of Christmases. During a radio broadcast not long ago, I met the middle-aged woman wh , as a child of a, wrote to the New York Sun. “Please tell me the truth, is ‘there a Santa Claus?" Every year the Sun re- prints the reply it made editorially in 1891: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certain- lv as love and generosity and devo- tion exist....'I‘here is a veil cov- ering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all :hc strong- est men that ever lived, could tear‘ apart. Only faith, fancy. poetry. love, romance. can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah....in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding" 0i’ course there's a Santa! And if there weren't, he would be the very first of the things we'd have to invent. Life must have love and a. little childlike faith to be en- durubie; and U15! year must have at least one day when we arc more conscious of faith and love business and bombs and all the realities nobody doubts— and nobody wants!

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