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1 know I'm crazy-so do you by 10W, I guess-but I caught an sarlier train in ease the snow de- Igygd me, and now 1 am stranded About three miles awayvfrom your place, at an unearthly‘ little village called Dithcring Wednesday or jomething like that, mitxrlg for s. connection that will take me on to ' u. This waiting room is deprws- Q‘: slabs of cold black leather and the four winds of heaven converg-

lt the base of my 5P1“?-

" l-ruddled up into my old blue cost for about ten minutes, and m- dulged in profound self-pity. at the ind of which I decided it would be “mgr nice to make 60111-869 Vim yai wnilst I am waltins. w 1 am writing illiS letter to reach Y0"- sfter the li-jlldfil’ i5 9"?-

(Alq, I registered pathetic woman- hood for about five seconds while a pqyw; popped nu head in. He put ‘om, @051; on the fire which is ﬂazin‘ away, and now I'm With

again.) To continue.

1- do hope our Christmas turns out. to be all the nice things should be. I had We deuce of i1 10;: to convince the filllllly I Wiisfh going to infa-tuate you or anythlnii; they have the impression that Y0“ are a pcor, m‘ lded youth led as- tray by mo, and that succounng lonely airmen. cvcn if disconcert- lngly tail and rather pleasantly ugly, is definitely not done in the best circles. Or in any circle I"

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that matter. But I don't think I could. h-IVO WING with tlitm this

year.

‘fliers an hordes of vaguely rs- lated cousins coming up. and those two aunts who keep on telling mc to mark their words and that uncle who was in India. And then, of course, there's Dulcy, my kid ais- ter, tho little-dear. 0 yes. I'm awfully glad I stood firm and de- cided to some sway this time.

The last few days have been hec- tioslly busy. During this week I've been sleeping with Jennifer and Moira, in their flat, as my bedroom st home is being used 10!‘ i110“ aunts I told you about. Jennifer is expecting her soldier-fiance today, on forty-eight hours leave, and we have been frantically banishing every trace of femininity from her bedroom, as he's sleeping the" while she shares Moll-as room. Conseﬂuently the three of us have been virig s. bag-io-body existence in the other bedroom and living room. Every evening we donned slacks and sweaters and cleared out drawers. cupboards. the dress- ing table and so on.

I strenuously obieiliﬂi i° "mi-i" things we'd put on the , poclslly our collection of personally-donated military badges (forty to date). “Discretion is and better part of Yamour." murmured Moira as she left only one bﬂliile displayed, and acting m tile 111w principle that comparisons are odious, reirloved, a very EO-iihifid American chorus girl posing Bi m? foot of the bed (Hold hard. thereﬁ n train . . . . no, false alarm: it was only a KOOds Wilson Bhimiiiii up the line.) _

Jennifer found some old i°v¢= letters tucked away in her ha?» bum and whilst she hastily burnt i110“ __it seems such a pity. $0 mfinl unsolicited testimonials to ones clinrmsl-I carried out ormilii-i 0i stuff which we three have accumu- lated here. I remember a little red leather heart from Budapesi- 95' peciaily, dangling from that picture of you asI took it away - - - yT-‘P eyes in that PYWWBPBPT‘ mil?" “Q9 an nmund me room; honest if one could only trust ilhe twinkle!

Moira. wanted to set the scene with all the enthusiasm of a Holly- wood ucer, but cheered up when we let her stage-mallow the bedside table. Poor b0)’. ii’- “ems that mama of sleepnina iii H1811‘- he's supposed to dr k. "l. "ad and smoke. wililat a bottle of aspirin, pen. ink and PEP": m

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Don't look now, but there is an- other traveller on this line. He has a whopping turkey tied up with string in our newspapers and a bottle of somethin-to-keep-out-t-hc cold in each pocket. He came in two sentences ago and doesn't like the look of me. I suppose I do look rather weird; the tip of my nose Just peeps out from my hood and I have wound your scarf round my feet and cocooned myself in layers of coats and Moira's rug.

G1. before I forget: Moira and Jennifer and other live souls here send you their best wishes and Mr. K, says next time you're over, will you please drop an extra big one on the third turning left hand side of the Wllhelmstrasse as his landlady there swindled him over his bill. Jennifer ls probably rush- ing alternately to the minor and the door by now, and I'll eat my hood, fur lining and all, if Moira isn't ensilarirlg the heart of every eligible male on board. en routs to her zliri, her native land.

Did I tell you of our farewell Christmas party? Before we all split up over the week-end. we went long to a. dance, feeling in one of our most scalp-hunting moods. The band just had to play “Stardusﬂ two minutes after our entrance, which got me on my line of least resistance. and left me with memories where my stomach should have been. Blues always get, me that way. (I'm all alone once more. That. man has just caught his train and I'm feeling just a. little flat and pensive. I've been helc for some time and I'm no

nearer you and-you know what I '

mean!) However, about the dance. The evening and night differed nowise from other Christmas parties-noise, streamers, dancing and eating and people. About half- way through the procedings, there was some slight difference between Moira. and myself over a blond; he had a remote profile and I'm sure his name ought to be lief. You see, we both tend to fall rather heav- ily for blonds (yes, I know my lad. your hair is brown and flops all over the place when you're excited, but you're different), and when there is onlv one in the room, things are apt to prove awkward. But Jennifer convinced Moira. her type was a yoilow. not ashy, blond, so Moira drew consolation from a duck of a colonel whose wife mis- understood him. ' After midnight, We linked 11D

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“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest m911"- P is this l0 It Ohrieimls. when one of the‘: fsv- ourite diversions ls the composi- tlm of clever nonsense in rhyme-

ricks. Oilikroms, srpitaphs, clerlhews and so forvh.

There is no reason therefore why you and I and other folk of lesser

clog should not don s r cap our elsrit ywintihaht . a modicum of wit. y We have all tried our hands at Limerlcks some time or other.

Politicians have written them gr-

ing tedious debates. and there is a. record of a prls0ner_in the dock Silribbiili! one and tossing it to the l who was known to bs no mean exponent in the art. Scientists, phllos era and other savants do not. dis airl the Limer- ick. One, Professor Joad, has, on the spur of the moment, thrown off many a neat. little verse, such as all! one, entitled, "Mind Over Mat- r":

Tnoro was s, faith-healer- of Deal, Whom said, "Although pain isnt

re ,

m r sit on a pin

And it punctures my skin,

I dslike what I fancy I feel.

Clerk Maxwell, the brilliant scot- tish physicist, to whose researches at Cambridxo seventy years ago the advent of wireless is due, was (moo asked to write something in o girl's ﬂibii-ifi- This is what he wrote:-

There was a young lady at Crewe,

who was running tc catch the

with the rest of our crowd and the Murchison twins offered us a lift hqme, so we piled into the back of the car and got. back about l am There was frost. on the ground out- side, but I felt warm and electric 8nd the sky was grand. I bummed "Stardust" wag‘ softly to myself and admitted at perhaps blonds aren't my type after all. (Funny, I made sure my tr-ain had come in Just tlien, but the porter said it was only from the opposite direc- tion coming from your station.)

"Well, it's all over. And I'm here. Look, I hate to quaver out on you like this, but I don't feel like being particularly bright now. Do you mind? Only that bit about the ride home brought back that feeling of someone missing and other things besides; It's really dark now and the wind has risen, and all I can near are RXIICGHG?! footsteps com- ing this way, probably all that last tralnlwuhyoin. . ..

What am I to say, Steve? I never thought I'd make such an abject fool of myself as I did wézsz; you opened the door of this waiting room and stood there. looking at mc. Well, the weekend's before us. but before we go out of heie, let me thank you for coming to meet me and being on the spot and smil- ing dowri at me in complete com- prehenslon-stnp grinning. you idiot! --as I scrawl these lines.

Happy Christmas to us both and a WIZARD new year! Chloe."

Christmas Window Lights

Today, the whole Christian world places cheerful, glowing lights in home windows. Rows of candles, wreaths with single bulbs, miniature trees with colored lights, all com- bine to make Christmas Eve one of joyousnesa. Out of doors the liuit- ing effects are greatly increased in great columns and festoons of bril- liance. Where did it all start?

Onemustgo backseveral centuries to the small villages of old Austria m“ than.“ “uttﬁhsmli

n ow or . o legend is responsible for this uni- versal custnm so enjoyed today. Ac- cording to the tale, when Jesus was a boy he lost his way on a dark, cold winter night. He strayed from

Animals, prowling in the dark, growled and threatened but Jesus went on and on.

At last a light was seen in the distance

dow of s humble cottage. Nearly worn out. he fell against the door and the people within the cottage took him and tender] nursed him, not knowing that t is lad Jesus. Ibod and warm bod

vs Him and lllc next day K0

t, ﬂanking the kind folks for what they had done. Not until later did they learn his identity and the legend says that, because of their kindness. these people never again felt the privstions of either hunger or want. While in pnovi they had years when their crops failed or their domestic animals w, fortune seemed to smile upon

m.

People of the region said ti: t was because they happonegong

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said a porter, "Don't hurry ‘j 2* in; .. .1. it Two-two". ' 4. ‘

‘ Talking of ladies who travel, one s reminded of s limerick written by a learned man on the top of a. bus. He hadc just loft a party where

“'11 l‘ W WOIIIA named W“ 3148M. unﬁni- ofns Don, h“ mud It 819st length on

Einstein's theory of relativity. It

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‘macro was l Dung women named Who travelled much fum- man light

She started one day

In the relative way, nﬁurned on the preceding Wihlt lie-tic def r - are ti?“ i" ii-=i”°»“~"=i to sucli w1deiy‘dis°?..§$§,§°if§g§ “e Glad-Wine» the poet Rossetti and Lawﬂiioe 0i’ Arabia? Gladstone, “i” W" I ﬂwiwi Poet. uiuuglit at? the best Limerick ever writ. concerned the young. lgdy q; ifigigif Wiio milcd as she rode on s

Th y k Wigh tizienelaggicinsirgm u“ m“

'52P"? Emile 0n the face of the

ieiinyson would have treated tns subject somewhat differently; pos- sibl in the manner of the Charge of t e Llg-ht Brigade. had he been present at our part-yz-

Half s league, half a. league iiho biz er. ' Rode with a

And so on. You see the idea?

Iif not, imagine that Kipling and the author of "The Vengeancepf a Little Yellow God" both want to show our putty of wits how the story of the celebrated ride ought to be told, We will let them she-re it together in a. quatrain:—

There's a lady's riding saddle to the north of Kutmansplosli,

There's a oiack and yellow tiger with a grin:

'I'.here's a broken-hearted hus- bgld mourns the last ride of

~ spouse.

And you're a bet/fer ma: than I am, Gunga Din.

But let us puss on to clerlhews.

The olerihow is named after sn- other serious-minded man, E Clerihcw Berltley. Many of you may have read "Trent's Last case" b him-a classic in detective thril- ers.

Itiacommedoffourlineanahich though irregular in lezl , are rhythmical. Besides Bentey him- sel-L-G. . Chesterton has sup- plied several examples of these bri and absurd vignettes of people-

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The Pcdlsr and the Cyllst

Th d1 ten r A Beefoeid San (bee cwm (ziombeswtg

,moet. All I! AOOMBI FROM x n- s s

Four four-letter words are oon- 4

oealod In the circle. Two are tho

names of vegetables and two the flowers. What src they?

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more ‘Isolsnllﬂl A ocertisdmmoilfsreot grade‘: am priced Mme-

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Printed Christmas Gards Issued '43

Time is more hunsm about the Victoria and Albert useum their: its stiff brick exterior sug- ges s.

The director has sent mo a Chrisfmas picture book. says a writer in tihe London Star. It rc- veals the fact that the first Christ- mas card ever printed was issusd only as recently a5 1848.

‘rho card, which was print-ed for sir Henry Ccle, first director of

the South Kensirigwn museum, is -

re ocd along with many other ef orts by artists to celebrate the nat-ivity- They range from a wal- rus ivory relief from Cologne to v modern woodcut bv $10 Gi'l. I‘. isstrangetogeehowtheai-tlsﬂc wheel has turned f-ull circle back to the mediaival austerity.

But I can't help the lint GllILSt/Inﬂg card, which lnar. as the films soy, a hearty meal. As

the fat boy would any, "I likes eat- beat."

Here is one by Bentley himself: Said sir Ctirlstopher Wren,

"I'm going to dine with men; _

If any e calls.

Soy Ilm designing st. Paul's".

Chesterton dhcse to modern celebrities. Thus:

Sir Afred Belt

Once screamed in U116 night. when they asked him what for, He did it the more.

Hilaile Belloc supplies a neat one entitled. "On Lady Poltagruc, A Public Peril". It is longer and uiorc regular than usual:-

lampoon

‘The éDeviI, having not-hing eke

to o,

Went. off to tempt My Lady Poltagrile.

My illllrfliy, tempted by a private

wi ,

To his extreme annoyance,

tempted him,

Finally. there are epitaph: which victims were still living. In a mas- culine com/Dan you will find macly friends whqwii Here is s. samrple for guidance.

Balaton this stone, in hopes of Doth '11s the landlord of the on. Dash owed him money, wouldn't DBTWZ He ﬁlled his slate and broke his heart.

Well. you can now got on with it. I um sure you will find making up these trifles an amusing way of tuning up your digestion for din- ner. or making up for the deficien- cies should the meal, uzihapplly, be one of that sort.

iiivelivedat 1110.21» and 211. Ho won ' to mix these to make s blend to sell at llll 1-2 per pound.

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Ihomasb Day

Several feasts are annually pm. was left or charities and endow _ the City. o1 ments, including the foundation of London, between st. Thomas and college for orphans, for which near out of funds which half-is-million pounds were pr ft by former Lwd. May- vided.

vided for the poor in

Cluistmas Day. have beentele ors or no d livery men- 'I'.hcre are also funds which provide a. dowry for young WOKlIGXI who are getting married at Christmas, and who have

e City boundaries for five

ha. given satisfaction.

One of the most novel in the City at this time,

iii-ed by a City man of means.

are mus wear them at the feast, "To come into money" sud it brings a. ial thrill Christmas a i?“ This

qluently happened It was at Yule- t do that two Suffolk

working men

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plantations ab , had left. SURPRISE FOB AN ARTIST The season brought just auch s

rich surprise to t ll artist, John Bishgpfiiluigonxdgagowlrig

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relatives, or friends, to Amuica. He sailed as soon as iii festive season was over to claim i

great inheritance.

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hrlstmas-tide fortunes was tint c

Stephen Girard. who got rich out u

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Two Lancashille Pitviously been "in service" within into a. fortune of over two mlllio th year-g, francs in the most romantic cir- vlng gocd characters and having cumstanoes at Chrlstmasiide some ears therings iiisi that of daughter was adopted by a Frencu the Father Christmas Convention. It Ki-‘iiiiemﬂli- is not, of course. a real Convention died, she entered a coilvcnt and at bi"? B 800d meal which was origim her death it was found that slie had left a fortune of over two‘ million Twelve costumes of Father Chrlst- 11MB. t0 he? mas with traditional scarlet cloaks iihers. then Loncasliire factory “Dei- and hoods. with white trimmings olives- rovided, and the twelve guests Rich charitable trust iullds are lll

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i; m; and the Livery Companies. 'I'lie oil dream of many men and women; oitimcns who made those h’ iieﬁii a; g and founded these trusts, di not ha; m. foresee the time when lcildon would outgrhow the City and millions work wit. in

bsnsn tnibuted.

B ‘ii’ that djg- also traded in the West Indies, an gm, m; made loans on the grand scale Th mtg When he died on a Boxing Day l ese ave always given away on st, was found that lie was worm £1,500.

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