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HE war years ix odd places. In the mud of Flanders
we fancied we heard the Christmas chitnes,and dreamtof fire -aide
and festive fare. The burning sun of the desert scorched us,
and made us wish for the snow..covered pastures of old England,
or even the murk of a London fog, Back through thegears.
floats a 'recollection of the land that saw the shepherds follow
the guiding star that led them to Bethlehem. It was Christmas.
in Jerusalem: The night was heavy and threatening. In the old. city, guarded
by its massive walls, very little was stirring. All day long ceaseless -barter had.
been going on in the arcades. Cold though the weather was, the biting wind
that had prevailed all through the day, would appear to have Lost itself in its
narrow byways, and) giving it up as a bad job, gone out into the wider world to.
blow to its heart's content, for, here, the somnolent atmosphere of antiquity
prevailed untroubled by the winter blasts. A weird place to ramble in the
darkness of a Christmas night, A wonderful plat; in which to conjure strange
images. That figure that slides away .inti the darkness down through the
ancient passage called Via Dolorosa, where Christ 'carried Hist Cross, timid the
jeers: of the soldiery, he might be a thousand years old for alt the change there
is in •him. Out of the darkness stumbles an old Jew. H.. looks as ancient as the
very walls around, and equally redolentof the past. Up cobbled arcaded lanes
one stumbles; the darkness is intense; 'and then out into a great Square where
' huge cypress trees rise on either hand.. The night is more open here, but still
dark; Suddenly through a moving wrack of cloud bursts the moon, for seconds
�..- only but, in those seconds, flashes, white in the light, the mighty dome Qf the__
• Mosque of Omar. Por a . moment the light rests on the gate where Christ
entered the. Holy City, while' the girls flung fibwers in. His path,•ancl.then all is
darkness once againand silence,, Silence—except for the g4tns that have opened
- out beyond the ramparts.. Out ie. the. walls' of the old city darkness still reigns .
Supreme; except that the wind and ram are more m evidence, and the thunder of
the guns is greater. ; .Pew people move in the streets: Now end again comes an
anxious enquiry, ;'Do you think the .Turk will come back?": One answers
optimistically and the door .closes: Moving ,onward towards your billets a
ruined house on the outskirts'', the realization of candles comes:to you. Each
• window beasts a : number, • They twinkle and sparkle. Every house displays
there. Of course! -itis Christmas; Christmas in Jerusalem; And so amid the
thunder of the guns you sit down and drink to those at home, to friends and
enemies wherever they are, 'a merry Christmas, even "though, the toast is drunk •
in stewed tea. .
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• the "Merry Christmas place -cards to the splendid Chriaxtctas tree that
wquld be ablaze all evening with little.lights and colors.
t"HERE COMES DADD7CPr k'scene enactbd in many-Canadfait homes diff),. TQ'#heseAwe children.
" Daddy hi the one hero. They think of him all day long and talk about him incessantly,.and when the time approaches •
for his return home froin`his business they are at the window,:with smiths; faces, and happy indeed is the one who
sees Win first and cries t'Here comes Daddy."' The picture is, from a photograph,
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS from the air--Ifow we know whti sends the saow to us is the early murning of
the day of all days. ,These youthful aviators wear on their faces the unconcerned look, *hen up In the air, of
veterans; yet they are too young to have been long accustomed to high �p Med
The faded leaves over the boy's
shoulders show there is still -that t on earth which he loves, : Takenfrom■MMed
tiny i1Cim's Carol.
On bless tis every one," prayed Tiny Tim.
Crippled :and dwarfed in body, yet 6o tall
Of soup, we tiptoe earth to look Whim
High towering over all, "
He loved the loveless world, not dreamed, indeed,,
That it, at best, could give to him the while
But pitying glances, when his only need
Was but a cheery smile.
And thus he prayed, "God bless us every one!"
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Virginia pinned the last, -red stocking to the mantel, and turned to her ..
mother. •"I think it was real mean of George not to offer to play Santa Claus
for me," she said..."After: his hiving such a nice costume, too:"
"Brit; dear," her mother -answered, "how could he when you quarrelled? I
didn't know you had invited him."
"I didn't, but of: course I would have, if hehad been just -the least' bit nice."
Virginia pouted, and hurried off to get ready receive her guests. Her mother,
Tusy withlas mtnute:details, smiledin What might -lave beerrremittiseennecof
her own youth. A; few minutes later she went to the phone, held a brief
conversation, and as she hung upthe receiver she calledup the stairs;.; "Hurry,
dear, I do, believe some of your guests" are coming," '
"I'll l e.right clow,n' Virginih's voice preceded its owner by only a second.
"Do I' look all right, mother.?"
"All' right," said Mrs. Ray's voice, and her •eyes said, "Lovely," and'her
heart said, "My own darlingl"
Virginia, respondipg ,to an urgent "burring" admitted her earl,es.t guests.
:Half' an hour later, when the rooms were filled with merry, chatteringyoung
people, the orchestra struck up the first dance. Escorts led < their laughing
partners to the centre of,the floor, but Virginia did not dance the first number
—she had not invitectGeorge: Neither had sheinvited,• as:her partner, anyone
That"dance-was;over-, nd another•and-.snot*;-" he -Cb istmas tree was..
. admired; the mistletoe was found; and put'fp itsproper use oceasignat silenced
made clear the distant sound, of carolers; the clock struck ten' -eleven• -•=twelve:
At that moment the guests Were surprised (and so was Virginia) by the
. sound of sleighbehs; a hearty "Merry Christmas,"' and the appearance from
somewhere near the, tree of 'as jolly a Santa -es one could imagine. Near beside
him stood Mrs. Ray;
"Why, Mr. Santa Claus, 1 do believe,'•' and then she presentedtihim to the
company. "My old childhood, friend, Mr:, Santa Claus, has come to pay us a
visit, and as he is all loaded dawn with his various:gifts, which must be delivered
by tomorrow morning, I suggested that he give any of us who are to receive his
attentions Our presents now."
"I didn't know, Virginia," said Pudgy Clark,. the fat and awkward youth
who had stepped on Virginia's toes during the last dance. "I didn't know you
believed in Santa Claus." ,
") don't!" Virginia snapped: ";Ail right," he. laughed, "you needn't bite
my head off: ' •
The favors .distributed, Mrs. Ray called Virginia. "Here, dear,: you and
Santa lead the grand march. 'If you will all follow; I think we '"might find some
refreslunents in another iopm.',
"Rightol" said Santa, in a decidedly unfrigid voice. Somehow, Santa
knew just where to 'go. But then, of course, Santa Claus knows everything..'
He even knew, aiew moments later when Virginia excused heraelf from'the7
party and slipped back to the other room, now m a state of partial disarray,
and (for. even the orchestra members were enjoying the repast in the other
room) forlorn in its emptiness. Virginia was feeling particularly forlorn and
particularly proud.. .
Santa Claus' must, know everything, for he know just how long to wait
before he, too, wandered from the merry" group and joined Virginia. And he
. • (or was it Cupid?) knew just what to say to make this"f'ehlly the 'ni et wonderful .°
Christtrias„Evein all Virginia's life. just what it was, I am not sure, but he
must have told Virginia, for presently she said; "I know, '1 know;” and she
had cheered up, quite a bit before he put his arm around her, Somehow she
wasn't 'so forlorn—nor quite so:proud.
After a while they walked over to the tree together, and they listened to the
carolers; end then, somehow, they stopped right under the mistletoe! What,
George said was whispered in her ear, so we shall never know, but Virginia was
laughing as she answered! him.
"Why, George," she said, "how dare you say I don't believe in Santa
Claus?"
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Of. his child heart, and no, despising none,
Was nearer saint than man, . •
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I like to fancy Got hi Paradise,
Lifting a finger over the rhythmie swing
Of chiming harp and song, with eager eyes
Turning earthward, listening.'
The anthem stilled- ttie angels leaning there
Above the golden walls—the morning sun
Of Christmas bursting llower.•like with the prayer -
'God bleed us every .oriel"
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