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THE CHINA-MAIL, CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 10, 1948.
MAKE YOUR OWN
FRISTMAS
CARDS
BY DONNA ASHWORTH
-JE YOU but, tout carda without myth
thought about individuality, you can go Zown the wick balón, Chaưmás ind: git
• them, but, if you give thes, that-personal a touch you bark in think, about them a'loƒg.
jag, time thead. I am quing to tell, you haw
Jon can make yine pwn carda, br
les' the Christmas card, exators dring
out? Sur asked laab, Christmas be printed on muslin and attach- when I was buy getting my lists el to the cord, giving the effect of a miniature hanel blocked bouging.
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Linoleum Prints
SOUTH SEA CHRISTMAS
Not long ago we were spend.]
ing our first Christmas together
Feasting ana fun on af members of the congregation took
They
since our marriage, on a small coral isle, with no shops. coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There were no Funafuti, no doctors, shops on no other white people, no fresh ment, and no green vegetables. Little besides coconut palms and a ship came grew there, three times a year to bring us stores
We thought our Christmas was going to be dull, as we slupped at mosquitoes and sized મે
children, who ind the browit never heard of Sonta Claus surf-
rking.
the hot sunshine. Not one of their parents had seen a mountain, a river, a horse, or a soldier-let alone a tin soldier
or a Christmas tree!
It was not dull, however, On Christmas Eve there was excitement in the air. In the ttle thatched houses, furnished only with a bed canopied with a nusquito net, and 1 mly by a hurricane lantern slung from a beam, dark Astures Not half- naked on the floor. They were playing games, singing and tells ing stories, the babies big-eyed
It In turria' to preach, ending with- the pastor's son, mern body........ He was evidently intended for
na he had been- the Church,. christened Parann.
First Party And Christmas Tree
and months to τη τι διμ pressed on us woven mats fine enough to be passed through my wedding-ring, fans with a snowy border of tern's feathers, mother-of-pearl sh-hooks, shell necklaces, baskets, carved boxes
After church the children toiseshell ring inild with silver, first Christmas tree. We had no and bowin, dancing skiri, tor-
catne to our
their unrty, and a baby turtle, whole roast plt. tinsel or glass balls, no hollybor
and
des.
Jive piglet, true cendant of the porkers Captain mistletoe, no paper caps and no coloured Chinese lanterns, but Cook had left on the island.
three or four palm fronds tild Then our guests broke into a #pontaneous dance, whirling in together hito a strange tree blos
somed with wreaths their coloured dancing skirt,
of from
model eundes painted eggs, baby chickeris, Ashing rods,
spraying each other with the Ripani,
them,
-By-- Lucille Iremonger
the • little
Klass marble and toys made
from matchboxes. The children rquealed with delight, als home- mide swoels
els and cakes, and plaveci Musicnt Chairs and Bint-the-Stipper like children ull the world their Christmas party.
over. This
whe
was
Afterwards we ate our smoked robst pork (our first fresh mest for months) and drank our Aus- tralian beer. Wrenthed with far into the night. At midnight were flowers, we watched the dancing
the wireless operator honded us
their midst. The huts were powder and seent we had given
their faces gay with streamers Inade from
chalky white and streaked with strips of newspaper and uld labels from salmon and sardine runnels of scent.
They stopped as suddenly aplicat ting strung together.
of cables which had We handed out the of talcum they had bagun, and fled without come from all over the world to powder, boliles of scent, bars of warning. They had gone to pre- our little island, Wo realised sonp, strings of bends, bangles, pure themselves for Divine Ser with a shock that we had for-
vice. vice. brooches, ribbons, pipes, baccy.
gotten to be homesick or dull. It combs, mirrors and
whitewashed oth unbrellas church with the corrugated iron had ever had.
hed had been the best Christmas We which we had brought with is rout in the village
found specinity for this occasion, and u
This year we shall think of chorts of happy
Dressed in pure our friends in Funafuti cele- voices wished them again.
while, they sat meekly on clean brating their Christmas in sun- us a merry Kelissimasui,
buff-coloured mak Spread the shine with dance and song and, length of the floor. The children perhaps, Д Christmas "trée," sat in a row in trent, Along the adopted in some peculiar form or sides stalked dearons, glowering other to their Island rites. ferociously, heel with heavy fans, with which they cinuted restive children nerellessly.
We
Then They Fled
On Christmas morning they returned the compliment. From early dawn they came bending low before their "Chiefs," bear- igifts that had taken weeks
Jinateriais can be bought at any
store carrying paint supplies.
Another siniple painted one is
we
alone Hut on chairs. The natives m ver use them, and so when they made them they were never very comfortable. No two legs were ever the same length, so we had an whensy service.
The couregation sang a few
in hatimony in very hisli
Christmas In Hospital
About 100 university Then and girl students will spend most of their Christmas holidays
don hospitals.
on blue nole paper with a white hymns "hen the pastor savo af making themselves useful in Lo
ink stow man with a black hat and black buttons, with a white ink Merry Christmas.
Cut-out cards are casz make. Take a plece of green construction paper and paste on a smaller square of white, on that another smaller of square of green, and paint a gold border around it, like a picture frame. On top of thot, cut out little paper Christmas tree and Blue it in the middle, and your card is complete.
Lap
Now, more than ever before we should send Christmas mes- sages of good will. The decor- ations aren't up, and it seems If you are interested in mak- like a long time until Christmas. lng such cards, here are sugges- But it's just around the corner, tions about how to proceed. And I must get busy but I'll Linoleum blocks made from hal- begin by sending you my Christ- imagine leship noleun may be purchasmus Greetings now,
reads
"Dying out!" exclaimed. Such nwonderful custom, couldn't die dul, must have been going on forever, but I found that it start- ed a mere 99 years nge when Si- Henry Cole, in 1846. thought about sending the first Christ- mas cards, 1 Can him stpuding talking to Joseph Cundall, a London altist of the time.
ed at most art supply stores, paint shops or book stores. Paint, the linoleum › block with "Joseph." He probably, said, white show card point so that "why don't we send ou some when you start putting on your sort of greeting gurd at Christ- | design. It to be seen easily for mas time? Ned iden, don't you | cutting. Sometimes you сап flu these blocks in white Unole-
thirak?
"You have something there. un which do пос need to bo my good fellow," Joé, no doubt i painted. Like all printing. the agreed. "I'll just soe J.C. Korsley sketch and lettering must be of the Royal Academy and get { mode in reverse,—50 the best him to make us a drawing for thing to do is to make your de- une."
sign on tracing paper. Put the So J.C. Horsley, made tho- | design face down on heavy graphed eard frt black und carbon on the block, and since while and coloured it by hand. A your tracing paper in thin en- thousand euples of it were sold, ough for you to see the design but it was eighteen years before through the back, you can trace Christmas cards really became off. To keep this from slip- popular, Then the King and ping, fasten your design over Queen took a fancy to the idea the block, pinning down the enda and had distinguished artists and sides with thumbtacks. paint appropriate carls which When you remove this, If there they had reproduced in colour. is any doubt about your lines be- Fifteen years Inter a London ing clear, go over them carefully company sent the first cards with India Ink, Then with a knife to the United States. 11 looked or U-shaped gouge, cut away the like a good business, so a Bos- surface of the block from tha ton firm began to make Ameri-outline of your pattern, leaving can made Christmas cards, In in reilet, the design which you the spring of 1880, this firm con- are going to use. ducted a contest for the best de- i You are now ready to have the signs for Christmas cards with the card printed. Notire I said in first prize of $1,000, to which "have" becauré unless you are about 600 designs were submit in an art class or have studled ted. That year the sales ran into art at some time, you will not The thousands; today they are kavo the tools available for sold by the millions.
printing your cards in a satisfac- I have gathered together some tory manner, and the best thing suggestions for personalised to do is to take your block to Christmas cards, which I hope a printer and lot him print you will like,
your curds."
You may not want to try the linoleum blocks and perhaps I realise that films are still you do not have a flair for pho- scarce, but, after all, you'll only lography, but there is still a sim- need one roll to get a desirableple type of personal card which photograph, for your Christmas anyone can make. All you need cards My cousin, who wo 11- is white drawing paper, ink and terested in amateur photography, a fine pointed pen. took a photo of the outside of
Photographs
his house, showing a section of Hand Lettering he Hving room with the Christ- mas tree lighter.
A friend of mine inck some
One Christmas curl 'that came white paper drow a Christmas last year was a photograph of a tree on it and within the outline friend's garden path lined with of the tree she wrote her Christ- irls and lemon, lies, bloom. mas message sometimes a hop- I made you all gay and happypy thought, other times a lovely malde, as, if spring were Just bit of favourite verse.
Verses around, the corner.
that we have gathered through
The children "In the family the years that seem. to express make "attraétivė card-subjects. Just what we want can be used A friend sent meteria of, her lit-on the hand-lettered card to tle boy perched on a huge snow- good advantage.
ball; another couple pictured Greetings from you in bold their two little boya befom the white lettering on a dorit blue tireplace; and, two, other friends | background with the address In with no chlidren mounted a the same old white letters is photograph of the family eat of another, easy way to make lat- the floor beside theen withtered cards, Greetings at Christinas
And, what could be more Each year more and more people cheary, than a big red Merry ore making linoleum-block, print | Christmas' from you with a few Christmas cards. This:ls merely measures of "Slient. Night.” a modern form of old Wood block written in black Ink on rød (pa- carving which has come down to | per sand, pinned on with an or us from the 17th Century, ve dinary pin. The white paper is
A lovely stained glass window: glued" under the music to a lar cord" with @Madárja „and child. Kernboat of red which--makes |which I recelymi wna arielanllyed the borçler: When it is foldedi. black and white: linoleum block, and, sealed with Christmas reals. print. The robe of the Madonnat makes the envelope for mail was coloured bliter with water ing
· cólóur. by handymany
All of theso are made of con-
voices, dramatic description of the ar rival at the Ini at Nazareth-1 knew no Samuan, but he acted the various parts so. vigorously that I could not fail to follow! the story. After that the male
Ideal Xmas Gifts
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as full-time ward orderlies, do
For a fortnight they will det
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In at the hospííáls. The
scheme is on extension of the
hospital week-end schemes under whielt Lamiton University Col-
leges have provided ward order Its the eight hours at week-ends**ING
Students get pall: 1710^án holog for hospital work as ward order lles it they have a chance of promblon to less menial jobs, The Scheme has been approved by Ministry of Labour.
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