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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1951.
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On Children and Latest Fashion
Saints
and Christmases
By JOAN SCHOUP-ERSKINE
(NGLAND), they say, is t ).
#1 man's country.
A America. we hear i
adube
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en tuaj interest in and taken away to Spain. and a tendency to ob never saw this happen because - W ch their de ing his paren s always interfered a mmas di everything to Izsit
A. ever forget, is
Jan
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ches are
the last moment with a word n
defence bur
sevel ruled by the women. F
his koows what will happen this Stall country in ruled by the child.
should year. Smashed window panes, ag alc Huge, the children eig
dita ers for they stolen apples, the cross face of Holland is notable
Tricased a policeman, suddenly become uperb feats of mather and are quite ap vivid memories. water eng.seerime cher respon a ut searf cff, tip your hat ebdren. 1 hardly en tur brad, spill your shop- pong baske, o bring forth candid remment on the qually of your
s far that the Jus ing stronger should re- Paring of wha!
Pinets
make-up.
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parents 101
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fo
Moonwhile, partly im Klop- pers from next door is s rugging with a mass of white cotton wool which has a ide of its own and efuses to resemble a beard K. conges his tash promler
This year's St Nicholas for all the other families in the sreet. Beside,
em-
The Mentre san an comes
ᏓᏆᎢ Ꮜ getting heat at a sure of Jan, who jwith ti spring. Round
three days be has reached the dangerous nge of 2 panie
cotton wool Dutch seven and knows along main
Christmas, the
With a fral 24:1 amazing ferling mightily complacent, when he sees il. flines
a geli their present-giving and jerk Tum
round his eps hurtle stali blue
kang proper, is over, Christmas broidered red citat
his cartucard eved inde fiends on hurge o merely » peaceful follow-up shoulders, grass
erozier, an pus on mitre, dangerous machines. of the buying and eating orgy erozi
which Holland --for no ap- which gives him trouble for the Nothing like the pnmitive i
rribia'es the rest of the evening. Black Pie: playthings of our youth- bells, These are fitted with
.
pet reason
of a meticval Spanish hands him a list of particulata
who was indicating where a reproving r
mark or a word of praise would
S. Nichiar
Little Jan with St Nicholas and Block Piet
not come am.ss, and the coupl sart their annual round.
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THE belief in St Nicholas is
mostly shattered when the! Fans and Annelies reach
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er heat age at seven o: eght, but jir encruraged as bong as pre- sible by Jazy parents who lack authority and can threate
ron-
veniently with the arival of the kind but just saint. The general improvement of young Holland's conduct during as perd is really remarkable.
Bu S Nicholas no needs a Reini kep, alive for te benefi;
of children. Adur's take serious rart in this day. Week- before, people are secretly haying and wrapping presen's writing the long peens which ; musaccord ng to tradition by attached to them. A SN
2.
is nothing vr hor lengthy poch, which may hir
tender wilds of love usually ends by being a series of gibes al personal korytiera.to.. | habits and irridents. These ark meant to be read in the fateity circle-and highly embarrassing it all is
On the evening of the fifth,
into one
emply,
hooters, rubber wheels, and well known for his kindness to Holland is converted
children Christmas is primarily huge kindergarten; clemmas and often have a small seat
with COVES.CA
the restaurants are almost ચર્ચા:Y #
of and a few stray Chistmas
a relie ce as
people in the ind San a Claus s reets are vanying parcels and pagan.m,
ging enly as an ornament in hurrying to some warm reside, window displays.
where the home-made poeticul December Fit.h is S.. Nicholas efforts are read and huge mug: Day. I is a national occasion, of hot chocolate are drunk.
and children alike g:own-ups luxe sar.ng the fun. Abou; two weeks ckiss before the great day, ail children
and
begin a nightly
ne of plac rou
on
the back. They can hold two children. excluding the driver. and are apt to found in packs of twelve
be
or
more.
Hoops u hoops bowied :bandon ameri pedestrians.
with shoppers
*
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F you go 10 Holland in De- ng the clogs before the fires.de.
cember take with you a good stuffedi cicgs
with appetite.
Hardly recovered from with decorated
the hangover of December 6, the lyri go Jan Dutch
firmly housewife, who the firm belleves that a happy life de-
The The Fraw Carr..
in
*
# *
and Of and TOLES in the road are an open
Annetje, invitation t all the local belief that Ple!, the negro servant mall fy. What are traps of ad of St Nicholas, will simb down ends on a well-filled stomach, wn prepares herself for the serious: for, of de to play garu W the chimney to take away all the task of Chris mas cooking, which straw and carrots us food for the rins more or less on the same saint's white horse on which he lines as i's British roun erpar.. and derm.nation, are *y is riding over the mot-tops. Piet al
although the traditional pudding meus with the sign "Rad Up"
in Admittedly. a ecun
have a
hole we Buckt's and Sped... dundantes
wate
supposed to fill the clogs with is unknown, and olie bollen take and every morning its place. Olie bollen (usually the little dans and translated fousely by the English wake, they And into oily bails) are delicious
the land levels are enstenty th
when ail
sinking, and where whole streets
are periodically unrested, leaving sweet or little something which Lun-like affers stuffed with
prosents
Anne jes he **
is designed to entertain their spice and currants and peel,
into belief in the miracle of a bishop
dipped who pokes fun
tram rails
Baked ahove rubble, the temptation
ot the
A
to take
butter hot part in this wholesale des rue'lon
most and fried golden brown. must be irresistible. At all
covered with events the workmen seem to be serious and unshakable laws of dish of toast
smoked eel, a flagon of heavy unperturbed.
Dutch gin, and we are set for the evening.
nature.
As
are
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the
evening
of
Fifth December
is
is
at
With the approach of winter
WHEN comes the Sledging stason.
In many families, the Christ- glorious soc as the ground is hard and
oui come
mas tree coměs to a the
tension reached. sippery enough, siedges. The sight of deur diminu-
breaking point. Jan and Annetje end. After looking out of the window to make sure no un- I've figures being towed along on
eating huge quantities of suspeeling persons are beneath, to the back of a sledge roped
tree in all d the
its sparkling swinging "speculaas"-biscuits made of a mo.or cycle,
mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg and glory, is casually dropped out. round corners at a frightening ground cloves. Suddenly
there This more amusing if speed, may unserve you, the visior, but regard i: us all part are strange noises in the house. live on the third or fourth floor. They look at their parents with Depending on how merry were fear and, for once, they are docile
Christmas festivities,
var
of the winter scene.
Pixie
you
a
The children of en wear tall and well-behaved. They know cautious member of the family hoods, trousers tight to the that St Nicholas will be accom- usually creeps down and stands ankle, and icng capes, usually in navy blue. The effect is rather panied by Black Piet who carries the tree in the middle of if a tribe of malicious gnomes a big sack. This sack can contain road. It is often joined
their happiness or their doom: others before morning, and
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had enddwards with
the
by
a
on the town, the longed-for prosts or a row of Hitle: fir trees are sud-
denly growing in the street.
Small, rour big blue eyes, ruddy checks, whip.
One never knows what is in Who is happlest when it is sturdy bodies and sadistic minds. They have an admirable disregard the Saint's Doomsday Book and bli over? Probably Tani, who for the law (which stalks about Piet is quick in carrying out the does not have to be a bishop
at ils sentence; to be put in the sack -úny mndré, !*N in boots with a' revolver
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