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THE CHINA MAIL: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24,
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FOR
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PUZZLE A Legend Of Christmas Eve Unique Yuletide Customs
CORNER
CROSSWORD
АСЛОВА
5 Expensive
Enger
10 Sea cagle
1 Conducted
12 Ontario (als )
13 Coninition
Fruit drink
18 Ransoms
22 Seed container
24 Roof Bolal
25 On the OEGUN
27 MIX
20 Depression
20 Smooth
DOWN
I Companion
2 Always
8 Militery baristant
4 Road (ab.)
5 From
God of love
7 English princess
8 Soak dax
34 Insane
10 Poem
18 Scottish slicepfold
18 Flower
18 Paradise
20 Apportion
21 Whirl
22 Cushion
24 Anger
20 Preposition
315
27 South latitude (ab.)
BEHEADINGS
Behead "a banner" and have
"to liber,"
Behond "n cry" and have "a wise old bird”
CANADIAN QUIZ
1. The oldest street in Canada?
By ELIZABETH CLARK
TERE is an old talo they
In Mexico
"HOGO ATO because it is And the two poor children Christmas
Eve," sho' wald, held each other tight, and By M. L. Hopcraft 2. What was the legal tender is the north-western corner hands with chestnuts and appics shivering with fear and cold.
sailing, and she fled their crouched down by the fr of France). It is a story to roast at their little fire.
Presenily Mario Ufted her Christmas Eve-of two
hard.
in Canada in 16657
9. The cost of turkey In Quebec in 17947
4. Who is the present Prime Minister of Newfoundland?
6. What Canadian invented Breen ink?
house opened in Canada?
ANAGRAMS
Rearrange
the letters In the first part of these anagrams to form #1 word defined by the last
part:
A HED BOUT-Inflexibly MEN CHY GEE--Cruis MUSE MK ACHE-Claylike Blactol
SORE HENS FORT Term used in line aris
TRIANGLE
*T}< Puzzleman hung tus triangle from a PROVERB. The Accord word in withdraw": mustel..e mammal"; fourth "eontends". nih make a mirinke"; and sixth "a musical note.” Finish 11:
PROVERD
of
of a
grent,
ryc,
770 fu'her worked in the heids, the mother helped him and looked after the home, and and pigs,
and Jean Phickens. and Marie took cize of the Utile luck of sheep.
meant to
A COLD BREATH
Wh
There round among the dry dead loaves of the forest,
"I am frightened," said Marie.
I
is Christmas Eve in
THIS IS NOT AN
INN,
GOING
GO KEEP
across the lawn the up against
Hos manger-orib,
Ho the brought them the presents they wished for? They had left little
Hittle children who fed their That was certainly something "Oh, Jean!" she whispered, Maria Lopez have Just father's sheep on the edge pleasant to think about; but it "listen! Someone is coming." finished lighting the fat
was not of roasting apples and
a little rustling candles in paper bags half dark forest, nuls that Jean and Marie talked When was the first light- Their names were Jean and that morning AF they went
Alled with sand along the Marie, and they lived with along with thote sheep.
Thero
path, up the steps, and all their father and mother on was something clso thet they "Is it the wolves again?"
around the flat roof of thoir a little farm. It was a very they had been planning for
do first, comething
TINY CHILD IN WHITE A
sprawling adobe house. That little farm: there was a low long while. grey house of rough stones,
will help to guide the rela- But it was not the wolves. It with some tiny fields of oats
"This night that is coming," Wis a little child who came out Lives and friends who will Gold Mario, "he holy Child of the forest, quite a tiny child, lact out the journey that the some cabbages, Jesus was born in the stable at that soused to and
all in white, with golden har parents of the Infant Jesus and turnips. There were Bethlehem, la a nest imong the
shine in the took from Jerusalem to chickens und pigs, and warm hay. Today we
shivered i12 will grey tog. He
the Bethlehem. make a creche (that is, a crib) cold a.x, bis there were a few sheep.
bair was rough "in the great hollow oak on the with silvery drops of mist, his
At the back of the house, it.tie hands and tect were bare. edge of the forest, and we will
in a room seldom used, make
"Oh, thou soft nest there such as
poor tile one;
manger way?" said the
crib the Baby Jesus had, and make hast thou lost thy
Marlo. "How cold
thou
Decorated it beautiful."
art. waiting.
with wild dash Come, then, and be warm." flowers and moss, with the and ends
she took the little child and cuddled him in her arms, and tiny carved animals freshly house wall! How the child- notes beside the orih several So when the flock was feed-held his hands and feet to the painted by Pedro, it is a ren scramble to get out of days before, Every morning, their mother ing quietly, Jean and Marle fire. "would give them some broad gathered dry
Byt nd-by, be was beautiful scene in the soft the soft and choose, and put them on the
grass, Ind
warmer, and she wrapped him glow of many candles. groen moss, and red-brown in houlder, saying, 'Be good, my bracken, and they filled
her shaw just
her the mother had wrapped her ones. Jean and Marie hollow in the old oak tree till morning-and little
that would nod their heads and it was like a deop, soft little creche in the hollow oak.
laid him in the amile, and they and the sheep bed
"HERE THEY COME would
A soft the Bu happily off to
nest for then
An.d
Jean Pedro shouts and runs Matle, and wide open space of heath, and Then they lald green sprays
covered him fruss, and bracken on the edge of ivy round it, and bright red
wormly with bus the front windows. No one of the forest.
big woolly scart. rose berries and golden-brown
is in sight, but the The little one snuggled down of Christmas carola There they stayed all day, ok-apples and crimson haws. and seemed to sleep, and Jean Marie would spin, and
Jero
It was a beautiful creche, and
and Maris when it was finished they called the fire and sut close to it. The
plied more wood on nearer. carved rough wooden
spoons, and bowls,
the sheep together that and plates for the
they fog was like a cold grey wall
Then around the corner and for the condy, favours, border find under their Christ-
small toys scattered over mas trees. house, while the
sheep fed might see it, too.
round them, they were shivering comes the procession led by the grass.
How good the Baby Jesus round them on the moorland.
and miserable, and they could a girl and boy carrying and amall
Mother Lopez serves cookies was to bring them such fine gifta "Because, thou knowest, On sunny days, in the spring Marie," said
Christmas cakes to when He came
down Jean, "the sheep
from images of and summer and early autumn, heard the angel as well as the
Mary And everyone and soon the guests Heaven to rest in the crib In Aut Wits A pleasant way
Joseph. Everyone has shepherds, on
A go home.
their very
own homef Surely Christmas Eve,
IN THE spend the time.
MORNING Pedro they will be good children and lighted candle in his hand. and so they knew of the stable
and Maria hurry to the room obey Him until next Christmas Some are dressed like shep where the Christ Child lies in Eve, at Bethichem."
herds, some like the wise men of the East.
third "
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13
WACKY COMPASS
THE G
H
WACKY
|AR
COMPASS
START AT SOUTH AND B.
USE EVERY 7HIRD LETTER YOU DECIDE S WHICH DIRECTION)
TO FIND THE HIDDEN PROVERB
ABER
H
(Bolations on Page 20)
Stamp Bears Symbol Of Adventure
I
of
SUPPOSE it was the
spirit
nd venture which is born in all of us that made my eyes light up and my heart beat a little faster when I saw this new stamp from France.
For here is a proud ship spreading her splendid sails and heading westward the wake
CHRISTMAS
TREE
in
countless
MAS Argel
1.Cut body and wings
from CHRISTMAS PAPER.
2.SLIP TABS OF WINGS
→ TOWN.
INTO SLITS A AND B... TAPE THEM IN PLACE ON THE BACK.
3. Fold body
Atlantic waves.
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they
not keep from crying s thought of the three lost sheep.
Buddenly Jean looked up.
MANGER SCENE
It
to
sticki
Sure enough, the of that flying way
notes
еко
now
and there in the gone, It is no easy trick walking doll that Maria wap.ed
to hit the big bird, though and
once
or
the bullfighter's velvet twice 1 lucky Jacket and red cape that Pedro strike sends it swaying on asked for. the rope.
"JUANITA'S done it!" A girl!
☆
**
And roller skates, books, toy sound But who cares? Crack goes the draws his the bird in the middle of for Maria-presente ilka
clay bowl when Juanita's stick rocket ships, a box of paints thoir cousins acrosg the
"Is it the sun?" he said. But it was not the sun, was a light like sunshine, but
They knock at the door the hollow oak, and it seemed to shine round of the Lopez home, begging the little child whom they had to be admitted. tucked up safe and warm in the inside, Pedro and Maria bod of moss and bracken. Ho
its back. Then ecnes the mad American Peramble
From Generous Mr. Appletree
THE GREY WOLVES
When It rained, and the wind
So they all looked together, blow stormily trom
and the sea,
thon Lho ahoop went there was always shelter in the back to nibble the prent it came from forest, with its great old oaks, and Jean and Marie lit
their fire. and beeches and its thickets of
And when it was thorn
and glowing, they put and
warm Even holly.
in flat stones round it, and lald winter it
was not too bid. They
the chestnuts could make
and apples to then a fire
was sitting up and smiling, no and the others answer to and worm their hands
TOLET, BO that preservily they longer pinched and cold, but the tune of an old Spanish when
the would be warm to hold in cold rosy and warm. frcst pinched and the wind blew very cold.
fingers, and very good to eat.
But the days that Jean and Then Mario ferred were those when had
Dec 60
song:
F
This is not an inn, So keep going:
We cannot open:
You muy be wicked
people.
---He Gave Things to People All Year Round-
By MAX TRELL
"NO" said Mr Punch shaking
his hend, "hero never was anybody in all this world ng generous as this friend of mine."
"What
not opened and the procession with the turned-about
asked Knarf,
Marle lifted him aut of the the fog came. They the hollow, and the child held busy that they out his litle hands to her and the grey fog came rolling in hardly notleed that the sunlight to Jean, and turned towards the from the zea, covering all, co was growing pale and dim. forest by the way he came. And thal one could hardly see from Suddenly, there
Was # wet, they went with him, away from tree to tree, and everything was cold breath in the air, and the the warm fre into the dark so still, except for the calling tog came rolling in from the forest They were not at zä
But at last the door i
friend of yours?" of the sheep and the drip, drip, sea, hiding the sun and sky and afraid to go, they were
the shadow-boy drip from the boughs,
covering everything in folds of afraid to leave the sheep. They goes thick, grey mist.
to room who had come into the each hold fast to a hand of the until it reaches the creche, and sat himself
down little child and wont where be There, an image of the Punch's feet, hoping for a story. POOR LITTLE SHEEP I lcd them
Holy Infant is placed in Soon, they could see nothing It seemed as if the way was the crib, while everyone!
Defining A Friend but the great oak tree and the plain, even bushes near, End the blaze of The thorn bushes and the long tion. The children sing a And where did he live? 'Knarf's sister Hanid kneels in prayer and adora-"What was his name, Mr Punch? their little fire. The Dock trails
On those days, they watched rnd listened and were afraid at every rustio in the forest; and the mother was glad to sle
safely home, and futher sald anxiously:
the
"The Grey Ones have
For "the Grey Ones" the wolves--the
great,
not
were
moved closer in forting glow, and Jean and Marie
to the
com- draw
sometimes, they
would
CRECHE IN DAK
come
But there was no one else to
Been
a
In the cold air. "It is on such a day that Grey Ones.. Listen, Marie! What is that?..
And, as he spoke, there WIE
in the thick mist.
of brambles asido to let them
seemed to pass,
and
and Mario
from room
coloured
generous?"
Then
namo room
At Mr
gold:
And
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The kind Mr. Appletree gavO Exboly of himmelk.
And koseling strung on wires from bushes the side of a hill, in fact. And "Everything!" said Mr Punch.
many
wond
pioneer craft from the days them of
of Columbus,
The ship is called the Capricieuse. And so beauti-troubled you, my children?" fully is she engraved on the
and soon they came to a stable, lullaby. The journey is over what did he do that was stamp that you can almost wolves that lived deep in the other, and were very glad of the of rough logs, all covered with
ey watched them and talked to each It was a very old stable, bull and the Baby asleep. hear the creak of pulley forest, and only red come hot chestnuts.
Mr Punch looked out of the blocks and
and moss, grey lichon ropes
window for quite a long while, as she near to houses and homes when
though Joan The time went by, and still
perhaps nine or ten seconds, was just an ordinary every-day- lips smoothly through the the thick fog hid them. Then,
knew tho forest well they QUIETLY THEY TIP-which is quite a long while if in-the-week old apple tree. Ho the fog lung close about them. could not remember ever having TOE out and Pedro and someone else is sitting at your hat leaves and branches and creeping, and snatch a sheep It was very still. from the flock and be gone "Never have I seen such
it before. The door stood Maria lead the way to the feet waiting for you to say bark and twigs and roots. It all In the case of the Capricieuse, boy or girl do to stop them?
little fog." said Jean shivering a lite open wide, and they passed in garden where the children's looked back and began. ngain; ond what could
Anally he that made him regular, then he something. It
was as regular as a yardstick.” is westward ho for Canada.
There was a manger there, and to the manger a bed, just Christmas party is held. This was one of the ships which
Then why was he so gener- "This generous friend of mine such a bed as they had made The night is mild and calm. didn't even live in a bouse. He ous?" alced Hanid.. originated regular
#What did CTOSSINGS
In the hollow cak--waum
tad The between France and the great and for which she fought gal-
lanterns lived right out in the open, on he give away?” soft with moss, and dried take care of the sheep. And a frightened bleating from the and bracken. antly. She eventually lost to
and trees co, day by day, Jean and Marie sheep, a quick pattering ruch, round the monger there
there he stood, day in and day "In the spring he gave away his scarcely move superior British military skill
out, winter and summer, in fair blossoms. In the summer he but continued
went out with them and and three
bepsiseach shepherds and to
littlo with the wind. settle nurture the territory at least in
and brought them back cach night larger than the largest ick and Mirte could never say how tree. Instead, a huge card-
weather and in foul, never gave away his shades0. #hepherd boys and girls.
Jean
There is no Christmas moving an inch.
that Quebec Province which is almost
There came a day in December. dog-swing from
those who sat undez him were more French in spirit than paris was Christmas Eve, The bushoo. Each seized * sheep, many there wo:0, for of France itself.
"He was good and healthy in cool. He gave away his leaves morning was Mill, and clear, and as quickly as
edboard bird hangs from spite of not having a rool over to the caterpillars for them: to they came looked, the stablo sccmed Those regular emigrant cross-end cold, but the mother looked they were gone into the forest farges large as the world tall pole in the centre of his head or even clothes
when to nibble on
they were towards the west.
end as high as the sky! But the garden. The children wear. But as he grew older, hungry. He gave away room will be fog before the evening,
The frightened sheer came they could only see clearly by know that inside is the bowl he grew more bent and gearled" on his branches for the birds to I fear," she said, "See crowding round.
bulld their nesta. "But Marle began the light this shore round the of clay that must be broken "What was his narne?" Hanid wasn't all, no, not by a long are you stamp that
warm, my to cry, and Jern could hardly little child, and by that light children."
asked.
shot" keep from crying, too.
they saw three sheep, that before the treats and pre- So Jean took his great knitted "The poor Ho sheep," rubbed zoftly against them with sents can be given out. Who You ask his name," said Mr For another nine or tom scarf, and Marle was warmly sobbed Marle, "the Grey Ones their warm, woolly coats. wrapped in a big show!. Anil have taken them and we cannot
will be the lucky one to Punch. "I don't know. It be seconds, Mr Punch stared out of break it and empty it of the
had a name.
But the window again, looking out Jus as they were starling, the help them. And oh How sorry
people treasures?
gave him one. They over the wintry landscape. mother called them back.
father will be."
like to give everyone a name. One by one, Pedro and They called him Appletros. Maria blindfold their guests,
Gnarled And Canerous
regular
Apple tree," Knarf exclaimed. And when they opened them
everyone "I don't know what, you mean again they were alone, and there laughs as Pable makes a by that," said Mr. Punch. "He do you think?" was no stable, only the forest
into a cone and sticksides together with
RUBBER CEMENT.
CEMENT
4.TAP A SMALL HOLE IN TOP
and
gs began exactly 100 years ago French
per-
It ja this centenary
settlement-and
new
| sistence---that the
honours today.
It is printed by what is known as the "ongraved" process, per- forated 13 and costs 1/- in Lon- don. Face value, 30 francs. Very nice.-J. A, A.
again.
SMALL POINTED INSTRUMENT MIND TICKLERS WITH HOLIDAY THEME
BLOW OUT THE INSIDE PAINT ON A FACE WITH
WATER COLORS
/YOU CAN USE A PING-1
PONG BALL FOR AHEAD!
5.PUT A SMALL
BUTTON ON ONE END
OF A PIPE CLEANER...PUSH OTHER END THROUGH THE EGG.
Dream the
angel like this
IN each statement below, Caroly, wat goes duck, roast
you are given three turkey, roast goose. choices. Draw a line under set up in
8. A Nativity scene was first Palestine, Lebanon, Italy,
the correct answer.
CHRISTMAS QUIZ
9. The Christmas scal orig Inated in Denmark, Holland, were first Lithuania.
1. Christmas trees used in Germany, Poland, Swo- 10, Sweels which often de
sprato Christmas trees
den.
are
2. Mince ples wae first made candied apples, candy canes, in Germany, Denmark, England, bonbons.
1. A holiday food found in - 11: The yule log is the centre
cach
word
dive yourself one point for you - ind,' - and add five points for any word you see that we omitted.
SECRET FOR CHRISTMAS
SURPRISE FIND
"Oh, see, Jean," cried Moric, "see our little sheep!"
And the child smiled at them, and the light was like the sun,
then twirl them around
་
kncre
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ho
EO bright that they were with sticks in their right "Oh, a dazzled, and closed their eyes, hands. How
with the big, grey oak trees, and dirk thorn bushes, and shining, green hollles.
But
close to the warm, and sort,
stood their three
ittle sheep, and well.
Jean and Marie took them When they
Bend this secret message in back to the flock. code to a friend or one of your reached the edge of the forest, cousins for Christmas." Here's they could see the low, zed as how you write it:
shining through the mist, and For every letter in the mess by its light they gathered the mage, so the letter following sheep, and went home. crab apple.
code, RED would be SP2. Ear
the 1st sheep and the CUT HAIR CURL
Dutch children wet out their"
Little FROM GLAREM cupe, shoes, stockings, to be cited with, orculation is holly given: here tome other child short
12. The Christmas gren ass only. It 197
decoding the CLE/INFLACE Alled with gifts,
fir boughs, mistletoe. CUT BANDANA
giving
varsen on your, de FROM CXORED
Whon
bogs tangoring, cranberry, of h The is to and they told to wonderful.
land, Switzerland, England.
5. The customs of Christmas presents was starind MISTLETOJ WORD HUNT by shepherds, wigo men, mar-
chante,
See how many four-letter your
6. It is customary to say "Joy-words you can make from the BU eux Noul" in Germany, Franco, letters in MISTLETONOWO Austris,
have found 38 common Words”
7. The chler course it the but you may soo mord. No sacribed "plural jurat proper hamar are
Cratchit
"I Know the
Rupert and the New Boat-4
That
"And when autumn". came,” Mr Punch went on, "then my friend Appletres, felt, the spirit of Christmas running up and down hfin ·And he gave, presents to all who came to him. "And what did he givet. What
Knart and Hanid didn't have. to think very long
"He gave away applost" they eriod.
* Giving Made Him Happy
"You are right, you are right "You are right!” said Mr. Pi
*He gave 10 011, ASZTA applesbo hundreds of thes jave 'tiíam ko'the big He gave them to the weak. Ha gaye them chipmunks and the stick, the ants and kad; ever most of these all of th one who