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MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.
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BY VIOLET STOREY
GERMANY'S XMAS MENU
ST. JOHN ERVINE ON
IF I WERE FATHER CHRISTMAS!
degree of uniformity. There is a Home vory silly leers have been limit to the number of things that uttered by shallow-pated persons one human mind can conceive. against towns such as Bournville Moreover, wholesale distribution-of-and-Port-Sunlight and Welwyn one article is easier than wholesale distribution of a great number of different articles If I as Father Christmas, have to stop to think, every time I make a gift, whether or not it is suitable to the person
EVERY person at some tiate or other, but usually in his youth tries to imagine what he would do, il suddenly the magic wand were put into his bands. Supposing that you who are now reading this article were to be given the power and' authority reputed to be possessed by Father Christmas, what would you do with it! Would you con fine your activities to coming down chimneys and depositing speaking rabbits in the stockings of children or would you make a more imagina to whom I propose to give it I tive offert, giving gifts to adults as shall spond a very long time crer well as to infants What sort of the distribution. I may be tempt
Well, give- gifts would you givo-material ored, therefore, to say. spiritual or mental? Would you 'em all the same thing! The alter the quality of mankind or would temptation must be resisted. A you merely make it a bit more sensible Father Christmas, such as comfortable! I am a person who I should undoubtedly be, must be habitually romances. The fact that discriminating Ho must try to fit I buy tickets in sweepstakes proves the gift to the receiver, not to fit. how romantic I am, for no one, the receiver to the gift. And that atterly practical and realists, would will be very bothersome, dream of induging in such vain
Father Christmas, however, will speculations. Persons so unroman realise that all diversity is founded tic as that miss much fun, for
on some uniformity. We are all I receive far more than my lost human beings, no matter how dis money's worth in the entertainment similar from each other we may be, I derive from planning what I should and we have certain physical fea do with the first prize if I were to
tures and needs in common. We win it. For weeks and weeks bodo pot all desire the same sort of fore the usually fatal day--I have clothes, but the clothes we do de haver drawn any sort of a horse, sire must conform to the shape of good, bad or indifferent, in these our bodies, and, roughly speaking, grand sweepstakes-1 imagine my all our bodies are of the same self suddenly made the master of a shape. Some of us are fat and some very large sum of money, and I ob- of us are thin, but fat or thin, there tain the liveliest pleasure from my
is a rough identity of body between schemes for its disburseráent. Once, oh joy, I dreamt that I had won the The attenuated and the obese are alike in the possession of a first, second, and third prizes in the head, a trunk, two arms and two Calcutta Sween!
We do not all like the same surt Bhares The things I did with the
of food, but all of us need food, money in my sleep! That Some people like one sort; but all was 'dream, that was!
people require some sort of a house. These facts help to make the job of the Father Christmas I should like to be rather simpler than it would be if there were
no such facts,
Nor had
and the Hampstead Garden Su burb; but let anyone who feels die posed to join in the jeering, fr of all visit these places and com pare them with the surrounding districts which have not been im proved. And then let them jeer if they dare I invite anyone who has a sneer on his lips when a gar mentioned to take a den city is
and walk
trip to Birkenhead through that town to Port Sun- light. If he does not return with
determination to increase, so far as he can, the number ut Port Sunlights and reduce the number of Birkenheads, then I despair of him: he is unit to live in a ren sonable world
Houses With Baths,
I want every family, then, to have a good town and country house, with easy access to some sort of a garden in which flowers, grass and vegetables, can be grown I want the houses to be well-ap pointed That is to say, each one is to have a bath in it, whether it be in the town or the country, and a plentiful supply of hot and cold water I want & wash basin in every bedroom. I want electric light and, if possible, central heat-
phone in every house. I want large The first thing that strikes the eye roomy cupboards in every house, of the Queen, when she visits model dwellings for working-people, is the insufficiency of cupboards, and she never fails to call attention to it.
I parted with any portion of my legs, hands, fingers, feet and toes. ing in every house. I want a tele-]
Large-Scale Gambling. The Father Christmas wish is only the sweepstake wish on a larger scale. What would I do if I were that venerable and white-bearded and ruddy-chocked and well-dispos- ed old buffor? For, observe this: the legend of Father Christmas or the Santa Claus is founded on theory that he is the quintessence of good nature. There is no room
Her housewifely knowledge tells her that this in a point that continually eludes the minds of male architects, who have not yet properly realised that a bouse is & which she has to do her job, and woman's workshop, the place in
that a house which is not adequate
Two Houses for Everybody. I think I should begin my dis tribution of gifts with two houses for everybody. Many people have two houses; some have more than two; but an enormous number have nor any meanness, nor any favour have only part of a house.. I should itis. He comes, generously giving re-distribute the houses, pulling things to everybody, whether they down a large number in the pro- deserve or do not deserve them. He cess of distration, erecting many does not withhold a gift from Willie in their place, and should see that because Willie was a wicked lid on there were two houses for every the previous Tuesday and flatly refamily. (Already my readers will fused to eat his nica tapioca pud-perceive, I have had to modify my ding, nor does he leave Alastair distribution. I began with the giftless because he naughtily spilt statement that there would be two gravy on Mary's clean bib. Not houses for everybody and a few he. The old gentleman does not dis- lines later baye modified it to two criminate. If he listens at all to houses for every family. That modi- accounts of Willie's wickedness and peation, shows what & bothersome Alastair's naughty behaviour, he business is this job of being exten- decides that they shall receive assively generous!) I should like many and a valuable presents as are given to the good boys and girls, on the principla perhaps, that a present makes you feel good, and that to feel good, very often, is to be good..
for any duplicity in his character,only one and far too many peopley cupboarded is a clumsy ma
Any person, therefore, who e pires to be Father Christmas, must first acquire a large stock of good nature und feel well-disposed to wards everybody, whether they be good or bad, dederving or undaser ving. The gifts must be distributed without fear or favour, "
chine, an ill-appointed workshop. No architect would dream of erecting a factory in which there was no room to turn round or of fitting it up with awkward or in- machinery. Tet nearly sufficient every architect bas no hesitation whatever in giving a woman - the minimum, often less than the mini- mum, of works for her factory.
ates a man 'or à" woman as a new
Evening Clothes, Foo.. And if I were Father Christmas, I should give each person, the means to change into evening cluthes. At this point, I can al- every workman to have a country most hear the jeerer guffawing Louse to which he could go for the with laughter, Fancy, he cries in. week-end, to which he could send derision, a navvy in evening dress! his wife and children for the aum Well, why not! A change of mer. Thousands of middle and clothes is good for everybody, and upper class people have country I know of nothing which so exhilar- houses. The craze for cottage, indoed, has caused some congestion suit of a new dress. It would be among country labourers who find, immensely good for a working mak in places, that the houses they might and for his wife, if at the end of inhabit are occupied by well-to-do their day's work they could bath people from the cities who use them and change from their working
retreats from the town during clothes into cool evening suits and the week-end. The custom, in spite of what some austere moralists say pretty evening frocks, I do not about it, is an excellent one, and suppose that working-men particu I should like to extend it to every larly wish to wear boiled shirts family. How good it would be for and black: evening clothes, They whole city population to sleep in have a Datural love of colour cool country nir every week-end of which might make them unwilling the summer! A fine dream, you to wear such funereal-looking garb, say, but hopeless of realisation! and when I say "evening clothes" Are you sure of that 1 Already, in 18 this connection, I do not mean Sweden, workmen have country whet is customarily meant by the ouses. They may be seen outside term. I want all the variety I stockholm, looking like very large can obtain in my community, and pol-sheds, and not I fear, I am certain that the working-class" sort of places in which way of living is as good as any ay person would like to spend other sort of living, and I have no a long wet spell, but they are, wish to rob them of their social overtheless, coatry cottages and customs and give them the social are used as such. The benefit customs of the middle or upper ever of these crude, wooden things classes. But I want them to have to Swedish workmen is incalcul the amenities of a civilised life, abld. As father Christmas, and among the amenities of a civi would see that the idea of such cot tages is not impractical or outside the range of human politics.
he
lised life is the privilege of wear- ing clothes out of working-hours that are different from those which are worn during working hours. Few things are so effective in giv ing mad a good opinion of him-
My gifts, if I had this universal ability to distribute presents, would be mainly, if not exclusively, mate rial; for the distribution of mental or spiritual gifts is not to he lightly undertaker and would, if they could be distributed, probably result in the world being inhabited by idealis ed reproductions of St. Joba Ervine, For all the Utopians sce men and women no pretty replicas of them selees. I have no wish to reo myself excessively reproduced, and since I do not know what sort of person is really desirable or how to turn the world's population into a delightful ons, I should not try very atrenuously to tamper with people's characters, but would try to tamper with their material conditions, For I think that I might achieve a better mind and spirit in mankind if I achieved a better social life, in which mankind could develop itself. This is an old and vexed question, Grimy Old London, and it is not one that I am likely If I were Father Christmas, to settle, when great men have failed to nettle it. The laws of therefore, I would give two houses self as clean linen, and new clothes to every family one in town and or fresh clothes. Thousands of heredity are still obscure. We are still compelled to take chance one in the country or by the 808 working-men either never Thore is no menu for Christ with life when our ambition is to and. I would take care that each that axhilarating sensation
take a certainty
and I see house, urban or rural, was a good joy it only at rare intervalaik no likelihood in my time, or in any and substantial house. Is there are Father Obristmas, they and Eve or Christmas Day in Germany which is traditional time that I can imagine, of human more appalling sight than the roofs their wives would enjoy it every all over the country. As in beings reaching a stage of exist of the grimy houses one observes da
yond a portidventure, to founding London Think of the miles my gifts, but they are Austria those who can afford it once at which they will be able, be from railway trains on approach Thea are only to begimu prefer the carp on Christmas faultless society. What I want, in of hideous, woot-solid house that for one Christmas 115 Eil Eve, and on Christmas Day the any community in which I have to make a great depressing belt magically alter the living
live, is the greatest possible, divor-round the metropolis, and then modation of the people of these. And there was gladness in each goose-filled with apple or cheat-
sity of persons Uniformity for think, too, of the grimy houses in islands or of the world. I should uses in probably do more to elevate the passing face,
nuts and served with red cabbage which dull and timid people crave, all our industrial aner The turkey, the goose-liver pie and is mental, and spiritual damnatiord which people spend all their lives; minds and increase the spirits of
have little re- men and women everywhere tha the smoked breast of a goose are Hell is a place in which everybody from whit
der that at has been done by any other human ded to live being for nearly all the misery of found on the menus of the rich thinks alike, and nobody has an lief. Can There are many parts in Germany opinion of his own. Heaven is a imaginati
attempte to the world, nearly all the discontent whers TOBE pork, is traditional. In place where no two heste-beat as in such
taking to drink and envy and hatred and unkind. soma pagtens of the South of Geox and no two mind, have butta enliver
not multitude. many the sting picarrots and single, though
saw along each noisy city street CARP, GOOSE AND PORK
The trees for Christmas, standing
dark and still.
The pines and firs come down from
field and hill, Old trees and young that had
known sun and sleet
Soft needles fell on hard dull
pavement there, And forests reas in a most treeless
place;
And there was balsam fragrance
Jp everywhere.
lovely way to celebrate Your Birthd
Whose Birth Star Flist
Judea's trees
Whom Joseph taught the skilful
• use of these;.
Who, on A Tree, onco overcame
the earth
Grant then our Blessing. Friend
of Trees, we pray,
On those, who deck green boughs
for Christmas Day
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salad mixed while herring is reDimenit. Quest garded to bring good fortuneNo
2 that
German family is without the year That involves me ing some can plested in a radifional man-heulty for,
ner and prepared with manyrai Christian
sins, currants, candied oranges gifts will have great troub and almonds,
venting himself from achieving some
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