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Dear Kiddies,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1939.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
Very few entries again this week. I think the competition must have been tou hard for you or else you are all so busy with! Christmas shopping and pre-j paration that you found no time to enter the coruspetition,
The prize winners this week
are:
GOOD OLD XMAS !!!
This is all my own work
Name
Address
Air
Coupons have been sent to to colour the above picture as Jesse and Marion which I want gaily as you can with your paints them to bring to the "Hongkong or crayons. Fill in the name, Telegraph" offices in Wyndham age and address coupon and send Jesse John Cage 111. Mun- | Street. The coupons will then your entries to Uncle Eddie, e o sang College.
be exchanged for money prizes, "Hongkong Telegraph," Wynd-
There were no entries in the ham Street.
Marion Paterson (aged 81⁄2). I 196, The Peak.
Debt Preferred To Darkness
NEWCOMERSTOWN, (UP),--CRS counsell, deciding that debt is better than darkness, rejected a proposal of Mayor Charles 11. Mugford that street lights be turned off as an The mayor had ecoming measure,
made the propra i deratis of the town's duniad difficulties.
section.
Junior age section so naturally I The competition closes at 2 cannot give any prizes in that (p.m. on Wednesday,
Three prizes will again be Specially cominended for good given-one for the best entry in work are the following: Johnjeach age section.
Gry. Eunice Dodson, Joan Gor. I want to wish every one of don. Teresa Souza, Roberta Quan, you a "Merry Christmas.** 1 do P. Tkachenko, Franky Young. hope you have a lovely time dur-
Ghazi Khan: Thank you very ing the festive season. much for the lovely Christmas
to remember me. card. It was very good of you
This week, kiddies, I want you
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PICTURES AT CHRISTMAS
Not a call to armt, but a call for the camera. Every Christmas brings picture chances auch an this-plan your pictures now! ~AMERA Robbyists can give a now shot, with the children in their
twist to the admonition, "Do nightles.
These are pictures flint Introduce your Christmas shopping enrly1": Their watchword should be, "Planthe Christmas story properly. Placod In the album in proper sequence, your. Christmas pictures early!"
they have tremendou story value. Of course, you probably won't re- They give you much more to re celve that fino now camera until { member-áru linll the fun of Christ- Christmas momlag. (You're sup mus In in getting ready for it. puned to inolt surprised when you Christmas morning, of course, you unwrap it.) But, for Christmas ple
can picture the opening of the glits; tures before that the, the old cain-{ (ho children enjoying now 1053, and ern will doubtlesgive good service, uther members of the family trying And what ʼn lol of such pre-Christ on now gift scarves or jackets-all mas pictures there are to take, if worth while. Then there are ple The holiday story is to be fully tolditures at Christmas dluner, and in For example, there ought to be a the afternoon, outdoor shots show- good shot of you petting the Christing the new sled or bicycle on Ita mas tree. Maybe you buy the tree Brst trial ran. from a vendor. Or, maybe you go out Since minty shots will be indoors, into the country.and cift your own. ( you'll need high spoed filtu, a couple Either way, It's a plelure.
of amateur "food" bulbs, and an Then there's the decorating of the inexpensive set of cardboard "lainp tree to be plentred. And a shot of shade-type" reflectors to use with the childres nåstring it. And ple❘ them. Better have a low flash bulbs, tures of gifts bring wrapped for ton for the occasional shot that friends. And members of the family requires them. And by all menna placla packages. And pletures of make a Bat of "must" pictures- the children peering out of the win suapebats you are Just hound to gol dow, looking for Santa Claus., And. | Telling the Christmas story Incaster of course, the youngsters hanging | If you have such au sutine to work np their stocklogs, and reluctantly from.
John van Guilder galag up to bed-a good stairway
To Aid the Bible Student
1. John, An “Antolography" of the Be-1,500 selections from the Bible,
loved Apostle,, by "Rex Miller. Holly- wood: George Palmer Painam.
an arrangement which facilitates
DET.
Let the Bible Help You Complied by the turning to helpful passages.
George Perry Dixhit. New York: Har
They are designed to aid the seeker quickly to locate in the THE place of the Beloved
Scriptures passages which may Apostle in the affections of be of great assistance in solving the Nazarene has had great appeal to all Christians. That the personal problems with there was, on the part of John, which he may be confronted. n-depth-of-understanding of the Some of the topics are "Be Master's mission as Saviour and Not Afraid," "Supply for Every Way Shower is generally Need," "God the Only Creator," accepted.
"Prayer," "For Students," et The Fourth Gospel, departing cetern. These are about twenty. somewhat from the biographical four in number and cover many character of the Synoptics, goes needs common to human experi more deeply into the spiritualence.
nature of the Master's touchings The reader can scarcely fall and works; that is to say, it to be deeply impressed by the deals more fully with the meta-practicability of the Scriptures physical side of his
career.
This understanding also breathes in the solution of the common through the three epistles attri-problems of humanity. buted to John, although the Book
of Revelation marks a decided departure from the method, direction, and purpose of all his other writings.
Rex Miller has undertaken and successfully carried out the pre- sentation in the first person of John's story as recorded in the Fourth Gospel, supplying certain background not appearing in the narrative itself and projecting the highly appealing picture against a screen of authentic his- tory. It is an unusual effort, interestingly executed. The re- sult is a volume at once a highly entertaining and worthily in- structive presentation of the "autobiography" of the disciple. nearest to the most importan{ character of ancient times, the Founder of Christianity.
Rex Miller is well known as author, teacher, traveller, and journalist. The book is excel- lent in its literary character and contains no dull pages. To read the first chapter is to insure its perusal to the end.
In his handy volume Mr. Dixon has gathered under cupilons
TWO CONFESS TO
ONE CRIME
Two men who were said to have confessed to setting fire to the sonic hayrick at Combo Down (Somerset) were remanded at Bath recently while further inquiries are being made.
They were arrested separately and charged separately,
Albert F. Gilmore
Gulliver in the Garden
(treen Grown the Cily, by Beverley Rose and Cavalier: about Mra. Nichols. New York: Harcourt, Braco. Heckmondwyke, who lived at Number One and opposed evory ▶OILED DOWN to sheer prae-innovation attempted by her
Bticality, "Green Grows the neighbour-the removal of the
City" tells how to make a charm-poplar stumps; the substitution Ing garden out of a little, un- | of brick walls for wooden fences; promising city backyard. Since the glass domed greenhouse Beverley Nichola is the author, which Mrs. H. thought Infringed however, the book is a vertigin-on that houry British Institution
known as Ancient Lights. ous compound of exaggeration,
*
satire, commonsense, whimsy The problem that faced Mr. sentimentality, beauty, and un-Nichols was how to make a abashed garden, enthusiasm. | triangle seem to be not a trian- Mr. Nichols is nothing if not gle. This he did by cunningly celectie. He has written novels, contrived walls, a curving path, a tall, red camelia that peeped plays, essays, travel books, ami comments on public affairs; and over the left-hand wall and car- ried the eye aloft, elever flower he has written, more-often than beds placed where they did the about any other one topic, on most good and hinted of unseen Kardens and country life-glories around the corner, and "Down the Garden Path," by the domed greenhouse that "Thatched Roof," and "A Village filled the apex of the triangla.
in a Valley." These have won Another problem was how to him his most ardent admirers: get into that tiny area all the on account of these, he is,reckon- Krowing things that he could not ed a prophet of rural beauty, do without. In the end he had Enhancing that reputation, he an herbaceous border, a rock has now written another garden garden, a rose garden, a loggia, book, but one laid in a new kinda fernery, even it few trees, of scene.
many climbers. and lead boxes behind the walls and around the] Mr. Nichols tells what he did glass dome filled with a succes- when he was no longer able to sion of blooms. It was a Lilipu escape from the city to his Hunt-tian garden, in which ho na ingdonshire collage for long Gulliver found a world of beauty week ends; when he could no within the space of a few feet. longer endure the stuffiness and He never managed to please Mrs. fogginess of Westminster, in Heckmondwyke: but the other spite of its hallowed name. So neighbours approved,. and hia The went hunting for a London two pure-black Siamese
home with a garden.
were happy.
cats
He found the house in Heath. | stead, within 30 minutes of the There is no doubt about the centre of the city. Number enthusiasm and the garden wis- Five. Highways Close, became doma of Mr. Nichols, but first and This property in so far as a 999 last he is a man of letters with a years lense could make it so. gift for vivid and racy expres The house did have a garden; sion. One suspects that, if he but such a garden-a stark, un-had to choose between brilliance compromising triangle, bordered and literal fact, he would choose by wooden fences, infested by to be brilliant. three gaunt poplar stumps, a nea
of muel hardly fit for a ent-run.
The substance of "Green Grows the City" is the trans- forming of that desolate trinn- gle into a place of beauty, It makes a fascination and hilari- ous story Mr. Peregrine, the car-
W. K. R.
Opium Users Warned
CHUNGKING-In effort to counterart the spread of opium smak-
penter, who "did not want to fug in areas occupied by Japanese deter
his employer, but; a forges, Generalissimo Chiang Kal- story about the elegant cats,shek has issued orders submitting
effenders in Japanese areas to "double." punishment."
The Book Window
Know These Dictators, by G. Word Price (Halt). An intimate and sympathelle pleture of Hitler and Mussolini by a British newspaper- man who believes that, as it is too '"late" to disarm the dictatorsby"
force, they can be, disarmed by
friendship.
China Fights for Her Life, by H. R.
The generalissimo's announcement suit that although "satisfactory re- sults" had been obtained in the ant! oplum campaign in the past year in Chinese controlled areas, "the govern- ment is not withdrawing attention from areas under Japanese occupa tion where the Japanese me purpose ly involving Chinese in the oplum hault in in
attempt to wenker
Chinese resistance."
Rachmaninov Wants To Be American
NEW YORK. Sergel Rachmaninov, the Russlar composer, intends to become
Elkins and Theon Wright (McGraw- H. A detailed and readable study of the Far Eastern conflict by two United Press writers, serv- American citizen. ing a dual allegiance to decorative Asked if recent Russian events Ini adjectives and ciaturate appendices,fluenced his decision he said: "Don'
sk me to talk about Rurala," willlarn Keith, by Eugen Neuhaus Sibelius, the Finnish composer, whi (University of California Press), | Ilves about 30. miles from Helsinki presents in a well-considered blo- as been lavited to Hollywood by Kraphy the life and art of an early is married to Ann Barding, the tr Werner Janssen, the conductor, whi California painter of note.
actress.
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