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By LORD DUNSANY

London Express Service

CHRISTMAS: a defence

HE source of all merri-

T

ment is the sun; all colour, for instance,

comes from it, and indeed

all life. When, therefore.

against

darkness

Bookmaker

blonde

VERSUS

QUESTION IS, WHO WINS?

T lenst four times in the

buttonholed on Broadway and asked: "Have you heard what happened to Charlie Feitus?"

Perhaps I ought to bring you up to date....

For as long as I can remem- ber, Charlie Feltus has been a promoter of things and people, and he has always made a pretty nice dollar at it.

However, like a lot of other Times Squarehends, he bas

by BILLY ROSE

never held on to these dollars drink. I'll be over for long because of a weakness finish for horses and blondes,

soon as I with the beta on to- night's fight."

IN recent months, to hear the Inter

wisenheimers tell it, it's been rough going for Charlie in

An hour and four Martinis Butch telephoned Hazel at restaurant. "I got jammed

the

both departments seeing on how UP," he said, "but I'll be over in o few minutes. Have them (a) most of his earnings have been going into the jewel box champagne and order the big- ice up a couple of quarts of

of n platinum-mopped tootrie

named Hazel Duke, and (b) his gest double steak in the house. luck at the race track has been I'm starved,"

as Damon Runyon used to By 9, Hazel had polished off" put it a whole lot less than most of the porterhouse and all somewhat.

the champagne, but there was attil no sign of Butch. Finally plenty peeved, she told herself that no horse hustler was going to make her

Walt with bookie, around

ketchup on her seven grand and mouth. But as she rose

Came a bleak and bleary- eyed evening not long ago when Charile called on Hazel.

"I'm in a spot, baby." he gloomed. "I owe my

Butch Flees me of that if I the walter handed her

he just

don't pay up by the end of the for $51.20. week I'm in for some had trouble. Butch, as you know, Fleeson's guest," she said.

go

to

tab

Tell the manager I'm Mr

is a pal of mine and wouldn't. Five minutes Inter the mann- make no fuss if it was up

"Well," said Charlie,

to ger

05

appeared. "I'm Borry," him, but he says the guy who he said, "but just 'phoned Mr runs the syndicate is preasing Fleeson and he says he had no him."

appointment here tonight." "What can I do about it?"

said Hazol wearily. "I'll leave asked Hazel.

this bracelet eyeing security and come in tomorrow the glinty knick-knacks on her to pay you." arms and neck, "I could raise HE manager took the bracelet that is appropriate permits the flotsam and jetsam several grand on your jewellery, and beckoned to a stoutish drifted dowa the It would be just a loan, you gent who was sitting at the bar, they must have been to Christmas will be found that have thing,

from older faiths, such understand....

The man walked over, flashed stimulated by a real fear of among them, and the more of ages

"Nuts that

that loan stuff," said to and mistletoe holly

detective's badge and handed what the sun was going to do, it that we can make there, the as

typewritten sheet of its came from the Druids, and the Hazel. "And while we're having Hazel and for another they must more the reflection

"Articles of jewellery of Father Christmas, this heart-to-heart, I might as headed, reindeer draughtler houses, radiance will beat upon us have had

and

customs and superstitions well tell you I've been thinking stolen at Let us, therefore, call up and even wolves, that in the

far back of calling it quits. Don't slam Sto source is too cold weather would

of whose have Christmas every battery

dimness of time to be the door, sucker.

Naturally, neuror those

that we houses, crackers

are able to in the Fear and draughts and wolves mobilise, and set up against the traced.

by this kiss-off, especially after Jos

jewellery she was outside the defences seem queer advantages, darkness

and warmth pleasure that of all the lights yet the

from triumph over ad- that we can.

вся must obviously

Wolves Indeed arc gone, have but not people that

the last echo of the

the sun sank to its lowest, merry at Yuletide. For one merriment there must have once been jan actual fear, which our dim unexplained emotions echo today, that it might never return.

and against the worst the Nature could do or, at any rate, threa- ten.

ama

come

comes

Charlio was hurt

his many blue-white kindnesses

а

Stone

a

from Mra Elizabeth

And

when Hazel

examined the list she saw that, tem for item, it matched the

There's some mlatulen

she

to the little lady, but he was an said, "I got these things from a

old campaigner and so he left Mr Charles Feltun, and he told

on No doubt there will come without breaking her arm or me he bought them Fifth

of doing anything else ungentle- Avenue." timo when the origin

as

name

Tom Smith of

remem-

teme

This ancient fear, some shadow of which is still felt in the short dark days, must have

may called

resistance and up men's against the darkness and against the cold that accom- versity panied it, a resistance that was stranger to a mobilisation of the spiritual everything done for them and fear of them, and whatever crackers will be as mysterious manly,

"You can explain it in court," material forces of man and who have no hardships haunts the dark on a winter's that of mistletoe, and the H next day Hazel got a sald the defective. "In the

over which they can triumph. night may feel itself well de-

telephone call from Butch meantime, hand the stuff over. feated by the lights our bered like that of Santa Claus, Fleeson, the bookic.

I'll let you go home tonight, "Hello, It is not that I wish

coloured candles and the glow with his origin equally for- hardships, and possibly Com-

our fire, even though are- rade Stalin may be

but they will be wise Beautiful," he said. "I hear tell but I suggest you don't try able to

Kotten;

WHEN Hazel got to her apart- supply some, but in the absence places be shrunken from what to pay him reverence in those you've given Charlie the brush leave town."

One of those were when they burned days, for he was from cold good logs.

to pick it up brought merriment

where he left off" laughed paper under the door, It was and

darkness, with fires that These shrunken fireplaces what,

without him and Father

ther Hazel. "Okay by me, and you a duplicate of the jewellery can be lighted with a touch, make it harder for us to defy Christmas and many others, can begin by taking me to din list the "detective" had shown

knowledge the and £1 Ecientifle

dark and the cold as they would

her. At the bottom that the sun will return,

we should be defed, and as they time of the year, and so added

to

of

had

any that come

for

they

of

that

and

"You want

to

sald

to

ment she found a sheet of

scrawl.

Wag

have been the bleakest you catch on quick,"

familiar should make some effort once were; and so we should something to the wealth of the the

bookie. He named one of message in Charlie's attain at a twentieth-century work all the harder

оп to build world, that unless sought in the the exclusive caterics the

"Butch Fleeson thanks you, Christmas the merriment that up against them the light and proper spirit, can never be East Side and went on: "Meet the syndicate thanks you, and ľ

once have come easily the must

merriment that ought to acquired by either hard or soft you at seven, and if you get thank you. Don't slam the door. the conquest of obvious go with Christmas, Stories told from

first order yourself difculties.

by the Arcalde, on the other

Even before they Christianity to help them there is no doubt that at this time mankind in

northern our latitudes got what spiritual comfort they could from such gods as they had; and their material defences are obvious, big logs drogged in from the neighbouring forest, to get good fire going at the time That they called Yule, and the mend that was brewed from honey, and whatever mirth and cong the warmth and the mead encouraged.

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hand, need not be light or

merry; they may be of wolves

or ghosts and whatever haunts

How then are we to overcome the night. For it la such the absence of the satisfaction things

as these outside that

of having dragged in with our add to the triumph of our de-

a good-sized log some fences, distance over the snow,

friends

and are

where mirth and light evident and ghosts

the dearth of wolves that wolves are not would have made that

dragging the more exciting,

door that would Iccep

and the stubbornness of our

נים

and

Το neglect the festivities of wolves, if there were any, and Christmas is to let the dark that keeps out even draughts close in upon us; not the actual without any effort of ours?

dark that our electric Ughts The obvious solution is A can BO easily shatter, not the

at

drink; but it is too obvious dark that wild creatures enjoy and it is after all only an creatz and that is full of mystery, pleasure, an imitation of the but the dark that can chill the simple pleasure which it can spirit, the mirthless dark whose never really replace, Not that only light is reason and a poor I grudge a drink to anybody glow that can give at times. who can get much out of it, When the sun at noon is especially at this time of year. Its

spirits lowest and men's but they are happiest who can sink somewhat with it then get their own pleasure direct is the time that we rally before without using this roundabout the fire with all the defences method.

that

the ages have given us And such people exist, for against the cold and despon- children obtain casily the dency. pleasures that we chose with Chiefly, of course, those de- Increasing difficully as we grow fences Аге supplied by the older and with increasing short- Christian religion, but there ness of breath. Therefore, the is a tolerance at that time that

Make Your Own Cards

surface.

Making your own Christmas with copying Ink, being cure- carda saves money and pro- ful to do the job gradt lly and vides interesting occupation for to keep the amount of ink lelsure hours,

even over the whole First you should take an Then lay your master-copy ordinary needle--preferably a down on the pad, and pin it so rather long one--and force the that it is held quite firmly in end which carries the eye into position.

the

a

the lower end of a biggish cork. Put a trial plece of paper Next you require a piece of over the master-copy, and rub Dat

board rather larger than gently with your doger-Lips, card which you propose 20 that a little ink is forced to make.

Cut a piece of thick through the pricked holes. cloth, slightly smaller in size, necessary, do this two or three and glue it on to the board, times the object being to pra- leaving narrow cdge all duce a clear copy of the design, round. This gives you an ink without any smudging or un- pad.

evenness. Then get a

sheet of stout You are now ready to print paper, a amall bottle of copy cards. To do this, lay each of jing, Ink, and as many blank them in turn on the master- cards as you wish to adern. copy and press gently. To make Lastly, choose a simple design sure of an even presture over that appeals

to your taste and the whole surface, It may be seems suitable for your pur found better to 1110 'piece of powith the point of the needle other object which you can hold board, or a flat tin, or some which n embedded in the easily and which door not cork, prick out on the design give at any point. tiny holes about one-eighth of Your chosen dealgn can, of an inch apart, taking care to course, include a few words of make them the same size and greeting and your name, But to follow the outlinor exactly: if this is the caso the fasters

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