THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.
ELIZABETH PAKENHAM solves that Father Christmas' problem
Yes, let your children believe in Santa Claus
VERY
year
Children will
Chur,
someone favourite duil of Santa tries to shoot down and necompaided him on all his Father Christmas. exciting Journeys." This time it is because of the commercialism Tit surrounds him. Now they
he in just a sales MILY
around pusher, paraded while December 25 was still weeks away.
In oftca rop fucks to prove their fantasy. A Walsall, Slants, father wan shown the trucks of the milk- which had cart in the snow tallen on Christmas Eve.
"Look, Daddy," exclaimed his
Even If this is true why on "you cha noc where Santa throw away the baby with Claus has been in his sled to ali
Father the children's houses,”
the
water? bath
Christmas is a gala event
OT
Of course, there are one in the child's fantasy-life. two warnings to be given, First, Belief in him has its roots be careful you don't "play the in deep, human needs. So, gune too enthusiastically. parents, welcome him
your home!
into
Don't forget it is our childdren, not we, who reale him. Pavente nay launch the le of Santa
the children
keep him afloat.
whu
Pilot him through 2188 contradiction. Refuse to hayo hum drowned,
oven when
facts are against him
You must have noticed the re- luctance of children to stup They guesa ug belleving in him. ere told that "It's only Duddy."
but they still cling to shreds of the legend.
A WARNING
make him jovial
VOU may get the shock this
Sussex reader received: "Whet my boy was three a friend put
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hand up the chimney and produced a chocolate bar saying, Father Christmas must have put
it there.'
"Later I saw a black object descending our staira I put my
head up my bedroom chimney," he explained, to ste If there was
you fell on me!'"
"i klow it's a man who comes after tea," unid my seven-year- another choc bar, and all the old, "but it's the rea Faller Chelstons who flis our stock- ang, 't it?"
FANTASY
Exciting journeys
Бла
One other, more serious, warning. Young mothers should realise that
toddlers are often scured
Further
of
Christmas So al- ways pick them And keep on the outside of the circle,
timid onos, shricked with joy. When he accidentally slipped un the lino and toppled over, their cup was full,
bellef in Santa Claus to disbelief?
When about the transition from
"A boy told me at school, There's no such thing as Father Christmas." Must your child mako
such 1 crushingly bleak transition
Portio
To say there ja
Do such thing as
Father
Christinas
is to carry fact to the point of pure materiallam,
CHILDREN are Ingonivus at up.
udapling Father Christmas to
Why not tell the modern conditions. A Wirral,
children who Santa Cheshire,
You can also try
Claus really was? reader, whose objected to the narrowness of this up. Hatch out a "comic act" The children's saint, St Nikolaus, their chimney, was forced 10 with father. Emphasise the from Bohemiu,
Jovial, rather than the mysteri. ous alle of Santo Clous's
leave a key in the front door.
Father Christmas then descended by plane, with a co- pilot called Bill. Supper wus left for them, as they would be cold and hungry.
charpeler,
This is the time, too, to recall to them the true Christmas
Story. Then they need not stop Ofe Christmay my husband believing that aomeone ctae, A Birminghom mother tells hobbled in announcing that ho besides Daddy and Mummy and how hur <laughter brought had got rheumatism In the Aunt Mary,
sends them good herself to the picture. "Sho used to pretend she
The children, even the things at Christmas.
Wa
the Arctic.
GHOST CLUB
MARGERY ALLINGHAM, MARY FITT, LORD DUNSANY
TELL THEIR SHIVER-TALES TO NANCY.
The old lady
and the voice
by MARGERY ALLINGHAM
N old Indy living alone gets ready
all
for
bed one night.
We live
over 80, alone in the Great House down in the valley. Thero aro
50 bedrooms." And not heeding
aunt's protests
.my
she
turned off the road.
Dorothea followed. Dimly through the mist sho 63w
the with Great Houso
many windows, of which, high
She looks out of the door its
and locks it, and she goes one
up to her bedroom and goes up, was lighted..
in and locks that door too.
Dorothea spent pleasant enough
And she looks in all the cup evening
with the cribbage
boards, and draws the window
curtains. She looks under
bed, and then she gets into bed.
It is a big four-poster. And
playing વાત by the of
Mrs Zachariah tho Ught
as she pulls the curtains round paraffin lamp:
her she hears a little faint sho
voice:-
"Now we're shut infor night?
the
Mrs.Zachariah's
guest...
MY
by MARY FITT
Y aunt Dorothea Horn- winder, as you know, has a passion for country
went to bed
SPAIN
ILLUSTRATION-BY. CUMMINGS-
0 Miss James was carrying in two glasses at hot milk and whisky.
you
know?”
"But how can said Dorothea, "Because," said the doctor, "I, too, huppened to be spending the night in that house as Mry Zachariah's SELLESTE
TOM STACEY reports the odd things he discovers in Africa (Starting with a Churchill motif on a sarong)
I GET A RATES BILL in the jungle!
· There are five patterns an salb, including one which has the word "Nothing, printed on - STACEY'S: 'HEAD marks the in five loosi diajects. But Sr Winston is the fashionable
Old Etonian" TOM STACEY is nearing the end of his travels through largely unexplored Africa. Hə files back to England next week—and sends this message from French: Equatorial ́Afrion,
YANGO, Oubangui-Chari, pattern for the ankle-length French Equatorial Africa. “uaronge which the smarter
N the middle of Cen-African girls wear here.
tral Africa's desolaté To display the goods, the savannah landscape shopkeeper's wife has Winston somehow we did not expect go pink head les a little off- tied round her. middle. The to meet Sir Winston Chur- centre for extra chic chill. But here he is in the no, the lady cannot tell me tiny village shop at Yango, whose head it is. Oubangui-Chari, all dressed
up like a comic opera ad- miral.
He is printed on a piece of cloth, manufactured locally (that
means 400
miles away) from last year's cotton-the first that has been induced to grow here.
but
Just now it is the season for
tornadoca; and it you get caught in a tornado you get very, very wet,
bananas on her head. Off como her ion-cloth, and in a trico the bunch of bananas, halved. and threaded with twine, took its place fore and aft.
Now for lunch, no let us along to the village, market-20 feet square of baked earth to sample local produce. As usual,... everything is laid out on palm, frorid mats on the ground. Each little mat is watched over by an apparently disinterested African housewife sitting cross-legged beside it."
What's this? Toasted cock- roaches? Yes, sir; tuppence Leh-skin, without being fishy. dozen. Taste like bils of fried in
wiggly ones, little heaps? Sun-baked cater- pillars, mister: penny a pile. Well, well.
The binck
|
in
Here is a list: hippopotamus, procodtio, flying ants, grass ton, cola nuts: (they aro the local aphrodisiac), fish: heada, mohkey. Monkey is the best of that lot. There is more on E mankoy, than you, would think. Roast monkey looks like steak and tastes like it too.
+
It strikes mo we arei now just about slap in the middle of Africa, whichever way you hold your atlas. My calcula.... tions make the nearest rall- way hundreds of miles away in the Belgian Congo, notrest raté-assessor for semi-basement Data probably well over thousand miles off in soms West
African seappal city.
All of this makes a certain document, which reached'mo by devious routes of iny last mail- collecting point, Took (like Winston on the sarong) a trife out of place,
As I digest my caterpillars and beetles, and look back over this enormous, brilliant African landscape towards the jungle type region from which we have emerged, I am prompted to recall the odd edibles we have so tur sampled in Africa, with- out going out of our way to be
Most adaptive change for wet weather I have seen was creat- ed by a young woman caught in a tornado with a bunch of exotic.
Big Business Backed Tubman's Visit
AMERICANS HONOUR
SLAVE'S GRANDSON
21
By Jaequeline Engert
CONCETT
the
actual
ment" as
cpra.
tast
and
Propaganda
the
"Whereas," it began in Gothic on dark blue paper, "Whertas John Shillito, Rating Officer on behalf of the Royal Borough of Kensington
..." and would I appear, etc., etc., at 10 o'clock in the fore noon to show cause why I have not "pard". the said Rates dr Assessments so charged and assemed on mo as aforesaid,
Sorry, John-but I shall be home soon, and tunless you want to be paid in shakeskina and brass rings perhaps you would wait till then.
BAN TALK SCARES BONN
By James Irvine
Bonn.
Even the Government is be
But they have been careful to keep clear of open violence and sabotage.
New York, and
throughout his hed the gracious streets of the President Tubman during his OR
month
Would the Negro the visit
pre capital to "chéer him.” Liberian visit. One company president, in sidest be embarrassed by the flags fluttered down the lengths conjunction of
with a shipping grandson
colour bar, legalised in seven of Constitution and Penn- line, threw a lavish dinner at
VERMANS in Konrad Georgia Negra slave icen states, or prejudice against sylvardı Avenues.
New York's Waldorf Astoria was feted in America his race, common, in all states He was entertained at a ban- Hotel. No expense was spared Adenauer's newly-
north and couth?
quet given by President Elsen- on the dinner. Top artists were sovereign West German like royalty. He was wined nog
Mr Tubman worried officials hower and his cabinet minils hired for after dinner entertain Republic are scared-scared and dined in Washington by in particular by choosing to tors. The following day Pre- ment. In Detroit-motor-making by the big trial to outlaw President Eisenhower; ac visit Atlanta, now a oentre of sident Tubman entertained Mr capital of the world, where steel claimed in New York by a resistance against the recent Eleenhower at the new Liberian and rubber are consumed in vast the 600,000 strong local
historie
only Supreme Court ruling Embassy-bought luncheon, brass
quantities President Tubman Communist Party. mayoral
against segregation in schools,
May
lunched with Henry Ford II. bands and a blcker-tape Atlanta had been the president's The Negro president was ac- Liberians regard the nation parade up Broadway. mother's home. Though he did carded the sumo V.I.P treat- they call "mother country with staning to have second thoughts, Throughout the country, he not know
place who visited the country at the
the Queen Mother equal, enthusiasm. In their joy
they carried President Tubman The reason is simple enough. WILS honoured at costly where she lived, he wanted to same time. He rode to banquets and bestowed with the clly he had heard about Washington in President Elsen- he set mal for New York, Aud have been on their
triumphantly to his ship when Up to now: West German Reds
best, be On a boy.
haviour. They havet. Fcalled no fewer than nine univer- When he arrived, he did not bower's privalo plane, He was his visit here points up
de whisked about the vast Amerl whole fascinating questions of Hold mass protest meetlogs.
nates, distributed leaflets and sity degrees.
moet
Governor Who was this conquering Talmadge who was dedicating can countryside in a cavalcade American emigration to Liberia,
ing along the highway car- hero? Meet William Vaca hospital on that day. But the of screaming police
Negro leader did receive
Tilnois, Springfeld, narat Shadrach
Tubman, warm welcome from a leading Chicago, the man from a slow- 58-year-old President of newspaper the Atlanta Con- moving continent finally begged WHERE are an estimated 20,000
Good behaviour was their It said: ""The Liberia, one of the world's suitution.
Pre- to be escorted more slowly, "American Liberims." Untu only chance. Their stock with two Negro republics. He sident of Liberia is a welcome They had been driving at 80 recently they lived a fairly the voters has been so low that
We join in welcoming miles per hour. from the country him to
"It also became
exclusive, Intellectually superior there is hardly any chance that Atlanta and hope that familiar to see pictures in the existence slong the coast. Now founded in 1822 by freed his stay among
they would gain a single seat if American will be
newspapers of the
election were held are becoming... American slaves on the hot pleasant.".
more in quiet dignified, bespectacled
with the tribes inland.
morrow. west coast of Africa. His
Africen, puffing ot a large The
administreiton eri the In The South
So long as they fortoiseshell, courages young. forebears, rejected by
technically violence, however, New World, had a tough
skilled immigrants and approved the hope that when the right waa careful not to voice There was a hard core time building a nation in H
***** | timo camo for a union with any opiniin on segregation. business mixed up with the cere new arrivals get a government the fever-ridden country in New York he said: "I believe mony and entertainment. It was rant of 25 acres of land. Only East Germany they could make known to traders
a showing. and the all union
all integra principally a "business" trip. For persons of African descent are accepted for citizenship. But tion aro. But The day
good
one thing, Tubman made "Pepper Coast",
thing familiar application for more Liberians have been added. Its the only ten new "American will come when cently the United States ma
mankind will be integrated and US. aid, - Anð he mado stepped in to assist her for love and penco and happiness thorough tour of the Industrial: past ten fickle of American gotten sons. Now shrewd and respect, one for the other mid-west, uppealing for increased
dominate the human capital investment in Liberia. Negroes to Liberia where they American businessmen have thail
For the tio country on the would inevitably become part of millions of dollars invested family." in Liberian rubber and iron.'
comes
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· Getting Ready Now it looks as though they will be declared illegal, and lender Max Relmann and Ha henchmen are getting ready for
Cho Negro leader also took to West African!.coast, whose un "elite--indicates either that a change in policy.comand
population is about two and
the November elections. Here- Investments
the
the race is
They have several
a cause.
comparatively satis a visit to New Orleans,
Phalf million, might economically fed with its economie lot in highly trained sabotours at their cipal city in the state Louisiana, which confirmed its "America's Malaya", in fact.
be called a US colony the US, or it is unaware of the disposal. They have access to
on the opportunities
other men, materials and money from approval of the colour bar in
side". Ar Liberia prospers, the East Comportant, they pleture, may change. But, as More Taberian
remarked. B President Tubman Party was treated
the burning fanaticlem which o it was that William Tub-
to a floating
aboard banquet
makes it possible LL crude rubber some 21 Lud he left New York for a courtesy
·'to› persuade yacht in the fx à half million dollars worth visit to second Negro re- men to lay down their lives for 'slave In Augusta, Georgia, historie harbour at
amusually-is shipped to America In the night she was wakened
Negroes In the public and whose mother emigrated to of the Mississippi Tiver by a anell of burning.
and accounts for ten percent of south from Atlanta, in the mented the president later: I supplied the poison, I was Liberia
same state of the "deep south," lot of people told me I had Fighting her way through Miss. James's flance, you see."
"But bamo to America on a He leaned forward. amoke, unable to find her com-
don't tell anybody," he
montal state visit. And through prejudice in New Orleans, The
rubber-growing panions, she gained the outer mured. I, too, died, in the fire."
the commercial interests he re- people there gave me auch busily Investing more, Another air. She ran all the way to the
presents, he was able to tour a welcome. I hope my visit bes
American nillion freely through. the country helped. town, and reached the Aro
which is still racked by the
ere invested in mining iron ore. It is good ammunition in the foily to folerate partien who
those who avowed station more dead
America's donatio democracy," For: Jone
murthe
than alive. And the maid
cottages. One autumn hospital to find a doctor stand-
evening she was walking along a valley road in Cen tral Wales.
She woke up in the locat ing beside her bed.
screamed
by LORD DUNSANY,
"My dear lady," he said when che had told her story, "you are Mist was closing in and the victim of a hallucination. she was feeling dispirited, That firo occurred 20 years ago until I came to a village
`WANDERED through the winter countryside
„where a great House stood.
the
having looked at several un "Nonsensel" cried Dorothea, Everywhere I went I inhabitable cottages and I saw it Those two poor heard the people tailding of finding herself now some women! They must have bee six miles from the nearest burned alivalagyan tank the ghost, “It will be ferd
Soon, they said. town,
PA;
"They, were" bald the doctor hundred years gravely), "On the night of the Au fire Miss James planned to put budo poison in old May, Zachariah's thing njike and whisky"" and then“
Then she hoard a pebble fall. Clows: behind her, was, a, mnall bent woman, carrying a leather "shopping bag. Soon they were
walking and talking together.
The woman's volop whe soft
dhe i paraming lamp
iy
made them.
man, whose grandfather was the city' -juxury at the America's total rubber imports, selves economically strong, have long felt that the. Communitats -
cer holpen to break down some milford BaVE O. 10 very independent who to
$20
Adenauer's government has
beautiful homes and app
appear to ware a serious potential menace Inverted in
the machinary?. and
The U.S. government is not ment are,
¿ country. of the
Negro leider visit. democracyhe
doll of a lote the "propaganda
racial problems bequeathed by Tubman's tour was his visit to onore comport comes to the criticiss
Tha highlight of President Nearly sixty percent of Liberia "cold war"
the slaves who stayed behind Washington whereofficial United States. Total export lart racial policies. The UB In- tolerate the Communist to.becoma
900-tenth of the prejudice and laws against year was valued at over $5 formation American people,
Negroes are just now breaking: million. Because of the Liberians po- dowbu One hundred and lity So American big pularity, there was speculation thousand government workerd
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By:
Falk and Phil Davis
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