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THE CHINA MAIL: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24,

FEATURES

FOR

BOYS AND

GIRLS

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 "

E

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.

•

10

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

80

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

•

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