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SANTA GLAUS-"A GOOD SPORT”

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It is Christmas-but there is no need to hug the fireside. Happy people, healthy people, are those who get out into the open and have a good time. Give something this Christmas to help those you love to have a jolly time outdoors.

Tennis Racquets- -Balls, Golf Clubs- A Sporting Gun- Fishing Tackle, Ammunition, Hockey Clubs, Footballs, there is no end to the possibilities by your gift large or small..

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The English Inn

Open Arms".

A night in a goodŊinn gives re- pose a quality of stimulus. Sleep and food have here a flavour that is absent from aleep and food at & friend's house... The inn walts at the end of the journey as cer- tainly as your friend's house; yet its shelter and food come always with an agreeable sensation of accident and surprise! Too, you have at your fan all that your friend can give you; with many more conveniences and a wider range of entertainment; and with all this you are yet at the full centre of fuld Hie. In your friend's house you are shut away. but in the Inn you are a looker- on at goings and comings: you: are in contact with the present and you touch hands with the wraiths of the past and the sub- stantial mementoes of their days: and from your seat in the lounge you view the world

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but urgently-living creatures

novelists? To get the full. savour of an old inn you should come to lt at night, and best of all o winter night. or twilight, when the mists are rising and the aoul is low. and a log Are and a dinner seem to be the twin stars of human aspiration. All of us know those moments, and that is why inns were made-to stand upon the pilgrim's way with an understanding smile for the pil- | grim's weakness. They are a ågn to us to shed austerity and vigilance, and to meet and mingle "with our fellows; to turn from our various -occasions, lofty or 'low, and. to ease our common needs and common anxieties in kindly communion.

as through Juletide in France

B loophole of retreat. I be- grudge my sixpence or shiling for

the inspection of the mansions of the mansions of the great, with their Keep of the Grass and Please Do Not Touch; I consider five pounds a trifle for the privi lege of spending a night at the George of Glastonbury,the Fes- thers of Ludlow, the Lygon Arms of Broadway, or the Spread Eagle

am of Thame, where I

free to look and touch, and to walk un-. hindered up lordly staircases and to command a retinue of servitors, The ordinary Englishman's home is, not in any sense-and never was--his ·castle. An officer balliff with the proper warrant may

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enter it when he chooses. But the Englishman's inn—say. the Angel, at Grantham, or the King Arthur, at Tintagel is a castle, and every, sojourner is its lord. He may feel its traditions in his blood as certainly as the children of a great house feel the traditions of their territory.

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Your old Inn is a many-pointed star, at each point touching great event or pleasing anecdote. single inn may evoke memories of Izaak Walton, Charles 7, Walter Scott, Drunken Barnaby, Boling- broke, George Borrow, Jonathan Swift; and all these memories and traditions are yours. Isn't 1t worth five pounds to sit down to dinner with that company, or to trip over that same unseen stair In the dark passages that sent Celia Fiennes to her hands and knees? Or to use that room at the Angel Grantham, where Richard signed Buckingham's death-warrant in 1483; or sleep in that oaken, four-poster at the Saracen's Head, Southwell, where Charles slept his last night of freedom before surrendering the Scotch: or to sleep in the rooms where slept those shadowy

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Frederick George Scott

O little sprig of rosemary, I hear

the song and laughter When the boar's" Head was car- ried in, adown the armoured hall,

And the rosemary and bay Were as sweet, as new-mown

hay,

While the merriment of Yuletide

was uniting great and small

O little sprig of rosemary; I pluck

you in the garden," And my heart is sore and heavy with the cares we have to-day;

For the Christ has been among

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And the Angel Hosts have

sung us

All the happy songs of Heaven,

but they sounded far away.

O little sprig of rosemary, as I

pluck you in the garden,

In this little Gallic garden where

the brave are laid to rest,

Ah English mother weeping A sad, sad Yule is keeping, Remembering one who once was the Christ-Child on her breast. O little sprig of rosemary, I thank

you for the dreaming,

In this hallowed Gallic garden, on

this misty winter's day:

Your mission is to leaven This poor earth with thoughts

of Heaven,

When, for those brave hearts that slumber here, we fold our hands and pray.

CHRISTMAS IN IRELAND

For the visitors there are two ways of spending Christmas in Ireland-alone or as one of a crowd. Anyone in search of a rest can find a beach, a lake or a mountain valley to which he will not be lonely, for, in Ireland, the stranger, If companionable, 19 adopted by the people and "made free of their pleasant society at once. For those who prefer to 'be in the midst of typical Christmas enjoyment, in the best modern. hotel spirit, Bundoran in Donegal, Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown) in Dublin, Rosslare Harbour in Wex- ford; Glenagarifi in Cork. Klarney in Kerry are some of the places where there is plenty of life and movement at Christmas with golf, hunting and fine walking country at the door.

the purchase of the turkey, with a slight digression relative to the purchase of previous turkeys on former Christmas-days, which grandmamma corroborates in the minutest particular. Uncle George tells stories, and carves poultry, and takes wine, and jokes with the children at the side-table, and are winks at the cousins that making love, or being made love

In the "real" Irish parts of the to, and exhilarates everybody with his good-humour and hospitality: guage is still spoken along with country, where the ancient lan- and when, at last, a stout servant English, that is in Donegal, parts staggers in with a gigantic pud-

of Connemara, Kerry and Cork, ding, with a sprig of holly in the

and in a few other places, one will top, there is such a laughing, and see the old setting for Christ- shouting, and clapping of little mas unchanged. On Christmas chubby hands, and kicking up of night, a lighted candle will burn fat, dumpy legs, as can only be in every "window of the white- equalled by the applause with washed farm-houses. The farmer's which the astonishing teat of children will be trying to count pauring lighted. brandy into how many candle-lights they can mince-ples Is received by the see from their own home. A larger younger visitors. Then the "des- candle will be set in a bod of turf. sert--and the wine and the

or turnip for holder. This will be fun!

the Buch beautiful speeches,

Christmas candle," to burn and such songs, from Aunt Mar. every night until the New Year. Cups and saucers will be upon

for

garet's husband, who turns out to the table, between meals, be such a nice man, and o ati wandering souls from Purgatory teritive to grandgamma! Even

grandpapa not only sings his an- who may revisit their own homes.

nual song with unprecedented vigour, but, on being honoured

All of this older Ife of Ireland, co-existing in the midst of and with the modern life, la one of

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with .. unanimous encore, ac- the delightful discoveries "for the cording to annual custom, actual-- Christmas visitor who moves ly comes out with a new. one little out of the beaten, tracks, which nobody, but grandmamma'

ever heard before; and a young

scapegrace of a cousin, who has CHRISTMAS IN HUNGARY been in some disgrace' with thè

old, people, for certafin heinous

the

sins of omission and ceramieson Christmas is a quiet day for neglecting to call, and persist-Hungarians. Christmas Day brings ing in drinking Burton ale-as the decorated tree, but the New. tonishes everybody into convul- Year's Eve is the real time of en- sions of laughter by volunteering national dishes and music are tértainment. On that night the

most extraordinary comic followed by two luck-bringing " songs. that ever were heard. And customs. As the clock strikes, a thus the evening passes, in a strain chimney sweep enters the room. of rational good-will and cheer and gives everyone present a Talness, doing more to awaken chance to take a bristle from his the sympathies, of every member brush. Carried throughout the of the party in behalf of his year this will bring good fortune to neighbour, and to perpetuate the the owner.

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good feeling during the ensuine Another custom brings into the year, than half the homilies that room New Year sucking pigs,and have ever been written by half to touch them gives an added the divines that have ever Eved. chance of happiness.

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