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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1947. DAB, FLOUNDER AND THE PARKERS GET TOGETHER

IL COUP

AND COMPLAIN

When there

was no

Christmas Day

BY: M. L. STOLLARD

LWAYS, in theso days of Christmas week, one hears tired people gambling about the burden of Christmas!

They would like to escape. They would like to run away. The housewife, with the duty of making provision for several days of closed shops, especially feels this fatigue.

Yet I wonder if Scrooge and Mrs Scrooge would really like to have no Christmas at all?

If so they would have been happy once-under the Commonwealth In England.

In the seventeenth century, Cromwell's Parliament passed a law forbidding the celebration of Christmas as popish and seditious, and commanding it to be spent. ns a day of fasting and repentance,

Even the church service was abolished, and the people were ordered to spend the day indoors in sackcloth and ashes. No wonder poor John Evelyn described one of these Christmas Daya 113 "the mournfullest day that ever in my life I have known."

SITTING ON THE FENCE . . . . . BY NATHANIEL GUBBINS

YOUR UNCLE NAT FACES CHRISTMAS (OR CAN HE?)

Bays England will TELL" said the Spar- it's back to the rain gutter at mid-risks of the comparatively honest garet's father

burglar and bank robber who is never be great again till beer is back row, setting back in olght?"

"They'll have had their fun,” said often forced into his way of life by at twopence a pint and whisky at his little armchair his

wite

economie circumstances and at least threepence a nlp." in The Nest, it'll soon be over."

"If you think that's fun, why shows a certain amount of courage. "What an awful way to talk don't you go with them?" asked the about Christmas," said his Sparrow. wife, "it would serve you right his wife.

"And leave you all alone?" said if I spent the holidays with my

"You needn't worry about mother."

sald the Sparrow,

"It would probably serve you right, too," said the Sparrow.

"I can't think why I take so much trouble making things nice and comfortable when et's not appreciated."

"Nor do I," said the Spar-

Tow.

"Every Christmas I've work

me,"

"If I left you alone," said his wife, "you'd I spend all your time at that awful Tree Tops Club."

"I shall do that in any case," said the Sparrow.

"All Christmas?" said his wife, a tear starting in her eye.

דיי

I might come home for a couple of snacks," said the Sparrow, pre- paring to leave.

"Are you going there now?" asked

his wife.

"Certainly," said the Sparrow.

training always need

before

"1

Christmas."

Moreover, whereas the bank rob- ber robs the rich, the poultry pil- ferer robs the sick and the poor and the little people who cannot afford black market prices.

Of course. In a sone community such people. If caught, would be but in an insane com- hanged, munity such as this they hang poor perverts and people lunatics and who commit murder because they are driven mad by injustice or in- tolerable irritation.

dio

All this may sound strange com- ing from a turkey, but you must remember that those about to often see things more clearly than those who have a reasonable expec- tation of life

A goose of my acquaintance once

although me

"What ought to be decided is what husband's clothing proportion of a coupons should go towards buying household linen, towels, and dish

cloths."

Suspected houses were rudely ransacked for such "heathenish emblems" as holly, mistletoe or ivy, and larders were searched for con- traband Chrislmans dishes, for in those days-

"Plum broth was Popish, and

mince ple

Of that was flat idolatry."

This change was most noticeable in London where the City appren- tices and children had been in the habit of ploying their Christmas games in the streets.

We read that there was "a most at silence" in the strange and

were church bella Strand. The hushed. St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey lifted their white roofs over the Thames, but the crowds happy people in holiday altire no longer poured in and out of their porches."

Brave old England did not tako In down. it

lying altogether "You decide that by taking them Ipswich and Oxford, where families out of his ration bool."

had been imprisoned for decorating their homes with. greenery, the "My husband says that if we lose people rose in a body to protest such extreme mensures. the next Test match he hopes the against cricket. reporters won't keep on Soldiers were sent down from moaning about bad luck and saying London, and there was " a world England was the better side. He of skull-cracking." saya if you lose a game you lose it and there's nothing more sata.”

to be

In London the Government com- manded that shops and markets

be

and should

opened

business German who carried

usunt 18 "I believe it was a

on said we always thought of our de- Christmas Day, but the people re- rents as victories, and it seems a pity fured to obey, to prove him right."

and

ed my claws to the bone clean- ing and cooking and doing the

she was "Brenda's husband's going on said decorations," his wife Letter from a turkey oily puzzled and frightened by just for Christmas to avoid her au- sent to enforce order, "It's no Christmas for me I

life as she saw it in the farmyard,. ful pics." can tell you."

a week

"If it's no Christmas

you," said the Sparrow, "and am not the turkey who wrote

you just before last Christmas. He found I don't appreciate it, what's it was executed and sold in the black farmer

execution.

during

demanded

Instead their customary holiday and The disturbances a plum puddinga,

spread rapidly, soldiers were again and thus storted the famous "Plum Pudding "If only the Russians played cric-Riots," which were repeated year by

year.

DEA

EAR SIR,

for

even

·

As you must have guessed, I everything cleared up about to before Christmas, when she

it possible to excuse the key, we could have a Test with them and n thoroughly good row in the

helped nothing arranging her

Possibly who was

open."

"They'll have to learn baseball cause of the banished. Stuarta so much as this ill-advised attempt to As this is the last letter I shall first Christmas he spent so much abolish the Christmas season.

the

all about?"

"Christmas is . Christmas," said his wife.

"And Michaelmas is Michael

market almost before the ink was dry on the paper.

his

mus," said the Sparrow. "So body would not be disposed of by far as I know, yours is the only should hold general elections at in the reign of Henry VILL, when

what?"

That nice Mr Robin's going

"said his wife.

"Good," said the Sparrow. "He says he wants to give his wife a break as she needs it."

and

which column

'gir

You may be glad to hear that he

when The only other occasion. met his end with considerable for ever write (indeed the only letter

and lost his job." work

Christmas was not celebrated was titude, his last with being that his I have ever written) I thought I doing good deeds that he neglected would address it to you because, so

"Of course, I always think they that it would pro- racketcers, but

prints correspon

Christmas time to prove how much the young King, then at the height of his popularity, lay dangerously vide Christmas cheer for some peor donee from animals and birds. persona or patients in a hospital.

£11. life I have nico people realty do love each other." During my short I

Brenda's husband, "It's hard on kiddies hospital. He preferably D

heen one of your constant readers,

fast he won't be The church bells were silenced, was passionately fond ut kiddies,

the City, and feel that yours is the best because if he's on,

drink anything.

straw was spread in That, I believe in the wish of all

medium for drawing attention to a able to drin right-minded turkeys-at-this-season pubile scandal, though I am aware "My husband says this is the time games and music were forbidden, of the year. Although we would that any opinions offered here will of the year when all club servants and a strict fast was observed.

throughout the country. rather live (we are young have no effect whatever, on poultry calls too big for the oven you "I'll say she does," said the healthy, are we not?) we are

"If it's too

This Christmas has always been pilferers who, if they can read at Sparrow.

signed to our fate, knowing it is the

Do wo eavy racing news,

with parsley sauce for Boxing Day." quoted and remembered as

"I knew 10C should be talking Silent Christmas." "They're going to a lovely only reason for our brief existence. all, probably read nothing but the hack off the legs and boil them up

While hoping your wife hotel by the sea and live in the

But we are indignant when

family are well and wishing you about food in the first two minutes our ancestors in this predicament? rain gutter."

"Father Christmas with realise that we are often making the merriest Christmas, may I say

jden of modern the the supreme sacrifice, not for the that, next to appearing on the tabio atom bomb is my benefit of deserving people to whom of some poor family's house or on civilisation."

"Brenda's husband will have all wish a happy Christmas, but the plates of hospital patients, 1 crumbs and Christmas cake at the benefit of thleves and cheats would like to appear on yours?

Smart Alees who and hasty little live by making dirty little deals in public-houtes and at street corners and by taking advantage of shortage of food.

"What a break," said Sparrow.

"There'll be plenty

the hotel," said hia wife, "ao she won't have to do a thing but enjoy herself."

"At Sparrow.

what?" asked

the

wo

for

we

the

We suppose it la difcult for the authorities to bring these parasites "Well," said his wife, they to justice. They do not take can hop down the sea front in

the morning,"

"Yes?" said the Sparrow,

"And hop back again for

"What lunch?" asked the

Α

lunch," said his wife.

Sparrow,

the

I remain, Sir,

Yours faithfully,

A. Turkey.

and

a toy

"The

to

stick out his fast till after the New Year in case ale trica to make a hap

Monty Sends Greetings

914

When some people talk about Just idea they've having a new

"In his book Margaret's father 6TN the new edition of his book says we should never have lost India 'The Battle of Britain,' Mar- if Cripps hadn't been a tectotaller."

Party conversation pinched it from somebody else." The Chief of the Imperial General

•

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

WAGGLING PARVA.

ing sound case to a deafening din. Epitaph.

T 7.27 the mechanics had the whole fabric quivered like an

Viscount Floid Marshal Staff,

the following Montgomery, sonds Christmas message to all ranks of the Army:

my "On this Christmas Day, 1 send greetings and good wishes to every oficer and man in the British Army. The year 147 will be remembered. by all of us

a year in which shortage and austerity been the order of the day: The.

as a hard and difficult year. It has been

Army's task has not been an easy one.

put the finishing touches to ron Jelly in an earthquake. Then Beneath this stone there lies a splu,

n rending roar announced that the Who did not die that men might live, || have Silenco fell over lover had sunk home. into its bell- "There's sure to be something left their work. over," said his wife, "and perhaps the countryside. A greenfinch socket, releasing all the pent-up But yet, in dying, did some good,

"Á By giving better worns their food. With the return to conditions of peace, it has been necessary to allow the great has they could get inside the hotel for flow over a chimney. Some energy of the sinister monster.

war machine to run down. This Christmas-tea."

What do I care?

meant reduction in the size and shape thousand throats.

of our armed forces all over the world. brings "And

say how do to the hotel where in a distant yard a cat gap of excitement went up from a

was sick. Two old women

Little Bo-Pent

which WOMEN are lowering their skirts Such an undertaking inevitably said the Sparrow.

with dueuities and troubles you always look on the worst coughed nervously.

and men are shortening their cause inconvenience and discomfort. It DAD-DY, isn't there a Conven-ti- alde. of everything," said his wife,

on which says that pris-on-cr trousers. Many well-dressed, men, in is to the credit of all ranks that this Then at 7.30 the Doctor's head ap-

ing has in no way affected the spirit of the home when order to save material, are wearing Army. We have continued to shoulder | "and after that they might stay long

tho now half-length trouser which our responsibilities and remained un- enough for the Christmas dinner and peared at a porthole, and he cried of war must be sent

On the peace comes? an order to a mechanic, dancing."

Sus- swerving in our loyalties. Dimcult times No, boy. It says when peace has exposes the top of the sock. "Don't tell me the Robins dance," stroke of 7.32 there was a heavy,

pender makers are delighted, since are by no means over. There is much which announced been for-mat-ly signed. grinding sound,

Army of burs, which is now the Na- the Sparrow.

back Is-n't that a law-yers quib-ble, no man will like to go about with yet to be dane. We Have to forge this fighting Balder Swatch it said his that the Doctor was inuling wife, it's ever so lovely watching the runge-lever to set the fabulous dad-by, in the case of our German his socks down and a great hairy toned Army into an efficient

leg showing. Why don't men also machine corporating our Regular, and Territorial forces. Let us face the domi= motion. As the levar pria-on-ers? The war is ov-er.

Yes. But

take to little pimple-hats,, perched ing year fully aware of this, all the more with the band playing and every-rocket In

came back inch by inch, the nodule-

A tiny bowler determined to continue to play our part thing."

Per-haps, dad-dy, we are hang- on the forehead? "And if they're not eaten by the flanges clipped the bracket-edges

can worn thus would be most distin with courage and firm resolve. In this death by the with a series of loud elleks, and the ing on to them so that they

guished, or a cap the size of a half-19 anos 200 or QA KUM the re-building at the nation. Good luck caf or tramped to

to you all." dancers, or driven Insane by the siny-wires were snapped clear by an watch Dem-o-cra-cy at work.

The grind- That's enough, boy! Go to sleep. crown, perched above the car. band," eald the Sparrow, "I suppose automalle gedge-drill.

By Ernia Bushmiller

NANCY Business Is at a Standstill

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MORE

I WONDER WHAT'S DELAYING

HIM

HE'S BEEN. GONE MORE

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