... THE uso It! with which the stores are packed. Ordinary fare must suffice. Even then his Christmas means in thousands of cases short commons till next pay day. Christmas, a time of rejoicing since our barbarous ancestors worshipped Mithra, god of the sun ...

... Dance at Hall each Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday. Dec. 28th, at 7 pan., a lecture. SOUTHWARK S.S.P., 4 York Street, Walsorth Road. Christmas Eve, 7 p.m., Social and Dance. Sunday, Dec. 28th, 7.30 p.m., Lecture by F. Willi*. ...

... - The ancient Christmas spirit has gone. The Christmas of the stage-coach of redcoated tipplers in the Manor Hall, of rosyfaced peasants dragging in the Yule log, of wassailers in the orchard, of the village choir entertained by the squire; ail these ...

... can. Ah ! there's the rub. Even in happy England we have a shrewd suspicion that as far as the majority are concerned, the Christmas plenty and good cheer will be more apparent than real; while those of us who are able to sit down to our poultry and plum-pudding ...