... provide sugar for the Christmas cakes and pudding out of the small weekly ration. * A NUTS AND FRUIT CHRISTMAS. Dr. Josiah Oldfield asks me to ask readers celebrate Christmas in accordance with the spirit of the first Christmas, which was to bring peace ...

... clear from collieries any more inland traffic before Christmas, and this w ill jirobablv lean loss to the inland consumer of fb least 20,011.') tons anthracite coal, or including the three days Christmas holi'Uys. 35,000 tons. There can only lie one enormous ...

... lie glad on all sume, large small, our readers core to -Ed. B.G.] Fir, —In euppoii: our Ixird Mayor’s admirable suggestion Christmas dinner table collection for his Famine Fund, let us ask our cleverest schoolboys to make calculation of what amount we might ...

... A CHRISTMAS GARDEN. In a garden in Maidstone tbere are in bloom: Wallflowers. Pansies. Chrysanthemums. Polyanthus. Yellow jessamine. Primroses. Poses. Marigold, White arabis. Some crocus bulbs which a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders sent ...

... maintenanco .order granted wile. RUSH OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS. Tradesmen Pleased 'with Plenty of Custom. Even Birmingham shopkeepers themselves, who being interested were hopeful, never expected such a rush Christmas shoppers. “All it seems necessary to this ...

... APARTMENTS WANTED AITKR. Christmas. Gentleman wouiu like to reca ved Paying Ouco., elderly lady in quiet, refined home, nice diatr-et, baron counlrt ; hreakfasta oaiy daring and no ojolting Sunday: away ail oaj.,—Plearo write Bor 1,1 O’, Birmingham APARTMENTS ...

... OPENING BOXING NIGHT FRIDAY) 7. MATINEES DAILY TWO WEEKS 3. Box Office Open 10 10, 'Phone Mirl. PALACE THEATRE, HORDES LEY. CHRISTMAS EVE. VEDNI’SDAV, Dec. Mtb. ONCE NIGHTLY 7.15. MATINEES 2.13. and Mrs. F. G. KIMBERLEY present LEON “BABES I WO O I>.” Prom ...

... Copenhagen detdroyer some time yesterday, and that he expected in Lor;don to-day Wednesday. will return Copenhagen after Christmas, but the date oi hie departure is not yot settled. ...

... put 'etland Yard Ins track. DITTY '47 CHRISTMAS DAYS. .Mr. George Matthews who has just re- trom Acton (G-W.E.) Station cabin, occupied the cabin signalman for Mrs -a “one job” record for railway —and every Christmas i he has on duty. Mr. Matthews, now ...

... GOODS BY AIR. CHRISTMAS DELICACIES BROUGHT FROM PARIS. A prominent West End firm utilised the Handley-Page London Pans air service yesterday to transport a substantia] consignment weighing (K)0lbs. of Christmafi deliciicies from Paris for sale in London ...

... PANTOMIME. Glasgow, which is more concerned with Hogmanay than Christmas, has already begun its pantomime, but south of the .Tweed, Boxing-day provides the traditional first night. When was th« first pantomime? It would seem that no exact date or place ...

... taken ill and expired shortly afterwards. W alsall Mayor intimated yesterday that lie and Mayoress were not sending out Christmas cards, but. tendered their best wishes, through the Press, to the whole the burgesses. Mrs. Dobbs of Hose Cottage, Femhill ...