... SPARKS FROM THE YULE LOG Christmas crackers were invented eighty years ago. At that time they consisted of coloured paper tied in the middle and containing sweets, Most Christmas trees grow at the rate of one foot per season. Mistletoe grows principally ...

... SCOTTISH LOOMS HUM AGAIN. CONTINENT BUYING FROM US FABRICS WHICH THEY USED TO SELL Thousands of looms in Yorkshire Lancashire, Scotland and East Anglia now making furnishing fabrics | imported from Germany, France and Italy, Mr Fred Mills, Chairman of ...