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... Snow Fall When flowers and leaves are fallen, winter covers the earth with a new white blooming The sun sets over Davos valley and the hamlet of Monstein Heerkamper We would never have dreamt of having Christmas without snow in those days/' says Lady Addle of Eigg in her further memoirs (p. 8), but this light-headed grande dame says little more of the winter's loveliest feature, her concern ...
... Lady Addle Remembers Christmas Some further recollections from the Memoirs of Lady Addle of Eigg By Mary Dunn Author of Lady Addle Remembers SEVENTY Christmases! What a num ber to look back upon! How many turkeys, how many plum puddings, how many-- of latter years-- bottles of bismuth? For we Coots all have the delicate digestions of the nobly bred-- so different from these new peers who seem ...
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... Charities at Christmas Some Deserving National Causes FIRST among the Christmas charities at home that we urgently recommend you not to forget, however troubled the farther horizons, is Dr. Barnardo's Homes. Under their Charter No destitute child ever refused admission, Dr. Barnardo's have in seventy-four years given a home to over 124,000 destitute children, and since the outbreak of war ...
... By Peter Traill MR. GIBSON'S woman-who-did-for- him came into his bedroom, or, rather, she advanced into it, because once she had made up her mind where her duty lay, she did it with a reckless abandon that is the mark of the brave, if foolhardy, company commander. Mr. Gibson, lying in his narrow bed, had marked her progress down the passage from the moment when she had banged his breakfast ...
... The Snow Maiden High Above Europe's Clashes, She Laughs Meerkamper ...
... Christmas Tales The Ballet Takes and Transforms the Children of its Sister, Pantomime Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Jean Bedells and Frank Staff in The Sleeping Princess The White Cat and Puss-in-Boots Molly Brown and Frederick Ashton in The Sleeping Princess Photographs by Anthony Columbine, lovely and wayward, and the darting, mischievous Harlequin have mimed and prinked and danced their way ...