... By Fertlinantl JTtiohy THE fifth Christmas last time, the war was over. Woodrow Wilson was being feted in Rome, and Lloyd George had just seen off Foch and Clémenceau from Victoria. Yet, if victory capitals acted madly, the Allied vanguard on the Rhine was damp and subdued, reflective and full of memories, as befits Christmas as well as any organised frivolity. And there is a high chance ...

... Old Tales Re- told A Christmas Tragedy m The Escape from hfaples of King Ferdinand and Queen Caroli7ie on Nelsons Flagship Va?iguard By F. Matania, r.i. Fp M: J Jk I THAT part of Italy which is just now drawing breath after the hurricane of war, under the occupation of the Anglo- American Army, passed through the same period of unrest, revolution, internal disorder and peril of invasion less ...

... #1 ^5- C(XV%*Lj CrU>1 C^O-CriC ONLY the rich and the lucky are likely to have a real goose to cook this Christmas, so, the culinary use of the term being irrelevant for the moment, this is a reminder of other ways of cooking your goose, or of not cooking it, if you want the festivities to be really festive. Half the fun of Christmas lies in looking forward to nice things. Half the ...

... Turn-about Woolly Wear it this way as a Cardigan, liaek to Front as a Juniper MATERIALS 9 oz. Argosy 3-ply pure Botany wool; 1 pair each Nos. 9 and 11 needles. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34-36 in. length, 19 in. sleeve seam, 19 in. TENSION 7 st. to 1 in. in width. PATTERN 1st row. P. (right side of work). 2nd row. Knit. Repeat these two rows once. 5th row. P. 6, *k. 7 in the next st. by ...

... Don't Put Uj) With Break JyOtiUj vIlAflftlWL d ttlH£L Undo the small screws in the bake- I lite top. The plug will then come [I (J 0 apart, revealing the terminal points around which the two ends of wire are wound. Undo the screws in each terminal. With a knife carefully clean off the outside covering from one end of the wire until the bare ends of wire are revealed. You will find there are ...

... MADE BY C. J. CLARK. LTD. MADE BY C. J. CLARK LTD. and by Clarks (Ireland) Ltd. Dundalk. Retailers throughout the country. B^W/rre'.s a shoe with a Llama fleece lining. jlffjBKII A warm shoe, with hinged sole of wood. '1, f I j 1 1 1 1 1 i i nffij And the bright coloured suede j|i||tPlMlllllll]lllfllllflilM ■P' Out of which it is made ^lllll| IfjfjfW IVill let the foot breathe as it should. ...

... I JVhere The H eart n\ The world is full of sentimentalists. Even the toughest people have their vulnerable spots. Some of us are sentimental about dogs others about moonlight on a lake. We have our differences of opinion about these things, but there is one point at which opinion converges, and that is upon the sentimental appeal of Home. Christmas has its own peculiar stimulus in this sense. ...

... Qhristmas giving s NEVER before in our lifetime has Christmas depended so utterly on the individual effort. You can have a real Christmas-hater's season with every excuse in the world; or with a little ingenuity and work you can still make it as thrilling and loving and giving as usual. Forget those accumu lative instincts that the war has fostered, and, if you are a town-dweller, send some of ...

... ji THESE are hard times for present-giving and gifts for children are a severe tax on the imagination. At the same time, good may come of it if the extra thought that giving demands just now should make an end of those haphazard gifts with which we were all afflicted once and from which children most particularly suffered. If we look back upon the times when, at Christmas, children were ...