... CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CKRISTPJAS NUMPEfRS. itt the production of these annual gifts w-e hail thought that designers hail exaaustel ti!e resources of art ; bue year after year fresh islscus show that the worlds of nature and of imagination ihave new beauities ...

... CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. THE BOROUGHI HOSPITAL. A cheerful but quiet Christmas Day was spent at tse Fever Hospital. For some days previously preparations had been in progress, and by Christmas Eve the wards were gaily decorated. The ceilings were heavily ...

... OHRISTMAS IN PARTS. VTe' correspondent of the Pall .iUal Gazette writes on Christmas 'Day :-The weathcr is warm, unsenubnable, and gloom'y, but tliis has not prevented the Cititens and their wives and children from turning out en masse to see and be seen ...

... CHRISTMAS IN VTENNA. The Tihera correspondent at Vienna telegraphs on Christmas night as ?? exceptionally mild Christmas weather bas been of material benefit to the Vienna tradespeople. The reports already to hand show that the shops have in general done ...

... take some measure of Christmas cheer into as many poor homes as possible on the 23rd inst., to give a breakfast and Christmas gift to some hundreds of poor children on Christmas morntig, and a dinner, entertainment, and Christmas gift to some hundreds ...

... interest:ng of our Christmas experiences-was yesterday a disappointment. There were no Christmas decorations to be seen, and many other things that one generally has to tell about at Christmas tine were want- ig. The subscriptions to the Christmas-tree fund and ...

... CHRISTMAS IN BIRMINGtHAM. Yesterday, Christmas wa-ss duly observed in Birmingham, ani the majority of the establislhments, together with the bafnks, will remain closed this day (Saturday), and a few tradesmen have notified their intention of extending ...

... THE CHRISTMAS TREE. Of all trees, the common spruce fire is best adapted It make a Christmas tree, because of its horizontal growti and evergreen foliage, the dark character of which cue trasts well with the brilliancy when the candles art lighted. The ...

... our great annual festivity must be content to be overhauled and to frankly meet the question, Is Christmas a failure ? Still, wve think Father Christmas need have no fear of the enquiry. If by the suggestion of the ques- tion is meant that, like other ...

... CHRISTMAS IN BIRMINGHIAM. Qur jolly old friend Father Christmas has been In, relinOP the roast most royally during the past few dayst Old and young, willy-nilly, seem to have bowed their necks one by one to his easy yoke. As C] tjie gracious season has ...

... their Christmas in the hospital. Many of them are already looking forward to realising, perhaps for the first time, and it may be for the last, their childish dreams of a Merry Christmas. l Christmas presents of toys, pictures, and books, Christmas trees ...

... . CHRISTMAS APPEkLS. CHILDREN'S EIMIIGiRATION 11HOME1. PU the EDITOI1 Of til DAILY POST. : :Sir-Christmas` with its traditions of bounty to.*ards thie poor and touiards charitable institetions alsois at hanld. . leat the Emigration Borne, after elcv en ...