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. During all the Joyous festivities M the Cristmes Season. I. cigar- em butt. a. match. a screenless fire- place, or e faulty electrical circuit may at any time "change the joy and gladness into heartbreak as it mg in many homes last year throughout Canada.

' An even greater tragedy is that most of these fires could have been avoided by following a. few 5;mplG rules. A little ell”: 030 may save a home-yours.

Two factors contribute to the umger of the Christmas Season. lmsrly, added decorations are too often not flameproofed. Secondly. we increased tempo of entertain- Inent increases the hazard from misplaced cigarette butts and gift mappings whiph. will blaze like Lnder if illllum ' Let's look at a few safety eug- rcst.0ns: '1. Use flameproofed decorations. For greatest safety. many manu- iacturcrs produce flameproof ma- terials that were tested and clas- siiled by Underwriters' Labora- mries, and these products beer the familiar Underwriters' label as your guide to safety.

2. In selecting the tree, pick. one illai. is small. A small. well-formed tree can be decorated easier end more attractively then a. large one and does not produce the same laZ3l”d. To preserve the tree. piece .1 in water or moist earth. there- bv keeping the needles from dry- mg out. Dry Christmas tree needles are a dangerous fire hazard and a my tree should not be given house loolll. To further help preserve your tree, keep it in a cool corner away from drafts.

3. Avoid decorations of paper end candles on the tree. Here again. many of the electrical decorations and Christmas tree lights bear the label of the Canadian Standards Association or the Underwriters Laboratories. signifying that they have successfully ,. ed rigid fire hazard tests.

4. Watch your electrical circuits. All the added decoration lights may threaten to overload the cir- ruit in your house. If this hep- pens, you can either have qualified electricians put in new circuits. bring extensions in from circuits ihst are -not heavily loaded. or scale down your decorative scheme to fit the load your circuits will hear. Remember. the fuses are there for your safety and install- lug heavier fuse is an invitation for fire. And this menace is always too ready to accept, leaving its trail of grief behind. '

5 After your Christmas enter- raining, check your furniture for lighted cirgarettcs. A butt will stay smouldering under the sofa cush- .on for hours and come to life in the desd'of night.

6. Remember. children and candles don't mix. If you must use randles; keep them out of the children's reach. Better still. use ihe electric variety and be certain

7. And on Christmas Day (moth- ers. this will be your chore) pick up those, gift wrspplngs as soon as possible. When they are safe in the garbage can. we know they can't add to a fire under the tree.

obey these simple ruin and ihose which your own Firs De- partment will give you. Remember your Fire Department stands ready in the background, supported by national safety organisations such as Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada. Dominion Board of In- -lursnce Underwrlters.' Dominion Fire Prevention Association and Canadian Standards Association. honing that you end yours will Jtave the merriest (and safest) Jhristmas ever.

gilhemical Solution i.Protecis C hristmas

-Trees From Flames

. To fireproof your Christmas tree. ;.lihlCll is still s, hssard even with friectrlc lights, select your tree Vfnur to six days before you intend in decorate it. Then weigh the tree and buy one-fourth as many Jiounds of ammonium sulphate as 1h! tree weighs. This chemical is fnveilable in most stores that sell sends and fertilisers. '

-. For each pound of ammonium iiilnhate use i 1-: pints of water '0 make the fireproofing solution. Jiilx. the solution in something tall and narrow that win hold the tree ."DF1sht. Then saw off the tree diagonally so as to give a large cut surface. set the tree in the solu- llon in a cool piece. away from ihe direct sunlight, and leave it

there until most of the solution is absorbed.

iChn'slmas Tragedy

. TWO of the worst accidents in .ihs history of'ths railways in Brit- glln occurred during the Christmas giesson. On December llth. ifll. e Zj9l'l'lilc gale swept Scotland. and iii! the wintry darkness of tr-.t .g'"ldIl! evening the lidinburgh to itilndee mail train crashed in des- :ructlon as part of the Tsy Bridge . -.::"'Pled into the raging river for ; low. No one saw the train hurtle ,'0 its doom; carrying '10 passengers 4"” crew to death. It was not nlgltil the following morning. when 3 ' Isle had suuldod. that the

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by Violet M. Williams

Pennytop. the elf, looked at the laden table. It was covered w.:h all things needed to make Christ- mss s. happy time; presents to wrap. cards to write. mince pics to make and the Christmas tree to dress.

Pennytop groaned.

"we shall never get through all thisrwork by Christmas Eve." he sighed.

The door opened er! in hustled Pip, Pennytop's friend, who lived with him.

"1 don't believe you have done a thing, Pennytop!" he said in- dignantly. "I have cleaned the house and done all the shopping. but what have you done?"

"There is so MUCH to do!"

grumbled Pennytop. "Of course there is.” retorted Pip. "And why? Because you sit and look at things instead of working hard. Now I am off to gather the holly and mistletoe. You must have made the mince- piee by my return."

when Pip had gone Pennytop sumped further down into his chair and stirred the flour in the baking bowl with his finger.

"I am not strong enough to do all this work." he complained to himself.

He said it so often that he be- gan to wonder if it were true and he went across to the mirror to see how he looked. He looked very well indeed until he had the idca of dubbing flour on to his round pink cheeks! Then indeed he did see a pale and poorly-looking little elf peeping at him! He staggered cheerfully to his bed.

"Even Pip will feel sorry for me now." he thought, gleefully. as he snuggled down.

Pip hustled cheerfully in with an srmful of gay holly and dainty mistletoe. when he saw PennytoD'I pale face peering glumiy over the bed covers he was most alarmed.

"Poor. poor Pennytop." he cried. "I must bring the Wise Women to make you better."

"No. noi" cried Pennytop.

But Pip had gone and now Pennytop did not feel quite as cheerful. The Wise Woman was very wise and often saw through Pennytop's little tricks.

"But I am pale," thought Penny- top. anxiously. and he rubbed on a little more flour to make quite certain.

"Hmmmmml” frowned the Wise Women, rubbing her pointed chin. "He is pale. isn't he? I had better give him some medicine."

she thrust her hand into the air. uttered a few magic wards and pulled down a bottle of blue medi- cine.

"One good dose after a large meal." she said. sternly, and off she went.

This was just the sort of treat- ment Pennytop liked. He enjoyed the meal and even the medicine tested nice. Then he settled down for a pleasant snoose whilst poor

Pip tidied up. Later Pennytop wakened up.

"How derk is has grown!" he thought.

But it was not dark. He was

under the bed clothes. He tried to pull them over his head but the sheets had grown so heavy that he had quite a struggle to climb out of them. The spots on the patches of the patchwork quilt were now so large that each was as big as Pennytop himse' . Penny- top shouted for Pip and when he came in he looked like a giant. Then Pennytop knew that it was not everything grown large but he, poor Pennytop, who had grown small!

"Run for the Win Woman at once." he begged Pip. "1 must have taken too much medicine!"

soon Pip came panting back with another bottle of medicine. bright pink this time.

"It is alright," he gasped. "The Wise woman says it is all part of the treatment, and there is an- other bottle to make you grow."

Pennytop gulped down the new medicine and perched himself on top of the pillow waiting to grow. Sure enough before long he was his normal size. Kind Pip clapped his hands dellghtedly.

"There. Pennytop!" he "Now you are your oldself."

Pennytop sighed thankfully and slid down inside the bed clothes.

"That has made me feel more ill than ever." said he, wondering if there was still enough flour on his face to make him pale. "I shall have to rest, and I should like a nice cup of tea, Pip."

As he spoke the word "rest" Pennytop began to grow some more. He grew so much that he had to bend his knees to keep his feet in bed!

"The Wise Woman must have made a mistake this time." he cried. "Do go and tell her. Pip!"

Off his friend hurried. leaving Pennytop falling out of ,bed as fast as he scrambled back. he was so much too big for it. This time a large pill came back from the Wise Woman. ”

"Swallow that!" panted Pip. "The Wise Woman says its all part of the treatment."

"I hope it will stop me from falling out of bed." said Pennytop. crossly, as he swallowed the sticky round pill. .

"That is Just what hie Wise Wo- man said it would do." declared

Pip.

Pednytop shrank again but he still had not learned his lesson. He snuggled down and waited for tired Pip to fetch him a cup of tea.

"Here you are." said Pip, cheer. fully. "sit up!"

Pennytop tried but he couldn'ti

"rm stucki" he cried. "I can't sit upi"

"well I neverl" said tip. "The Wise Woman does mean you to have a good reetl"

Pip went off and Pennytop lay frowning. This was not very nice. He did want to sit up for meals. Meanwhile Pip hustled back and began to dress the tree. which is always fun. Then he made the mince pies s.nd ate a steaming hot one. with Pennytop longing for one too. Then Pip hung up the holly end he looked as if he were having such a good time - as indeed he was - that Pennytop began to wish that he had not dodged all the happy. gay work there is to do at Christmas!

Tears fell down his cheeks and made two pink paths through the flour as the Wise Women popped her head around the door.

"Oho!" she exclaimed. when she MW Pennytoifs stripped cl1ee' s. "Are you cured. young man?"

"Oh. yes!" subbed Pennytop. "Do let me get upl" In less time than it takes to tell he was out of bed and running around helping Pip.

The Wise Woman ate a mince pie and left Pennytop and Pip two parcels to open on Christmas Day. then off she went about her magic -leaving two very busy and very happy little elves!

(The characters in this story are entirely imaginary. No reference is intended to any living person or to any public or private company.)

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(Copyright N.!'.L.)

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G. at "C.1”1risTtmas Neither dream nor myth

The child of the manger is a fact A of history. .

Dy Viscount Hsilsham. Q.C.

Man is a creature who desires good and does evil. Yet. even in the midst of all the wrong he does. he cannot altogether forget that Hea- ven is his home.

There is something lnheront in human nature which spoils all human activity, even that un er- taken in the highest hopes and with the purest motives. Man is a. child with an infinite capacity for muddying his face and hands. breaking his toys and tearing his clothes. Yet. in spite of all this, he is never content with the evil in his own nature and never slow to blame it when he sees it in oth-

ers.

This is the fact which lies at the root of our religious longings and which explains and justifies cur ceaseless quest and passion for re- demption. From the earliest times. men have dreamt of a Redeemer, who, by some mysterious adoption and regeneration of human nature. would enable them to forget the sinfulness and corruption of their lives and walk in Paradise un- ashamed in the presence of P611901 goodness and truth.

Such was Adonis. the ruins of whose shrine still exists in the Mountains of the Lebanon. and such also Osiris, who interceded for Egyptian: souls in the palace of the underworld.

Men. so far apart as American Indiana, the Hindus and our own Germanic ancestors. have all cher- ished legends of this fairy prince, alike a friend and brother of man- kind, and secure of place by right of birth in the heirarchy of the Immortal Gods.

The Greek Mysteries honoured Orpheus in the same way, and in the some way pagan Rome. round about Christmas-time. celebrated the feast of the saturnalia at which, amidst feasting and rejoicing. masters served their slaves at table and gave rich presents to their friends.

OUT OF THE -DYING YEAR.

Most of the legends and festivals have, in fact centred round the seasons of the year and round none more than the winter solstice, when in the middle of the cold and dark- ness, the dying year is eymbolised as eternally renewing itself in the likeness of a little child bringing with him the promise of Spring and the hope of human regeneration.

The meaning of Christmas isthat this dream. woven for himself by pagan man, out of the immensity of his longing for salvation. is a

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dream no more. but really true. a fact of history. an irruption of the supernatural into the world of space and time.

Man is no longer alone in the Universe. the one creature of sense and spirit in an irrational and material world of infinite spaces. shut up like a frightened child by himself in the darkness of a stranger's house.

N0 FOND IMAG ININGS

The world is not simply a terri- fying medley of hostile and im- mensely powerful influences for evil as it seems to savages, nor yet as it is depicted by the materialists. a. ghostly ballet of intellectual abstractions obeying inexorably perpetual laws, which, nevertheless. have no rational explanation or in- telligible purpose.

Man is made in God's image and God has taken man's form. Man is fallen but redeemed, and by the same taken. his hopes of reforma- tion. his ceaseleas striving after good. are not the fond imagi- nations of a creature conceived by chance forces, conscious for a time, and then doomed to everlasting destruction by the same blind destiny which gave him birth.

The reason in man's heart. the love of his spirit. his desire for immortslity and salvation. are of the) same pattern as the stuff of uh ch the world is media, and the forces by which it is directed. The same Power determines alike the

motions of the stars and the aspir- '

aiions of the human heart.

HE IS A REAL PERSON

The Child in the Manger is. therefore. not just a. pretty pig. ture. is beautiful dream invented. like Osiris by human fancy to re- concile the human heart to the miseries of a world otherwise in- tolerable in its cruelty and mean- inglessners. He is a real Person, no fairy prince. no imaginary Re- deemer, but a fact of history as solid as ourselves. He is the guar- antee that our longing for righte- ousness is neither measured by the poverty of our achievement nor by the emptiness and shortness of human life viewed on the natural plane. The birthday of Christ is the festival of man's hope for man. Christmas itself is the substance of things hoped for. the evidence of things unseen.

Rub out Christmas, and the last of Pandora's gifts vanishes for ever from her open, and empty box.

(Copyright. N. F. L.)

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