the window of a dress shop. igiant Christmas tree whleh'his two dogs started barking ; Remand managed Tempting gifts from all parts of 1 has come from Oslo in Norway land ran in. When the frightened Home the wolf a jaw opus. Juﬂ the world are dressed up in {and listen to the choir singing dogs refused to leave the stable1 then Mrs. Carre as'ri'v Christmas finery. Christmas carols. That is what.he went out to investigate. ‘an axe and chopped ﬁn On Oxford street. a small makes C h r i s t mas in London i “Just as I had stepped out the ‘ down. band of musicians moves slow- memorable. And each passing‘dour I saw this big black ﬁml The wolf's fangs penetrated o

. . ,. . inch... in Mr. Cam's Iy along the street playing 'year makes it seem more won Heap at me." he said “It must

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Is surprise element-

London lights up at Christmastime

ﬂy M. McINTYRE HOOD iFrance. Italy, West Germany. LONDON — Is the surpriseIRussia. Japan. Canada. th Element going out of Christmas? ‘United States and Czechoslovak- “? the thrills 'that used to is to be found on the shelves. some wit the unwrapping of .Dolls from all these countries

no more of leaving it to chalice

e and to Santa Claus to surprise

them. They know what they want. and they know how to go about making sure they get it.

experience have I found any- thing to equal the true atmo- sphere of Christmas as it is to be found in walking through the shopping districts of London's west end during the few weeks

mange . looking parcels. and icompete with each other for

thc emptying of bulging stock- ipopular favor.

mus becoming a thing of ihEiFUN FOR ALL

3?" old-fasmoned “5’57 I There seems to be reater According to many 0f the emphasis in the stores on con-

buyerS 311d 53‘” People in “‘9 structlonal toys and g am e s

‘artzt’ London department Stores that can be enjoyed by the

:hat is exactly What is happen- whole family. Today, the elec-

'n:' The magic ‘5 E‘Zing 0‘" 0‘ trio train sets are finding keen

my Christmas momlnﬁ Ol‘gy 0' competition from motor racing

wearing the gifts that the 88mm

Lime-honored Saint Nicholas has According to one of the toy

3)an fit t0 PTOVide- . _ Lbuyers in a large store. girls ‘ old habit of writing to Fa- :

The ‘are for more difficult to please :her Christmas and Watching than boys, At a much younger the smoke as the burning letter we. they move 0 m

iisappears up the chimney is mother old custom that is pass- ing out. ere are much differ- mt waysof dealing with the shopping problems

toys and start‘asking for cloth- es and record players instead.

But there is that group of girls who now play as much with boys’ toys is with their own. Before the last war. it was unusual for girls to play with guns. Nowadays. one buyer estimated, nearly as in a n guns are bought for girls as for boys.

of the changes that had taken place. But then perhaps I am just an old-fashioned sentimen- talist. And the ways of modern children are not the ways which prevailed in my 10 n g - i ago c ood. ‘iSELECTlNG GOODS TALK IT OVER ‘ I asked what influenced toy Perhaps there is more com. buyers in the selection of goods mm, sense in the modern for the Christmas trade. Most ways. M some point in the of them. it seems. are guided by weeks before Christmas Shop. what sold well in the p reVious ping has to be faced. parents bythEFOmmeniS 0‘ PET- and children sit down together ents- and. Children. and the 80- and discuss what I1 be tual quality'of the goods. Be- boughg, And when the time“,- cause of this last consideration. shopping comes. the children it is interesting to note a muc and their parents descend 0 ii larger Proportion 0f wooden the stores and make their sel- [93’5 this 31981" 0011198"!!! With actions of the things they would tm and Plastlc- “Web in“. as Christmas gifts. he been proven to have dangerous children now pick their ownaspecm gifts in advance. . And the children of to d a y Walking through the stores, seem to be more worldly wise however. one can sense th at than those of bygone days. As I thcre is not too much change in watched some of them in th e the nature of toys offered. ex- toy departments. I could see cept that there are some really that they had d ef lnitel y modern additiﬂs to the lists. made up their minds what The stocks bu". become more they wanted. and liked to mak

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Tiny turks are available

LONDON. Englhnd— The era of the mini-turkey, to suit the needs of couples and small families. has arrived tor this year's Christmas turkey trade. Turkey breeders have finally produced 3 str sin of birds which weigh from six to eight pounds. streamlined to meet the needs of the small family and the size of the family‘s oven. The price will be around 70 to 75 cents a pound. depending on the area in which the house- wife does her shopping and the date on which the order for the Christmas bird is placed. There are going to be slight. ly more turkeys in the shops this year than last. But the de- mand. especially for the mini- turkeys, is going to be much greater. One Hampshire farm- er who has a large flock of the small birds. said:

“If advance ordering is any indication of what the demand is going to be. there is going to be a sell-out. We were already fully booked for all our turkeys before the end of October."

It is noted that more th 8 it half the turkeys on the market this year will be oven -ready.

before the Christmas holiday. To be truly sensed, that walk ,must be in the evening, when the streets are a blaze of glory. Overhead, the Christmas dec- orations are twinking. A great archway of silver and gold. and with other colors intermingled in the lights gleams above the curved sweep of Regent street, from Piccadilly Circus to 0x- ford Circus. Streams of lights swing from huge candles sus- pended at each side of Bond street. Brightly colored Christ- mas bells and balls hang high

The atmosphere is truly infec- tious. and is made more so by the happy, gleaming faces of the Londoners out to see the sights. And these lights trans- form the heart of London into the most entrancing picture one could wish to see at the Christ- mas season. BHOP WINDOWS

The shop windows fit into the general picture of gaiety. Each year they seem to look more in-

be found in the entrances to the stores which are closed. One ' waves a toy snake on a stick. ‘

while a competitor tries to sell

- ° 7 iiifii stresses“? a“; mm m feet «o m me chasm a .1 r 1 s t I I I a s . . . . ‘ cheerful music to the atmosﬁ ‘ o by the thmat- I was mm :20 miles southeast of here. I LONDON — Nowhere in my is milling along Oxford Circus phere. vendors of toys .are to s the around and WC mile; W?!"

until we were at e en-i l was yelling and my son- in‘law ran to my rescue.” , Mr. Canre and his mom ‘

HUNTING EAGLES R u s s i a n sportsmen train black eagles to hunt foxes. sis- telopes and wolves.

paper flowers that grow out of RIVER VALLEY‘ 0m .CP, a shell when placed In water. ‘MIS. Isidore can-e grabbed an So we walk on down to Picca- ;axe and killed a timber wolf dilly Circus and down Haymar- that attacked her husband on her Street to Trafalgar Square, his farm here,

which is truly the heart of Lon-i Mr. Cat-re, who was released lion’s Christmas observance. from hospital after treatment‘ And there we stand near the isaid he was in the stable when

viting. Firms like Selfridges, Liberty's. Bourne and Hollins- worth, Jaeger's and a dozen more vie with each other in their efforts to make t h e i r ‘ Christmas displays the most in- ‘

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Christmas trees line the bal-i

conies of the large department

stores. Golden doves fly inside

above the hurtling crowd which

international. with toys from their own selections. There is

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