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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

; A Merry Christmas to’ J All I/Vherever You . §_, May Be.

1 I, "' Soldier, Sailor, Marine, War Nurse, Civilian, Homemaker, we are think.

i112 0f you this Christmas, hoping that the good cheer of the holiday 1 _ season reaches you wherever you are. We want to thank you for your patronage in past years, and we hope that we will be able soon again to serve those of you in distant lands. The friendship of every one of our

v customers here at home or far away, means much to us, and you may be

sure we will strive continually to be worthy of it.

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tiee-tops it seemed. Work went, on as usual, busily. The sound of axes. came imm the ivood-iot. Jeanie baked pies. she told us as she came in for the papers: Judv polished the stove lmtil it fairly sparkled. then went on t0 the other Saturday cleanina. Once she said: "I do hone it will be ﬁne tomorrow." Judv likes her Sundays fair and pleasant.

(Oanienued hm Egg _- When today's Diarv is read. it

compliments paid them lest nizht be onliv one day away from the for Braeside folk are not, those m best of holidays. _TOIlillht ns I write reserve such thinlzs 'till people are I recall the Christmas swrv of its dead und gone, w, older-folk were charm and mystery. l shall never r etfui at their H0111! but then in WWW- Iii M11195 W m9 HOW I15 W0"- worid and age "nothing derful and as beautiful us in the abides." We learn to accent such dlys lonR i120. Tomorrow night chanizes arucefuilv — if at limes in all the quietness of a Sabbath host-multitudes of sadly. Christmas Eve at Alderlea I shall ioyfllli

my shoulder to say:

lhefg am others

ELLEWS DIARY

‘B! An island Farmer's Wife I Sm“

Judean hills their flock bv night.

n08 with the wise men I shall

wishing star. to Betheleh a settina so f

The small Babe. then. more than ever. the Hope of

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older still. with vellowed panes and: men.” worn with the veers. I shall read, Until _the__qhris_tm_as Sipiviﬂﬂin wordlby night.

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. ‘ GREETINGS

Une of the real joys of Yuletide ls the op- portunity to put aside the routine of every day business and in all sincerity wish our friends

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

RICKARD e co.

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. i§ l§fdi§f 2s-u*§‘?i*§ll§i§§§i§i§iﬁ§$i word. Perhaps uudv will look over Whv Mrs Ellen. I know that all by heart." like Judy know it all "by heart." However L shall read it attain and once more

see the shepherds 0n the "keepina watch over ' aaatn.

. follow. the star. brighter than ever Judy's em. And

there in amil those who dwell on farms. I look past the wise men who humbly offer gifts. to a lowlv manner. to see and now a suf- fering world-The Prince of Peace. He of whose Birth the heavenly LhEm—~SBi‘lK v the sons the Shepherd's

Tuesday —- marv Good-

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Foreign Yuletide v

In Canada, the word Christina

conjures visions oi a pl u‘ ‘dd (wuﬁgnvo 55% oXNoourse)

on a . orweg- isna. Nether

toms will more than likely be the rule of tho day. These ' will help young men and women who are homesick for their lands boar the burden o! separation until their countries, or portions of their countries are freed tom the I Nazi or Nipponese yoke. Norwegians regard rice ’ ll I WW r t part of their Christmas feast. In ‘roronto and in the Mliokoka District o! Ontario where young Vikings are training for big obs ahead, the men will gather the moses for dinner, alter church n chi-ist- maa ‘me fiat item on the menu will be rloo pudding with an almond put in only one serving The lucky Demon who finds the nut in his dish

THE CHARLQTTETOWN GUARDIAN

WhO

ar shall

wins 9, prize Dur Aquavit, is al

a time of rejoicing ity, the Norwegians

l- each Norwegian dwelling A000 living in the Dominion mas Eve and no food is

are invited to dinner parties

{til ‘ileum

tthe Christ Child was born, hay spread under the tablecloth

the length

of Slavic countries. the inea

plete without "BaBa." .il'ie Christmas toast

l In the Russian Ukraine the ous

.» Itoms at Christmas are closely akin ' 'to those in Poland The Ukrain- - Eve is iii cani- In

ians meal on Christmas [composed of 12 courses ‘ ,memorzit.ion oi’ the l2 Apostles

i .. {the centre of the dinner table is set a. bowl of-"Kittva" a tradition- al dish c-f the Ukrainians. This dish served only twice a year, is a com-

wheat. honey. ground

ans or other nuis-

"K is left in the centre of the table throughout .tl~e night. When the table is clear-

i ed several clean dishes are placed beside the dish. The legend has it

who

niav return during the nizht. will be able to partake of a special feast.

Holland if the mist rises o;

‘he suyiiu: is Si. Nicholas is baking

war,

bination of Dorm! seeds pm The dish of

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utva"

that any departed spirits

Iii H; ‘hi. Nlcholasﬂs Dav, Dccenibci‘ -~e~ 0r Christmas " Before the ;i uecial St. Nicholas

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p0 that they .. l-cthearts.

irould all

f‘! CHBISTMAE corms seam

Wlien Jesus came to Bethlehem, His pmple were dismayed:

And kept the world afraid.

The anger; sans above The starlit hills cf Bethlehem Their song of pe-acc and love. Now people are “Tam “Blin- ,= There's dread in every crowd: :In Home and elsewhere

rule With bluff arid bluster loud. But

r The angel's song rings out Above the panic of mankind.

Above the battle-shout:

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WHAT'S nv wit". news- AND ISN'T When we think of the Cologne. w. the said are contained “relics of

three "who visited the

Christ. ,

. . . take down the familv-Bible-not heard: “Cvlonv m God in the nilzh- w; m... mm m, m; Last niizht’; frosty weather auve the best one om its place on the est. and on eai-th"-this strange old §Z§',‘,§,,,,,.f,‘f ptgee w 0wef1ng-5k1g5 and damp. dolor-table. but the other one. earth-— Peace. mod will toward

to worshin h'm' . . In the east. went before them

a po a: orweg Chris I

and hospital- ; include the w |blrds in their celebrations. Gnain ' Ils Scattered for the birds outside

to Polish WOIIkGTB now O iatmas

, hr . in Poland is celebrated on Christ- ever ‘cooked on the dlay itself. Gueelts n Iodd numbers-three, five, seven and so on. Then a vacant chair is set fiar any stranger who mwy come to I To recall the manger in whiz‘: and guests Dull out straws Judging by of the straws the length I of their lives. Following the custoréi ‘. ‘served when the first star appears in the sky. And no festival is com-

This is a kind ctf sweetbread associated with

staiced cakes "ere made. These cakes were given i) the young men and women of ‘i~ Dutch towns and villages in tic have

A Roman despot, ruled with might‘

But. on the night when He was born

tyrants

Christmas comes again, and

TB | "lbrget your fueds. ye sons of men. , See-l: each your neighbor's zcod:

“holy city" most of us think of Jerusal- em. But the name also belongs to dition has it that the mc-thrr of For Cvlﬂsne i5 famed Constantine the Great ,for its churches. Its chizf building bones to Constantinople, that litter [is the cathedral which datcs from thew were rrmovcd to Milan. and thirteenth century and is rc- garden a5 one of the finest Gothic structures in the world Here it is between Bethlehem the memory three kings, supimcd to be the city of today's Cologne But strange Ihiﬂhli, things do happen so freqtientlv ..

Bethlehem of Juldaea iii the days 0f Herod . the kins. b91101‘! "w"? "acid and frankincense and mvrrh“ . to the Infant Christ, may indeedl " - ”

halve found their last resting wince’ .

t0

"Saying. where is He that is born Km; of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east. and are come

"And lo the star which they sag’ “Mn

..~ it came and stood over vmere the

l; ycung child was.

y rejoiced with exceeding joy:

“And when they were ccmc into. the house, they saw the

tuft’ the skulls of the "Three Wise Men‘ were extilbited in Coicgne and were credited with miraculous hsallng powers.

I-Ivw did they get there?

Tra-

tcok the

in the twelfth century to Cologne. Nearly two thousand years l'e of hallowed

and the bomb battered

.And it mav even be that tur- Wire ‘Men who followed the "Stai- in Illei Fret." who nresontsd ‘lie uift< vf|

far from their native land. amonz people they never knew. ‘

A strange story lies behind a inscription ln the Church of St. Ursula in Cologne . . . a starry oaotind which myths and legends have gathered thi-o h the centuries

. . . a story wh cli concerns a 1 When they l" the "W'- vlijrgin “and matik-‘tyr named visage ”_" ' I‘ '~'"WW" A” H - n QVBXI Uiisﬂlid Eng h . .. ........ FORGOTTEN SOMETHING? w, “Wgiédvﬁgnd "gggilvygg; l‘ Y" "m iii: ﬂagrant-n are: 3232;; e’! ’ fled with friends u» Gaul and frorri "i" 9'51"" f ‘,- lthero went on to Home ‘Returning 5"‘ h'm' 4° :5! ‘bv WIN 01 the Rhine. she and her II MW- ll- "-' eleven thousand companions were iln is the yoor- .‘ reported to have been slain by the uqalan lubor- \. Huns. Acoordln: to legend, they culoeil. which ' mu ﬂﬂcre buried in 90108119. - hi]; ram poo- The lmtin inscription in 5t. i, M”... is ‘ye-rug [Ursulah ohuioh warns that "the n @4354!“ sita of the heavenly Vir- 1 .. d“, “u,” Iglns mun be kept sacred to their emolry. It been so kept luymnd Use Christmas Souls I tgﬁgijom mg, mcentum‘ ‘mfif on '

Dﬁorry Claristmas !-_

Christmas is a time for greeting old friends, a time for the re-kindling of kind nzcmnries, a tinze to drop, even if only for a little while, the cares of the common day.

Christmas for all of us is a time ichen the goodwill in arm's heart, {he yoodirill that stays imexpressed for most of the time . . . l8 now lldpplll Iii-ought forth in word and gift.

Cllrislmas brings grateful memory to us of the kind patronage and nup- purt of customers, sometimes three and four generations of them in the luiif cantiu-i/ and more of our business lifetime and so, once more to one and all we lUiSh

Merry Qliristmnsil

NGDRE a. Mi-‘LEODIIQLLQ

CHARLOTTETOWN, P-EJ.

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THE DOMINION PREMIERE

In the old Boer household, such us General Sinuis came from, the coffee pct is always boiliing. Wiui n cup of coffee and a pleoe of bilt- ing ( dried meat). the Beer can tight a trek all da-y long. Smarts is ndclicttd t0 coffee: l'ltl.~. liquors of any kind; does nct smoke. nnd eats sparingly.

MaceKeuzi: King is a teetotlar and -a non-snicker. and aipprcciutcs‘

Make peace! malt good-will! Bring treasures ,the'y presented unlo Him Smuts. i, git-ts; gold and frank ncensu and Mlnisier, The Day of Brotherhood!" Inyrrh...“ —Arnold AIM-anew; As me as the eighteenth as...

N EWS ITEMS

fellow South

gccd music and poetry.

Pete Fraser. is a teetotaler and and has no time for RILWIIIT»! hut reafing and work

ks little. If!

docs no‘ sir-sire.

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out of the misery, men . "—Genera1

African Prime

_J favourite beverage iotea, and has

_ are individuals in the young‘ reinil liquor trade who will go to child with Mary. his mother, nun‘ any lengui and expedient to make fell down and woi-shitppcd Hunzl t, 1m;- mcney and when they had ojxeiud their! of their

bee known to ar-nk riiteen to owe ty 6W8 at one sieving.

The ﬁar states that tile custom of a ore-dinner cocktail o sherry was no; observed at Bu: ingham Palace on the occasion oi’ the din- ner to the Dominion Premiers on May 1st.

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TBMPERANCE AND CO_ OPE BATION

_ Wrltln! in the (Io-operative NBWE’. T.P.G. states that in Teln- Wfﬂme and Co tion by Guy Hayler, ref

Thanks

when we

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shops. and thil Hill hll JIM. ueen almost illllVolll-ily ADE/f“- L! tne hisweea oi the "IP10" W‘ operative Societies were e

it would r und um the mutant-Y ofthem reofoiuidodbyivilllb‘ stainera.

POBITIVI IDIAI-

In a brief reference to the dan- sor that ever lurks in til 0"" indalfenoe in alcoholic Mm» an n’, ilurumr of rtniuhwli- ins at a health omit-ration 10n- dmlltfgﬂfﬂdédtgloi] merge: {mm

" » city ell little to nmcii, and the augum hu-

. to - he drinks. "Out and About." the author do: men “m!” duo“? d“ w "w

mt state tlrt all the 28 original Temperance. h; urged, o members of the Rcchdale pioneers’ not be rslard I n ve l swear were mu mm -B\!taaa"p0:t'4v.e. 143% There s clear evidence that the ness and whoien ."

mﬂloritv of them were. and that at is the gene viewpoint. The they “We WW well grounded in innumerath A: clued by their Temrccranoe principles, for excessive di-‘nkin; reveal that tliev built the stores upcn a. aura caution h is than a nel- nnd sound fcundstion. From the ativa mcth tttﬂl onmli iii-ft thryidllilﬁeratglilrl daiermi ed out of the wav ottemlntatioilizifi no. to a.n" n» o c ryuo"s - i . '

itygnth; armies to be aold in their ITPEOIlVuDMHmW ‘oruwhm w”

for all the time!

you've given us a chance to help you. “We're happiest

know we're of some

service to you.

_q_. WISHES FOR A‘ '

nanny cuiusruas

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