DECEMBER 16. 1944. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HKOLLY on the door an 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     T BINDING 
     
    
   
   
    
     "It’s Christmas . . 
     
    
   
   
    
     d a candled wreath in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     the fireplace, carols in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     window. Stockings by 
     
     2. tree glittering through 
     
    
   
   
    
     dark, and the jeweled Christ m: 
     
    
   
   
    
     What would Christmas be without them P. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the night. 
     
    
   
   
    
     lThe answer is . . . it would still be Christmas. 
     
    
   
   
    
     For Christmas isn’t symbols . . . Christmas is something 
     
    
   
   
    
     It Wells up, overflows, bursts 
     
    
   
   
    
     that happens to people. 
     
     an being. It goes 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' forth from the heart of every hum 
     
    
   
   
    
     the traditional forms 
     
     d different forms. all 
     
    
   
   
    
     all. Christmas is 
     
    
   
   
    
     liar 1763mm‘ of our Canadian 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ ‘observance . . . adopts a hundre 
     
    
   
   
    
     over the world and transcends them 
     
    
   
   
    
     ithe sweetest emotional experienc 
     
    
   
   
    
     by mankind. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The tend 
     
     hearts in 
     
     11' 
     
     watery 
     
     need no symbols to 
     
    
   
   
    
     love and prayers 
     
    
   
   
    
     steal your holiday joy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     e shared at one time 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHARLOTTETOWN -— SU 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
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     - Christmas. ! 
     
    
   
   
    
     ghting Canadian 
     
    
   
   
    
     There are no street-singers 
     
    
   
   
    
     as tree in all its 
     
    
   
   
    
     er joy of Christmas fills fi 
     
    
   
   
    
     France and Italy. 
     
     n91‘ a Christm 
     
     on the icy convoys 
     
    
   
   
    
     . their thoughts and 
     
    
   
   
    
     the North Atlantic, 
     
    
   
   
    
     waste of miles. The men 
     
    
   
   
    
     remind them . . 
     
    
   
   
    
     tonight are winging home to you, 
     
    
   
   
    
     d one depress you or 
     
     pirit of Christmas is 
     
     he is sharing Your 
     
    
   
   
    
     absence of a love 
     
    
   
   
    
     So let not the 
     
     The S 
     
    
   
   
    
     s heart as in yours; 
     
     s certainly as if he were - 
     
    
   
   
    
     your own lighted tree-as 
     
    
   
   
    
     a Christmas yet to come, 
     
    
   
   
    
     working in hi 
     
    
   
   
    
     Christmas with 
     
     ou in the glow of 
     
    
   
   
    
     you just a 
     
    
   
   
    
     greeting y 
     
    
   
   
    
     he will, most assuredly, on 
     
    
   
   
    
      T. HOLMAN, Ltd. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MMERSIDE