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a the childrens festival sty e v lucas i when the old snowy christmas went christmas most ot us remark some- m wten e new bumld christmas where about middecember comes iama tl a data on which our con- once a year and when it comes it ceptlon of the old christmas is found- brtnrs good cheer but do we ever hat been provided either by paint- ask ourselves how long it has been ers or writers and it is possible to making this annual and enkindling look u both as addicted to those visitation at the first reaction the symmetrical dreams wherein the wish snr n- h c k the m father to the thought but alto- answer would be ever since the death of the founder of the feast getherand your own but that would bo wrong for the evo lution of christmas as we know it seem3 to have been very gradual washington them they have set up a wonderful and very cordial tradition in the artists pictures there is always snow the actual date of christ s birth tne christmas cards thero is always was indeed not fixed tor many years k m before ode dl3eovercd various dates were suggested las more tuat miuutq tlcle3 ot giass were appropriate than december 2o in the ueieterlous t0 the operatives there ear 243 for example a latin tract u3c eve b actua was issued maintaining that march 23 sparkie ia tue storle3 tuere al was the true natal day spring the way3 snow pidkwlc at dinglcy author pointed out had then begun de aek was fof m winkl t0 the world ras new the equinox pre- faii to gkate qa ganta claus has vailed the moon was full it also happened to be a wednesday and it was on the wednesday of the first week ot all that the sun and the moon were created and was not christ tho son of righteousness memorially arrived in a sledge drawn by reindeer father christmass fur coat is covered with flakes but i speak only for england i wonder was christmas ever cold did snow ever fall at that time was thero but in spite of all this ingenious stating or sliding special pleading december 25 won mj t v t0 america having some of the early fathers were been tu0 summer i have no notion against any commemoration ot it even how christmas is considered there then origen for one protested but now jt compares as a popular festival by the fourth century the celebration wltu thanksgiving day or the fourth of christ mass on december 25 was ot july but i 8 always consider a- becoming seneral yet not until the mtle book by john burroughs called year 534 did the romans make it a winter sunshine one ot the best dies non or bank holiday as wo in works on the open air ever written england would say now in britain long perusal of other american books for centuries it was new years day chiefly novels has taught me that the as well as christ mass and wa3 a sea- sacrifice of a turkey is as necessary son of joviality until in 1644 the purl- to the pious celebration of thanksglv- tans killed it with the merry moa- i a of our christmas but what i archs return the old high spirits came do not know is whether you slay an- ln again never to be much impaired other turkey for christmas too nor another problem is the meteorology do i know whether americans say as ot christmas at some period it must s many people in england do that have been cold snowy frosty a mid- they personally dread christmas be- winter festival or how could there be cause it is so full of ghosts and more such a persistent tradition to that ef- than ever now after tho war but feet in america i believe such that for the sake of the children it bracing christmases are habitual but must be kept up for after all we i can assure you that in england add it is the childrens festival isnt christmas has become a very differ- it do you say tbat i wonder ent season christmas with us it now it is with us a geniune sentiment usually mild and moist while winter but it does not express the whole 6 i roper such as it is does no set in truth for although we may dread until january or later and it often christmas and honestly wish it over yet we value it as the one day in the year when families unite the child ren may serve as a pretext but their elders for all the heartaches are not sorry for the occasion andy fixit secretary to prince for several weeks before christmas then he went en a tout of explora- everybody in andys family was busy tlon about the house and made a list making little gifts his sisters nancy of the things he saw that needed ux- and nell made pretty little sachets ing it was surprising bow maay bags cushions handkerchiefs slipper things he found that wanted a tack holders doll dresses and al sorts of or a screw or a bit of wire or a drop dainty things his brother tom made of oil or a nut or a nail tho door ot bookends and no end ot attractive nancys doll house was hanging on and useful things with his scroll saw one hinge nells little chair needed and tool chest and their mother a bit a glue toms skates needed a would hurriedly hldo her work when nut ills mothers reading lamp had she heard them coming in from a screw missing the pantry door school for nobody must know what squeaked the washing machine she was making mothers gifts were needed oiling well well it was a to be a surprise for everybody long list but what was andy going to make a be b repairing the pllo of that was the question ho had a lino chest of tools and knew how to use them but strange to say ho had never been interested in making things ho was very much interested however in putting things right and in repairing things ho was always mending some thing about tho house or yard so when his mother would ask one ot tho other children to fix something they often said oh let andy fix it and things in the basement when each article was repaired and cleaned and polished ho tied a card on it and placed it in an old trunk in tho farth est corner then tho last few days before christmas ho mended tho ob jects about iu the living rooni3 when no ono was looking people were too busy to miss a squeak in a door and to notlco that a screw had been re placed but they would notlco tlieso his father too would sometimes say i on christmas morning andy was go- letamly fix it ho likes to tinker s to make sure of that about and i am busy so they got in christmas morning he sir godfrey thomas private secretary to the princo ot wales with the nabit ot cal nim pix slipped down stairs and put each ol lady thomas as he left canada for home after a twomonths vacation mennonites back tell of hardships refugees from paraguay reach ny on way to canada new york fleeing from pestil ence fever and the possibilities of starvation in the unproductive farm lands of the menronito colonies of paraguay were 18 additionrl mennon- ite refugees who arrived here recent ly aboard the munson liner western world they narrated more tales the hadships which have befallen some 2000 members of their sect who m sir j aird heads radio commission of will investigate merits private and national broadcasting to tourtabroad ottawa the appointment of a royal commission to investigate the whole question of radio broadcasting in canada was announced recently it consists of sir john aird toronto and andy laughed for he thought it i a great joke the mended articles in its proper placo with a card attached which read christmas greetings from andy fix- well i cant mend an eggbeater i then he put a s card 0d and call that somebodjs christmas toms skates where ho had replaced present said andy to himself as he a nut on the doors that ha s sat trying to think of something toj nancv don house door on his make i and why not a voice seemed to mothers reading lamp where the screw had been missing on every- ask right inside him it would be thing in fact which he had repaired different and it might make people j and andys christmas gifts were just as happy as having something as welcome as any received that day new given to them everybody was so happy to have their the idea was so strange and new things in order again but how thej that andy had to turn several hand- did laugh when they first discovered springs before he could go on with it the droll little cards dotted all ovci the more he thought of it the better the house where andys clever fin it seemed at last lie gave a whoop gers had made things right and ran to the basement where there it was a dear sweet thought and of president of the bank of commerce a m ot a srt of things wan- nothing could have made mother hap- 1e chairman- charts a bowman fn to b repaired andy looked them pier his mother told him with a big editor of the ottawa citizen and i otor and in a separate pile those hug the world needs lots of andy 15 lt hn fjirlt lio ill mema 17ife that ho thought he could mend gees on long enough to spoil the spring it has even been known the spoilsport that it is to encroach on the summer i want just as eagerly to know seek new wheat grading process saskatchewan growers want present visual test abandoned kipling sask abandonment ot the present visual test and the institu tion of a new process of grading wheat bared upon protein values was recommended by witnesses repre senting the agricultural interests of southeast saskatchewan who appear ed before the saskatchewan royal grain commission in its initial pro vincial session the farmers representatives who were selected to represent the dis trict at a convention held recently also recommended absolute abandon ment of mixing in every form and the establishment of some additional grades viz four frosted or five rust ed to take care of grain too good for grade no 5 and not quite good en ough for no 4 witnesses testified that in this section the milling value of this the nativity the two phophets come in 1st prophet sir now is the time come and the date thereof run of his nativity 2nd prophet yet i beseech you heartily that ye would show me how that this strange novelty- were brought unto you 1st prophet this other night so cold hereby upon a wold shepherds watching their fold in the night so far to them appeared a star and ever it drew them near which star they did behold brighter they say a thousand fold than tho sun so clear in his midday sphere and they these tidings told 2nd prophet what secretly g v da two years ago augustin frigon director of the with the hope of finding and develop- ecok po of montreal i ing extensive fertile acres m para- the radio commission appointed by f j akj the government is to inquire particu- raau ms4eci m h deca larly into the relative meritsof broad- sre had lost ner jtuband m the men- cagting bv priva owned stations or ills death she attnbut- sta operated on the basis of- national ownership trip to europe it will consult with the provincial governments and also visit the united states england and france although it is not anticipated that this will take very long the commission will be able to report during the session of parliament in canada 60 per cent nonite colony ed to iilnutrition and malaria she asserted that he had shared his money with the starving members of his sect and recalled that she borrowed seven peos from william s grant purser of the western world in order to defray the expenses of herself and her seven children who returned with her by the liner before disembarking fnjm the ship she was tendered a purse of 5 i of the radio sets in operation are 15250 which the passengers had collect j r t i- ti urban and 40 per cent rural there cd upon hearing of her plight from the purser this sum will enable her to return to her friends in canada the purser also collected 135 which was given to anton schroeder an other destitute mennonite aboard the liner who was boine to st marys hospital hoboken suffering from a serious attack of malaria additional sums were supplied to the nine others the least worn the soonest mend ed as the lady of the revue remark ed the other day some husbands give their wives kisses by the bushel others are con tent with a peck are g8 broadcasting plants licensed by the minister of marine thirtytwo provide an intermittent service of low power of purely local operation the commission v inquire special ly into the following questions 1 the establishment of one or more groups of highpowered broadcasting stations operating as private enter prises with the receipt of a govern ment subsidy 2 tho establishment and operation of such a system of stations to be own ed and financed by the dominion gov ernment s the establishment and operation of stations by provincial governments fixits air mail service to pacific coast exoerimert will be tried al end of present month and service will be ex tended if test proves suc cessful montreal an air mall service tween montreal and vancouver bo- is bisuuu ic iiuiii value ot iu13j- p years crop is very high that is the r protein quality but grades are low because of appearances and off- weight and color several sworo they knew by tests as well as fact that local- millers are making a fine quality of flour out of number six this mill product is sold in this terri tory thomas porter ot kelso testified that the grain growers feel very strongly over the manner in which their grain is degraded as ho term ed it by lakehead mixing houses this is our wheat it goes into tho private terminals without our con sent and is mixed without our per mission and tho mixers extort a huge revenue from that source said mr porter then it goc3 overseas and it is not the same grain we delivered st the lakehead tho ultimate buy er wont pay the price that ho would nave paid had it been tho same wheat that started from our farm then tho price he is willing to pay is tho liv erpool quotation and that quotation on our degraded wheat overseas comes back to canada and sots tho levol of prices in turn that tho wheat hero is sold for minus the cost of de livery at liverpool it is an ondless chain and vicious circle with the farmer getting the worst of it and tho mixing houso owners alono ot all conccrnod reaping rich profits na ha hardily they made thero of no council for they sang as loud as ever they could praising the king of israel 2nd prophet yet do i marvel in what pile or castle these hardsmen did him see 1st prophet neither in halls nor yet in bowers born would he not bo neither in castles nor yet in tow- trs that seemly were to see but at his fathers will the prophecy to fulfil betwixt an ox and an ass jesu this king born he was heaven ho bring us till 2nd prophet sir ah but when theso shepherds had seen him there to what place did they repair went and glad they chinese student is hanged in england manchester eng chung vi mlao chinese law student from now york was executed at strangoways jail for the murder of his brldo wai sheungmlao tho young woman was found strangled to death in a wood near keswick england last juno shortly after their arrival on a honeymoon tour most men aro qulak to ombraco an oprortunitywhoa its wearing frills words 1st prophot forth they were going thoy did sing with mirth and solaco thoy made good cheor for joy of that new tiding l and after as i heard them toll ho rewarded thorn full well ho granted them heaven therein to dwell in aro they gone with joy and mirth and their song is noel there the prophets go forth from tho coventry play fifteenth century many a wman doesnt know what trouble is till sho has married tho man ot her cholco coolness can bo caused by hot to join parley on liquor issue washington seeks confer ence on the suppression of drink export ottawa the united states has asked canada for a conference to consider an extension of tho border agreement of 1924 for the purpose of more effectually suppressing the promised by the postal authorities if liquor traflic between the two coun- an experiment they contemplate can tries although reports have been rying out from december 19 to 29 circulated to the effect that canada proves successful victor gaudet is being asked to prohibit the export postmaster for the district of mont- of liquor or else refuse clearances real told members of the chamber to liquor cargoes obviously destined of commerce recently the inaugu- for tho united states ports these ration of such a service between here reports are only guesses responsible j and tbe pacific coast would tako 24 officials here declare j hours off the time now required to do- william phillips united states liver mail to vancouver minister to ottawa has been in in- 1 mr gaudet emphasized the inten- formal communication with the tlon of the federal government ta primo minister who is also minister use this service as a factor in bring- of external affairs and his sugges- ing all parts of the dominion into tlons are now before the govern- closer communication the govern ment in council but nothing has been ment had committed itself to a policy made public as yet of providing an air mall service to it would simplify the situation so settlemeuts which are practically cut far as the united states is concern- off from outside communication dur- ed if all export liquor trade was stop- ing the winter months he said ped but such a drastic step could the speaker contrasted tho differ- only come through an act of the once in the manner mail is delivered canadian parliament as at present to the island of anticosti and seven such export 13 entirely legal- j islands since the air mall service has tho liquor it is assorted is not been introduced formerly tlieso only made hero but sold delivered sections of the country had to be ser- and paid for hero and the purchaser ved bv iog teams which took ie assumes whatever risk is attached to to cover the distance an airplane attempted shipment across the bor- completes in a few hours der this valued for the last 12 starts docem 19 months at nearly s2so00000 a starting december 19 tho authorl- largo proportion of it as whisky ue3 w giv0 temporarily rn air mall destined for the united states while servl0b from winnipeg to reglna parliament may think fit to do a from reg ca an1 from neighborly act and prohibit exports calgary to edmonton via saskatoon be argued that there is no such pro- in this ma a lctter malc le vision in tho law of great britain france or other cuntries which are exporters no reply to the sug gested conference has been sent as yet but canada is expected to agree to it the chief provisions of tho treaty as it now stands is for the notifica tion of clearances ot liquorladen ves sels and tho refusal of clearances ostensibly to foreign countries ot motorboats which obviously could not weather the conditions of tho high seas beforo 10 oclock on monday icavei for toronto by plane at 1115 am and is in winnipeg by train on wed nesday morning a half hour latei it leaves for reglna by air and u thero beforo noon it reaches cal gary at 415 pm and is in edmonton an hour later a saving of 21 hours results as regards the international mac service which commenced on octo bor 1 mr gaudet is unablo as yo to produce figures but at present ii is being more extensively used bj the inhabitants of tho united stntci than of canada american penetration la presse ind it is no moro holi day nor a little visit of goodwill that mr hoover has gone to mako in south america tho new presidont has the hurricane in england wave breaking ovcr the pier at brighton in the storm that battered the coast from lands end to dover and spread ruin ovor th southern half of the first christmas box while we all uso tho phrase christ mas box a hundred times at this soa- son of the year few aro awaro of its ene to get information on the spot origin i an at firsthand about the advantages it was in tho first place a real box n11 economic resources of a contlnont or rather a jar ot earthenware in tlc commercial relations of which th which those who received tlp3 stored united states have assumed an ovor them for tho christmas holiday growing importance slnco tho war in a dictionary of tho year 15s5 wo wo nst not loso sight of tho fact find christmas box defined as a mony fiat theso very precious advantages box made of potters clay wherein have been obtained chiefly to the do- boyes put tholr mony to keopo such trlment of latlnamorlcn itself and as thoy hang in shoppes on toward j aiso of other nations principally bri tain and gormany during tho war of 191419is our nolghbors thoroforo havo not much justification to clalra england christmas the famous bishop hall mentions these boxes in ono of his sermons saying that it was a shamo for a rich h thov the great european christian to bo llko a chrlstscis box i struggle hor oconomle gains in tbn receives all but nornlng can bo south amorlca stand 13 proof to tho j got out till it o droken n pieces contrary