By Alfred Domett, Premier of New Zealand, 1802-03. Tho Christmas Hymn was first published In "Blackwood's Magazine" In April, 1837, and at the time was highly praised by ...
Article : 418 wordsWhat heats a good wife? A bad husband. What tree is expressed by two letters? I-V. ...
Article : 962 words"Now, Tommy," said his mother, giving her final instructions before he left for the Christmas party, "remember. If you're asked to have something you want, ...
Article : 62 wordsA good deal of fun can be managed quite simply when the christmas feast is over if only we have the necessary knowledge to introduce new and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 177 wordsThere can be no question about the motion aroused in our breast by a flaming pudding, a frizzling turkey, smiling, shining faces, crackers, ...
Article : 142 wordsTo-day amateur theatricals play a very Important part in the Christmas festivities, and the following suggestions should be found helpful to the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,265 wordsTho lady had just been Introduced to her partner at a Christmas dance and was talking to him vivaciously. "Tell me," she said, "who is that terribly ...
Article : 63 wordsTake a stick of wood In your hand and say: "Now you see this piece of wood; well, the person who tries to carry it out of the room will find the ...
Article : 100 wordsAt Christmas time all men are brothers, united, not by a common wrong, as in wars or committees, but by a common belief ...
Article : 313 wordsA clergyman, called suddenly away end unable to officiate at the Christmas services in his own church, entrusted his new curate with the duty. On his ...
Article : 96 words"Where there's a woman there's a way," is the moral of a story told by Lord knutsford of the London Hospital. The story is rather long, but must not ...
Article : 407 wordsThis Is a good Joke with a tumbler which will cause much amusement. Take a stifflsh newspaper, and with it cover the glass, allowing a good spread ...
Article : 254 wordsChurch service was over on Christmas morning, and three prominent members walked homo together, discussing the sermon. ...
Article : 64 wordsPassenger (to railway guard) : "How for is Dublin from Cork ?" Guard: "One hundred and sixty- five miles, sir." ...
Article : 91 wordsHe: I was sorry that you were not a home yesterday when I called o.. called on Christmas Eve. " . . She: Yes, I should have enjoyed ...
Article : 354 wordsCharity is a jewel of many facets, some of the least known and most curious of which are displayed only at Christmas. ...
Article : 481 wordsIt was the day after Christmas and the hard-working postman ploughed his way through snow and a cold wind, a sack of unusual size on his ...
Article : 161 wordsHaving finished the Marathon, race in the drawing-room; introduce your confederate (and possibly your sweetheart) the witch. Having entered the room ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 203 wordsDuring tho lost few years Christmas trees for the children have been less numerous than of yore, partly owing to the expense Involved, partly to the ...
Article : 450 wordsOn the counter of the Christmas bazaar stood the usual horrors which an unscrupulous world insists on giving poor kiddies as "toys.". There ...
Article : 139 wordsThe mistletoe is a parasitic plant. attempts to raise mistletoe from earth have falled. It was originally found growing ...
Article : 276 wordsJohnny seemed very excited on Christmas morning—so excited, Indeed, that his mother could not make him out at all. He did not seem to be ...
Article : 193 wordsIt seems a big thing to pass a weapon, through a person's body, but this is how it can be done apparently. In describing this most startling of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 244 wordsBurning the Yule log is an ancient Christmas ceremony Instituted, it Is said, by our Scandinavian ancestors. In feudal tires the dragging of the log ...
Article : 87 wordsAll kinds of stories are told as to the origin of the Christmas Tree,. and several continental nations vie with each other as to owning the honour of ...
Article : 149 wordsBy the exercise of a little foresight and more than the usual amount of common sense a wise father made the winter a happy season for his three ...
Article : 343 wordsThis is a game the little children will enjoy. One child is chosen to represent Jolly st. Nicholas, and stands in the centre of tho room. The other ...
Article : 248 wordsMiss Ethel (at the Christmas party): "Mr. Brown, I understand you are a great botanist?" Brown (modestly): "I do know ...
Article : 55 wordsRomantic Scandinavians, in paying honour to their great god, Thor, built great fires called Jale or Yule fires The the flames towered through ...
Article : 281 wordsI badly want a clockwork train, I want the rails to run it on too; I want a model aeroplane, Because' I like a top that's now. ...
Article : 113 words"I am really delighted at the Interest my boy Tommy is taking: in his writing," said Mr. Hlckleby. "He spends two hours a flay at!" ...
Article : 69 wordsTo the men of spirit unconquerable Who battle to shield our homes from hell, This tenderest greeting of love and ...
Article : 183 wordsOn leaving the harbour, the ship ran into a nasty, half-pitching, choppy sea, which was especially noticeable as the 25 passengers at tho captain's ...
Article : 159 wordsWhen all tho earth is clad in white, And the winter frowns across the skies— " The world will yet seem fair to you. ...
Article : 144 wordsResearch has revealed the fact that the earliest Christmas gifts were proffered nearly 2,000 years ago, and were received probably with the utmost ...
Article : 160 wordsLast year's Christmas carolling w .more experimental than any sin the war, as far as South London w concerned. ...
Article : 146 wordsGifts are words that men have spoken since the world began, propitiation being their first meaning—as with Cain and Abel—and their last; ...
Article : 314 wordsPawnbroker (looking out of window at 3 a.m. on Christmas morning)— "What the deuce do you mean by ringing my bell at this unearthly ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsNearly every family takes a cottage once at least in a life-time, in the mountains or at the seaside, for Christmas. Whether the dose is repeated and becomes an annual one depends largely ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Sat 24 Dec 1921, Page 15
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