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► Tilt Baniwll Ptgplt-S—Uatl. BotwII, 8. C. Tliaraday. 24, ItM ?-jr ^ » ■:•,■ :-s?S r«J ;''x Sc/: ^ \ f ’®% i J t *4 ti# Bl .. v A.- Jli V3^5t>?v< ^ *3?v ?<x *'* •» 1 ■ ■• r* m Santa Home BY ALICE K PALMER G REAT preparations vara In ■ prof rasa lor tha annual Christmas raumon at tha Thomas hocna In Glandala. Launs was dacoratinf tha Uvta< room with straamars of rad and graan and hanging balls and mistlatoa abova tha doors. Tha holly wreaths wars already hung and father had arranged tha colored lights on tha evergreens In tha front yard tha night before. k“WU1 ha home for Christmas.** -Johnny.** Mother had proudly read tha tel egram alook! to tha family and all were simply bursting with holiday enthusiasm, for Johnny was really coming home. “Launs dear, won't you please baste tha turkey? and Bonny Jean, you may pick over tha cranberries for mother.’* All was hustle and bustle In the kitchen of fragrant odors. Mother was wholly surrounded by delicious sour cream cookies which she was busily tinting in tha Christmas col on of rad and green. Tha refresh ing aroma of the traditional carda mom seed and of the spices, was most pleasing. Even little Tim was Johnny Stood Aghast Taking in the Whole Situation. privileged to aid in this glorious Christmas preparation when moth er told him he could pile the cook ies into the cooky jar, counting them as he did so. When things were well on their way toward completion, mother sent the children into the living room. “I want you to pack all the gifts in that large box the grocer brought,” said mother, “and wrap that holly paper around it so it will look more Christmas-like.” ‘‘All right, mother,” they shouted, in a chorus of happy voices, as they scampered in. They had glo rious fun amongst the gifts slyly peeping beneath the sides of the gaily colored wrappers and feeling to try and guess the contents. Mother chuckled within as she heard the merry peals of laughter and happy confusion. Soon all was in readiness and the late afternoon sun was casting its long wintry shadows across the snow coated landscape. The sooth ing twilight on Christmas eve was at hand in all its splendor and the happy family gathered about the eo Christmas tree to await their Santa Claus. Father was cozily seated in his own easy chair, holding forth in his usual Jovial manner, always calm and silent and truly understanding. “Soon now, my children,” said father, “are shall hear the train whistle which is to bring our Johny home.” Johnny had mentioned that he did not wish to be met at the station and his desires had been duly re spected. Instead of a train whistle, they heard the loud roaring and of an airplane. “Oh. I bet Johnny Is coming by plana.’* shouted Launs. *T Just bet he is. too.” cried Urn. all excited. *T wouldn’t be grinned father, knowingly. There was a rush to the frosted window to see if anything was la sight. “Oh. mother, look at poor old Mrs. Johnson sitting all alone over there in her window seat. Doesn’t she look lonesome though?** as. Bonny Jean. “Let’s invite her over for the evening.” suggested mother. “She was telling me the other day that her son. Joseph, would no. be home for Christmas.** “Yes, let’s,** they all chimed in. beaming with the Christmas spirit “That’s a very fine idea.” agreed father, smiling kindly. “You run over, Tim, my boy. and ask her >f she would care to Join us.” “Oh boy,” shouted little Tim, chuckling at the opportunity of get ting out to throw a snowball. Some moments later, the dear little lady was in their midst, smil ing her gratitude toward each one of tlpm. “It was kind of you to offer to share your Christmas with me,” she said. "It has been pretty lone ly this year without my boy.” Just then the door burst open and in stepped Santa Claus. The children almost wrecked him in their excitement. He dropped his heavy pack and shouted, “Merry Christmas,” with all the strength and energy he possessed. Mother couldn’t stand the sus pense another moment. She tore off his mask and hugged and kissed him hungrily. Johnny stood, aghast, taking in the whole beautiful situation. The brilliantly lighted tree, the star of Bethlehem gleaming at its peak and little Tim jingling a rope of sleighbells all in his honor. But the best was yet to come, for he opened the door and in stepped a tall, handsome soldier, his face flushed with a happy holiday smile, his garments covered with the Christmas snow. “Hello, mother,” he said, as he rushed into the out-stretched arms of the smiling Mrs. Johnson. After all questions had been sal\ isfactorily answered, Lauris began^ singing at the top of her voice, “When Santa Comes Marching Home.” The others sensing the grand idea, joined in with, a jolly good spirit of fun, in the combined Christmas reunion. C Western Newspaper Union. Choosing Bird for Christmas Din.' HOGGING a Christmas turkey of the right sue this year will assure every guest plen ty of delicious meat and at the same time avoid the usual Christmas series of turkey meals, according to Miss Anna- belie Robinson, associate In home economics education at the College of Agriculture, University of Illi nois. A general “nils of the thumb** i* to allow three-fourths to a pound of dressed tur key for each guest. L’ the bird is to be served w. t b di the %-pound lowance probab ly arill be ample. If there Is no dressing, more meat will be needed, and the larger allowance will be tho saf est. At the above rates a 15-pound turkey will feed approximately 20 people, while a 10-pound bird will be suffleiant for 13 guests. Since many families do not plan to have more than five or six at the Christmas table, even smaller birds probably will be in demand. However, it usually is bet ter to get a bird weighing At least ten pounds dressed, since smaller turkeys do not develop as fine a flavor. Unless the size of the turkey is entirely out of proportion to the number- of, din ner guests, enough will be left for only one or two meals of cold turkey, Miss Robinson said* Whether the turkey is chosen from the home flock or bought at a market it should be a-fat, plump bird and preferably a young one. The skin should be smooth and clean, and the breast and thighs plump and meaty. The bird should be reasonably fat, since the fat im- \parts a better flavor and prevents the dry, tasteless flavor common to turkeys in poor flesh. HOLLAND’S SANTA CANDLES AND CHRISTMAS C* ANDLES have become asso- ^ elated with Christmas and with church ceremony because during the early ages when ; | Christians were persecuted they were forced to hold their assem blies of the followers of Christ in the darkneas Just before the dawn, the room lit by /'CHILDREN of Holland believe ^ that St. Nicholas was a kind- hearted Spanish bishop who had heard about their land of dikes, windmills and tulips and decided to P«y it a visit, says Johan Hart in “Picture Tales from Holland.” He arrived there long years ago on December 8, and began giving chil dren presents. Since then he has always returned on that night to All the wooden shoes of Dutch children with gifts. The children In turn leave out some carrots or hay foa his horse. Archibald Memorial Fountain, Sydney Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, ft. C.—WNU Service. A MAGNIFICENT panorama is Sydney, capital city of New South Wales, Australia. Trade cubes and tall apart ments crown the ridges overlooking the bay. There are no Manhattan like cloud piercers, however, for Sydney has limited her skyward growth to 150 feet, yet position gives impressiveness. Homes sprawl over promontories and spill down the hillsides to the water’s edge—a harbor-girdling band of red- tiled roofs and flowering gardens. And the harbor! “Our harbor” Syndeysiders proudly..call it, al though on maps it appears under the prosaic name that Captain Cook gave it—Port Jackson. Its multiple arms and innumerable bays and coves loop and snuggle among the hills—intimate, lovely, utilitarian. From an airplane cockpit this water maze is even more striking than from steamer deck. Its com pass is 22 square miles, but so ir- have to walk or sail nearly 200 have to walk or sailnnearly 200 miles to go arond its shores. No other harbor is more mingled with the city to provide play space and a haven for the world's rich ar gosies. Sleek ocean steamers, rusty freighters, crowded double-decked femes, speedboats, fussy tugs, and trim, billowly-sailed yachta carve frothy while paths on its ultrama rine surface. Commerce also throbs beside several of the bays at engi neering works, dockyards, wheat si los, ship-coaling yards, and some 14 miles of wharfage space. Barber Bridge Is Celaaeel Like a rainbow over the port Is the mighty arch of Sydney Harbor bridge At the time it was opened to traffic, in 1032, forty million fares annually were being collected on cross harbor ferries. A constant stream of motor, train, tram, end pedestrian traffic now crosses the 160-foot-wide roadway hanging high in the sir from the 1.00-foot span, which at Its highest point loops 440 feet above watdk level. Of momentary note In this swiftly changing age of the world’s '‘great est" engineering triumphs Is the fact that Sydney Harbor bridge is tha longest and widest arch-euspen- sion-type structure that man has yet attempted. Oceanic steamers tie up at Cir cular quay in tha shadow of this colossus of steel and stone. Tha genesis of trim Circular quay was Sydney Cove, where the city was born in January. 1788. The American Revolution, only a few years before, had denied to England s place for her “undesir able" subjects. So to this nook. In “the finest harbour in tha world in which a thousand sail in line might ride in moat perfect security,’* came Capt. Arthur Phillip of tha English navy when Captain Cook's much publicized Botany bay had been found unsuitable for habita tion. His little fleet of 11 ships bore 778 prisoners, together with officers and marine guard*. It should be recalled that “con victs” of that period included many minor offenders and those who fell into political disfavor. Beginning of the City Here Captain Phillip became governor and superintended the carving out of a small settlement beside a “stream which stole silent ly through a very thick wood.” Would that he might stand at the water front today and look up the commercial canyons and at the ships moving in and out of port! Much more would be the awe of some of the less visionary officers who wrote reports back to the homeland, stating that the colony couldn’t even be self-supporting in a hundred years! Here is a city where the goodly governor and the officers now may issue dinner invi tations without the request, “Bring your own bread!” * v Phillip himself visualized his set tlement developing with streets 200 feet wide but his ideas were ignored and the city expanded without any definite plan. Other governors came and went, contributing little or much to Syd ney. Notable among them was Qop- ernor Macquarie, the “building gov ernor,” who held the reina from 1800 to 1822. Assisting him in his comprehen sive building scheme was Francu Howard Greenway. a convict, who became the official architect with the mumAcent salary of Ihmn shill, mgs a day - dured, as attested by St. James* church, the Conservatorium of Mu sic (designed as Government House stables), and other structure^ still doing sertice. One commissioner from England, however, complained that the 75- cents-a-day architect was making “too great a sacrifice of time and labour to the purpose of ornament and effect!” In 1851 came a gold strike in New South Wales. A rush was on. From all over the world arrived seekers after fortunes, as in the California rush of '49. As in our West, many of the diggers later became settlers. More men, more wealth, and more trade boomed Australia. So, too, did Sydney grow. A City in Transition Today old buildings are being de molished to make way for new; riv eters beat a t ttoo on gaunt steel skeletons of tomorrow’s new shops and offices; a pathway is being mowed through two blocks to tend another thoroughfare. It is a city in transition. Sleek modem building* of concrete and polished stone surround but do not engulf • Renaissance town hall, a Byzantine market, fine Gothic churches, a Tudor castle gowm- ment house, and an Ionic art gal- lery. The florid art Victorian appear ance, however, is rapidly disappear ing. Neon lights proclaim night cluba, theaters, aqd motion-picture "pai- •ces." Last year Sydney played to crowded houses its Aral all-Aus tralian musical comedy. American institutions have touched the city. Milk bars or — fountains, trult-juic* stalls, sad light-lunch restaurants have be come popular. But a 4n* store Is ■Ull a “chemist shop,” where only drugs are dispensed, and one buys cigarettes from a tobacconist. One large department store has devoted extensive Boor specs to a restaurant, where more then 8.008 luncheons are served every tirnh nesa day. besides providing special cafeterias and dining rooms for its 4.000 employes Throughout tho sub urban districts, gasoline stations (petrol pumps) have sprung up. One even rejoices in the name of "Ye Auto Drive Inn.” • Sydney's streets in the down-tows business section are becoming pain fully cramped for tho heavy traf fic that surges through them. Groat Wool Sales Tho Royal Exchange la tho larg est wool selling center in the world, having displaced London, which held that position for many years. More than a million bales of tha golden fleece are auctioned off ev ery year. In addition, there ara salesrooms for tallow, hides, sheep skins, and other pastoral products. A wool sals is a fascinating thing to watch. Foreign buyers, Austra lian milling groups, and local wool scourers All the amphitheater on each sale day. Catalogues are pro vided, in which are numbered and classified the different lots to be sold. The wool is previously put on display for inspection at local brok ers’ show stores, so that the selling is done only by number. At the auctioneer’s call for bids two dozen men may jump to their feet, barking figures and signaling with their hands. On Saturday afternoons the har bor and Sydney’s flying squadron attract doctor, lawyer, business ex ecutive, bus driver,'■dock hand, and shop clerk. Some devotees are in sweaters and shorts, hauling at sails; others are in flannels, watching from the decks of trim motor craft; hundreds line the rails of special ferries that follow the race; the mid-harbor is lands and foreshores along the course are vantage points for still others. Like s flock of white' winging gulls, the competing craft tack and skim over the water. With all can vas piled on in s fresh nor’easter, it is a beautiful eight. During the long summer season thousands of the city’s sun worship ers resort to the beaches and swim ming pools. Nature has provided Australia with 11,000 miles of coast line, along which are innumerable golden-sanded beaches. Around tha harbor and along PaciAo-laved coast in the immediate vicinity oi Sydney there are twenty beaches to choose from. At two of these beaches, Bondi and Bronte, 19,000,000 annually —' counting repeaters—go to “Mmol the breakers” and frolic on the dazzling sands. A hardy. Ml they are. theei tfce sun. It’s Easy to Crochet This Set of Lace Filet '■$*11 Pattern 5520 A bit of humble string—this geous peacock pattern — presto—you’re the proud owner of dainty filet lace chair sets, scarf ends, or buffet sets! Fascinating needlework, the K stitch sets off the design effectively. Even be ginners will find this pattern an easy way to add to their prestige as needlewomen. 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