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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.
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