The Westmount examiner, 20 décembre 1939, mercredi 20 décembre 1939

[" Ej.Ny || CHRISTMAS |; [ | 4 * CHRISTMAS il dhe Westmount Gxaminer lili NUMBER | NUMBER il Serving The City of Wi Garden S ; A ; e be ring The City of Westmount, Garden Suburb of Canada\u2019s Metropolis y voL.X., No.51 WESTMOUNT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939 : RS N - À Ne ¥ HE rpad to Christmas is a snowy road, and it winds between white fields and dark, Ÿ wood-covered hills to a lamp-lit farmhouse far out in the country.if The air is cool, crisp, and so still that the silvery tinkle of the sleigh bells carries a ê long way.The night sky is a deep and rich blue-black in which the stars look warm ë and friendly.The fields have gone to sleep for the winter, and the snow has drifted deep against = the penciled outlines of the fences: but on Christmas Eve there is an air of expectancy, so that A the world scems to be drowsing with one eye open, ready to burst forth in some kind of glad, jubi- \\f lant welcome whenever it gets the signal.¥ - -Now we all know this road to Christmas, We've traveled it, as children\u2014or; if we ave hapless Yl city-bound folk, at least in our imagination.The sleigh glides swiftly along the frozen road, the Ns horses\u2019 hoof-beats muffled in the soft footing, the runners squeaking a little now and then in the + frost; and the sleigh bells keep up that faint, merry jingling so that a gay noise keeps racing ahead 0 down the road.At the far end of the trip there will be grandpa and grandma, holding out a lamp & and waving greetings from the open door of the farmhouse: meanwhile, as the people in the sleigh é snuggle down under heavy robes, there is a feeling of peace and happiness riding with them to.= keep them warm.« : Yes, that's all familiar enough.But this Christmas road is the strangest road that any of us ever 4 iy travel, even if it is familiar; because it takes us where we can see the gleam of an ancient miracle, , by and feel the breathless hush of a mystery older than created time.yo À Miracles and mysteries don't have so very much place in our lives these days.We have our 4 iE i livings to make and our day-to-day problems to solve, and we sometimes get in the habit of ¥ ¥ assuming that the only important things in life are the things that we can see and handle and weigh ny - Ÿ and measure.But on the road to Christmas we suddenly understand what our prophets and seers * | 5 \\ and artists have been trying to tell us for centuries\u2014namely, that the exact reverse of that is true, 3 | = and that the fundamentals of human life go deeper than any measuring rod can ever reach, y.KE = And so, understanding that, we have a chance to comprehend also the deep and unforgettable BE ; significance of the Christmas story itself.M This story is nothing less than a reassurance that all our most wistful and fragile dreams are p.true.It is our eternal reminder that the world which we see is only an unsubstantial cloak for the \u201c 4 ) world which we do not see; that the human soul, with its cargo of dreams and desires which are too fragile for realization on this harsh earth, is imperishable and eternal; that we shall some day be able to become the people that we ought to be today.© , OT OT me R \\f THERE is no especial reason why we cannot keep that in mind day in and day ouf, all through the year.But we dont.Life itself gets in our way, with ils demands on our time and our 2 energy, its disappointments and its disillusionments, its brutalities and its meannesses, \"\u2026 5 We worship the Prince of Peace, and make the carth horrible with our wars; we worship One , Who scorned wealth, and spend our days in a frantic scramble after money: we worship a God Lo i of Justice, and permit the most shocking injustices to fill our land, year in and year out.Since we hv do those contradictory things, it is only natural that we should also lose sight of the most funda- 5 mental truth of all, and forget that there are a divinity and a high destiny in every human heart.>.But if we do forget it the rest of the year, we can remember it at Christmas time.That lonely as Galilean pasture, that drafty stable in a small town in Syria, that magic star which drew the wise , men out of those strange lands beyond the Jordan\u2014when we travel the road to Christmas they lie .just over the next hill.Our world touches the world of which they tell us, and the border becomes ) indistinct and hazy; in the miracle of Christmas Eve we can understand that the veil of the heavens : | was once torn apart, that wondering men in a sheep field heard an undying song and trumpets of [ triumph sounding from immutable ramparts, that all the wonder and mystery and hopeful beauty of life could be encompassed in a humble manger and given reality in the eyes of a tiny baby.} That is a great deal to discover, on one sleigh ride on a winter night?Perhaps: and yet it fs i { there, as it always has been, waiting for us to open our eyes to it.It is implicit in all the familiar 4 \\ ritual of Christmas\u2014in the buying of gifts, the singing of carols, the effort to be a little bit more F | generous and kind and thoughtful than we ordinarily are, and in this symbolical Christmas ride which we all take in spirit if not in sober fact.i» À So the sleigh swings on along the white road, with the sound of its bells riding ahead through the | still air like a courier: and at last the lights of the farmhouse come in sight, and the horses quicken their pace, and the sleigh turns in at the drive and pulls up in front of an opened door, where the j lamplight shines out over the bent shoulders of two smiling old people; and the night becomes noisy | i with that most valiant of human cries\u2014 \u201cMerry Christmas!\u201d \\ J og 4, # PAGE TWO * PE OAR CITT ORRORCE CE, Rev.H.M.Little + + + Church of the Advent \u201cThere was no room for them in the inn.\u201d When the Eternal Son of God assumed our human nature and was horn in Bethlehem he was crowded out.He came amidst His sinful creatures in the deepest humility and love and nobody wanted Him.\u201cHe came unto His own, and His own received him not.\u201d The people were too busy with their own interests although these interests were not sinful yet they were #0 strong that they crowded out the Christ, In this century we see the King of Love the Saviour of Mankind expelled from Russia.Communism is strictly materialistic, it knows no life apart from the one on this earth, Germany has erected a supreme deity the sole deity of the State and has tried to expel the God of Love.The League of Nations altruistic in ideal has deliberated often and much but in none of its debates can one see room is provided for the Son of Marv.And the collective result of all this is the chaotic condition of the present world.Crowd out the Babe of Bethlehem and nations as well as individuals are doomed.Is Jesus Christ crowded out of present day Canadian life?Of business?of politics?of pleasure?He is the Judge as well an the Saviour and today is the day of judgment of the sifting of the nations, Oh that everyone on His Birthday led captive by His inexhaustible love would welcome Him, and enthrone Him and live under His authority the only hope of the world is the peace that Jesus Christ brings \u201cto men of goodwill.\u201d The sole hope for & reconstructed world after it has been purged and purified by the scourge of war is an international soclety built on love to one an- 4 2005 MID Rev.F.W.Kerr » ¥ + St.Andrew's Church George Bernard Shaw once proposed that we abolish Christmas.Then from all sides rose the cry that we abolish Mr.Shaw.And so it goes.We can not blame, Mr.Shaw.Indeed, in self-defence he could do no other because one thing is certain, If Christmas is retained then every grun.py, old cynic has to go.As certain as that scrooge bought à bag the biggest turkey he could carry, so certain is it, that selfishness, and queed, hatred, and warfare can not long withstand the annual assaults of the Christmas Spirit, Christmas came like a glean of hope in a dark world, Each year for a handful of days, the Prince of Peace is given right of way.It is the truce of God, a gentle interlude when men may catch the oncoming notes of the Angdl- Chorus.Tt is a fleeting dream of a world high above all discord, and with music everywhere, But Christmas is gone to soon.The rapid days glide by and we have lost them while the welcome is still warm upon our lips.It is a lovely episode, but it is swept away by the inexorable hours.Yet it has left behind a lingering fragrance like the memory of a royal visit.All the days ahead will be less drab because of the brightness of the candles at Christmas, the harsh clamor of the World will be softened because of this wave of kindliness that deluged us, and the hope is quickened that soon all the nations will kneel side by side hand clasping hand, by the cradle of Bethlehem, other through loyalty to one King alone, the King of Love who lies a helpless infant in the manger.[ERENCE OL EME ME EEE Boldog Karacsonyi Unnepeket- That\u2019s Merry Christmas to You BBM RINIPIDIMI I IRM Tin Hao Nian.Glad Julen.Boas I'estes.Felice Natale, Kinga Shinen.Gracium Felicitatiune, Ichok> Yilara, Boldog Karacsonyi Unnepeket.Chryatovjena.Wesolych Swiat.Vrolijke Kerstmis.Felices Pascuas, Joyeux Noel.And a Merry, Merry Christmas.That is the way they say \u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d or its equivalent, in China, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Turkey, Bohemia, Greece, Poland, Denmark, Spain, France and Quebec, and in the English-speaking countries.No matter how you say it, or we say it, the wish is there.May you have the happiest Yuletide ever! % * * Neighbor John isn't sending us a present this year, after all.He was so darned mad at the story we told about him a couple of weeks ago that he barely speaks to us.The other night, he leaned over the fence to say what he thought.It didn\u2019t take him long.But apparently he has relented to some extent.He sent us a The BOYS\u2019 BRIGADE of WESTMOUNT Wish Their Many Friends A Very Merry CHRISTMAS * And A Happy And Prosperous ' NEW YEAR PRES Christmas card that arrived in the mail this morning.It wouldn't take a Sherlock Holmes to tell that it was one that he had received last year.The original signature had been carefully erased, and \u201cNeighbor John\u201d had been scrawled in its place.We wouldn\u2019t have minded that so much, only when we examined the card closely, we discovered that it was the one we sent to him last year.Nice fellow, Neighbor John.isn't tight; just frugal.* J + Some people have the knack of tucking a goodly share of genuine Christmas spirit into the envelope with their Christmas card.A scottish friend of ours invariably sends us a plain card with a simple greeting, enclosing a tiny sprig of real heather between the folds, We appreciate that card more than we can tell.That bit of heather seems so expressive of the personality of our Scottish friend.It revives old memories, gives new life to a friendship of long standing.» * » Yesterday we received a card from a friend on the other side of the continent, We played together as kids.On Saturdays, we used to hike a few miles to Gage's Creek, and spend glorious hours exploring its banks.We fished in the deep pool beneath the big elm, where the stream broke away in a wide curve through the woods.We caught tiny crawfish in the shallows and carried them home in tin cans as treasured possessions.We pried away the limestone under the bridge to dig out fossilized snail shells for our \u201cmuseums\u201d.When the sun was high in the sky, we picked a shady spot near the spring and made a fire after the best Boy Scout fashion.We ate prodigiously of thick meat sand- He wiches, hard-boiled eggs, luscious + AZALEAS CYCLAMEN Cut Flowers, Ferns, MEMBER One Stores Only.PHONE: CHRISTMAS IS MORE CHEERY WITH | à FLOWERS We have the finest selection of seasonable plants and cut Howers that we have ever had.POINSETTIAS BEGONIAS Cherry Plants, ete.a Pr Herbert 1.Eddy, Proprietor, i © 4178 St.Catherine St.(Near Greene) FI.7242 RLOWERS TELEGRAPHED EVERYWHERE Rev.A.Lloyd Smith + + * Dominion-Douglas Church Our physical lives are subject to forces and influences of whica we are generally unaware, such as atmosphere, pressure or the pull of the sun.But the Christian interpretation of history is that there is another influence unceasingly being brought to bear upon the human race, silent as light, ubi- guitous as gravitation and unremitting in its action.It is the pressure of God's purpose for the world, In eternity before creation, God planned a race of men who should eventually fully share His nature.With infinite skill and wondrous beauty He prepared a home for this people.Into this home at length He brought man and by slow stages has urged him up the moral slope toward heights of spiritual achievement.That purpose is as constantly in God's thought and dealings as an architect\u2019s plan lies in his mind as he superintends the erection of a building.God exerts His influence very gently lest He interfere with the development of free personalities, but in every way He can, and as fast as He can, with a patience and indefatigability beyond our cam- prehension, God is constantly pressing man forward, And His plans do eventually come to pass.This world at present is passing through one of its blackest periods, when man in his freedom has turned viciously into the ways of sin, But the end is not yet.The Fall of Rome seemed to many people to be the finish of civilization, but it was not.There were those who trembled when feudalism began to decay, thinking that the bases of society were in collapse, but a new and better ripe tomatoes and fancy biscuits or cake that mother had packed: in our knapsacks.We washed down the food with cup after cup of strong tea, boiled in a can over the fire.On other occasions, when rain kept us indoors, we made boats in his grandfather's workshop.They didn\u2019t amount to much as boats; they invariably overturned before the first swirl of current and floated with their pocket-handkerchief sails submerged.We each took a licking once for searing the daylights out of a crotchety neighbor by spinning a tic-tac on his kitchen window.We had reason to dislike that particular neighbor.He had picked his cherries on the afternoon of the very night we had planned to raid the tree.Come evening, we took turns riding on the back of old \u201cBob\u201d, the family horse, on his way to pasture.Sometimes we fought over whose turn it was, but we always made up.We blacked his right eye once, and mother made us go over to his house to apologize and make friends.He accepted the apology and sent us home with a bloody nose.Once we went swimming at the East Beach and three older boys hid our clothes.One word led to another, and there was a fight.With three against two, and weight and brawn in favor of the enemy, we took a licking.Next day, we went to the beach agaih and found only two of the enemy on the scene, We licked them.* * » He liked! \u2018cucumbers and insisted on eating them with the \u201cskin\u201d on.We hated cucumbers.We used to go to the woods on Victoria Day to pick wild flowers and to look for leeks.Leeks, in case you don\u2019t know, are like onions and grow wild, We always took plenty of bread and butter and made our lunch on bread and leeks.Once, the Newshound ate the root of a \u201cjack-in-the-pulpit\u201d by mistake, and it made us deathly ill.Our friend had to practically carry us honie.- As kids will we formed a gang.We were joint leaders.We had four other kids as lieutenants, accomplices, gangsters, or whatever you cave to call them.We had a secret initiation, gleaned from the pages of Mark Twain\u2019s unforgettable \u201cTom Sawyer.\u201d We had secret passwords and salutes and whistles.The whistle was our version of the call of the whipoorwill, Our secret sign was a red hand.We scrawled the symbol on almost everything we owned in\\gory red ink.Even if the fingers were all thumbs, it was a very good resemblance to a hand, and made a fine symbol for a desperate gang of juveniles.We were the same age.He was ten and we were ten when his people moved away from town to settle in Vancouver.We have never seen each other since, but we have kept up a desultory correspondence, Sometimes we write twice a vear.Sometimes we write once in two years.We always send him a Christmas card and we always receive one from him.The one that came in the mail yesterday was one of the classy variety, engraved on stiff, gold- THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER Christmas Messages By Local Pastors + \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 Rev.Frank S.Morley ¥ Stanley Presbyterian Church * * A friend of mine said to me the other day that he just didn\u2019t dare wish anyone a Merry Christmas this year because it sounded too much like irony, I think he's wrong.1 believe that his \u201cMerry Christmas and Happy New Year\u201d should ring more clearly this year than any other year.Our Lord came to the world at such a time and for such a time as this.The Christian message is good news for exactly our kind of world.Indeed, alone of the peoples of the earth, we Christians should have an unconquerable hopefulness, because we alone have a true faith, we alone have a house built on foundations that cannot be shaken, structure was rising, The Divine Right of Kings was once defended by good citizens as the corner stone of the state.It had to yield to the higher right of the people, To-day in spite of all that seems so discouraging we are being taught tremenduously valuable truths.Life is always an adventure into the unknown \u2014 and mankind has to learn its lessons by the costly method of trial and error.Christmas summons us to believe that as the despotisms of the past have proven impermanent, and by their passing have strengthened the cause of democracy so it will be again.\u201cGod's purpose for this world is the victory of peace and goodwill and \u201cthe zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this\u201d.\u201cThrice blest is he to whom is given The instincts that can tell That God is on the field when He \\Is most invisible\u201d, edged card, Our friend has a very good position out on the Coast; he is quite high up in the business world, in fact.He is a serious sort, not at all the type of sentimental person you might expect to send you a Christmas card with a crude human hand, scrawled in red rink, beneath the signature.*% + * You have heard these during the Christmas shopping rush: \u201cAfter all, it's really not so much the gift as the sentiment that goes with it.\u201d \u201cNow mind, darling, if you're not a good little boy in the store, Santa Claus won't bring you an electric train.\u201d \u201cI wonder if we should.have got Mother a larger sized kimona\u2014 she's gained in weight the last year?\u201d \u201cThe way that woman is spending money this Christmas, you'd think I was a multi-millionaire,\u201d \u201cOh, dear; I almost forgot Doris, I simply must get something for Doris\u2014Wait a minute \u2019till I run back to the five and ten cent store.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s so hard to find a gift for Mildred \u2014 she\u2019s got everything 1 can think of giving her,\u201d \u201cI never worry over what I buy my husband for Christmas \u2014 he never likes what I give him, anyway.\u201d \u201cJust wait until you get six kids to buy for and then you'll have something to worry about.\u201d \u201cI am sure your wife would love this dressing gown \u2014 it's very smart.\u201d \u201cMy goodness, Christmas less than a week off and 1 haven't got half my gifts bought.\u201d \u201cWell, I managed to scape up enough to buy two bottles of Scotch for Christmas\u2014if it isn't all gone before then.\u201d \u201c] guess I'll go back and get those pillow cases for Aunt Martha after all.\u201d Christmas Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.Saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews?for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.And, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him and when they had opened their treâsures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, -and myrrh, THE FIRST CHRISTMAS! The Star still shines, as on that night divine, And happy children carols sweet; The tall Cathedral candles gleam, And we still wi rship at the Christ- Child's feet.Through misty light and \u2018wreaths of evergreen, Trees trimmed with tinsel, silver, gold and red, All 1 can see is Mary's flower- face And cn her breast a tiny baby head.sing their softly \u2014Dorothy Sproule.N f ÿ #7 ¢ À \u2018 ' 4 to bring the religious part of Christmas to the children\u2019s minds.Were it not for what happened in Bethlehem two thousand years ago, there would be no Christmas.And now, the whole of Christendom is endangered by dark powers that repudiate not only Christ but God.Perhaps it takes a crisis to strengther the Christian philosophy, which means liberty of living, peace, kindliness and brotherly love.Such a crisis we have now, The younger generation in other countries are enthusiastic about the creed of might.We should teach our own children to think in dramatic terms.They must have their ideas and ideals personified, Surely the greatest story ever told is that of the Christ Child, the Babe to become the Teacher whose example was the first enduring word of forgiveness, forbearance, tolerance and kindness the wotlé had known.We must remember that many peope who are not called Christians have adopted His ethics in their daily living.STORY BY CANDLELIGHT On Christmas Eve, in that mag- 1c hour of candlelight, I should read aloud the simple story of His birth: the tired and travel- worn Mary and Joseph, arriving in Bethlehem on their way back This year it is advisable, I think,- In a \u201cWar-Darkened \u201cWorld the Child Should Hear Again the Story of Christ Simple Tale of the Babe of Bethlehem, of Mary and Joseph, Might Be Read on Christmas Eve The three Magi at the manger where the Babe of Bethlehem has been born to Mary, wife of Joseph.to their litte cottage in Nazareth, finding the inns too full for accommodation, and seeking the shelter of the open stable.° The wise men, Magi of the East, whose forbears had been making a study for generations of world conditions; who saw humanity on the road to disintegration from force and wickedness; who had ' followed the forecasts of the old Hebrew prophets of the perfect leader to come, followed the star and found a helpless little baby being stared at by cattle and sheep, and wrapped from the cold in hay.A TIME FOR CAROLS, TOO So I would tell the lovely story again.On the top of the tree there should be a star, and the children should be told that it stands as a guide and a reminder of that beautiful night when the Wise Men sought the Child Jesus.Christmas Eve is the time for carols.Children love to sing, and family singing leaves memories precious and unchanging in this world of change.This is the sweetest part of Christmas.Too little attention is given to it.Many children never give it a thought at all.So I am suggesting we take a few minutes of our busy time to tell the story, to sing of the Bethlehem Child, and the angels, and perhaps explain that chapter of St.Matthew, known as the Beatitudes, each line of which is a desig for living.: Only Few of ! Have Christmas Snowfall ARENDS Britons throughout the world conjure up a picture of snow-cov- ered fields, glistening evergreens and frozen lakes as an ideal Christmas setting,\u201d but only a small proportion of the.500,000,- 000 - inhabitants of the globes \u201cred-dotted\u201d areas ever see the \u201cold-fashioned\u201d Christmas cand landscape usually associated with Yuletide.Envy Jack Canuck Jack Canuck and his in Newfoundland are envied abroad at this holiday season.While they stoke their furnaces and settle down to LS roast turkey and a cranberry sauce in v; neighbor \\ a real Christmassy G2 \"3\" environment, their Australian and South African cou- ~ # sins swelter in temperatures that frequently soar well b = above the 100 mark.The British Isles found Jack Frost in one of his rare, wild moods this week and Father Christmas can be ccunted on to make his annual visit in most districts with old-time ceremonial.He will hitch Donrer and Blitzen and all the rest of his ancient sleigh for the first time in many years, There wll be no \u201cwhite Christmas\u201d in other parts of the British Empire but the Christmas spirit is unconquered by torrid heat and tropical storms, Singapore \u2014 the cross-roads of the East\u2014makes Yuletide a time of revelry despite the heat and same can be said of Hong Kong where British folk gather for dinners and dances.In the West Indies they put on their best \u201cbib\u201d and \u201ctucker\u201d go to early church and follow it up with open-air con- A certs in Kingston, Jamaica, and other big centres.Down in the Antipodes midsummer holidays are getting un- derway.Blazing sunshine makes 500 Millions Ca SBN no difference to the Aussie's ez- thusiasm at Christmas although picnics with cold turkey are gaining favor.Sydney people make for Coogee, Bondi, and other coast resorts and the feast is preceded by a dip in the ocean.Even on lonely up-country sheep stations where are laid aside.Customs Not Forgotten In New Zealand, most English of all the Dominions, old customs are not forgotten although Christmas is one of the great outdoor holidays of the year.There is likely to be strawberries and cream for dessert alo g with the plum-pudding.Across the South African veldt discussion at Christmas dinner tables England is Springboks at Johannesburg in the first of five cricket tests.The British soldier in Northern snow-tipped mountains as he takes time out for hunting hill tribesmen to remember Christmas Day.By an odd coincidence, among the last in the Empire to celebrate Yuletide will .be about 200 dwellers on Christmas Island, The little Polynesian outpost in the Western Pacific will observe the festival nearly a full day later than the islands not so far away on the other side of the international date line.MISTLETOE MEANT PRISON In 1652 good cheer turned sour.The Pufitans, jovial gentlemen that they were.saw evidence of paganism in plum pudding and mistletoe, and brought an order of Parliament directing: \u201cThat no «bservation shall be had of the five and twentieth day of December, commonly called Christmas day, nor any solemnity used or evercised in churches upon that day in respect thereof.\u201d { 1 \u2018sons and daughters of men.: g the heat is terrific, routine duties |¥ And on the mining reefs of the |g Rahd there is an added topic for |¥ opposing the} India\u2019s lonely country will glimpse & WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939 everywhere one hears and brought by the coming of the Christ Child.Notwithstanding the unrest caused by conditions across the waters, the Star of Bethlehem still brings its message of \u201cGreater Love\u201d to the troubled Why not spend this Christmas Sunday in church?Calvary Church invites all to join in the service at 11 a.m, when the interim preacher the Rev.D.I.Forsyth, B.A, B.D., is speaking on the theme \u201cStable- room Only.\u201d At this service the choir of the church will render special Christmas music; while the juvenile members of the Friendly Home will sing Christmas Carols.At 3 p.m.the.Sunday School will meet in open session.A short Christmas Pageant will be given Rev.D.Forsyth to Preach At Calvary Church Sunday The Christmastide is here and sees the tokens of good-will and joy and favourite carols will be sung, At 7.30 p.m.a service of un.ual interest is promised; for, i, addition to a short meditative ag.dress by the Rev.D.I Forsyth op the subject of \u201cWe Still Have yy.sic,\u201d the carol service will be of an antiphonal nature.The senior choir, augmented by a number of friends, will occupy the choir-loft, while the Junior and Intermediate choirs, numbering sixty members, will sing from the gallery at the back of the Church.We hope tha: many of those who read this message may be free to worship ani sing with us.Come and worship Christ the New-born King.We also invite you most Near.tily to watch the Old Year ou and to welcome in the New Year at Calvary Church on Sunday, December 31st, at 11.15 pm.The preacher at this service will be the Rev.R.DeWitt Scott.Simple Xmas : Giving Is Advocated When we were children, we were encouraged by our mother to make our own Christmas presents, For weeks we planned, we drew and colored, we covered boxes, made sewing cases, needle-books, blotters, all pretty and all finished under our mother's guiding hand.And I still like the idea of handmade presents, though it may not be my own hand that has made them.A friend makes jellies far better than mine.She gathers the fruit early in the morning from her own garden\u2014grapes, guavas, and blackberries for jelly, figs and strawberries for jam\u2014and has the faculty of cooking them to perfection.So I buy her jellies to wrap as gifts and pack in small baskets.For several years my husband bought cases of jams and marmalade which a fellow club-member made in the evenings.An odd hobby for a man, but he enjoyed it, and the results were deiicious.We used part of the supply ourselves and gave the rest as gifts.This year I have heard of a friend who is making wonderful caramels.She packs them in a clever container of her own design and sells them through a gift shop, helping in this way her daughter, who is in college.We will buy several boxes for friends who are candy connoisseurs and Westmount Baptist Church Sherbrooke St.W.& Roslyn Ave.J.Alexander Johnston, B.A., Minister, Mr.Mrs.F.J.Hodgson, Organist 11 a.m.\u201cTHE SHEPHERD LADS OF BETHLEHEM\u2019! ture \u2014 Vivified Life.Grand Christmas Music.7.30 p.m.CANDLE-LIT SERVICE With Impressive Scene Amid Baptismal Service.Mr.Johnston will preach.Christmas Hymns, Carols and Anthems.Visitors Cordially Welcome.* Watch-Night Service \u2014 Sunday, December 31st.Shirley McKyes, Choir Leader Interrupted Vigil \u2014 Verifying Ven- will pass the word on to others, Last Christmas I found an English woman who made rich fruit cakes, dark or light, in her omy kitchen, and a little Scotswaman who made me most wonderful Scotch shortbread in special smal sizes.Sometimes the gifts are from further afield but still made by hand; woven runners made by the blind, billfolds laced with thongs of leather made by disabled veterans, hearth brooms made by the mountain folk of Kentucky.And for other presents, of course we go to the shops like other people! When it comes to Christmas cards, we like to design our own, but if we put it off too long we try to find cards, designed by artist friends, for sale in the smaller shops, and also buy some of the American Artist Series which are published each year Planning and buying in this way seems to keep for us some of the genuine pleasure that we had as children at Christmas time.St.Stephen\u2019s Church 4006 Dorchester Street West Westmount, P.Q.DEZEMBER 24 - CHRISTMAS EVE 11.30 p.m.Holy Communion CHRISTMAS DAY 6 a.m.Holy Communion.8 a.m.Holy Communion.11 a.m.Choral Communion & Sermon.Rev.Harold S.Laws, M.A., Rector Calvary Church Dorchester St., at Greene Ave, Westmount.Minister: Rev.T.W.Jones, M.A., D.D.SPECIAL CHRISTMASTIDE SERVICES Preacher at both services: Rev.D.T.I.Forsyth, B.A., BD.11.00 a.m.\u2018\u2018Stable-room Only.\u201d 3.00 p.m.Open Session of Sunda School.Christmas Pageant, with carol singing.7.30 p.m.Special Caro! Service.Augmented Senior Chor, with the Junior and Intermediate Choirs in the gallery.Theme of address, \u201cWe Still Have : Music\u201d.Come.and Worship Christ the greetings to their many friends.new-born King.IAAI BRB 200 107200 20 150230 SA The officers and members of Westmount Women's\" Club extend heartiest season\u2019s A HAPPY JOE EY CT ud ya PIPL PI R.S.WHITE M.P.EXTENDS TO ALL THE ELECTORS ; OF ST.ANTOINE -WESTMOUNT DIVISION HIS SINCEREST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR, à ; Dr.- fern avenu - Tight eye : body when 5700238 \u201c40 Ye: ol It will while \u20ac ping.\u2018 you th WE.40 PRE En Ro Will be 120 ing U This yet the Craft in the Chi at Westn Craftshop am.ever cember 27 holidays.à asked to 1 will not be Wood-bu on for th has proved of the \u201cY\u201d names or sticks are so.Since ji September five membs and sixty organizing club has and will be when the s the boy during the Under t Beaton, Rc Mackey, th ry, woodw work, and Do MO, WIN Skye Te Honc Quebe Show Ch.Gec Skye terrie Adams, of best dog in initial dog of Quebec Saturday Consider successful for some t entry list The vari of the mais and Judge marked on exhibits, Ald.Dav cup to Mrs jer award.MAN STRE Woo Chi .W.L.truck drive \"of 425 Mou Sherbrooke avenue at J Barrie to walked inte from behine | Unable to g stopped im injured ma Hospital wl ment and d He was uni of the aceic Wes Sta The annu employees Sponsored mount will on Friday at 4 o'clocl tie City H The fun forward workers wil Mayor Wal dermen, Ea Speech in ke All empl 1939 Se ach day H be sung, : of uns 3 for, n itative ad.Forsyth op Have My.vill be of The senior lumber of choir-loft, termediate members, Ty at the hope tha; | this mes- rship and 1d worship ng.nost hear.Year out New Year 1 Sunday, p.m.The will be t.I to others, | an Eng- rich fruit 1 her own otswaman wonderful ecial small gifts are still made 5 made by iced with yy disabled ; made by Kentucky.of course ike other Christmas | our own, o long we igned by e in the buy some ist Series ach year.this way yme of the we had as ime, hurch et West ).TMAS EVE inion.\\Y n.n.ion & Ser .A., Rector rch ne Ave, Jones, \\STIDE rvices: ; of Sunda s \u2019 Pageant, Service.Chor, with Intermediate ery.Theme Still Have hrist the i SNA PID IIIS unt , ns 3 ; À LÀ \\ x tA { A x x e } ; ) 3 97777772 It will pay you to visit OHMAN'S while doing your Christmas shopping.Our lower overhead gives ou the benefit of better values.1216 Greens Ave.Za dr Pa e722) WE.4046 CRAFT CLUB T0 [EAD HOLIDAY PROGRAM AT Y Will be Open From 10 to 12 O'Clock Every Morning Until Jan.3 This year as in previous years, the Craft Club will take the lead in the Christmas holiday program at Westmount Y.M.C.A.The Craftshop will be open from 10-12 a.m.every morning, from December 27 until the end of the holidays.Members of the club are asked to note that the Craftshop will not be open this Friday.Wood-burning has been carried on for the past few weeks, and has proved very popular.Members of the \u201cY\u201d who wish to burn their names or initials on their hockey sticks are invited to come and do 30.Since it started the season September 29, the club's fifty- five members have made a hundred and sixty models, The plan for organizing all the crafts in one club has proved very successful, and will be continued until Easter, when the shield will be awarded to the boy doing the best work during the season, Under the direction of Wallace Beaton, Ross Seaman, and Gordon Mackey, the club carries on basketry, woodwork, cordwork, leather- work, and many other érafts, DOG OWNED BY MR.P.ADAMS WIND AWARD Skye Terreir Receives Top Honors at Province of Quebec Kennel Club Show ' Ch.George of .Merrymont, a Skye terrier owned by Mrs.Percy Adams, of Westmount, won the best dog in the show award at the initial dog show of the Province of Quebec Kennel Club held on Saturday night at the Rialto Hall.Considered one of the most successful events of its kind held for some time the show had an entry list of 158 dogs.The variety classes were one of the main features of the affair, and Judge Briggs of Ottawa remarked on the high quality of the exhibits, Ald.Dave Rochon presented the cup to Mrs.Adams for the prem- jer award.MAN INJURED IN STREET MISHAP Woo Chip, a cook employed by : Dr.W.L.McDougall, of 342 Red- - fern avenue, suffered a lacerated - right eye and bruises about the : body when he was struck by a truck driven by Ernest R.Barrie, \u201cof 425 Mount Pleasant avenue, on Sherbrooke street near Argyle avenue at 11:15 p.m.on Thursday.Barrie told police that the man walked into the path of \u2018his truck from behind a bus and that he was | unable to avoid striking him.He Stopped immediately and took the injured man to the Homoeopathic Hospital where he was given treatment and detained for observation.He waz unable to give any details of the accident.#30 Years in [ir Westmount\u201d OHMAN\u201d PE N | RMR.Arrives | Safely In England Official announcement that the Royal Montreal Regiment had landed safely in Britain was made Monday afternoon by Hon.Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech broadcast from England.It was the first news of the safe arrival of Canadian troops overseas.In the R.M.R, there are many residents of Westmount.BOYS BRIGADE PREPARES FOR ANNUAL EVENT Mid-winter Exhibition of Activities Will be Held By Company Dec.29 Members of the First Westmount Company of the Boys Brigade are busy these days preparing for their annual Mid-Winter display to be held on December 29th.Invitations will be going out this week to parents and friends, to witness this event.The display will cover all phases of Brigade work carried on by the boys each week, including an exhibit of handicraft, based on a miniature hobby show.This will be arranged by Privates Tommy Hannah, Jack Goodfellow, Kenneth Nicoll and Gordon Kearns, The Company's annual Boys Brigade Week campaign has now terminated and while all returns are not yet in, Pte.Edward Hilborne leads and Pte.Jim Wilson is second.Prizes will be awarded at the display.It is announced that Lieut, John Jeffrey, graduate of the local vom- pany and now of the 11th, is taking charge of the Battalion hockey this session.Mr.Jeffrey has always proven his excellent ability to organize sports and will undoubtedly make this one of the most \u2018successful seasons.10 DEDICATE NEW CENTRE ON JANUARY 121K Address Will be Delivered By Dr.Samuel Golden- son, of New York City The congregation of Temple Em- anu-El will dedicate the new Temple Centre on Friday evening, January 12.The dedicatory address will be delivered by the Rev.Dr.Samuel Goldenson of Temple Em- anu-El, New York City.On Saturday evening, the Congregational Banquet will be held at which time Rabbi Isaac Landman, of Temple Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, a former minister of Temple Emanu-El, wil) be the guest speaker.A number of local Clergy will participate in this historic fune- tion.The Brotherhood, Sisterhood and Young People\u2019s Society on Sunday evening, January 14th will have its own celebration in observance of the Dedication, The College of Jewish Studies and the School for Emigrees will not hold sessions during the fortnight of December 25th to January 7th.Classes will be resumed both in the School for Emigrets and College of Jewish Studies on Monday evening, January 8th, 1940.GUEST SPEAKER \u201cThe Submarine\u201d will be the title of the address given under the auspices of Temple Forum by Commander Edward Ellsberg on Wednesday evening, January 31st.\u2018Westmount Holds Annual Staff Party On Friday The annual Christmas party for employees of the municipality Sponsored by the City' of West- Mount will be held in Victoria Hall on Friday afternoon commencing at 4 o'clock, it was announced at ine City Hall Yesterday.The function, which is looked forward to each year by city workers will be presided over by Mayor Walter A.Merrill and aldermen.Each will make a brief Speech in keeping with the occasion.All employees of the municipality will receive Christmas gifts, the presentations to be made on behalf of the city by the various department heads.; A varied program of entertainment will be put on by members of the municipal staff.This will include songs, an exhibition of foot drill by police and firemen and a musical revue by members of the forces, and boxing bouts and wrestling matches by employees of the roads and parks departments.BAGS 3 On Christmas Day at 10 a.m.Eastern Standard Time, His Majesty the King will broadcast a Christmas message to listeners throughout the Empire.The bro adcast will be heard in Canada over the CBC national network following the Empire Christmas program at 9.15 EST, | Business Body | Extends Its Greetings The Business Association of Westmount extends Christmas greetings to local residents and records its appreciation of the support it has received in the following message submitted to the Examiner Yesterday: The year 1939 is drawing to a close and the members of the Business Association of West- mount wish at this time to extend to the citizens of West- mount their heartfelt thanks for their generous support during the closing year.It is indeed gratifying to note that most of our members report increased business during 1939.This we attribute to the repeated appeals through the Examiner to shop in Westmount and the buying public\u2019s ready response to these appeals.The members wish at this time to extend to the citizens the sincerest of wishes for Christmas and the Coming Year, and trust that their service in the past will insure continued support in the future.C.A.JAMES.Chairman Publicity Committee Business Association of Westmount, FAIR BOOTHS ARE ARRANGED Temple Emanu-El committees are now at work in arranging for booths for the fair which the Sisterhood has undertaken and which will be held in the new Temple Center on Jan, 23, 24.Conveners are Mesdames Arthur Simon, J.N.Neumann, H.Wolfe, W.N.Carin, J.Lewinson, M.Silverstein, Executives, Mesdames Albert Michael, Jos.Kruger, G.G.Gray.Sewing sessions are held every Monday throughout the day, in the Lecture Hall of Temple.On Saturday and Sunday regular ses- ligious School will be held.However, on Sunday, December 31st, the usual mid-winter recess will be observed.Daily Hebrew sessions are held Monday and Wednesday afternoons at 4 o'clock; the Dramatic Group meets every Tuesday at 4 o'clock; Temple Boy Scout Troop meets every Tuesday at 7:15; Temple Cub Pack meets Sunday afternoon at 2:30, All classes of the Religious School are now held in the new Temple Center Building.sions in all departments of the Re-| # Prize Winners Announced In Limerick Winner of the first prize of a canary and cage offered in the limerick contest conducted last week in the Examiner by the Business Association of West- mount was Miss Mabel Hamilton, of 445 Mount Pleasant avenue, who submitted the last line to the following limerick: Of thousands of good things {to eat, By far most important is meat! Try Clement's Today For their meat is 0.K.Like Britain it cannot be beat! Second prize, a 15 pound turkey, was won by Mrs.Joan Marshall, of 4712 Western avenue, Her entry follows: This season one must have [the best, Competition To enjoy the Yule dinner with [zest! At Box's you'll get The finest food yet To please the most eritical guest.The third prize winner was Mrs.Walter Jackson, 427 Argyle avenue, who will receive a 10 pound turkey.Her entry: Now a radio makes a fine gift! (And at Acme the service is [swift!) If you'd like to buy one Just come in and try one A small one or one you can't (lift! Awarded the fourth prize of a six pound Christmas cake was Mrs.(Continued on Page 4) 7 AL EE 7 M Conclave, True Kindred.Wednesday, Dec.27: Westmount Chapter, Order Star; Westmount Rotary Club Weekly luncheon Order of Nurses.(Hild da 7 Fe 00) The Week At Victoria Hall 2 A FR ZZ 7 PE 2 2 2 27 7 7 7 7 2 Friday: Westmount Women's Club Christmas party; Westmount Rotary Club Christmas party; Westmount Stamp Club; Westmount of the Eastern meeting; Victorian Thursday, Dec.28: Montreal Dispensary, bridge and dance.FOR GIFTS FOR EVERYONE: TURN TO THE PHARMACY ADVERTISEMENT ON PAGE 7 » The Westmount Bxaminer Serving The City of Westmount, Garden Suburb of Canada\u2019s Metropolis City Approves | Plans For Park P.E.Jarman, City Manager, in his Monthly Report to the General Committee of the City Council reported that the plans, specifications and estimates for a shelter in Prince Albert Park prepared by Cecil McDonald, the architect retained by the City for that purpose, were approve Construction will be deferred until next spring.\u2018The shelter will be of brick with slate roof, and the dressing rooms will accommodate boys and girls separately.The building will be heated by an oil furnace.GEGIL W.TYRE, NOTED CURLER, LAID TO REST Was Canadian Manager of Phoenix Assurance Company, of London, Eng.Cecil Watson Clarke Tyre, of 719 Upper Belmont avenue, was paid final tribute at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the chapel of Jos, C.Wray and Bro, Mountain street.The funeral service was conducted by the Rev.F.J.Wilkinson, of the Church of St, James the Apostle, assisted by the Rev.Canon PF.L Whitley, of Ste.Anne de Bellevue.Mr.Tyre, Canadian manager of the Phoenix Assurance Com- vany, of London, Eng., and associated companies, died at his residence on Monday morning.He was 57 years of age.Although he had not been well for a few days prior to his death he was at his office on Francois Xavier street Saturday morning and there was nothing to indicate that his illness was so grave.Widely known as a skillful eur- ler, Mr.Tyre was born at Pointe Claire on Sept.4, 1882, the son of Robert W., and Julia (Dyde) Tyre.He received his education at the Montreal High School and in August 1911 he married Gertrude Ellen, daughter of the late Edwin J.Bones.She survives him as well as two sons, Robert E, D.Tyre, of Montreal, und James R, C.Tyre, who is attached to the R.C.A.F,, at Toronto; a daughter, Miss Jean H.P.Tyre, of Montreal; and a sister, Miss Charlotte Tyre, of Montreal.Commencing in a junior position when he was 16 years of age, Mr.Tyre joined the Phoenix Assurance in 1898, He was promoted steadily until he became manager and chief agent of the Company for Canada.Mr.Tyre acted for a time as inspector for the Phoenix, and was appointed secretary of the company in 1921, In 1920 he became assistant manager, and in April 1984 he was appointed manager and chief agent for Canada, as well as manager for Canada of the following associated companies: Columbia Insurance Company of New Jersey; Tmperial Assurance Company of New York; Union Marine and General Insurance Company, Ltd.of Liverpool, England; and United Fitemen's Insurance Company, Philadelphia.He was vice- president of the North\u2019 Empire Fire Insurance Company; branch manage:, Montreal for the Acadia Fire Insurance Company of Halifax, and fire manager for Cunada for the London Guaranice and Accident Company Ltd.His chief recreations were golf and curling, and he was also a good shot, He wus a member of the St.James Club, the Royal Montreal Golf Club, the Royal Montreal Curling and the M.A.A.A.Mr.Tyre had heen & member of the Royal Montreal Curling Clun since 1901, and was skip of one of the two rinks that won the Gov- ernor-General\u2019s trophy in 1832.MAN SENTENGED FOR LOITERING When he appeared before Recorder Charles A.Hale in Weat- mount police court Saturday morning on a charge of loitering à man who said his name was Jack Ward, and that he came from Moncton, N.B., was ordered to pay a fine of $25 plus $5 costs, with the option of 30 days in jail.The accused, who pleaded guilty, chose the jail term.Ward was arrested by Constables Denbigh and Scheffer on Clarke avenue on Dec, 12.HARDWOOD FLOORS Supplied - Laid - Finished Repaired - Refinished A.Ross Grafton & Co.4263 St.Catherine St., Westmount Fres Estimates WE.2323 EID BAILS SELL PIII STII AEE L AE OIE) SIE fe Zz Cleaned LL IIII III IIS IS II ISSN TI OLIS AA 11 A PAGE THREE CITY ACQUIRES LAND FOR 52,800 Square Feet Wood avenue, with an area of 52 into a municipal park by the city eastern boundries of the city.the installation of equipment designed primarily for the use of small children with the objective of providing an attraction that will keep them off the streets.Swings, a sand box and other equipment is to be installed and n skating rink will ba operated during the winter, Shrubbery is to be planted various sections on the area.FINAL TRIBUTE PAID TO LATE JAMES MCLEAN Funeral Service Held in Church of the Ascension Of Our Lord Tuesday Friends and relatives paid final tribute to James F.McLean, of 79 Bruce avenue, at the Church of the Ascension of Our Lord on Tuesday morning at 8.30 o'clock.Interment followed the servive in Cote des Neiges cemetery.Mr.McLean died at a Montreal hospital on Saturday following a lengthy illness, He was 82 years of ange.Born and educated in Montreal, he had spent all his life here.He had formerly been employed by the Aluminum Company of Cun- ada und luter by the Dominion Chain Company.Mr, McLean is survived by his mother, Mrs.F.A.Bussiere; his brother, J.Arthur McLean, and his sisters, the Misses Margaret and Francis McLean and Mrs.F.T.Hudon, all of Montreal.GHOIR TO RENDER CHRISTMAS MUSIC The choir of Stanley Presbyterian Church, under the, direction of Walter S.Clapperton, will render the following Christmas music on Sunday morning: Chorus\u2014\"And te Glory of the Lord\u201d; Recitative\u2014'\u2018Behold a sha] conceive; Air and Chorus\u2014\u201cOh thou that tellest good tidings\"; Soloist\u2014Migs Dorothy Crabtree, in Virgin Recitative\u2014\"There were shepherds\u2019; And Lo\u2014\"The Angel of the Lord\u201d; \u201cAnd the Angels said unto them\u201d; \u201cAnd suddenly there was with the Angels\u201d; Soloist\u2014Mrs.W.8.Clapperton; Chorus\u2014\u201cGlory to God\u201d; Chorus\u2014\u201cHallelujah\u201d.In the evening the church choir Assisted by the Junior Choir will lead in the community carol singing.A feature of the park will be¥ NEW PARK AT CORNER OF SHERBROOKE ST.AND WOOD Playground Will be Constructed During 1940 \u2014 Equipment for Children is to be Installed \u2014 Skating Rink Will be Operated During Winter \u2014 Area is The Property at the north-east corner of Sherbrooke street and ,800 square feet, will be converted during 1840, it was announced at the office of the City Manager Yesterday, The land has been acquired by the city from the trustees of the property of the priests of St.Sulpice of Montreal for this punpose and work on the land is expocted to commence carly in the spring.The development will greatly improve the appearance of the distriet and will be an additional beauty spot in the proximity of the PARTY IS HELD FOR SOLDIERS ATV BRANCH Members of Various Regiments Entertained by Westmount Women's Club Gathored around a cheerful wood fire, ladies of the War Work Committee of Westmount Women's Club, and members of various Montreal regiments, including the Black Watch, Royal Canadian Higblanders, 5th Field Battery, R.C.A., and Regiment de Maison- neuve, enjoyed two hours of real home atmosphere nt the Wost- mount Y.M.C.A.Sunday night, Mrs.Harold Mills welcomed the guests and then introduced Mrs.W.F.Worfolk, Chairman of the War Work Committee who gave a talk \u201cReminiscences of the Great War,\u201d after which Mrs.Colin Forrest took charge of the music.Mrs.Harold Mills sang a suite of Scotland's favourite songs; Roland Richard, of Regiment de Maisonncuve, lead the singing of French marching songs, and Miss Norms MucLean rendered violin selections, Each soldier was given a supply of cigarettes, and Mrs.Herbert Holland, on behalf of the War Work Committee, gave each soldier a ha\u201cd-knitled sweater, a couple of pairs of socks and wrist- lets.After the sing-song, Mrs.Gordon Blair and her Committee entertained the ladies and their soldier guests at a tea, W.M.Spearman, on behalf of the Westmount \u201cY\", extended a hearty invitation to all the boys to come \u201cnd bring their friends every Sunday evening for the duration of the war.Parked Car Skids Into Stairway Although ft was left fn gear and ils brakes set.a driverless automobile parked opposite H48 Luna started to slide down the snow- covered inel'ne and struck the stairway leading to 545 Lansdowne a house on the opposite side of the street owned by J.C.Grant, The car had been left at the curb by Mrs.John Murphy, of 348 Cote St, Antoine road, while she visited friends, Tt enused consider able damage to the stairway and its fenders and humpers were slightly dented.The gay spirit of the Yuletide season is evident everywhere in Westmount today.The two large trees on the grounds fronting the City Hall and the two in West- mount Park brightly decorated by the municipality with colored lights combine with the hundreds of smaller Christmas trees placed by residents in front of their homes to make this city one of the most picturesque centres on the Island.The stores, of course, reflect the gay atmosphere that pervades the entire scene and their brightly de- Spirit of Yuletide Season Evident Everywhere Here corated windows and counters point happily to the fact that Christmas is but a few days away.Even the sombre appearance of the police station is overshad: \u2019 by a Christmas tree that g outside the entrance to the h ing.Residents of Westmount are always particularly proud of the appearance of their city at this time of the year.Free of soot and smoke from factory chimneys the snow that covers its buildings, lawns and public parks creates a Christmas scene that is seldom found within the boundaries of a metropolis downe avenue at 1 p.m.on Sunday! a tn ml + oH TEL Frey, ! fences, furnace, garden, garage, chic- 42 eA pwnd fk a i À $ ELECTRIC TPRAL men*s skates and boots size 11.2274 8 à A en i , & siz wit EN .WA, 2978, boots, size 4, perfect condition.620 Grosvenor Ave, .BOOKCASE, gateleg, several rugs, : tea wagon, mats.ÿ T-3 GIRLS COAT, hat, size 10, girls C.C.M.skates, boots .%, rubber \" boots, 2, large doll's sleigh.EL.8536., T-1 MISS WRAY, formerly of N.D.G., speclalising evening gowns, moder- .HOME-MADE cookies, .SIX FOOT toboggan w'th green cor- : CHILD'S white fur coat, hat and leg- PAGE FOUR The Westmount Examiner Published Every Thursday Serving the City of Westmount, Garden Suburb of Canada's Metropoifs THE EXAMINER PUBLISHING COMPANY Head Office: 2191 Hampton Ave.WAlnot 2778° \u201cThe Exeminer\u201d \u2014ee \u2014 WESTMOUNT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939 GOODWILL TO MEN \u201c\u2019O hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing!\u201d The angels sang of peace and never was there greater need of those two things than today.The roar of guns and the ciatter of armaments everywhere is making it harder than ever for the song of peace to be heard.And more sinister than these, and the baleful reason for their being, is the volume of threatenings and recriminations proceeding from statesmen in all lands.There can be no progress in human welfare without peace, and there can be no peace without goodwill, Any general lapse from goodwill is a lapse in progress, a dangerous break in the trouble Europe just now is that goodwill has been lost, almost entirely, in a seething brew of hate, prejudice and arrogant intolerance.This is a denial of Christianity, for Christianity has demanded from all men the spirit of goodwill toward their fellows, irrespective of racial, social fabric of civilization.The or political status.Goodwill toward all men was thing at the beginning of the Christian era.Even the Apostle Peter learned with difficulty to appreciate the Gentiles.He racial barriers before he discovered that all men are of equal worth in the sight of God.So strong was his prejudice that he balked at a command, a Divine command at that, to go and visit a Roman centurion who had become interested in Christianity.When he had made the visit and found Cornelius to be a friend, he confessed, \u201cUnto me hath God showed that | should not call any man common or unclean.\u201d No man, whether he wear the vestments of the clergy or not, can entertain or foster racial and national prejudices and hatreds and be a good Christian.When he does so, he has lost Christianity\u2019s prevailing note and has lapsed into a pre-Christian state of mind and heart.The ancient world was filled with ill-will, To the Greeks non-Greeks were barbarians.the Jews non-Jews were \u2018'goyim,\u2019\u2019 outlanders.The early Romans, had the same word, \u2018\u2019hos- tis,\u201d for stranger and enemy.This is not to say that goodwill was lacking from the ancient world.\u2018But it was a strictly limited goodwill, goodwill to one\u2019s family, one's party, one's class or nation.But goodwill to all, persistent goodwill on the broad basis of the brotherhood of all mankind is, comparatively, a newcomer in this old world, and it still has to battle » against pride and prejudice and envy and racial hatred.Of this latter H.G, Wells wrote sims te be an independent, clesn newspaper (er the home devitea to publie corvice.some years ago, and present events verify his words: \u201c| am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice, none at all.| write deliberately\u2014 it is the worst single thing in life now.lt justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.\u201d Some are puzzled at the venom with which modern tyrannies attack Christianity.The reason is simn'e, Christianity stands for goodwill, for brotherhood, for aovernment by consent rather than by force.It proclaims human eauality.It will exclude no one from the circle of its fellowship.It proclaims bold'y\u2014\"'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor fema'e: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.\u201d Where that principle is recognized, tyrannies cease and democracies grow.There can be no exceptions made in the application of the principle of goodwill.Jesus brouaht that out in His sermon on the Mount, in which He says, in effect, \u2018You must love those whom you have learned to think of as your enemies, and, if they treat you badly, you must pray for them.So shall you really be like God your Father, who makes His sun shine on bad men and good men alike, and sends His rains on all men, whether they obey or disobey His will .You are to be God's men: your love is to be as catholic as His.\u201d When the angels sang of goodwill to men they were proclaiming that there was no emity between God and man, except that which man himself set up.They were proclaiming, too, the only principle by which men could live at peace among themselves.Unless man attains the virtue of persistent goodwill all the instruments of science and invention which he has made for himself will become the instruments of his own destruction.Goodwill is not a pious sentiment.It is the only practicable working law in the present world.goodwill, and with rather a new had to cross XMAS PRESENT FOR BRITAIN By the completion of the Air Training Scheme, the greater part of the cost of which will be borne by this country, we present a most appropriate Christmas gift to the Motherland.Our geographic position and our wide spaces free from the threat of enemy bombers make Canada an ideal locale for the development of so vast a project and give the Empire a great advantage over ifs enemies in this respect.As the Prime Minister announced in his radio address Sunday night, the scheme will aive the Allies an overwhelming advantage in the air an advantage so great that it might well be the decisive factor.Under the arrangements sighed Saturday midnight, Canada is to provide the schools, the air fields, and most of the pilots.It is particularly fitting that most of the pilots should be Canadians, for it is now generally recognized that this country produces the best airmen in the world.Many reasons for this have been advanced, including the theory that nearly all Canadian boys learn to shoot at moving targets with twenty-two rifles, and later become proficient at ice hockey.The intuition developed at this sport To is the same as that required in an aerial battle, it is said.\u2019 THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER {CHRISTIAN SCIENCE] | SERVICES | * + \u201cChristian Science\u201d is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon to be read in Churches of Christ, Scientist throughout the world on Sunday, December 24th.The Golden Text is from Isaiah 52:9, \u201cBreak forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for th: Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.\u201d Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: \u201cBut 1 certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.For I neither received it of man, neither was | taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.\u201d (Galatians 1:11,12).The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook \u201cScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures\u201d by Mary Baker Eddy: \u201cIn the year 1866, 1 discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science.God had been graciously preparing me during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing.This apodictical Principle points to the revelation of Immanuel, \u201cGod with us,\u201d \u2014the sovereign ever-presence, delivering the children of men from every ill \u2018Laat flsh is heir to.\u201d (Page 107).} \u2019 SOMETHING ABOUT CAROLS In 1521 Wynken de Worde printed the first known set of Christmas carols, The carol was originally a joyous dance, a sign of liberation from the religious austerity of the Puritan era.Percy Dearmer, wriling in \u201cThe Oxford Book of Carols,\u201d says \u201cThe tarol, by forsaking the timeless contemplative melodies of the church, began the era of modern music, which throughout has been based on the dance.\u201d The word \u201ccarol\u201d is from \u201ccan- tare,\u201d to sing, and \u201crola\u201d a joyful interjection, ETERNAL FOE OF CRUELTY Much as Christmas has meant to humanity, it has meant no less to those lowlier fellow creatures who share with men life's joys and sorrows.Whatever the burden of suffering that rests upon the animal world today, it is less by many fold than it was before that night when a little child was born in the stable of a Bethlehem inn.The spirit of hristmas is the eternal foe of cruelty.No man who yields to its sway can look with other than kindly eyes upon the least of those living things that have capacity for pain.Words for GARAGES TO LET GARAGE, heated, Roslyn at West- mount Avenue, $10.00 monthly, EL.0406.HOUSES WANTED ALL YEAR house wanted, western section Montreal Island.\u2018 Four to seven rooms, must have clty conven- ken-house or suitable shed.Will rent from May 1st with optlon of buying.A-81 FOR SALE GIRL'S clothing, party frock, day dresses, size 10-12, Tube skates and Chesterfield suite.lamps, tables.Bedroom, dining room, studio.Sultabls Christmas gifts, Fl.1950.1353 Greene, Westmount.ate, aftevnooi.dresses, alterations, no patterns needed, WI.4604.T-4 cakes, muf- Xmas puddings ete made to Deliclous and wholesome, DE.A-30 fins, order.7810, duroy cushion, almort new, apply.El.4876.A-101 The Westmount Examiner | « Jo) GLASSIFIED ADS FOR SALE BOY'S Skates, size 2 and 414, perfect condition, outgrown, $2.00 per pair.DE.1536, A-78 TWO brand new dinner dresses, size 16 with sequin bolerv; lamps, rugs and odd pieces, bargaln, DE, 3815.A-17 FOR SALE BARGAIN\u2014 Kelvinator refrigerator, new parts throughout, one year guarantee, Bb cuble feet capacity.Apply Room 226, 5726 Sherbrooke St, W.MUSKRAT coat, girls, size 10-12 cheap, One palr C.C.M, skate: and boots, size 4, $1.00.EL.0240, i will not be through \u201crearmament\u201d \u2014that contained 200 soldiers, The Examiners Hidden Titles Contest The Westmount Examiner's Hidden Titles Contest is run with the kind co-operation of Mr.Godel, manager of the Westmount Theatre.Each week twelve passes are given to the six lucky winners who comply with the following requirements: \u2014 Simply find tc two \u201cads.\u201d in the current issue of The Westmount Examiner in which the names of the two feature pictures being shown at the Westmount Theatre during the first half of the coming week are hidden.Submit all answers to The Contest Editor, The Westmount Examiner, 2191 Hampton Avenue, using the special coupon provided in each issue for the purpose.Contestants must be over 16 years of age.Residents of Westmount, only, are eligible.All answers must be in the office not later than Wednesday, and the names of the winners will be published in Thursday's issue.À convenient coupon will be found elsewhere in the paper.The winners are drawn from among those who submit the correct answers as, unfortunately, it would be impossible to give passes to everyone submitting the right answers.The winners of last week's contest are as follows and their passes will be received in Friday's mail: Betty Griffith, 398 Roslyn Ave.; Betty Moehring, 366 Grosvenor Ave.; Mrs.Herbert Vineberg, 603 Belmont Ave.; Peggy Dainty, 438 Mount Stephen Ave., Apt.29; Miss W.Kemp, 680 Roslyn Ave.; John Patrick, 4465 Sherbrooke W.y GUMUMMISISI MIS III III IS III IL III III I SSII II II/ III III VIII III SI SSI S III VIII IIS II MS SSII SI SI SI SAIS SIMS LA THE FORUM Conducted by HOWARD S.ROSS, K.C., D.Z.L.In Which Subjects of General \\ Interest Are Discussed The opinions expressed in this Forum are not necessarily those of this newspaper and it does not accept responsibility for them.A N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N There are about 1200 cities in the United States in which single newspapers or single ownerships now supply all in the U.S.A, The Chicago Herald There are 2000 daily newspapers Examiner (a Hearst newsaper) recently ceased publication, Cormick\u2019s Tribune the only daily of general circulation Colonel the printed news.leaving in the morning and it is expected the vigorous and enterprising Colonel will be reaching out for a 1,000,000-a-day circulation, the dream of all newspaper publishers, The larger the Tribune circulation the better for the new model towns of Comeau Bay and Shelter Bay of Quebec's North shore, both largely the result of the enterprise of Colonel Me- Cormick.Pittsburgh is building low-rent* homes for 3,000.The cost Perlincreased by an additional 135.room, including utilities will be $4.86 per month.No person whose weekly salary is more than five times this amount can rent one of the apartments.The Mormon Church has recalled all its missionaries from European countries, Little Luxembourg has an area of 1,000 square miles and a population of 300,000.Lights blaze all night so that careless aviators mistaken by drop \u201carmy\u201d has gone is, the Company of Volunteers, which has been bombs.The The powerful radio was closed because, only seven miles from Germany, it might have offered à pretext for invasion.The French promise they will respect Luxembourg\u2019s soil and the inhabitants believe them because of their good record as neighbors, The Third Avenue Railway system, the last trolley tracks in the city of New York are to be removed and the service replaced by buses.The subways will continue to be the principal means of transportation and the city has seen to it that the 5 cent fare is maintained.\u201cSocial progress comes by em- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939 ploying objectives open-minded appraisals and measurement as the instruments of creative imagination and of a craving for truth and excellence.This process changed astrology into astronomy, alchemy into chemistry, blood-let- ting into surgery.As it comes to prevail in other fields it will transform traditional morality into ethics, politics into statesmanship.and blind custom into directed and purposeful conduct.\u201d\u2014Dr.À.E.Morgan, Chairman Tennessee Valley Authority.Mrs, F.D.Roosevelt was named by the American Friends Service committee for Philadelphia annual humanitarian award.Machinery, from being the master of humans can be our servant and set us free.A book well entitled \u201cA People\u2019s England.\u201d The author Morton, worth reading is History of is A L Kagwa of Japan accepts science and evolution, all the ascertained findings of scholarship, welcomes the machine age, rejoices in modernity but would merge all findings and forces under an altruistic philosophy of brotherhood.His Kingdom of God movement begins in evangelism and ends in economie cooperatives, It includes education, labor and former organization, social welfare work, the building of churches, all practical means that will raise the standard of living for the underprivileged, unite the strong in the service of the weak, utilize the principle of mutual aid and replace the paganism of the competitive, social order with that of brotherhood and cooperation.He says Gandhi's error is in advocating a retreat back to primitive simploicity and Tolstoi\u2019s is over- intellectualism.\u201cl warn you that our civiliza- aion is in danger if we heed the deceptive cries of special privilege; if we permit our men of great wealth to send us on a wild-goose chase after so-called radicals while they continue to plunder the people.\u2014Gov.Earle of Pennsylvania.John Garrick, who has an important singing role with Allan Jones, Mary Martin and Walter Connolly in Paramount's \u201cThe Great Victor Herbert,\u201d has sung in every important section of the British Empire.Prize Winners .(Continued from Page 3) P.Powles, of 222 Metcalfe AVente, Her entry: If you like to do shopping at [leistre Try Herman's; they've many [a treasure! A tremendous selection Of gifts of perfection Just to look at them all is à [pleas Fifth prize, a three pound Christmas cake, was won by M Albert E.Perrins, of 4000 Mont.rose avenue, His entry: Now don\u2019t let a black or a leak Spoil your holiday festival week Call Watson the Plumber Look here for his number And he\u2019s on the job \u201clike a [streak Prize winners will be motifieq by mail where they may obtain their prizes.Due to the large number of entries the judges had considerable difficulty in selecting the winner and worked until late last night before they had decided on what, in their opinion, were the best entries.A marked similarity in the last lines submitted to complete some of the limericks made judging increasingly difficult.IRISH MOSS ON CARDS Girls who live by the sea have many Christmas resources, Irish moss makes the best blanc mange and the moss of commerce is not to be compared to that which has been selected and carefully dried, You may purchase cards in the shops, but why not add the unique touch by making your own, using the more delicate seaweeds?As soon as taken from the sea, place the weeds in a dish of water and arrange them on the card by slipping it under the water and literally floating the weed into position; then place the card between sets of clean blotting paper and dry under pressure.No paste is needed as the weeds contain a sticky substance.To combine in equal proportions red and green lights of equal brightness on your Christmas tree is an assault on the eyesight.The result suggests traffic signals gone mad.Two parts of green to one of red may be used more effectively.Edward H.S.Piper & Nantel Res.: 2047 Vendome Ave, DE.2103 ADVOCATE AT RESIDENCE MONDAY \u2014 WEDNESDAY \u2014 FRIDAY 7.00 P.M.\u20149.00 P.M.10 St.James Street West, Montreal PLateau 6453 Piper, B.C.L.\u2014 WAlnu | 2773 | a FOR SALE GIRL'S brown sk! suit, also taffeta party dress, size 12-14, WA, 4898.ATS WHITE baby\u2019s sleigh with hooi in perfect order, $5.00.EL.3471, A-70 LADY'S gray tweed coat, racoon collar, size 14, $7.50.3338 Girouvard.Crossword P uzzle Carsley\u2019s Remnant Shop BUY here and e Girl's toilet sets.reduced to 98c- $2.98 tablecloths 85c\u201449¢ ladies\u2019 slips bic and 8%c Cel.anese 49c yd.6131 Fherbrocke, near Beaconsfield, A-105 ELECTRIC magic coal fire basket cost $75.00 sell at bargain; studio couch, almost new: brown Perslan lamb, fashionabl cut fur coat: ma- \u2018hogany and white lady's dressers; writing desk, FI, 8213, A-92 reasonable, want Harvard avenue.A-91 SKATES and boots, ski suit, 14; aki boots 7; skils; tap shoes, overshoes.DE, 9746.A-80 LOVELY singing bird and cage $6; % bed Simmon's; hand wringer, DE, 6918, 831 Wolsley N.A-26 DOLL CARRIAGES, one large $5.00; smaller onu $3.00; bundle infants bedding $1.00; Yellow band Titian china.EL.3833.A~89 gings, 4-6 years, excellent condition, reasonable.DE, 9703, A-88 A-74 MAN'S fur-lined overcoat, Otter collar, size medium.DE.7313.A-75 GIRLS' GUIDE costume, size 13: girls\u2019 skates and boots size G; chesterfield suite; divanette.DE.0464.A-64 BEAUTIFUL CANARIES in full song.Buy one for Christmas, $3.50.1058 Oxford avenue, N.D.G.A-63 ! 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 BABY CARRIAGE; play pen.Call > - EL.1392.A-62 11 12 13 WOMEN'S SKI SUIT, size 40, $6.00; skates and boots, 6%, $3.00: fancy 1 1 skates 814, $4.00; sklis only $3.00.DE.4 5 16 17 6463.A-61 SKI SUITS 16-18, $3 complate; girls\u2019 18 19 20 21 winter coat 1¢ $3; raincoat, $2.DE.0858, A-59 22 23 4 25 ELECTRIC SWEEPER; Packard electric razor and accessories; den table, A-58 26 27 28 2 EL.6042, 9 BEAUTIFUL TUXEDO and fancy vest, \u201cBerkdale,\u201d size 42, worn once.30 31 32 Very reasonable, CH.9841, A-57 THREE PIECE chesterfield, brown 3 4 35 36 velour, small, like new.WA, 5185, LIMOGES CHINA dinner set, service 37 38 3 for 12, sacrifice; also brown ski suit 9 40 4 18, EL, 5484.A-55 BLACK CREPE DRESS, trimmed \u201c2 43 44 45 French grmp 40-42, cheap.quick.Fl.1407, A-50 46 47 48 49 GAS STOVE, 4 burners, high oven.will sacrifice, AT, 4933, A-4 so 51 s2 53 > : ENTERTAINMENT MOVIES! The best way to entertain 54 55 the children is to show movies at their next party.TALKIES.Informa- mr - - tion WA.5198, T-$ HORIZONTAL 40\u2014Tone 12\u2014To want : FORTUNE TELLING \u2014 .42\u2014Dull person 13\u2014Commanded rma = aay (coll) 43\u2014Surly person 16\u2014Invasion PROFESSOR ARMAND \u2014 Reader, uples 45\u2014At once 18\u2014Method 3804 Evelyn street, Verdun, WE, 3479.11\u2014Balm 46\u2014Pronoun 21-Planes wing tip Every day till 10 pun.T-5 13\u2014To thrive 7\u2014Kind of cigar N\u2014Catches by ruse 14\u2014Part of \u201c\u2018to be\" 9\u2014Pronoun 25\u2014Ntallan city 15\u2014Immature 50\u2014Follows 2'\u2014Beverage 17-Toward 52\u2014More promptly 29-\u2014Suitable 18\u2014Doze 54~\u2014To distribute , 31\u2014Machines for 20\u2014Interprets 5B5\u2014Fits vf tempera- shaping 21\u2014Manner ment 33\u2014To ge angry at 22\u2014Soil VERTICAL 34\u2014Shift at work 24\u2014Accomplished 1\u2014Balmy 36\u2014Packed 25-\u2014Mud 2\u2014Modern Greek 37\u2014Disables 36\u2014Qirl's name 3\u2014By 39\u2014Creek god 28\u2014Contaminate 4\u2014Small draft 41\u2014Pitchers 30\u2014Divine vocation , E-Period of time 43\u2014T0 masticate 32\u2014Rlver f\u2014Cronles 44\u2014~Weaver's machine 33\u2014To recite \u201c\u2014Kroded 47\u2014Actor's line 35\u2014Blackens 8\u2014Pronoun 48\u2014Als0 ai-\u2014Minus 2$\u2014To Ev to bed 51\u2014Klder (abbr.) 38\u2014Part of shoe 10\u2014To breathe loudly &3\u2014Not any FURS WE WILL remodel or repair yout fur coat like new at summer prices Rowat-Cusson-Ross.Limited, 886% Sherbrooke Street, DE.2511.T-7 FOR_ HER GENTLEMEN! something new and profitable for your wife, daughter or flancee.Give her a Christmas card for\u201830 lessons of practical sewing at Miss Bousquet's, 4331A Wellington St.Verdun.Special care given.Good for one year, $10.00.Information, YO.2946, T- ~ 5S 2S 202 en | Fronte: Sobel, LAGER BEER | 0) (42 .4 2 WEDNE Gi Chris ly those uncomp will be complet may prices ¢ 4451 St calfe A The » tractive men at hair br other a most fe a comp la | AEM \u201cIf ye will ope Smilir racked | Crawfor \u201cI am That eration history.It to Day, 18( went lit ting lim Invasion the body medical in death to remo Crawfor if she di ity agre jury wou der.Dr.M his patie tion.A accepted M The pt sole topi tiny com tucky.against t riated m house.TI him!\u201d we peared as one of ! to smash the sounc ing a Ch herald ar Mrs.C doctor\u2019s 1 there wer days\u2014gri table till and sang \u201cPeace mild, God an 503 (Oppo: Juvenit cs TALLY Xmas We tak custom Compli preciate Avenue, Ig at [leisure many easure! is a leasure, young by Me, | Mont a leak al week er ke a streak.\u201d rotified obtain ber of derable winners t night 1 what, ne best rity in 0 com.5 made ult, DS a have Irish mange is not ich has dried, ; in the unique 1, Using ?the sea, f water card by ter and ed into ard beg paper 0 paste ntain a portions f equal nas tree rht.The signals rreen to nore ef- 6453 ntreal \u2014_ XR Te A ç$ per WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1939 Gift Articles At Metcalfe Pharmacy § P Featured Christmas shoppers, particularly those who have left their lists uncompleted until the last minute, will be especially interested in the complete line cf gift articles that may be obtained at reasonable prices at the Metcalfe -Pharmacy, 4451 St.Catherine street, at Met- calfe Ave.The wide selection includes attractive g fts suitable for both men and women.Shaving sets, hair brushes, combs and countless other accessorics will please the most fastidious male taste, while a complete line of manicure sets, soaps, powders lipst.ck, rouge, and etc, offers a fine choice of presents suitabie for women.The Metealfe Pharmacy is currently featuring the most varied line of Christmas gift articles in! its Listory and has made e.ery effort to stock goods suitable for the closest frienc or the casual acquaintance.While featuring gift articles at this time the stor» carries, as usual, a full line of pharmaceutical neeus And specializ- in the com- ;ound\u2019ng of prescriptioas.The store maintains a free, \u2018rapid delivery service.¥ \u201cIf you are prepared to die, I will operate!\u201d Smiling, despite the pain that racked her frame, Mrs.Thomas Crawford replied quietly: \u201c1 am ready!\u201d That was the prelude to an operation destined to go down in history.It took place on Christmas Day, 1809, a time when surgery went little further than amputating limbs and dressing wounds.Invasion of the great cavity of the body was unknown and in medical circles believed to result in death.Dr.McDowell proposed to remove à tumor from Mrs Crawford, and fully realized that if she died, as all medical authority agreed she must, a coroner's jury would find him guilty of murder.Dr.McDowell thought more of his patient than of his reputation.A life might be saved.He accepted the risk.Mob Meant Murder The proposed operation was the sole topic of conversation in the tiny community of Danville, Kentucky.Slowly popular feeling against the doctor grew.An infuriated mob made its way to his house.The ugly words \u201cLynch him!\u201d were uttered.A rope appeared as if by magic, but, just as one of the ringleaders was about to smash in the door, there came the sound of a woman's voice singing a Christmas hymn.\u201cHark the herald angels sing! Glory\u2014\" Mrs.Crawford, suffering as the doctor's knife bit into her flesh\u2014 there were no anaesthetics in those days\u2014gripped the rude operating- table till her knuckles.were white, and sang bravely on.\u201cPeace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.\u201d Sang Christmas Hymns During Operation & Gradually the woman's singing grew weaker and weaker, till at last it stopped.The doctor carried the now unconscious patient to her bed.Then he stepped outside and faced the lynching party.\u201cThe patient lives!\u201d he announced brusquely.\u2018She will live?The door slammed, Couldn\u2019t Save Himself There was silence for a moment, and then the air was riven by a great cheer, Shamefacedly the crowd dispersed, taking its rope with it.But the greatest danger was yet to come.Would the patient develop blood poisoning?Anxiously, Dr.McDowell put her on a diet, and awaited results.Five days later he came into her room and found her actually making her own bed! Mrs, Crawford recovered completely and remained in excellent health until her death at 79.And Dr.McDowell?An ironical fate decreed that, he, who had discovered one of the most important operations known to medical science, should himself fall a vie.tim to the very malady of which he had perfected the cure.It was on Christmas morning in the year 1830 that the doctor himself was gripped by paralysing spasms of pain in the stomach.After steadily sinking for two weeks, the great discoverer of the cure for appendicitis died\u2014of a ruptured appendix! He couldn\u2019t operate on himself\u2014and no one else was available to do it.Unsightly dribbles ,of orange juice of cod liver oil will not become permanent stains on baby\u2019s bib or frock if the spotted juice is doused immediately in a good live lather of lukewarm soapsuds and then washed in the usual way.5035 Sherbrooke W.(Opposite Westmount Theatre) MODEL SHOE REPAIR NIHINY DE.7737 Specializing in Overshoe Repairing \"We replace worn fur and make your .Overshoes like new.Ski Boots Rebuilt and Protectors put on.Skates sharpened and put on.WESTMOUNT We take this opportunity to wish our Customers and Friends A MERRY CHRISTMAS ES See For Yourself.The Largest Assortment of Xmas Cards Ever Assembled.Juvenile Cards .\u2014 Money Holding Cards.\u2014 Bookmarks \u2014 Cards ta for Photographs \u2014 Gift Cards \u2014 Calendars.HURRY NOW! For Xmas Table Decorations! TALLY AND PLACE CARDS \u2014 XMAS CRACKERS \u2014 SMALL XMAS TREES \u2014 TABLE NOVELTIES \u2014 IMPORTED SWEETS.TOYS \u2014 GIFTS \u2014 GAMES ® WATERMAN'S PEN AND PENCIL SETS @ Xmas Stockings made in England \u2014 Crepe Papers \u2014 Streamers Napkins and Tablecloths.WE DELIVER 4869 Sherbrooke St.W.STATIONERY EL.0032-WA.2575 customers in Westmount a AXI ?LAVAL TAXI 5 Stands in Westmount for Prompt Service BE.2377 We take this opportunity to wish our many friends and Compliments of the Season.Your patronage is greatly appreciated and we hope to continue to be of service to you.A fleet of all new, 7 pase senger cars driven by courteous, uniformed chauffeurs at your service.Regular Meter Rates.Joyous Christmas and the \u2018824.And P THE WESTMOUNT EXAMINER Two solos, two duets, and a two-piano piece, as well as two band selections will be presented by this group in its fourth radio broadcast over CBM next month.Larche Paul, violinist, will assist with two violin selections, accompanied by Adele Roberton and Ruth Telfer; the two latter will also perform The Romance from Mozart's D Minor Concerto, on two pianos.The Band welcomes new members.soldiers at an early date.It played for the sailors Institute this fall.lt has played at several concerts and will be playing for the Following are some 1939 successes in piano work: Distinction, McGill; Pass with Credit, Royal Schools of Music; Bach Runner-up, Quebec Music Festival; the silver cup trophy, Westmount Hobby Show; and several first, second and third prize ribbons at the Montreal Hobby Show.Apply Catherine H.Smith, 451 Grosvenor Avenue.DExter 2328 Yule Customs Of The Past Monday morning, around the family Christmas tree, another array of Christmas gifts will emerge from their tissue paper wrappings to exclamations, real or feigned of \u201cOh, isn't that lovely,\u201d and another step in the trend of Christmas gifts will be completed.By Sunday night the average man will own three new ties, two of which he wouldn't wear any place where there was a light; three to six pairs of socks, half of which fall in the same class as the ties; two pipes if he is a smoker.and probably only one if he isn't; two jars of shaving soap that take about nine months apiece to use; a book he doesn\u2019t want to read, and a few other similar things.* * * It is a little harder to predict what the average woman will have, but it is almost a sure bet she will own at least two boxes of candy, two jars of bath salts, several pairs of silk stockings, and a wide assortment of other things.Ladies are getting the breaks these days in the Christmas giving, now that the green necktie with the yellow spots, and similar creations peculiar to the Christmas trade are apparently here to stay.The bath salts, silk stockings, etc, that feature the ladies\u2019 array after the Christmas parcels are unwrapped, can never match the Christmas ties and socks that are all too often inflicted on the poor male, + * * There was a time when a man could count on getting a really practical gift for Christmas, and not an imitation practical one, like a gaudy Christmas tie, In 1900 \u201cThe Freeholder\u201d advertised among other attractive Christmas gifts a fold-headed umbrella or walking stick, a present both practical and useful.In all the files that the reporter searched, he found only one reference to neckties, and even that had a highly respectable tone, \u201cNew knots and flowing end ties,\u201d it read, \u201cat reasonable prices.\u201d No reference at all was made to colors, brt it is safe to assume they had nothing in stock to match the present style.Merchants didn\u2019t advertise so extensively and so specifically their Christmas stock as is the custom nowadays.They confined themselves to a large extent to telling their customers they had \u201can unusually large stock of articles suitable for Christmas gifts,\u2019 and they left it to the customers to pick out their own.An Ottawa firm that advertised in local papers in 1902 printed the following announcement: \u201cTo be equal to this week's climax of the Christmas trading season, we are now devoting over an acre of space, solely as sample floorage, to the most comprehensive assemblage of combination bookcases, parlor cabinets, library bookcases, ladies\u2019 writing desks.parlor stands, gentlemen\u2019s chiffoniers and smoking stands, ever seen under one roof.\u201d * * * Judging from the advertisements, furniture was a big item in he Chrsitmas gifts of 1900 and the few years following.Parlor cabinets, music cabinets, sideboards, etc., figure prominently in the advertisements, The smaller range of gifts were not so prominently mentioned, although handkerchiefs, the old raliable, priced from five cents to 50 cents, were listed by several merchants.Forerunner to the modern slogan about \u201cGive a radio this Christmas,\u201d The Freeholder, in 1802, suggested that a phonograph would be an ideal gift.They were priced from $15 to $40, For those who wanted to give expensive gifts in the jewelry line, there were brooches in the \u2018\u2018sunburst\u201d pattern, made of gold and liberally bestudded with pearls, (65, count them) which set the ardent swain or husband back jus: if the recipient of the brooch cared tu give something about as expensive, she could go the limit and buy him a gold filled watch (seven jewels) of a really substantial size for $15.The ad- vertisements do not mention any ! at higher prices.If a silver, gunmetal or nickel watch was good enough, however, you could buy one that would last as long as desired from $2 up.Another feature of Christmas back 30 years ago was the fact that giving of gifts at Christmas wasn\u2019t the wide-spread custom it is now.New Year's, apparently.tdxsupre ng ¢ hiefs ing mmm ran the Yuletide season a hard race as the favorite time for giving gifts, Most of the merchants of the day carried the same advertisements in the papers right after Christmas as they did before, substituting only the words \u201cNew Year,\u201d or \u201cHoliday\u201d for \u201cChristmas.\u201d In many cases the same old cut of Santa Claus that graced the Christmas edition would be found in exactly the same place in the issue of the paper prior to the New Year, with the greeting \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d changed to \u201cHappy New Year.\u201d æ % * A large part of the population who occasionally overlook a distant cousin in their Christmas shopping, and are highly embarrassed when said cousin sends a couple of handkerchiefs, would welcome the revival of the New Year giving idea.Imagine how handy it woulud be to send along a little something the next week with a \u201cHappy New Year\u201d ecard.and possibly the explanation that \u201cWe're sending New Year's, instead of Christmas gifts this year.\u201d * * * The Christmas card trade is one which has grown rapidly in the past few years.Advertisements of 35 years ago bore little reference to this pleasant custom, although they are mentioned once or twice.The old-fashioned card was usually more of a work of art than most of the modern creations, being given generally with the idea that perhaps it might be framed if the recipient had a dull corner she wanted to brighten a little.They were ordinarily of a generous size, printed on a stiff.celluloid-like paper, with a large amount of golden scroll work around the outside.Nowadays the mails are flooded with Christmas cards, and the making of them has become a big business.ou can buy them at all prices, from two for a nickel up to 50 cents or so, for which price you will probably get a calendar thrown in.The majority of people who send any number of cards send at least five to persons they never see or correspond with all the rest of the year, and receive approximately three from people, to whom they forget to send them.As well as keeping in touch with old friends, Christmas cards can be a good way to correspond with someone without having to write letters, and therefore are a great boon to most males.% » » Christmas dinner 36 years ago was even a more important part of Christmas festivities than today.Advertisements of candy, turkeys, and all sorts of Christmas foodstuffs vie with advertisements of gifts for prominence in the pages of the paper.Christmas dinner could afford to be a feast of feasts then, too, Oranges sold at 10 cents a dozen, raisins anywhere \u2018 from five to 12% cents & pound, Mixed candy, with the usual Christmas assortment of jaw-breakers, was worth from 10 cents to 12% cents a pound, much cheaper than nowadays, and one could even buy \u201cFrench creams and vanilla centre chocolates\u201d at 20 cents a pound, Best of all, turkeys, indispens- ible in most Christmas dinners, could be bought for just 10 cents a pound.\u201cCheaper than beefsteak,\u201d The Standard remarked.Following is a quotation from The Standard of 1899: \u201cThe little unpleasantness in South Africa (the Boer War) has been duplicated in Tur- key-land, and hundreds of proud turk(ey)s who have foolishly put on a great deal of flesh, have been captured and executed to satisfy the demands of Charles LaRose\u2019s customers.They are fine, fat birds, and at 10 cents a pound are cheaper than beefsteak.\u201d Sandy groaned.\u201cEh, mon, but it would have been luckier 1f T had begun at this end and only had one mouthful.\u201d It is with great respect that every Frontiersman, regardless of rank, who is attached to the Legion of Frontiersmen (Canadian Command) (Chartered in Canada by the Dominion Government), looks to Divisional Commandant Lt.-Col.Louis Scott, D.C.M., LM.S.M., L.F., ds the Supreme Command in Canada.Soldier and gentleman, he accepted the post of directing the Legion throughout the Dominion.Born in England, he came to this country in 1909, and was one of the first in August, 1914, to join his old friend, Lt.-Col.A.Hamilton Gault, D.S.0,, in that well- known unit, The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.In passing, it is worthy of note that when sailing for France in September of that same year this unit had more than 600 Legion of Frontiersmen FRONTIERSMEN COMMANDANT LT.-COL.LOUIS SCOTT on the Battalion's strength of 1,100 men.Louis Scott was wounded at Ypres in 1916, and again at Vimy 1917, after which time he served in the capacitics of Commandant and.Chief Instructor at various camps in England, until his return to Canada when he was demobilized in 1919.The esteem in which Lt.-Col.Louis Scott is held was vividly illustrated in connection with the recent visit to Canada of H's Majesty King George VI.While visiting Edmonton, King George expressed, and fulfilled, his desire to meet again his one-time instructor in the R.A.F., Lt.-Col.Louis Scott.The Legion of Frontiersmen (Canadian Command) is well represented in this area in \u201cA\u201d (P.Q.) Squadron, which drills every Thursday evening at Queen's School, Olivier Ave, Westmount.FUNERAL HELD I ¥.W.GAVEN Claremont Avenue Resident Was Former Dom- |* inion Inspector of Excise Requiem Mass for William Wallace Caven, O.BE, of 381 Clare- mont Ave.was sung this morning at nine o'clock in the Church of the Ascension, Westmount, Mr.Caven, former Dominion Inspector of Excise, died in the hospital on Monday following an illness of several days.He was in his 80th year.Mr, Caven, who retired in 1933 after a distinguished career of 53 years in the service of the Department of National Revenue, was born in Edinburgh.He came to Canada when nine years old, his father \u2018having been appointed to the teaching staff of Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, P.E.I.He was educated at St.Dun.stan\u2019s College, Charlottetown, and in 1880 entered the service of the old Department of Inland Revente at the age of 20.The following year he was transferred to Toronto and in 1883 was permanently appointed as an excise officer.Moved to Montreal and then to Victoria, in 1901 he was appointed deputy collector of inland revenue in Montreal, Eight years later he was promoted to collector of inland revenue at Montreal, In 1814 he wag promoted to Dominion \u2018inspector of tobacco factories, with -head- quarters at Ottawa, and in addition, two years later was made Dominion inspector of inland revenue and Dominion preventive officer.In 1919 he was promoted to be Dominion inspector of excise, and held this position until his superannuation in 1988.With 53 years of unbroken service, Mr.Caven\u2019s career was dis- a high order, and a wholehcarted devotion to the discharge of his duties, His record was one of continued promotion, based on meritorious service, and when he retired he carried with him the affectionate regard and good wishes of not only the headquarters staff in Ottawa, but of an army of friends and colleagues from coast to coast.His service was rewarded in the New Year's Honor List of 1936, when he was given the Order of the British Empire, Besides his son, Caven, he is survived by his wife, formerly Mary Agnes Kavanagh; another son, ven; a daughter, Mrs, Moore Mc- Naughton and three grangchildren.Interment took place in Cote des Neiges Cemetery.OPOR TE COIN TU RE EEE, Christmas Eve \u201cIn Che New Bethlehem It is Christmas Eve, and we are hem.We have coma the five miles from Jerusalem by bus for a fare of a few coppers, travelling over a modern motor road built on the track along which Mary and Jo- Dethlehem is today a town of modern houses ard shops.Street vendors, touts, postcard sellers baw] their wares right up to the door of the oldest and most sacred church in the world\u2014the Church of the Nativity.On Christmas Eve the square is always packed with people.High above it hangs the Star of Beth.Iehem.It is an electric star now, though it still shows the way to the Manger.Tæaving the square, where the throng grows steadily greater.we go towards the Mount of Olives.Thick with Jewels Turn your head and look along the road towards Jerusalem.It ix thick with people now.The procession of the Patriarch is coming.Every Christmas Eve the Patriarch of the Greek Church leaves Jerusalem with a large retinue to make a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Our Lord, He used walk, Now he travels in a handsome car.Crosses, standards, candles.vestments of every hue are in the procession.The robes of the Patriarch are and silver flash in the sunshine, banners wave, At the entrance to Bethlehem the Patriarch\u2019s ca.stops.There, fading is received by a small priests and elders.In the Grotto the Nativity moves on once more -\u2014but ver}, very slowly.It isa crush all the way.To enter the tinguished by executive capacity of : W.Wallace John Kavanagh Ca- |} standing in the square of Bethle- y soph toiled nearly 2,000 years ago.; toy thick with jewels.Gold |} at the shrine of Rachel's grave, he |} army of |§ The procession to the Church of § A Pretty Idea For Your Xmas Gifts Every year as Christmas draws near, we spend many anxious days trying to decide what our folks are wanting most, and how to make our little offerings speak of the love and kindliness we feel in our hearts but are unable to express.Here is à way in which you can give a very swect and personal touch to each of your little presents.Chuose some small, gilt-edged correspondence cards, and write on each a tiny verse to tuck in with the present when it is packed in its gay, holly-covered box and tied with bright red ribbon, church everyone must bow, The single entrance is so very low that if you don\u2019t stoop you will knock your head against the atone above.Priests move about bearing lighted tapers.\u201cGive something for the church,\u201d they say in low tones.Taking the offered taper, let us go down, after the service, to the Grotto.This is the Holy of Holies, It is small and cramped.Fifty- threa lamps burn there; it recks of incense, A faded tapestry hangs from the wall.Behind it is the traditional Manger where the Saviour of Mankind was born.From the lamps a subdued light is directed on the floor, where a silver star is embedded.Pilgrims press forward all day and all night at the Christmas season, Women bring their babies and lny them tenderly for & moment in the rock manger in the wall.Exactly at midnight the Patriarch\u2019 goes down to the Grotto to kiss the star.The Nativity song is sung in Greek, and then in English.The Patriarch leaves the Grol and departs in procession.The bells ring out.And in the streets the traders bawl their wares again.PAGE FIV BETTY SPEIR SOLOISTS BUSY Holiday time for the soloists o the Betty Speirs School is usuall a very busy time and this ear ha proved no exception to the ruk Within the past few days the have appeared »t the Ritz Carlto Hotel where they featured in th Annual show of the Association à Trained Nurses, they also foun time to entertain fifteen hundre children in the Rosemount Theatr last Saturday morning for th Parks and Playgrounds people and they will again be to the for at the Rotary Club Xmas Trea at Victoria Hall.It is a matter a great satisfaction to Miss Speiri and Mr.Miller that the talents a their pupils can bo used at thi season to give pleasure to others.The young artistes who gave s¢ freely of their time and talent were: Joyce Lozinski, Gwen Smith Jean Barnes, Audrey Jones Fleanor Thompson, Joan Layton Hazel & Jean Fitzgerald, Nancy Telfer, Isobel MacLellan, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Miss Speirs ncted a Mistress of Ceremonies on all oe casions, In Spain, as in most of the Span- ish-Amorican countries, the legend of Santa Claus gives placo to the tradition of the Magi.At some time between the night of Janauary 5 and dawn of January 6 the Three Wise Men of the East imitate Santa by risking the soot of chime neys in order to deliver toys to good children, It's coming Christmas time again, and though I'm just a dog, I wish I knew some clever way 1 could employ to jog Tha minds of those about me and impress on them the fact That even dogs appreciate a kindly Christmas act, Your ,, Ci gre A Fancy Plum Puddings \u2014 Assorted Fruit Cakes \u2014 Cake Decorations i FOR YOUR XMAS COCKTAIL PARTY PEEK FREAN ASSORTED Caviar Puffs 4 oz.pkg.30c HUNTLEY & PALMER'S Cocktail Assorted \u2026 9 oz.box 69c RUSSIAN Beluga Caviar .40z.1.90 ROMANOFF Caviar 3 oz.tin 95¢ BAKOU Caviar 12 oz.tin 60¢ RED RUSSIAN Caviar .2 oz.jar 20c HOLLAND Cocktail Onions 212 oz, btl.40c CALIFORNIA Artichokes in Olive Oil .jar 40c WAX & VITALE (Italy) PLAIN Fillets of Anchovies 3 oz.jam 35¢ Anchovies 21/5 oz.jar 35¢ {stuffed with pimentp) Anchovies 2, oz.jar 35c (stuffed with capers) ANTIPASTO Hors D'Oeuvres 2% oz.jar .40c | CRESCA Olives .2 oz.tin 25¢ (stuffed with anchovies) LIBBY'S STUFFED Olives 4 oz.jar 15e ROYAL SCARLET FANCY Cherries with 5 oz.jar 30e stems BRAND'S Al, ASSORTED A 1 oz, jar 10c Pastes Variety of Anchovy: chicken, ham and tongue; salmon; shrimp, eto.CLARK'S Cocktail Sausages tin 20c ROYAL COLORED Picks .pkg.15¢ \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 PAREN (Belgium) FANCY Biscuits 2 Ibs.1.75 {ln metal casket) CRAWFORD (England) CITY ASSORTED, FANCY Biscuits in metal box 1.35 MEAD & FIELD FANCY Crackers box 25e to 3,50 Containing novelties, toys, souvenirs, etc, PLUMP, TENDER, YOUNG TURKEYS FRESH KILLED, MILK FED CHICKENS PAPER SHELL Pecans |b.25e and 28c DIAMOND Walnuts Ib.30c Brazil Nuts lb.20c TARRAGON Almonds .Ib.29c Filberts .Ib.20¢ Mixed Nuts Ib.25¢ \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Fancy Bonbons and Chocolates from Page & Shaw, Moirs, Alice Blue, Viau, atc.SHIRRIFF'S JELLIED Cranberries 12 oz.jar 25c BAR-LE-DUC (France) BLACK CURRANT or GOOSEBERRY Jam 3 oz.jar 30c SHARWOOD Ginger Chips 8 oz, tin 45c Angelica Ib.75¢ SAXON'IA ASSORTED Glace Fruits in fancy baskets 7 oz.35¢ 14 oz.60¢ MALAGA Raisins 1 Ib.box 59¢ MILNE GIBSON AUSTRALIAN Rairins 1 Ib.box 45¢ LIBBY\u2019'S MOIST Mince Meat 1 1b.18¢ BRAND'S Mint Sauce or Al Sauce .btl.25¢ BRAND'S ARABIAN Pickles .100z.35c BRAND'S BENGAL CLUB Chutney btl.40¢ HOLLAND IMPORTED Sirop de Grenadine 1 litre btl, HOLLAND IMPORTED Sirop de Framboise qr Groseilles 1 litre btl.1.00 LARGE NAVEL 1.25 Oranges .doz.25e FRESH Kumquats \u2026 qt.box 25e Hot House Grapes ZERO-PACK FRESH FROZEN Strawberries pt.25e ZERO-PACK FRESH nrogEs Peaches 25e Broilers .= 42c DOMESTIC Ducks .Ib.28¢ Geese LL.Ib.23¢ Leg of Lamb .Ib.30c \u2014 Buffalo Meat \u2014 NEW PACK FAMOUS AUBRY PARIS LIQUEURS Diluted Syrup 12 oz.bottle 33c¢c Cholce of Grenadine, Crema de Menthe, Cherry Brandy, Curacao, Chartreuse, etc, One Store Only DIONNE & DIONNE WESTMOUNT St.Catherine, PHONE Fltzroy 7411 at Wood Ave. aie PAGE SIX vas MR.L.A.BRASSEUR Proprietor of the Master Built Quality Shoe Shop sends his heartiest greetings for a Happy Christmas F and a joyful New Year.CORNER OF ST.CATHERINE & FORT STS.comm or 57 xTacae à roursrs À FORCE ECC COE OTE CA DECC CT TRE CCC CERCA CEE J.A.GAGNON [2 BEAUTY PARLOR re The Staff and Management wish the Com- fs pliments of the Season to all their friends © and customers and thank them for their valued patronage.pe 4862 Sherbrooke St.W.EL.0838 PDO ELA LA LA LA LA LA D D OC EE LL CO ACC ASE LA LE PACE D LES D LORS LUE LC EU LE QE, We Wish Our Friends and Customers A MERRY CHRISTMAS and the Compliments of the Season ¢ 1 Ww ty We trust that our work has given satisfaction to PF = our clients and that we will continue to receive {Pisey Christmas their patronage.RELIABLE UPHOLSTERING CO.Speclalists in Chesterfield Sets and Slip Covers 5779 SHERBROOKE W., near Melrose EL.7933 OMRON CRE EE CORRENTE CE EEE LE UES ] PRADA EDEN DA AANANNNMNAMNN Wishing Our Customers and Friends A Joyful Christmas and A Happy and Prosperous New Year MISS L.HERRING oye: Permanent Waving \u2014 Beauty Culture 7 394 Victoria Ave., Room 104 EL.7070 IRRHOOOOE EHAREIONEENECEROEDEEOECELENELEGOEE MERRY CHRISTMAS Through the hard times and the good limes we have \u201cenjoyed our associations with the customers who patronize § us.It is with genuine appreciation that we wish you al this À time the heartiest Chrismas Greetings.For Excellence in Furs .Je radiver Company Fonndsd 1913 4160 St.Catherine West Fl.7110 (Near Greene Avenue) + HOLIDAY * GREETINGS AY WE once again sincerely wish one and \"all a Merry Christmas and a Bright and Prosperous New Year.Lima A | SHOP CPEOOEDE EEE LE OT LOT MIGE COPIES L'PEUCPRE ME CE CE \u2018 A a i 3 rs WCE KOREN YEN EN ESC VS i \\ Risin for the mantel.Whether your Christmas will include a large family circle or just \u201cstockings for two,\u201d fresh flowers and gay arrangements of Christmas greens are basic\u2014and easily achieved \u2014 essentials of the festive holiday season.The old favorites\u2014wreaths in the winddWs, a sprig of mistletoe over the doorway, and a tree itself \u2014are still first on the list of Christmas decorations.But, in addition, there are new and unusual and equally charming efiects to be obtained.Even if you don't plan to ang up stockings, the fireplace should be a dramatic spot in the living room.For an arrangement with religious significance, consider one Greens and Fresh Blossoms Make Charming New Effects To Supplement Old Favorites A Madonna vase, filled with white gladioli, carnations, red roses and silvered sanseviera blades, makes a beautiful Christmas decoration Evergraen garlands and silvered pine cones provide a dramatic background in the holiday mood.of the low Madonna vases, filled with deep red roses or gladioli and \u2018white carnations or lilies and surrounded by pine boughs or other greens.A Santa Claus, posed beside a miniature sled filled with marigolds, sweet peas, begonias and lilies-of-the-valley, is another mantle shelf favorite.CONCENTRATED AND CHEERY Decorators and florists seem to agree that it's better to concentrate on three or four smart, cheery groups of greens and flowers than to cover the house from one end to the other with bunches and garlands and clusters of this and that.* HEPC IRC CROCE FOSS TRUCE LHL ETE DEL CREEL Flowers for Christmas | TE 27 An ideal Christmas gift for would be a plant covered with buds and blossoms which she can pick and wear.And, of course, it woul The table in the foyer is the logical place for one display.Tall red candles in a shallow informally arranged bank of pine boughs is simple yet effective.The mantle shelf offers all kinds of possibilities.A table belween two windows or a: temporary coffee table, placed between the fireside chairs, may hold a vase of flowers with the base surrounded by greens.Or a bowl of holly, flanked by tall candles in evergreen- covered holders.The handsomest display of all will be in the center of the dining room table, of course.The new lily-shaped candles, floating in a erystal bowl, might be a smart nucleus for a long, graceful centerpiece of greens with the cones attached.Or consider five or six chubby little angels\u2014each holding a small red candle\u2014on a round Guests any woman on your shopping list d be a lovely adjunct to such lovely home .decorations as the evergreen-garlanded mirror, mirror with greens or fresh flowers around the mirror.Deep scarlet poinsettias are favorites among Christmas plants.Cyclamen, Jerusalem cherries and heather plants are fine to have and fine to send as gifts, too.Speaking of gifts, it\u2019s a Christmas 1939 idea to send a girl a gardenia plant from which she can pick her own corsage throughout the holiday season.Or a little flower hat to wear with her dinner clothes, a corsage with silver bells among the blossoms or perhaps a necklace and matching bracelet of fresh buds.Gifts of this type, as well as boxes of greens and traditional mixtures of cut flowers, can be wired anywhere in the country and will be delivered within a few hours.LVEERAEEESEE It was Christmas Eve\u2014aquite the most glorious Christmas Eve Virginia Ray had ever known.Everything was ready for the party\u2014her party\u2014from the \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d place-cards to the splendid Christmas tree that would be ablaze all evening with little lights and colors.Virginia pinned the last red stocking to the mantel, and turned to her mother, \u201cI think it was real mean of George not to offer to play Santa Claus for me,\u201d she said.\u201cAfter his having such a nice costume, too.\u201d But, dear,\u201d her mother answered, \u201chow could he when you quarrel led?I didn\u2019t know you had invited him.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t, but of course I would have, if he had been just the least bit nice.\u201d Virginia potited, and hur- At this, the Christmas Season, we wish to extend to our many good friends, our sincere desire for continued good health, happiness and prosperity.The contacts we have had in the past have been most satisfying and pleasant to us, as we hope they have been to you., \u2018Wonder Bakeries Ltd.| ;- Dent Harrison & Sons, Limited DL.3566 LA.5163 ried off to get ready to receive her à guests.Her mother, busy with last.y minute details, smilled in what 8 might have been reminiscences of K |her own youth A few minutes ; later she went to the phone, held R|a brief conversation, and as she hung up the receiver, she called up & the stairs: \u201cHurry, dear, I do be- f lieve some of your guests are com- g |ing.\u2019 \u201cI'll be right down,\u201d Virginia's à voice preceded its owner by only ÿ|& second.\u201cDo I look all right, mother?\u201d \u201cAll right,\u201d said Mrs.Ray's à voice, and her eyes said, \u201cLovely,\u201d and her heart said, \u201cMy own dar- \\ ling!\u201d Virginia, responding to an ur- a gent \u2018\u2018burring\u201d admitted her earliest guests.Half an hour later, & when the rooms were filled with k merry, chattering young people, the orchestra struck up the first R dance.Escorts led their laughing K \u2018partners to the centre of the floor, UT CUPID OR SANTA?Rk] but Virginia did not dance the first number \u2014 she had not invited George.Neither had she invited, as her partner, anyone else, That dance was over, and another and another.The Christmas tree was admired; the mistletoe was found, and put to its proper use; occasional silences made clear the distant sound of carolers; the clock struck ten\u2014eleven\u2014twelve, At that moment the guests were surprised (and so was Virginia) by the sound of sleighbells, a hearty \u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d and the appearance from somewhere near the tree of as jolly a Santa as one could imagine.Near beside him stood Mrs.Ray.\u201cWhy, Mr.Santa Claus, I do believe,\u201d and then she presented him to the company.\u201cMy old childhood friend, Mr.Santa Claus, has come to pay us a visit, and as he is ail loaded down with his various gifts.whieh must be delievered by tomorrow morning, I suggested that he give any of us who are to receive his attentions our presents now.\u201d \u201cI didn't know, Virginia,\u201d said Pudgy Clark, the fat and awkward youth who had stepped on Virgin- ¥ ia's toes during the last dance.\u201cI didn\u2019t know you.believed in Santa Claus.\u201d \u201cI don't!\u201d Virginia snapped.\u201cAll right,\u201d he laughed, \u201cyou needn't bite my head off.\u201d The favors distribdted, Mrs.Ray § called Virginia.\u201cHere, dear, you and Santa lead the grand march.If you will all follow, I think we might find some refreshments in another room.\u201d \u201cRighto!\u201d said Santa, in a decidedly unfrigid voice.Somehow, Santa knew just where to go, But {| then, of course, Santa Claus knows everything.He even knew, a few moments later when Virginia excused herself from the party and slipped back to the other room, now in a state of partial disarray, and (for even the orchestra members were enjoying the repast in the other room) forlorn in its emptiness.Virginia was feeling particularly forlorn and particularly proud.Santa Claus must know everything, for he knew just how long to wait before he, too, wandered from the merry group and joined Virginia, And he (or was it Cupid?) knew just what to say to make this really the most wonderful Christmas Eve in all Virginia's life.Just what is was, I am not sure, but he must have told Virginia, for presently she said: \u201cI know, I know\u201d; and she had cheered up quite a bit before he put his arm around her.Somehow she wasn\u2019t so forlorn \u2014 nor quite so proud.After a while they walked over to the tree together, and they listened to the carolers; and then, somehow, they stopped right under the mistletoe, What George was whispering in her ear, we shall never know, but Virginia was laughing as she answered him.W.J.Chapman PAINTER & DECORATOR x Wishes to Extend Heartiest Christmas Greetings To All His Customers and Friends x 1227 Greene Ave.Fitzroy 8634 : HAIR STYLISTS 1474 McGILL COLLEGE AY Wish their clients and friends a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR MBONRRCHIORORNRE\u201d 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ROSS & NISEN & BEAUTICIANS E.HA.0601 - LA.4431 Sunflower SEASON'S Miss A.Corbeil \u2014 Miss M.Egan Wish to Extend Hat Shop GREETINGS To all customers and friends and to thank them for their pattonage during the past year.Christmas would be incomplete unless we expressed our deep appreciation for your patronage, and wished you and yours the most of Christmas Joy.Your visits to our store have been greatly appreciated and we hope to serve you again during the coming year.MME.A.COURVAL Corsetiere 4887 Sherbrooke West DExter 5656 Established for 22 years at 4235 St.Lawrence Bivd, SIRI IR II FMR RIND: Ie] We take this opportunity to thank our customers for their patronage during the past year and to wish Everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS CLAREMONT MILLINERY Mrs.Manseau, Proprietor 4968 Sherbrooke W.(3 doors east of Claremont) Salutations! In grateful appreciation of your patronage we extend our heartfelt wishes for your complete enjoyment of the holiday! THE GRACEMODE SHOPPE