Show Costly Christmas Christmas But Who Cares THAT'S THE WAY ENGLAND AND SEES IT IT U u H Banish Sadness VI Welcome Gladness I I II II I I I II I I c rr DOZ j DOZ MILL MIL MIL- L A 2 C 24 I By Zoe Zoc Beckley N. N E. E A. A Staff Correspondent LONDON England Dec 23 En 2 En England's glands gland's Christmas spirit this year Is IsIt IsIt isIt It may cost a lot but weve we've got to have hive It So hang expense expense and and give the cat a herring A truce to sad sad- n ness hess ss Welcome gladness Dad must have his new smoking jacl jacket what what t-what what I If it is cotton velveteen instead of silk I brocade Ma shall have her fur set I guaranteed rabbit looks just like sea seal the babies their Christmas tree smaller and and- with home made ornaments ornaments orna orna- ments meats and the dog a new red collar For its it's Christmas PEACE Christmas PEACE CHRISTMAS CHRIST CHRIST- MAS and MAS-and and were we're going to DO IT PROUD Of or course it isn't easy casy to have hae a prewar prewar prewar pre pre- war good time on a postwar income Or to ha have a Christmas house party if you OU haven't any house I am ant told in fact that house parties are re e a a. abaci back I number and that invitations to furl furI fur l I fished room parties are arc quite the 1 thing However those who have any sort II of ot homo hom and any sort of family are making mor more of ot Christmas this year I than for a long long time Of course it takes management A good fat I Christmas tree the sort that cost 8 shillings 2 in 13 10 now costs more than four tour times timea that i S So mother is buying a thinner one and filling It Out with sprigs of holly bolly Every rural vl- vl lago is full o of ot holly hedges and big holly tres loaded with such rich clusters clusters clusters clus clus- of bright red berries as no AmerIcan American Amer An ican lean ever sees Christmas tree ornaments have grown scarce since scarce since the German Importation importation Im im- stopped The simplest shiny gewgaw now costs 3 pence 6 c cents whereas last year you could buy of them for tor 10 or 12 shillings Lovely lady-angels lady and fairies for the tops of Christmas trees are almost totally absent absent absent ab ab- ab- ab sent and those that can be found re retail re- re I tall tail at between 2 and 3 shillings a shilling shilling- is normally about a a. quarter I Mothers Mother's brow will wrinkle mot most however over the Christmas dinner for although turkeys geese and meat remain at the the- controlled prices all the fixings will cost more Milk IlIk at a I I shilling a quartS will make white sauce a problem and even en bread breall can can- no not be bC hacked hace at recklessly when the subsidy has been removed though It lt Itis Itis is 15 hop hoped hoOd d this will not happen until after the New Year Fish and tn meat at are somewhat lower priced in England than in the United States but a good steak steal is as hard to get here as a mint julep used to be north of or the Mason and Dixon line England imports most of its beef from fromI the United States from South America I or from Australia and by the time It reaches your dinner plate it is 15 InnoCent Innocent innocent inno Inno- cent of juice and almost devoid of flavor Mutton l Is excellent and the home homo killed d hind quarters sell at from 3 35 to 40 cents a pound and loin Join chops untrimmed at 48 cents Game seems splendidly plentiful Fine Fino plump partridges tempt the buyer at halt half a dollar each Grouse cost 70 cents and pigeons magnificent birds In prime condition as aa the ticket reads go at 4 45 cents apiece Plovers are 48 cents each pheasants Fine plump roasting fowls guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guar guar- tender lender arc are presented at 62 cents the pound Ouch an and a boiling bollIng bollIng boll boil ing fowl labeled excellent Is yours for tor 56 cents per pound Any takers Wild rabbit is the most economical I thing you can buy They rhey cost 20 cents a a. pound and can can bo be roasted grilled boiled or made into a luscious pie I Tame rabbits are arc twice as much TurkeYs Turkeys Turkeys Tur Tur- keys looking fat and fine with their i f heads in colored colore paper sacks and ruffles ruf ruf- rufI I fles flea o oJ f feathers around their knees are in demand at 60 CO cents a pound and up there thero seems considerable up about It it Selected geese are more encouraging encouraging aging aging- at 40 cents Ducks fattened fattened fat Cat 50 a pound Cabbage Brussels sprouts and cauliflower cauli flower Clower are the vegetables bles most moat often In evidence at the British meal Cabbages Cabbages Cabbages Cab Cab- bages are 8 cents a head cauliflowers the same America please copy sprouts 6 pence a pound 12 cents Vegetable marrows narrows what wo we call squash 4 pence each Swedes a kind of turnip are 1 pence 3 cents a pound and lettuces 4 pence each Cranberries are riot liot present except in tins Imported from America Butter Is scarcely more than a memory in England A few plutocrats and persons with kind country relatives rela rela- tires tives boast small quantities and treat It like tIm the family jewels |