The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 30

_THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, DEC. 18, 1932 nd containing 52 white steel| was turkey! They were tough gob-| GIFTS AN ANCIE; housed wounded men. | blers and ran unbelievably heavy —_— ! & The 52. men in Henry's ward in dark meal, but they were pzal Ihe giving of gifts at Christmas. > | were typical. Some merely had| tarkeys. The dressing was robabl, i) e 141131""("1 pi | o g Soggy probably originated in one of the nelair Lewis, ‘Herr Doktor’ Now, Wmtormg As flesh wounds, some had lost arms,|and the mashed potatoes were sour, Ciwist Child stories, that of thef some 1 but none had lost ap-| the damp wooden table was cold T/:-c Wise Men who brought to petites. So when the bugle sounded | and cheerless, but this was Christ- (- Holy Baby gifts of gold, frank-| this twenty-fifth of December, the mas and a Christmas dinner, nse and myrrh. | ward awakened eagerly. | Uncle Sam had n#t forgotten, - ————— | Hunger is a good alarm clock. That was Christmas, 1918, CHRISTMAS WISH 3 ————l Henry mace his bed, military| ny ‘merry Christmasses. Many | fashion, and dressed. Dressing was| TRUE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS py New Years. Unbroken easy. Each convalescent had a ‘dshms great accumulations of | . pair of pajamas which did doublz| It is well to be benzvolent and !chcerful recollections and affections duty—in bed and out. Over the|to seek out the needy and distress- earth and heaven for us all— Ebottom of them he pulled a pair of | ed and relieve their necessities. This D) kens. heavy woolen socks, then stepped is indeed a true spirit of Christ- into. his hobnailed shoes and don-| mas. ned an overcoat. == o In that somewhat summery gath | the convalescents walked to the mess hall, there to stand in the | chill rain and wait for those in line | to take their plates, gulp the food | |at a rough wooden bench, and ‘make room for the others. Order- ues carried plates of food to the \Ded patients. “It'll be rice this morning,” said| JHrmy to his neighbor in line. It was rice, with three prunes, a; ‘c\lp of black coffee and all the bread you wanted. When it wasn't | vice at Mars-sur-Allier it was oal-| | meal with the same trimmings— | | prunes, coffee and bread. Not the best breakfast in the| world but, as the French said, c'est la guerre. Henry polished his plate and re- ‘ turned to the ward. In his pockets 5 3 Z < | were four slices of bread he had| ) ; Sinclair Lewis, critic ¢f American life, is sampling the life of ‘rnk‘hed He joined the other con-| middle-class Austria this winter. He has rented a villa at Semmer- | valescents around the store, all of | ing, Austrian mountain resert. The writer, shown at work and ‘lhem taking turns in making toas with Mrs. Lewis at the radio, spends his evenings dialing to see |and joining in the daily forecast of hcw many stations he can get. | what the next meal would be. e That's all there was to do—think | has taken a to“n! n bour- By (‘IILNTIR L SHAW when | ARS-SUR-ALLIER was con- scious of Christmas at 6:30] s|am. The bugler heralded it with ;| first call after he had thawed '.hu |ice out of his horn. Turkey. and " ! The calendar said it was Christ-| nas, anyway. To Henry Eskins,| about the next offering of rations. ond class private in the Ameri-| “I know what'll. be our Christ- an - Expeditionary Force, it was|mas dinner,” said lank Joe, the another day—as cold and drear | Pennylvania coal miner. “Beef yest y. And tomorrow prob-| hash, that’s what. We had em- y would be the same. | balmed beef roast yesterday.” the others in the dozen or so| “YouTe right,” said the others. hospitals that swam Such predictions never had failed. plains of Mars-sur- Noon dragged around and the her day, too.| mess line began moving. A star-| a place of| tling' rumor drifted down the line.| ‘Purkey and trimmin’s! Turkey and Druugmy wooden barracks, each| trimmin’s! Rheated by a pot bellied shzet iron| And would you believe it, there| ————— tead the classified ads. May this Christmas be your happiest ever, with enough to go around and to i ) 3; spare, and may you live as long as you and l want to and never want as long as you | ; i N 3 By WADE V SEMMERING, Au Sinclair Lewis, of the American midd!} is settling down for a comfort- able winter here in the best Aus-| trian middle-class manner. The Nobel Prize mnovelist has leased a cozy villa in this moun- | 1 't near Vienna, and in| GOOD HEALTH live---are our Yuletide wishes to you. GOOD CHEER : Sincerely JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE Explores the The author of “Main “Babbitt” even has bo : & radio, and on € ¥ some of his readers dou he is at the opera he is Igssly staying at home to see y stations he can get. jAmer dillusioning to those who{on the he creator of “Arrow- | Allie in morose Mars | Juneau and Douglas Telephone Co. Behrends Bank Building E: eye for f¢ abroad, is the or hospitality of the Lew ~The family circle includes, be- ewis and their sides Mr. and M Lew d elpy u u fl 2-year-old son Miichell Mrs. Le' 5‘ sister, Mrs. Howard Wilson, a d\ her little daughter Pamela Buti there are always guests, ecia ly week-ends and among Am(rl- oans in Vienna the ro isf ¥nown as a genial and rofreshing- Jy_ informal host. ! Michael and Pame. t vl would insist on sc ing i said about the far Mitzi, | o S S TS e s PV e R o e s i« ol Are the Gifts that Are A ppreciated dren x°\>xled is known Am(" an b'"md of soap- . 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