With the delightful Christmas weather went equally delightful Christmas festivities. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. G. Herbert, proprietor of the Kuling Universal was host to the Kuling community at the Kuling 1 Hospital. The Tnrge reception room of the hospital was tastefully decorated, and at four o'clock Kuling's cosmopolitan winter conimunity—British, Chinese, American, German, Russian and Portuguete—gathored for tea. Following refreshments, the assembled gu numbering over fifty, gathered al the Christmas tree and sang Christmas carols. A telegram announced that Santa Claus had been slightly delayed en account of the heavy: snow drifts encountered on the mountain road, but that he would arrive presently. A few minutes Inter, amid the jingle of sleigh dells he burst into the room. And what a Santa Claus he was! Not t! traditional Santa with which we have been familiar since childhood, Dut a Chinese Santa, dressed in a Tong Mandarin gown. And close debind him: trugged two Chinese coolies loaded with gifts something for every guest.
On Christmas morning at cleve o'clock a Christmas service was held at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. B.C: Cooper.
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