The Archive · 1937

OUR MERRY X'MAS GREETINGS

Cards in the Mood of the Moment or Timeless it seems there is to be a Christmas this veer after all. The downhearted have said "Why try to celebrate at time like this?" but wiser counsels have prevailed and Sepajou in his 1937 Christmas cards has shown us that 2 wartime Christmas may be as merry, and much more exciting than the ordinary variety. Heaven forbid that we should, in our comparative security, {forget those suffering around us, but after doing all we reasonably can for the less fortunate, let us snatch what comfort we may from the passing moment, for A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a And so to our Christmas cards, Let us salute the world with the beau geste, Here we are "smiling through," even laughing out loud in these four Sapajou cards which are on sale at the Chinese American Publishing Company, thirty cents apiece and three dollars the dozen, original cards which fit the occasion as nothing else can. Original? Yes, one might even venture on unique, Here is Santa dropping a Christmas tree from a plane into our No-Man's Land between the opposing forces; Senta driving his reindeer team above the Whangpoo—and don't miss the expression in the reindeers' eyes; Santa yulohing the Yule tree between the Idzumo and the Pootung batteries, Santa even riding in on a shell,

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