London, Nov. 16.
Before November's days had reached double figures, Christmas was being dinned into our ears, with the annual problem "To whom must give? How much can I spend?"
The Queen, we read, was already doing her Christmas shopping, of some of it, at the annual display of things made by the Disabled Service men. One wonders what becomes of the mountains of things that Royalty has to buy.at. bazaars and such like in the course of a year. But there are also masses of servants at Buck-
Ingham Palace, Windsor; Balmoral, Sandringham ete. And these being among the few establishments where Servants do not find some reason for neo enoss Wonks perle tans rth eter ela cee giving notice a week after their arrival, they naturally expect to be remembered at Christmas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.