The Archive · 1938

This Toy Business

It is well worth going out when the lights are lit these pre-Christmas evenings to have a look at the shop windows. The Christmas bravery and glitter stay with us for such a short time and we shall somehow miss them when they're gone and the displays are once more adapted to the requirements of the staid citizen. So let's give a cheer for Father C. and admire the snow-covered churches blazing with lights which must cost their Vestries a pretty penny to keep going. We might even crack a dollar or two for the good of the house and thus pay our footing down the Nanking

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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