Glasgow, Dec. 25.
Scotland i more and more keeping Christmas Day. It will, however, never take the place of New Year: and preparations gor commemorating the ushering in of the latter will be on a seater scale than ever before.
The country just now is very pro-sporous. Unemployment is about as low as it has been or could be, while the Clyde is experiencing and enjoy-Ing the maximum amount of work and the ship building industry is on the crest. It must be years since so much money has been spent as this Christ mas and shop-keepers are jubll over the number of, six pennies that have been "banged." A roaring trade has been done and immense numbers of presents have been purchased.
Of course, Christmas Day if not observed in Scotland as it is in Eng-Tand and while more shops have been closed than in former years yet large numbers have remained open as usual so that to the Sassenach visiting the second city of the Empire it has been surprising to find such numbers of open on this day and trades People carrying on their ordinary setivities. "Men have not knocked off in the shipyards. That would not have been possible just now specially with the near approach of the New Year holidays when there will come, a break of a fow days.
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