1t the experience drawn from the addressing of Christmas cards in the last few days is any guide, that venerable old gentleman Santa Claus must have a hard time during the night finding the homes of recipients in his annual tour. The recent hostilities, and the evacuation, resulted in such z large scattering of the community that one's circle of friends has been drastically changed. Locally, the shifting apartment house population made the question of Chrismas card addressing unusually difoult, especially when so many people are ing with friends, while many others who one welcomed a year ago are scattered all over the world as the fortunes of their former local residence dictated. Not that addressing Christmas cards is an unpleasant task. There is a beautiful thought behind these decorated slips ai cheer and the asperities of the year are often vanquished by this pleasant yuletide stem. Fewer cards have been sent out this ar owing to local circumstances and perhaps that is one of the reasons why mantle-pieces will be less heavily loaded this morning. The other will be the difficulty in discovering that circle of friends, split by adversity but without which Christmas loses most of its significance,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.