SANTA GLAUS SMILES EXPENSIVELY
Christmas is coming, and everyone is happy, and Lady Gay is wearing her Most Expensive Smile. Oh, it was expensive; it cost £9/16/4$ even at sale time, and Smiles are much reduced when the sales are on. •.'... .. Next week there will be a list of our Special Christmas literary and art competitions. There will be classes for one and all—classes for big ones, classes for little ones, classes for the middle and between ones. So take out your brain polishers and polish your brains up bright and shiny ready to begin directly you see the list. ■ . "" Christmas is a happy time, and the best of it is that we can help to make tt happy for others. Though times are much better than they were a few years ago, there is still need for our aid and plenty of children and old people whom we can help. Read the puddingy notice in "The Gay Gazette" this week. That is a most important notice. Mother will gladly spare you a cupful of Christmas pudding material when it is mixed, and as you eat your pudding on Christmas Day you will be able to say, with a nice, fat, satisfied smile, "Ah, my old lady is eating her pudding, too, and it tastes just the same as mine." ; ~,,.,. • i Santa Glaus is particularly pleased this year. In fact, he s smthng. expensively, too. He says he means to wear his smile right up to Christmas Day. Hes had it *<«'« on so that it won't rub against the chimney corners as he comes down. Such things do happen, you know. Try coming down a chimney wearing an Expensive Smile, and you It -understand how Santa Claus feels. _. . What else does Lady Gay want to say: Oh, there are only seven weeks-tM Christmas now, so keep on working hard. Remember our motto, "Spread sunshine, scatter joy, and there should be tons and tons of sunshine and joy aboard at Christmas. _ All aboard "The Press Ship" feel just as happy as Santa Claus to-day. So here s some joy P Y ° ..'.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22551, 5 November 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)
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