CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 8 January 1913, Page 5

CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND.

THE PEACEFUL SNOW. WILL CROOKS SINGS TO PAUPERS. London, December 29. Christmas Day in London was cheerless as far as the weather was concerned. The city looked dreary under sheets of sleety rain that fell continuously. All over the countryside storms of snow were falling. But peace and plenty and happiness everywhere characterised the festive season. The Royal Family gathered at Sandringham to celebrate the day. There was a huge Christmas tree 40ft high. The majority of the nobility honoured Christmas at home, although there was a great exodus of city people to the Continent. The inrush of Americans and Canadians was particularly large this year. The poor in the suburbs of London were provided with puddings and presents as a result of newspaper appeals. Mr. Will Crooks, the beloved of Poplar, visited the local workhouse, and after remarking that many of them there would remember him as a poor lad in knickerbockers, sang “When We Were Boys Together.” SUFFRAGFITES’ CHRISTMAS. J he suffragettes have had a merry Christmas. They spent the holiday pouring ink and paint and washingblue into the letter-boxes at Windsor and other places near London, and thousands of letters were rendered illegible by this means.