THE LAN DSWOMAN
~DEAR
GIRLS.-Of course the first thing this month is to wish
you all A Merry Christmas--just as happy and jolly as it can
possibly be-and we all of us feel much more cheerful this
Christmas than we did last year. Lots of you will be spending
Christmas away from home, and all the fun which home means,
and I do want you to try to have a jolly time in spite of it all.
Remember the greatest happiness at Christmas depends--quite
honestly-more on what we do for others than on what we get
ourselves. W. P. Salter, in her suggestions for the Christmas
Number, says : " Eagerly to open our presents brings a delight.ful
anticipatory pleasure, but it is nothing compared to our happiness
when we prepare 11resents for others." Exactly. That IS not
goody-goody talk, It Is actual fact. So let those of us who cannot go home for Christmas, see toitthat the people we are billeted
with, the villa!{e in which we are living-in fact, everyone all
round about us, has the jolliest Christma• that ever wa•, and
all because of the Land Arm[ girls. Enter Into the life of the
village this Christmas, even i you never have before ; insist on
getting up a concertorentertainment, make it a howling success
-bustle up everyone till they realise that it i• Christmas time,
and a time for great rejoicing; sweep aw~ty the difl!culties with
a real Land Army breeze, and if you will do this rou will not
only give others a happy time, but I know you wil enjoy it so
much, that you will wonder why you never found out before
what real enjoymr.nt means.
lllrs. Lyttelton has written a charming little play for ynu
which you will find quite easy, if you set about it in the right
way, and which will, if well acted, delight any audience. I am
well supplied now with folk songs and reci ][ۜ