The Christmas Parcels

Loving hearts at home will not forget your temporal needs this Christmastime. Many a scene similar to the one in our picture, will be realized in the homeland. Packing the parcel for the soldier-daddy will be a great joy to wife and children, and lover and friend.
The picture on our cover shows what the reception of the parcel may be like. Here we see the parcel opened in the French farmhouse, away from the firing line, where the British soldiers are billeted. The French peasant woman is holding up her hands with astonishment and delight―and the letters from home are read and cherished. Oh! the joy that earthly love and care can give. And in our next picture we see