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THE SI(TAL IR)DERIICH ONTARIO
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Santa Claus
Found
In the Heart
THREE
whole sliver dollars
apiece!" said Margy to the
boy as they sat in the corner
of the garret where the tint
pile had been and gazed at their bard
earned wealth. "It's like having mon-
ey instead of nuts fall off the trees.
How shall we ever spend Its'
"Spend it?" said the boy with I
grand air. "Spend it? Why, that's
easy. My! i could spend it If all the
nets we picked up and sold were
dollars. It takes a heap of money to
buy Christmas gifts."
"Uncle Tom said be would take us
to the city, so father and mother
needn't know a thing," maid Margy.
True to his word, Uncle Tom hap-
pened in that very evening and said
• In a careless way to father:
"I'm going to town tomorrow, and
if :.he children would like a trip I'll
take them."
So, dressed la' their best, with the
precious money held tight la their
purses, they went'
to the city will,
Uncle Tom.
\V hat a day`: I rl
that weal Every
sh'r window
seemed full of ■ �� ��
gifts that would
be last right for r .•_� I ! r�
some one on the �,t`•t\ ��II
list Two happy
children w en r
home that night
and sneaked up — 1'
the, back stain
with their bun- ,•
dles. Later they
stowed them
away in an old
• cheat of drawers
In the garret.
safe from the
eyes of the curi-
ous.
And father and WI-'aDOWa ret.e or
mother never OM..
made a guess as to all the whispering
that went on. Nor did they notice
that the children were fairly bulging
with secreta, Perhaps they were busy
with a few on their own account.
Christmas eve came. The boy said
carelessly:
"Mother, why don't you and father
bang up your stockings too?"
So tour stockings were hung to the
cover of the sitting room table -no,
flee, If you could call the baby's tiny
mock a stocking.
When father had fallen asleep over
his paper and mother was in the kitch-
en planning things Diargy and the boy
stole in with their gifts and poked
them into the biggest stockings, and,
oh, yes. Margy put a bundle in the
boy's stocking, and the boy put one in
Margy's, and then they stole out again
and were off to bed so's not to have
to wait so long for morning.
The boy's eyes popped open about 5
o'clock of the dark morning, and ha
woke the whole house shouting "Mer-
ry Chrlatmasr
Every one bustled into clothes and
swallowed breakfast. Then they went
into the sitting room together, and fa-
ther ebouted and
danced like a
schoolboy /wben
be found a cup
and saucer that
woad bold a
pint of coffee, to
1, I say nothing of
the motto "Love
�r• Cw L the Civer" in
Jam• gilt letters and a
lavish dbudration
of rosebuds on
its Outside.
f] u w mother
laughed and
kissed both the
children when
she found in her
/ stocking a great
apple that prov•
II ed to be a pin-
cushion end a
YATnait aIIOUTED lovely Japanese
AND DANCED. fan with red.
bine and green ladles painted ea It!
It is not necessary to tell what the
children did anti said when the boy
found a mocker spaniel puppy tied to
. his leg of the table and Margy opened
a basket and found a sleepy Angora
kitten bllnklog at her.
When every package was untied
and the -oast" asci "she' were all
need up, when mother bad decked the
mantel with •her ptnetahlon and tan
and father bail declared that never -
so. sever -again would be drink refect
out of any common little everyday
cup, the boy and Margy set on the
hearth rvg foadaag testy new pets,
and the troy Yid:
"i wetaido't go beet to the ofd tied
of Christmas Por esalrthiog. Theo N
was just sesta Cases that did every-
tatng. New ire the spirit at Rasta
Class is ins asd you sad ether end
mother tied everybody. Its lite war-
ms • whet* Waft of Pasta Classes.'
'Well ears ear Minimae leeway
*eery year after tits, weal we.
biutherT waned Mem
w0
the bey mediad. "Tee bet wee
"Tie t#tag to tosyl• to m.e sad now
of were et /selene Ilaep wan nett aS:•
SISI WV rsepl•Sad the hey.
I -t -t -F 4
z. SANTA CLAUS AS OTHER
TONGUES PRONOUNCE f
S -i -t -l -!-:-1-1-i .
Cerutanv-St. \I boas. Kase liria
gie,
holland-Sunder Klasli. Sint %ica-
lass, Slater Elena.
Switzerland-Samiklaus.
Ilelgoland-Sender Kl:is.
Vo*a l berg-Ze wmn k his.
Alsace-Lorraine-Raectit Duprecbt.
France -Le bon papa. le bou di
Noel, petit Noel.
Austria-Niklo or Niglo.
Russia -Elks (dr tree).
Italy-Babbino.
Poland-Clvtazka (little star).
Scandinavin-Hristlne.
Bohemia-Jerlcek.
1)en m a rk -J u l e n l seen.
Ireland -\iamb Nlcklause.
ANCIENT DOLLS' HOUSES.
Thom of Earlier Centuries Marvels of
Completeness.
The history of dolls is particularly
Interesting at this season. Very bettu-
tiful wax dolls were made in Franco
In that period of reckless extrava-
gance, the seventeenth century. No
prl,'o was too high to pay then for
anything that a little great lady migh
be 'pleased to own.
A few of the fine old dolls' houses
built and furnished in the seventeenth
and eighteenth" centuries still exist
and reflect thorough attention to the
smallest detail.'
All are furnished and equipped with
the same completeness, whether ft is
the linen cupboard, with its piles of
napery; the drawing room, with pret-
ty carpets and tiny china ornaments
and pictures, or the nursery, where
there Is a high fender guard before
the Ore and a rocking horse for the
baby to ride on.
Such details give a human interest
to old toys, emphasi .,d by the doll in-
habitants which are to he seen to the
old houses. The mistress +,.jf the
house, with stiffly set out brocaded
skirts, ,sits la the salon, her work-
basket at her side, in which we find
wee reels of cotton and rolls of tape.
In the nursery the baby, with lace
edged cap, Is in the nurse's arms.
The cook is suitably dressed in short
cotton skirts and white coif.
•
CHEERFUL CHRISTMAS COM-
MENT.
Don't leave It all to Santa
Claus.
Don't keep your Christmas
spirit bottled.
Olds are bound to drift under
the influence of the mistletoe.
The little Christmas green
isn't a seaweed, but It sees lots
of smacks.
The+ is the time of year when
husbands and wives may prop-
erly
roperly bide much from one an-
other.
teemed L the person who
doesn't keep track of the number
of presents she receives.
DOING UP THE PACKAGES.
Vastly Important Detail to Assure Un-
stinted Appreciation.
To send a package that Isn't "Christ -
inlay looking" Is bound to detract from
the gift There are stickers of all
sizes and shapes, with Santa Claus,
holly sprays, red and gold Seal.. "Mer-
ry Christmas" end gayly bedecked trees
upon them These stickers not only
make n parcel more attractive, but
they are a great help In tying up, es-
pecially a bulky parcel like q sofa pl1-
low, which requires several sheets of
tissue paper.
Red, bright green or holly baby rib-
bon Is lased for doing up most part"els
that are not to go through the mall.
The edheslve red and green paper rib-
bon Is often substituted for the other
kinds, or sometimes the outer wrap-
ping ham the pasted ribbon, while the
Inner tissue paper Is tied
Inside. instead of using a regular
calling card, the name of the sender la
written on ane of the bright Christ-
mas cards that come In package..
RURAL YULETIDE SPIRIT.
The Msil Carrier Finds • Present et
Almost Every Door
The rural postmen are not lee, gen-
erously remembered at ('briatmee time
than are their city brethren There
is scarcely a farmhouse on its route
where the mall rareler does not re-
ceive • token. Most of the presents
are practical.
Knitted scarfs or mufflers. mittens
and slippers are favorites with fem-
inine donors. whereas the Rifts of the
fanners ususlty take the form of
pumpkins. bushel baskets of potatoes,
barrels of apple, and turkeys. Many
• rural mall carrier rerelvee on Christ-
mas morning enough eatables to stock
his larder for works to come.
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Th. Chriettwsa Dance
R'•n a-sMny dao^M the mla.et
N• m• •I.t, ,Mr. ^(e
Th. •t•,•I, .v -• f'wn met
i.n.stt, tlo r- Istletoe
To Salts.. sew tee eastAs maw
net N isbet's fury bass
That dataeei deal eartrtve to steer
I.neath the aststNtea
The Mimes eh.... bet set the
A• ewea aftwww rs kaew,
Por aseelais est about the ease
L 1Be
Oeurier-Jravreet
lEAMEMII
Santa Claus
And His
Flying Machine
` f,
IT was the night before Christ
and at may have been been
Marjor.i's papa had beeu res
lug an article about a man w
had a wonderful flying machine t
all these strange things happe
Marjorie was sitting in the big ea
chair Jo the corner, where the Hg
from the lamp did not hurt her ey
and where she could listen for
sound of Santa Claus' reindeer on
snow outside when suddenly she f
the chair move. Then it was whirl
•mond and out of the door into t
street. Marjorie wondered what h
happened, but Annabel, her bigg
doll, who was in the chair with h
CHRISTMAS WOOING OF CUPID.
Mystic Lev. Sp is With Apples Is
Forst n Lands.
Apples enter 1 to many Christmas
spells. In Austria on brtstmas eve
the apple must be cut haires In the
dark and without being 1 arched by the
band. 'lane left hand half is tis placed
In the bosom of the diviner d the
right baud half behind the door the
bedchamber. Then ut egldntgbf, should
the spell have been fully carried out.
the spirit "or "astral" of the beloved
one appears, standing beside (lie half
which was laid behind the door.
mss. Another charm is to cut an apple in
use two nod count the seeds in each half.
d- If the numbers are even warriage will
ho be soon. It a seed Is cut In two there
hat will be trouble In the course of lore.
tied. " and should two seeds be cut there will
y be early widowhoojl.
ht A Sicilian maiden throws the fruit
a from her window Into the street and
any watches. Should it lie long without
the being picked up she will be widowed
alt ' soon after marriage. Should It be pick-
ed ed up by a woman marriage will not
he ! be within the coming year, but should
ad ( It be picked up by a man then she will
est be wedded before the next year is
er ended.
Spoke up and
Said: "Don't be
afraid. We nre
going to see San-
ta Claus. lie's
met with an acci-
dent. Didn't you
know?"
"Indeed I did jrita
not," answered
)Marjorie.
"Yes." replied
Annabel, "I just
got a wireless tel-
egram asking me
to come up to
Castle Christmas.
I was one of their
favorite guests
last year, and
they would think - '
it strange if I is — r,•
didn't call to offer
sympathy. So.
you see, as you were in the chair I just
bad to take you with me."
After what seemed a long time the
chair came to a tall white building
that looked as if it might have been
built of great blocks of loaf sugar. It
stood on top of a snow covered bill.
A cunning little brownie in buttons
and a red and green uniform like holly
!opened the door for them.
"Mrs. Santa Claus says for you to
please step right upstairs. They're ex-
pecting you," said the brownie.
When they reached the second floor
a hearty voice called one "Step right
In!" and another voice said: "Now, be
calm, Santa! You know, my dear, that
you must not excite yourself."
In the center of,the room stood a huge
white bed. In
the bed lay Santa
Claus with cov-
ers to his chin.
Mrs. Santa was
bending over him
with a cup and
�!
spoon.
"It's his medt-
cine time," she
said, nodding to
the doll and Mar-
orte. Santa
made a very wryface.After the medi-
cine was down
Mrs. Rants turn-
ed to the new-
comers and said:
"We've been
waiting for you.
The doctor say■
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PEI
A VEST RIM BANTA. Santa must stay
In bed for a month. He's sprained hls
ankle."
"Monkeying with that new flying
machine young Chris coaxed me to buy
in place of the reindeer," grumbled
Santa. "Plague take it, I never had
any trouble like this when i depend-
ed on Thunder and Blitzen and the
rest of my dear old team"
"Well, Marjorie," said Mrs. Santa,
"we thought you might be willing to
take the gifts around for Mr. Santa
this Christmas, seeing that be can't
go bimseil. I don't want to let Chris
go up to that horrid -I mean we -urn -
can't spare Christopher at present_ I
thought you might enjoy a ride In a fly-
Iing machine. With a couple of brown
les to run down the chimneys with
the toys you cap manage very well
Tbe brownies do finely with some one
to look after them, but they don't do
to send out alone."
"Wife, f don't like this Idea of the
dying machine. Why can't Marjorie
take out the reindeer? Maybe they
are not so test, but they ars quite
sate"
"Very well; I'll ring for the reindeer,"
agreed Mrs. Santa, tonchtng a bell
Buttons came hurrying into the room
"Harness the Christmas reindeer to
the biggest sleigh and have all the
toys put In it. This young lady will
take them out for Rants (fans this
Christ ma s ..
Patrons looked dismayed. "I'm sor-
ry, ma'am, but it's too late. Toon(
Mr. Cbrtstopber, ma'am, bad them toys
ell loaded Into the new dying machine
and he's just started off with them
himself.'
Mr. Neste eheliked oma tainted
Beets Clem humped ftp and yelled, an
the tittle brevities came tvehing In
sad there was each eoefeston that
Marjorie never essid rsa.an.r how
+* flet away. but the wast thing she
knew sloe was epeehig her epee to the
Mg chair ts the earner with A1aake
eisiped la het arm and nether aey
"Curve. MIMI WS tams to an to hes,
�vClaw �r be ad / preop
Christmas Day.
Flow will It dawn, the coming
Christmas day,
A northern Christmas such as pn!nt-
ers lore.
And kinsfolk, shaking hands but
once a year.
And dames Who tell old legend, by
the fire?
Red sun, blue sky, white snow and
pearled Ice,
Keen, ringing air, which sets the
blood on fire
And makes the old man merry wit')
the young.
Through the short sunshine. through
the longer night?
In whatsoever garb or gay or sad,
Coma fair, come foul, 'As•III still be
Chrtstmai day.
--Charles Kingsley.
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MEMORABLE YULETIDES,
Odd Coincidence of Queen Victoria'.
Sorrows at Christmas Time.
One of. the moat extraordinary
Christmas days London ever had was
that of 181)1. The shops had been, as
usual, specially prepared and decorat-
ed with the object of attracting the
buyers when suddenly, on Dec. 22, a
thick fog came on. Not until the
evening of Dec. 26 did It lift. This
particular fog bald the record for be-
ing the heaviest London had known.
Thirty lives were lost and over 200
accidents recorded.
Christmas, 1890, was the coldest
England and Scotland had ever expe-
rienced. Just three years later Christ-
mas day was marred by news that
William Makepesce Thackeray, the
great novelist, was dead.
The late Queen Victoria's most mem-
orable Christmases were the moat
pathetic. It was la less than a fort-
night from Dec. 25, 1861, that her hus-
band, the prince consort, passed away.
So affected yeas her majesty that she
allowed fifteen years to pass before
she celebrated ."bristmas day In the
traditional fashion. Then on Christ-
man day in 1472 the Prince of Wales,
who became King Edward ViI., was
so ill that his life was despaired of.
But he made a remarkable recovery.
USE MOST CHRISTMAS CANDY.
Several Million Dollars' Worth Sold to
New Yorkers.
Three million dollars' worth of
Christmas candles is New York city's
annual holiday bill.
The amount of money spent by New
Yorkers during the holidays for candy
alone Is so great that It seems out of
proportion to the amount donated for
charity until it is remembered that
perhaps one-third or more of all the
candy bought during the last half of
December Is given away by •secular
and religious societies, by Sunday
schools and churches, and that con-
sequently a large part of the sum be-
longs In the charity account
Three or four New York manufac-
turers get the bulk of this class of or-
ders, and they agree that, even taking
the population of the city Into ac-
count, New York's consumption of
candy excels that of any other city.
CHRISTMAS IN NORWAY.
Rlehly Cooked Rhee • Papular Dish.
Brownie, Used to Share It.
The day before Chu'etmes the bolt -
days really begin. It is customary to
have richly cooked rice served with
milk or fruit jure* for dinner. In the
tureen Is a blanched almond, and be
who gets this receives a present- The
practice used to be prevalent among the
peasants to set out a dish of t his Christ-
mas rice In the barn for the gnomes or
brownies. whom they thought would
do some good tura for them In pay-
ment.
Flowers always make a borne look
festive. and the custom In Norway is
to send these as messengers of love at
Christmas.
The Masee•eadoes.
Yes, I believe is Seat* Claus
In rives and tables. tee-
rvs never area it.., but boeau•e
Or levels Wap tby a.
Their ease. ars ley and Teeter -
awe
AY Orel was ]Base en earns
Their eallelgn r to .gee Andrew
sorb hgg•iee w earth.
Asa whoa Ow deem ea teary mats,
m two awl •esal arrayed.
vs awe think
r fist a piseemea limbo --Jen ireenielt Pease
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How Toy Fairies
Make
Christmas Gifts
"(ME; hurry up, my dears, Oar
friend St. Nicholas will soon
be here to look over our lat-
est Christmas toys. And you
know what a busy man be Is, never
baring a moment to spare this time
of year."
So spoke the queen of cloud fairies
to her many subjects.
Now, maybe you children do AM
know that these cloud fairies live up
at the north pole in the clouds that
are always full of snow. Butalways
having lived there they never feel the
cold and enjoy a frolic each morning
on the greet icebergs, to which tbhy
come down in sleighs drawn by rein-
deer. Cloud fairies, so It is said, make
all the Christmas gifts Santa Claus
gives to the little ones each Christmas
ere.
The season had been a busy one for
the cloud fairies, for they had done
their best to make up games and de
sign toys that they might have many
nice new ones for Santa Claus. He
was to visit them any minute. the rea-
son the queen bad for begging bee
subjects to hurry with the work in
band.
"Yes, dear queen," answered a girl
fairy, dancing on the giver edge of a
cloud: "1 have nil tea dolls on the
south end of the rainbow, where his
greatness St. Nicholls of All Lands
may view them without a moment's
delay."
"And i hare all the &time. bugles,
horns, fifes and other musical toys
placed to great advantage on the Dort!)
end of the rainbow." said a gay fairy.
Sapping his wings as he wt on the
point of a stray starlet that had got
tangled in the clouds,
Just as the fairies ceased speaking
there came through the frosty air the
sound of aletghbells and the tooting as
a bugle
"Ah, there he Is now!" cried the
queen. "Let's all go to greet him-"
In rushed four beautiful reindeer
drawing a sleigh in which was seated
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Santa Claus. With a bound old Santa
was on a cloud, bowing low before the
queen and kissing her hand.
Thenhe gathered a dozen or more
fairies in his arm and bugged them
as a great bear would bug its cubs.
Re laughed so loudly and so merrily
that the icebergs began to melt.
"Now," he cried joyously, "show me
what you have made for my hosts
of earth children_ You know this time
of year brings me millions of letters,
and I must hurry to my postottice and
run through my mail-"
After looking at the Christmas toys
Santa Claus said be was more than
pleased. Then, giving his order for
10.000 bags full of the beautiful things.
he told the queen that he must go.
"But before i go," be said. "I must
beg you to be prompt in Oiling my or-
der -
r -
der_• There can be no delay on Christ-
mac
hristmag, you know, my dear queen. That
would mean to break the heart of some
of my little ones, and that would nes-
er, never do. So farewell till earth's
sundown on Christmas eve. I'll be
here myself to get my toys."
After kissing again the queen's band
the jolly old
saint sprang
Into his sleigh,
blew his bugle
and was away
on a breeze.
As two har-
t e s
aintes stood
watching bits
one said to the
other, -For one
reason only
would I be an
earth child."
"And what M that reason, pray?
asked the fairy.
"That i might be in one of those
horns on the earth and see old Santa
Cline coral down one of those chim-
neys with hie peek es his beck mid
then to watch him OM the family meek -
Ing, with toys and heehaw rat wap
It would be quite a treat"
"Oh. but it happens only ones a
year." replied the ether fairy. "Toed
gel good end aose.ome dames the is.
welts hetween two Cheist sea, Cm
thtlskiag. Bet. oeaet ktt'ts fly soar sad
OAS la the earthen ititals." They ale
very heft weight"
"Dtaaft be gear Iesg,- smiled bas
geese site ihem. ":lir yea !sew lien
on IMO hip et sips as taiga r
!r samkMIWe.lr ori inns
TO TSS wO.Ta'Sir
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