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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1916-12-14, Page 14tt0ewrvl'kt IN tae N.- Two Herald (tv eu., an rob e•Prr•..t ROM my earliest iotaaey up to the `re.est 1 have always had all end hetes, tie believe i• Sdt• as... Iota of people, old sod yMsts�-pat- Ncularly some very wise yaw peo- ple that I know have told tie that N suck prom exist... but 1 know bettor. The dear old• saint is to my knowledge a Very beautiful spirit, sod every time that Arista*. comes otosg 1 see him •Im.at everywhere 1 tura, amoag the rich, the powerful, the faahiu•able, equally •mo•g the poor sad lonely. I've sees blue beam Mg frees the comfortable cuebions of • Me electric motor car apeediag ■Toms the parkways, ..4 perched happily up along- side the driver of a heavily fades truck la tlhe dusk sf s bitterly cold wioters dal prswtptiug $s compasion to deal geed, wkh his w.fsry berms ad wader the spell' et the hair to forget the dreadful co.di- gm of the highway, the (loggias of the streets •rad bit poor fro■tbittes nose and Morels. 8• nu one seed tell me that Santa (taus does not epi.' or try to push the glorious old •••utlema■ back i•to the realm of whet the wise people call myth. I'ball simplytreat •11 uc absurd rt ■ ■ kk •tt mewls .a that with a broad grin amid • stink that allows [bat 1 knew better. Kut 1 both ehet-Mitiora Blas these for h4ieviag la Santa Claus, for owe, some es •iP-I shall not npe•ify the elect 1 ray be muhuah for him oue Christ- man oohing ani caught him just as be hV comported Dir work mesa ley slating, • hoagies the chimney_, and made him talk t 1lufie. i▪ w ▪ I cried; aa.••I-pmepmi out ,tress bebisd't bureau, wtytre_I W bee.. "Yos'r: Ito. dssta Clam. I1ii'I you v" Tea," he said, ad a fussy Vette laugh tial made him .Aake,ob that 1t sloe shoak tie house. "i may as w`',�1fd.ait it Node- Mg ot-M( to he ashamed of, eh "No, indeedl"acid 1. "8e .pthigto 1K toed of, -rather, 1 should say:" 'Thank you," said the old gentleman. 'It's very good of you to may so. What as I do for your' "1 thought 1'd ask you to take me.back with you to Santa (`IO utile," I noswefed- "I'd like to take a peep at those wonderful workshops of yours." "Hue! Well, That isn't a bad idea." said b, stroking his team thoughtTully. "Hitt • er what would your fancily think about iii N'"111.111'I they worry over your ells aRe.ren.a'7 They might think 1'd turned sapper, 'Ind that would never du." --• 1 shouldn't be gone Mug," I au RKested, • $. ouly for a day. 1 roeld get a good [peep a things in a day; couldn't l Y' 'Yes,think you .could," Mid Santa 01am " it the way things go i■ this Meld there nu cummunicatiou hettraien Bowls Town, ('Isusburg, as some pen- gb till it, et it between midnight (Milkman Kee and .iz o'clock ('hrialmir mleming. tto if ion eat back with me t.aight it would be a hole year before you could corse home ag 'u. I'm afraid you'd be uwfuliy honest.- b'fore long, efttt with mi•, mod your Tried would be o/readfully worried "'% 'V" you only hove six Igllre i which SO do all yoke work?' I asked. all 1 have here, said_ Salta Clete -_ "Tliiir -in why of i:it, years you find me timing the ni,ila anti the exprem ciwnpaeiea-was much in the delivery of ekagp.. "Ebert. are so ninny more (.,. to be visited sow than there used •s . forced tohate f �al [ have -leap t cpJ aw.itetane'e If i dido't 1'd be .letaiued .herr me, ito,' th.t 1 couldn't gel home at s11 for a w le year." "What!" i tea, "Can't even you get 11111. 1440. edit 7" • ',\ blush i" r•phet :(Iota Claus. "if 1 alere out.. wood, late in dritltlg rap to 480' late* or my own cuustry 1 should lie ou 'Me to got 11r" •ed I'm practically through this Year. 111 tell you short It with pleasure. lust climb beck Auto epee so's you won't este► cold and I'll sit down •losgslde of you sad tell you all abut It." Lad the dear 914 Saint began. • • -.t _a _ "It was this ream ago," mid Sesta Claw. 'There -tris as unusually large .umber of baba'. 1. be eared tar that year, and they were just you over mw,' though between pen •d THE SIGNAL GODERTCH : ONTARIO . out • 3anta• Ciaiuo py JOHN KENDRICK PANQ5-' couldn't blame anybody either, because; I'd made the rules myself, •ud in refuse tag to answer my summons the gatekeeper was merely obeying q orders." "I shoed think you'd be glad to see• people there -you're always so good .a-• tom.. said 1. "That's •n very true," mid Salida Claw. "Rut you don't quite uuderytast We work so hard for six months of the r that we have to rot the other While we are rleepiog we cast see psi; nee, I think mill babies are pod Moe 1111• you know -we'd be awfully dull con they don't seem to be as god as they Mal if we did see the., -ad while we might be it almost •Iwals means there's aye worklug we are too busy to ►e inter tempted. By the time I get back to Claue- burg everybody's gone to sleep for the & Reuel teat, and I would bare hammered Mx smooths at the gate before I could have wakened aay me of them." '-y'I ere,' Mii T Somebody might ham rt up kW yea, though," i added. tit's against Mee rules to sit top after six," said Sesta (bee, and toes be west on.. "Well, 1 414'1 k.ow what to do," said he. "I wandered .beast outside fair tires or four hours, cad thea re.liaed that there was saly Doe thing to be dome - make the Deet of t, cad goback k to earth ■ gals and eon my Irving as best I could tomtit the gates were open .gala. So bmek to Chicago I trudged and them a train for New York, welched eonnertion that I hadn't thus be bag ticket. We'd got aa her, I I I(a�15 p whe■ up comes the cosduct•e\.1a "'Ticket, please,' he said, stopping is (rust -of see sod yet tlee kir puarheT ready. -°1Mlld Ma I hadn't one and asked bow stag to pay In ea . -i• Vbietyallj7fsW tee eo.dmctor. "I had &bout ten thousand in my pocket, leo this did not worry me. Takia( out sky • sleeping car.' ;14 • pia sticking into them or their diaper doesn't agree with them or some other good reps they •tways know. They did.'t cry such at stigbt *ad they ' pest most of their days .d811g cad col' fog sad• *mei* their iraade {1M/elle. iloseebow or etheet while I at. fend of all babies, 1 seemed to be particularly food of them Tour little brother Dick, for aatanee, and Sammy Rroasoa's .stet Polk -she was just the aweete,t little I'ollie (bat ever was " "Yes," said I, "I know, 'pm both, Pol Ite'. pretty fine." "Well, there were most a million babied like that that year, ad I bad something for every me of thew," Haat* Clam rea- ti•ued. "It was the btsipst sight 1'd eyes had, aged In those dayv.1 was doing the work all by myself. So. when half -past five Christmas morning come, both my reindeer and i were dreadfully tired •.d sleepy, The reindeer were so tired they 'btwnte nervous, and while 1 wee fixing Tie the stockiugi in • bog orphan asylum 1.,Cbicato,tbey Isoth toot fright at a loco- tmotive whistle half a mile away aged nm away. They flew Week to ('Imuuburg and get i■ all right, hut I had to trudge home .8 -foot. I got there al half past six and the gete4 8.ee closed. It was a fright- ful situation: 1 knocked and knocked god knocked, butt nobQdy'eame, ad I realized Milt the case oras bOpelesa, 1 'orders to emery you through to New York -unless you ride in the smokestack. It's the only c►imbley ea the train.' " "Ile was horrid!" said I indignantly arain. "Oh, no," mid Santa Claus. "Ile was Duly dung his duty. Hut it was ver• hard for ore. 1 got off the thio and made up my mind W work until 1 bad earned enough to pay my way to New York in Amerie•■ skimpy." "What did you dos" I asked. "I ehuwrlled snow," said Santa Claus, with • deep drawn sigh. "It was the only dishonest thing I ever did." 'Shovelling sauw is not disbotest, very difficult atrogile for exiat•nce. I get a position first on the elevated rail- road •• a guard, but I couldn't keep it because I couldn't wake people et,y, lively. 1 guess I wax too polite. Instead of call- ing out. 'Step lively there!' in tones like thud,r or a ,aReun going off suddenly and making people 10 nervous that they o.wldu't help jumping fast I'd we. 'Het pardon, ladies and gentleu en, but if you don't mind accelerating your footsteps just • trifle it would materially aid the vagineer of this traiu in bla•aeaacientious effort• to nun through to the terminal oa schedule time. You'd think being taw that wee would bring •bout the desired result, but it wasu't so. Quite the con• teary. lasted of hurrying. people would atop to listen to what 1 was saying. sod Santa," sad 1. "Lots o1 good people the consequence was my train never did do it." get through oo time. it was always from old gentleman. "Perfectly awful." "Tbat is true:' said Santa Claus,"but one to two boors late." "Whir 1 asked. "Didn't 79.0 want W the way 1 did it was not quite right. •'lad they discharged you for being There was not ouch snow is Kalamazoo polite, did they?" said I. give the conductor tem dollars?" f(►at year ad I bad to sake a little go a 1 "Teat wail the real reaand: .aid Banta "Oh, it wad's that," cull "hats Clmts, great way.. .1 shovelled it off Doe side Clam, hank eke use they gave was that I 'It wasn't that. 1t IMP the quality at rosy walk oro to "other ad then back again was w fat 1 took up the room of three money. It was toy messy, every cemt of it, •rad I hadn't any other." The end gentleman shook his lead sol- emnly era b7 recalled the embarrassing In- cident "There I was," he resumed a menet Kalenine° later. "Put off the train at with ten tbonrnd dollars in my pocket and not a penny that was worth • cent" -.Lbw didn't put you off the train?" 1 budignantly. "Didn't you tell them suis Telt weer' "oh, ys-I told them," said Banta ilii t.g bis shoulders. "But they Noy .ed. The conductor was one of those .y men who like to make jokes to make passengers laugh-" "I'm Santa Chace mid I, wheat he handed me back my key money. "'I haven't a doubt of it,' be replied. 'You ought to lsar(i_la a sleigh, sot is a wallet I counti'd out the necemary thirty- ▪ one dollar bills and ad4ed tea dollars more., which I told the comdurtor to keep for/him/telt i1 honor of the season. And Itl.ah deart- it was awful!' said the "'My reindeer ten away nod I've bees locked out,' I explained. _ "'Oh, yes, I know,' said he, With a whtk at the other pasaeng,ra *sally, you'll have to get off here. I any for a week until I bad earned fifty dol- lars." "I don't quite understood," said I. "It was this way." Santa Claus replied, mapping out a diagram on the counter- pane ounterpane with his thumb nail, "iiere was n umber 92 Main street with snow on the sidewalk. 1 shovelled that snow off aura - Orr 92 throwing it upon the walk of ordinary pasarugera. so that they Mat ten cents at the very least on each trip. At the end of six weeks I was discharged and rompelled to look for ■ new position." "Poor old Sesta Claus -it was out - raceme!" said 1. "Oh, no,' said the hie --era ted-eld hominess*. I am pretty ogee. "It was just boat D 7 n umber 94. 'Then 1 went to the people big ■round, you know. Well. the next living in number 94 and was paid for thing i did was to try being a cab driver. shovelling it off tbe walk of 94. 1 tossed I got • position am the driver of a hansom it back on the walk of 92. Then I went rob, but 1 ran lost that. My great, size to 92 again aged was paid for cleaning was against we there, tan. Yon see, eery the walk another time, throwing the snow time 1'd get tin into that little seat'at the again on the walk of number 94. So I rear of the hansom 1 was so heavy 1 kept it up, seesawing that beautiful snow lifted the horse clear off his feet. Only from oar walk to snottier. backward and forward, until I had earned all the money I needed." "It was kind of queer," said i, "Yes," sand Santa Claus. "Aad i've al• ways been sorry for it. But what could 1 do? I had to earn my living. and really it was just as hard work as if I had simply "bovelkd the snow into the street. J've more than made up for it sines by leaving extra presenta a1 earh of those bowels at Christmas time, too -.o in • way I Dare atoned for my mistake. Anyhow, I earned my fifty dollars and paid my fare to New York with it. reaching that city about St. Valentine'. Day. And then I began a him hind legs mold rench the ground. and people were afraid to ride with me be- re",nlrant. Ilia attention was attremedt Obey thought was Uro by the trot that I won so stout. •rad rauwe the harm. tow frisky. Anybody*Mildthink' fbat to ager offerwl me three mewls a day and a piney._ to sleep behind his restaurant if 1'd la tm ndw-irh mon and walk up and down rhy.-- e treet w ith two big plaronta on me, one Ota ally bark and the other hanging over Fir - ehest, with '1 me a letter of memo mend, i,'n to L (rh•nel of his in the c.al busiee.r, for o hieb 1 thanked him, little dreaming why gee did it and for whet reason he thought the Boal dealer world Ilks'to employ we, 1 or.•.Putel sty letter to the coal mon the neat atornint He was delighted with me, apparently, and told me to call around the following bloods, and he • would row me emnh'rmeett at o1er. 'This, of courts I did. but aIma' only again to be Utterly d`•. nit,i p t el " "Did he go hack on ,Is word?" 1 asked. "No, indeed: lint the work he hod be nct to di. -dear net. 1 never rotdd thiuk of such a thiag•',grnttnrd Satlta "What was It 1 -asked. "Shovelling oats" "Nothing half on hoopoe said Sent• Claus, "Ile wanted me to drive hie wag- on and to sit in the wages with the coal o hi!e it wen bens weighed." "You did here ilk bard time et, It!" i ;tied, as I thought -New the old gently - =RR el1tMi44K•__-.. "Yes -sad so ,It went all along." be tigbed. "I tried M.write poetry for ths n agaxines, but the only kind 1 knew how to write wa. the little things they put On candies- little motturs like:- When (hie you thence to ebew Reu,emtrr 1 :ore you, oa t- 1 it I awl O rare vowels goad and truer But the one i love the heat of all is 17. "I lent t lot of those out to the UMW ride. that print Petry, and they all room back to me by return mail. Nos. of tilt editor. xee•med to rare for them, and whets I took them to - randy store and tried to cell them there they told inc they only soli candy tool didn't publish it. I was at mj wide' ends to know what to do. het fortu- 1.tely 1 met a nun one .1:,y who owned w a hone trotting down the •tame no hu hind legs and his fore feet waving it eke air, wouldn't they?" "Yes. I think they would," said - "1 tr;r' s four wheeler nett. with very similar results,' euntiuued the old get. Heenan. "I weighed down the front of the cab so far that the people inside had all they could do to keep from '!i.lieg out the front windows, so my employer called me to him one morning and paid me me wages .ad sent me off. He gave ae••ei-e1•-e-•e•-e••♦ •'N••N•H-• f�•MNM•N�e�N�MN�� •t•• HM Daughter of Santa Claus BY Wells Hawks •e••• -•sees•-• o•s••••••e••••♦•••••++••s-o•••w• senH•-••Nw•e••-••••-••••ew••••.•e.e••-• dream, hiI friends were overjoyed and :Neuer mid," acid Kiri,. "jump la." Katie was happy. 1W8•re-it11b11-I ger &eked the inrlak• The night before Christmax Spencer's ing Gia wheel. (tends plseeed'•to-return the honor and "Bowe Broadway and » Pulite give Katie a party of their own that would square sod down the Hower,, 'lien I'll rue it." The car shot around the corner and ioawrlpt by the t1tew Taek IIPratd Os all conductor pounded at his piano whit •'ea_peelally rl ealihWtam- a.etb-footlights. Stowaewrvw., 1 blending of mezzos and 'y'rir moora.MtTall and .leader, but of excellent peiie, OT .in•P the Ilibernians opened teat upou hie 'ears. i'remently some onalshe held her head am if a little disdain-, their new hall on the day that Isounded au amphibious high note that'fnl. Ilex arms .apd shoulders. were.-nf. Murr4ny'e bone threw him in the.broke almost before it reached its Iib.•rty. snowy whiteness. - The complexion wag St. Patrick's limeade lied the block I The director erased abruptly and the girl known rin•h a 'lenaatiou. Mrs.. began to cough. This stopped his on- Corrie•n's Katie 'bad gone ou the alaught for a moment, but only for a mo - stage, and Ale tenements Were wild' with 'tient, for be tuned on Mrs. Cortical', the news. More than that;ahe bird moved shouting: - over on the attest side to \ire_with as "For heaven's sake woman, how are aunt, whore biixlwnd lied mai -a fortune urea.• girls going to sing in the duet you with the carte and sand, and once elle bad are making'!" a.awer, but that she was Irish, that sbeiand the boy inside threw her • ki.e. well, and they turned into the broad street C -Taus fur fed.. bpd thiol I was rosy ,beea-tltiwm;(tq_reett her mother in an auto- "faith, an' how are yez goiu' toe was Mies Kompton, and that she livedm- an impostor, I•simply went to week expert I When she paxsedihmuRb the stone door by the park. e mobile. It was a sure enough ...amnion. people a. come into a theatre if It ain't with relatives 00 the upper writ side• at night • group of girls saluted h..r :- "Do you�N where 1 can get a Christ• and stayed with him for -five days, wiles Mn. It urrigaa took it mildly. "Katie is clean," retorted Mn. Corrigan, atifl sweep- At all of which Katie laughed merrily i - "hello. Mims Popular!' _ stat tree!" ask Katt. • ( was discharged again. You sada, 1 a pool girl," the would say, "aa' see be ing. Ale told her mother on the visits down "On First arena never could get tined to selling ('hriatmas She did not undPntaed, brat when she it" ■hswered the boy present -s, w, when people eame is to rmy dolts' mutt for her mother." and aha would "Now be tensible, woman," said the home, where the boys and girls still reached the dressing room she understum a They whirled around to a proviste afore .8.1. her head and then go over the leader., "Don't you know tease girt can't trooped out to meet her and where the the foil meaning of the remelt (ler dress- and soon had a tree mind a lot .of wreaths ti'ing° I'd just wrap them up and giro mantel and with her apron wipe t dust sing while 1 ou sweep?" heads hung oat o1 the windows until she, ing tnbl., the chair and all the space about in the machine. Then Katie took they them away, and one night when the head fru the phot.Krxph of a tell. slender (ill. 1 do nut," replied Dlrx. CoMgea, was out of sight it were piled high with parcels. It looked wheel and sewn arrived before the door of °f the firth came to round rap the profits like a Chiristmns Five revel in an express her home. The rushing of hie machine and we hand a trrrihl.. time of it. I'd Rives "way abort right hundred dollars' worth office, the sight of Katie brought everybody out of de,lla and meshfinical toys and Nosh's "My! oh, my, my!" she exclaimed, and and all the heads to the window. Herein arta and when 6e asked what of the truest type of Irik)t asaideu- outshine anything io chorus girl society. bond and her well rounded fore d iraa' Katie was willing and promissl to minx- hi in the _raven -black, bele -- she She called on her mother in th.• afternoon down the Lhristmas crowded skeet pint one in • my shop. Th.• owner of it 1800(bt Parted in the centre. atlswimg ft ell fall and took her a little prevent. She noticed as Sls•nccr and him friends came from the 1 looked so like Santa Claus that it would carelessly on either side. So -no weirder in the cigar store under the,flo1 that they remtnnranl. Katie had "fix,•d" the stage be • first rate thing to have me 14 111 Lop it became the quae:tio., "Who t the had cut her picture out of paper and doorman mud 11, knew nothing. for the lams week before (htietmas. 1 • pretty Irish heir And there was no pasted it on the window. tie smiled) It was a wild ride, hat the boy was doing never let un that I really was Sante i I Fiat at Ronkerb'rr7'", 1.01;, t filial Street, I written on thew. 11e thought it would le a go+d•advr•rtirnicot of hi. place, anti 1 guess it was, for be kept me busy until December. 1t we'n't pleasant work, but it was honest, and I kept at it steadily meta I began to get thin. what with the loud they game inc and the •xrn•ise I had to take. , )Ij clothing hung loosely upon me tilt. portteree, and finally be da•' alar(iel t =>L saant wbat 'M wanted any more," + Saida (Taus paused tot a moment, draw deep sigh, and rvs.mpd, "'11,,n came the last," he said. "To bee" my clothes from falling off 1 attiffedd them full of old paten and straw and looked for another place, and a week be- fore Christmas had the good luck to Had who, now arrayed in a g.egelue stage "Shure nn' 1 am awerpiti many a time Somewhere between the footlights and gown. looked the. beauty that she really when my Katie is pra�a8rt . t ' the front row of the orchmtrtrn teats there was., Katie ('orrigan ked always been the Thie evidently settled thrmetter, for the is an inpisible fine where lurks that mit beauty of the ward. • It wax she NI the conductor went hack to his piano and Mrs, chievo u. little chap who meddles with our boys wanted to donee with the night the Hihwrnians threw their ball opea. and It wn. r•ltrrent gossip the nett duty that Paddy Ryan got one over the head is (:rogin'.Tor ciliate down Tim Kelly, who hod tnk.•u all the denen away from the rest of th.' gang. Aud it was Katie, too, who had been the soprano i. St. I'iw', from the time .he left the pariah Reboot, and Father Shea bad gotten a lot of the people who had the money to apart to make up a Rud for the eultivatios of her voile. Katie woo very proud of the day she took her first Ieswu, and Revers' Sunday* later, when the choir director gave her a hit of solo ittvoit41,4 her sweet voice went Corrigan continued her cleaning of the heart.. and many of his well aimed darts centre aisle. Later in the day the con -tare th.4,•, •that go over the line from the doctor name through the lobby and trErn. bow of a pair of dancing eyes. passed Mrs. Qoyaigae, raw_ was poliahingKatje had these dancing eve, but if they a bas-relief! thing shad ruggeated snme•,I� the darts it was all uncow*ciously thing about .rel He had a memory, for done. At oily rte, they had been fired and the girls In the euunpany knew that the target Was in the front row every night. Katie did not fully realise It he remarked:- "So emarked: "So you have a daughter who slap!' Mrs. Corrigan dropped her rag eid polish, a.d before the nun had left be until twee night there came to her a lenge had heard all about Katie and her voice, bunch of roses, and the girt laughed at and it wan told with all the enthn.iasm her surprise. She only knew it was from of a mother's affection. It impressed"qtr. Spener," and the front row of girls the man of music, for he had Katielsaid he wee, • fine fellow and awfully brought to the theatre, and .he mono for rick. Katie told her mother about it, b Th d f the f him while Mrs. Corrigan stood behind the and she looked at her for a loud tins curtain of the boxem wiping away her wallow saying a word. ante came. All of the girl* were in a into ropey one's he++r anal err tarp beamed tearn with the end of her duet rag. Two "Pretty girls will have admirer*," burry -all bad parties and it was the night while in nue of the back loos Mrs t'nrri- weeta later a "Mims Katherine Kourp- Father Shea told Mrs. Corrigan- Two of Kati,'" party. She dreaapd and then Kan wept tears of real joy into the ogees ton' made her appearoncw In the chorus, or three night. later it wax raining, and looked in the glom for a long time. The genres of her prayer hook 'flit .tui a and the gallery doorkeeper passed Mrs. Mr. Spencer itei,ted that she ride home pretty fare mirrored there did not meet hundred otb.r eveuM in the life of popular Honen and Mn. Corrigan in to be ores- in hi. automobile. She did, there was ■ her eye", for .hp was linking far away. Katie wen• being' dir•ussed when the news1Pnt at Katie's, fioe debut. And what a little mapper on the' way up town, "rad into the little parlor where she had first hone her stocking. The mother would he there alone. Katiewent to the door. A big touring ear waa waiting. it was Spencer's and there was no chnuffeir. Th. longing for the old (:hrietmee rye was big in her heart and it bore an idea. "Where ix Mr. Spent -err' she asked the WV doorman. "11e just stepped around the corner,'" was the reply There was a messenger boy ataniling in the doorway. "Are you busy?" .he naked. "Nope." answered the boy. "Tben rnme with me, and be quirk, and you, too," "he maid, ratline a stage hand. In five quirk miante. Katie. the stage hand end the mexarnger boy had carried all panels from the dr.m.ing rnnm end thrown them Into the automobile Katie nert•mt"ly watched for Spencer, and un- known to ber A* waft drinking her health Is wine et the whop house near hay. "('an you nun an automobile"' she said to the hmy "A little," he answered; "me (Adder deserts 48 mete PMI cart." had be- came then her eyes filled with tears pada big cane out of bier aslx,o and waved bis white apron. There were score. of bandit c me of then and 1 told him -oh, dear lump tame into her throat. 7`he• oeertureme, he was terribly put out, and xe, was came •rad then the curtain. Thr Rirh to,carry the tree and the panel, upstairs and to set it up, and end] a rhnnls of 1. I was pat oat so quick that i atter y/ went on the stage and else wax left alone. knew what happened until I gathered liolobing with loyraad br' " bel pearl "Ah's." a. all of the beautiful thing. fiat so fast, ah..liwoked over The wonder- ep u held tt,-Tegs,�rma, tenth, PYP, pad ether mieceF fur a"aortment. Suit a lot of presents, th f and wept ,idea of life. No 1,onee were br,u8 , and all from Spencer's frieoda every- however, and 1 was conanl.d by the fact thing in the world a girl would want that only two days remained before the Then there was a *Byer uomh and brush gates of Claudine( would to open .gals from Moe, Hogan and her amsiatonU, and, and I could go home, to prove that all show girls aro sot jest- "It was thin thought that earth.! m• nus there were trinket. from her friends through, and when, shortly after midnight 1. the (root row. Then ih'e went on the of CkttMtmee Eve, 1 heard the jingling stege and threw every hit of her heart belt of my reindeers and 'leigh In thaw into her vote, r Pe n P per urns- euld, frosty air, you ran be sure it who a very happy old Santa ('Ian. that waited until they were within !ailing ,1istanco. As troop am they heard my voice they stopped still and then rime prancing down to my aide, overjoyed to find me still alive ahllot much the worse for guy year of exile. clambered into the sleigh, and when moruhlg came and we reached the gate* of Clauabtu•g after a night De - gift tearing i once again entered the street. of my beloved city and an hour later was'eomforta-hly lying in my own little Innndlr bed. "That," acid Santa (Taus, rising, "la rho story of the only time i was ever locked body in the neighborkood came in, and out of ('dausburg, and 1 resolved then amid much a potty! Ryan brought up ammo rye there that it would be the" for the hoya and Grogan Rent over a case of Mer. Father Shen came in and made a ,perch rot it rloumP, anq every ane drank a toast to Knt,.. When all had gone Mr.. Corrigan put her arnt ahn..t the girl. "Whet'. the matter, child? Yon aged yea wet goiu' to • party up town." "i hat couldn't, mother," ahs said. "1 got homesick for you," and the laid her heal N tM dd woman's mho ildrn. tlmtslde tM hays were giving her a se•epaad•. "Kettle has ease home for Cbrlatmas." said Pvery'b.1y along the block , "Onus Ord 1 got that all night UaeM., add (,ries' - • were sereno ani. Mem: Cerrigse- sot . e. myeel/ - er Mid took RD inrentrRy e sofa n Mrs. Hogan e her hand. Katie opened ■ small box and nearly dropped it wben she saw a gold bar with a diamond studded "K" on it. Spencer's card was on It She opened another ani' it was a simple little bracelet with a wribbled card, "From Tim Kelly to Ka- tie." Site primed It t0 her lips and slipped it on her atm. "Oh, i forgot the auto!" she exelaimel. Picking tip a piece of wrapping paper the wrote -- "Dear Mr- Spencer:- "Forgive pencer:"Forgive me for stealing your auto, Ida i hail a quirk tall to help Sant. Claus. Ree you soon, miylrp, Tell them at the party that this is from A DAIJ(1IITFR OF SANTA CLAUS. "P. S.-I'lense pay tpemgng.r boy," Katie pnihed the boy late the =.chine, shouting: - "Comedy Theatre stage door, Mr. Spen- "Tbars queer' fiver been I.w•ked our?" ,i her going on tlP stagy fleeted about tb.tnight it was when she came home! All tit.' next day he drove her through the -.__. n"iglihorit'"d. of the bo,. and girls erre waiting no the pork. }several more dray. there were rides Mfrs. Corrigan wan a widow,' Pat bad doorstep for Katie, there were bends out in the pare:, for Katie hand expreu.ed a of every window, and in the pettier of the desire to learn how to run the machine. (`orrigen flat there was n fine banquet and Mr. Spencer, being accommodating, "from Tim Kelly to Katie." wam glad to Rive the lesamou. Once in "([ore." Mid Santa Class, "only once, been a good nun to her, bit there were and I- .m..111.'1011 itwas a dreadful experi- little 'livings left after he psa.ed awe, ewer I've Metz particularly careful over niece to IP• hour on `time, for while I am Very food of yon earth people I prefer my awn honk to live in Yue asp !'m a greet emus berroleeutn .hiring the holidays, but .R"r Oi:riehuas ham gone I don't seem 14 be quite *e' lropnlar, or St troy rate people don't think on wrnrh,nhont toe after the t'hristnus .•'neon 1. over. The), 1,111 their '.8ntlw0n Aht8bam Lhn•1.Iw end S%, Valen- tine and 1ieurire W,.hingtan and 8t. I'nt- rie•k end nfber MOO cvr.•11„ At people and it �jj� Is•rL•" 1. ri;hd t they th .add t'te harmy by end they are entitled no thein." "TMT int .4 that time yon were lockel , won't emir 1 pleaded. beetainly," amid Meats Clans, looking ntsteb. "lt'a oda five •'alsek 1sw, poseefully from the hurts and the ahock he g,'( when he fell iu a trench working •"Oh! you'aitt all so good,- exclaimed a lonesome drive in the park he took het (At' the Water i1epnrtnienl. The wife had Katie, and then earring the room ehe bond and. whimpered * WV* done work, brat now "hr had to threat beraelf roto her mother'o firma and "Yoe are making me love you." have More incoue, so, through the good- 81.104 8rt. I She laughed and blew the hon and he oras of Airs Hagan, who was the head "ft won't he long, mother. before you said no -more. v•nd,wnninn at the Comedy Thcssire, Ate will stop working and t eta take care oil Some of Spwneer'm fHenda wrested to !Attained regular employment, end K.tie Ysu •• .8. contlnnod. meet Katie, and as the "character wom- kept on at "obwl. And a* the dray" p.amodl "Never united, child," said the mother. •nn" contented to ale so chaperon, she the little girl who hitt tonhed so sweet J111.1;10 d to bed, for yea laxed he tired, the way concent . it sus" a midnight affair. and her *kite frw'h,stid wreathtat tllp? firetyeg ons pranrin' ed jnmpin' about" 'nftcr the moppet there was mucic. Katie nmmtininn !.'gran tlr4Rrnw into woman-, 'Months primed and ; summer 'bow suns in groat spirits. She told stories with wood, end the boys and the nen• and 11,e•atirrtved the first Yebabt of .IUmmn and te delightful troop of hrngne end wee es 'rumen, ton, for nil 1h.a1, mato tiled, et the became a settled anceme. Miss Kemp-' witty and foil of blarney as her old dad twenty of Mr.. ('orrigan'.. butte. One morning Mra, Corrigan,. was Be eeM. ing down the centre agate of the Menfolk"f Thr musical dirretor ons a the pMcu sur- ,pn ted volved prim* demos strnggteel T,rin melodies she had heeled Tommy Welch �nndeA by n grange of Orin mil atnlg(ling for and neve. reached And In th.se cine at the 8.11 .ner' flerrlly'. poe'v7 the w itelse music of the next pie In to pro tsar moths how .10• had 'mien and de- night Murphy brought the piper In. ft diked b7 the management. Mrs. Co►rigms telop,d i. certifier rand nave. but nil one the hit of the erening. sod .he heed 00 swept aed railed • elated of oust. The with a duplicity' of memoir rlr.1 was .1ng •[aim sea sse/a. 8p0same wed in i tel Wed ateppt'd from the hack lino failure' all h1* kung line of enerwtnn. She the front, mo that her voice might c.rryl*ang• not song from the mn.Irsl rowdy Ib lith [mod ot the cnsrmbl, that a .hr was in, but one of thous quaint old Then s1.e wl•nt bock to the tree. Every - The sentence was never finished, for even as the old Saint apnke the clock eli my mantelpiece began striking six, a.4\ the old gentleman with an exclamation 04 dismay sprang from the bed, flew Ilk. lightening up throngh the chimney And, 1 prewume, tripod into his aleigh and startej • t breakneck speed for home, for as I listened I heard him give the command In quirk, nerron■ town: - "Mang there, Viten". (i'Iang, Renneee and hearer and Pnneer! We've got three Arwood* to mike the gate! (fiddapr' Hut he need not have hurried an fat, end 1 presume he reached home in safety, for to t•11 the truth my ,.asek was fifty- five iftyfive taMtm fse8 • , o