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"Is there a Santa Claus?
"We take pleasure in answering at once
and thus prominently the communication
below, expressing at the same time our
great gratification that its faithful author is
numbered among the friends of the Sun:
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"DearEditalt-•
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Virginia on, 115 West OSthStreet.
.947.40 your little friends are Wrong.
Ufa biklte ileen affected by the. skePticit"
at a skeptical : age, They do not believe ex-
cept what they see;They think that nothing
gailb4.Which is not comprehensible by their
little.Minds, All minds, Virginia, whether
they be men's or children's, are little. In this
great universe of- ours man is a mere insect,
an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the
boundless world about him, as measured by
the intelligence capable of grasping the
whole of truth and knowledge.
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He
exists ascertaiflly as Ionaand generosity
and devotion exlst, and you know that they
abound and 864 to yourllfeits highest hcoa-
• ty and joy. Alas! how dreary wouldbe the
world if there iivere`no Santa Claus! It would
he as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
There would be no chlldlike faith then,
poetry, no roinance to make inlerajg,etbeWi'
existence We shouldhave no enjoyment,
• except in sense and slght. The eternal light
with which , world would
be extinguished. 4,,
"Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as
well not believe in fairfesl You might get
your Papa to hire men to watch in ail the
chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa
Claus, but even if they did not see Santa
Claus coming down, what would that prove?
Nobody sees Santa Claus. The most real
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-wOrld are thele that nelther -;•
cblldren nor *en gnome. Didlou ever see
fairies dancing on the lawn? Ot'cottMe not,
but that's no proof -that they are not,there;
Nobody can conceive or Imagine all the
wonders there are unseen and towable in
,the world.
"You tear apart the baby's rattle and see -
what makes the ILO* inside, but there Ian.
veil coveriagthe unseen world which not the
strongest xiialti not even the strength •
of all the ***gest men that met lived,
could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry,,,
love, romance, can push aside the curtain 7'
and view and picture the supernatural beau-
ty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah,
Virginia, in all this world there is nothing
else more real and ablding
"No Santa Claus! T1ankGodhelives, and
he lives forever. A housand years from
now, Virginia, nay, tei thousand years from
now, he will continue to make glad the heart
of childhood."
A little quiz
for Yuletide
A littl illetide quiz: Which of the follow-
ing wi• yliu expect to find on a Christmas
tree?
1. Heavy metal chains (the kind punks
wear to concerts).
2. Plastic tubes (the kind some hospital
patients simply can't live without - literal-
ly).
3. Plastic cocktail glasses (the kind -
Alcoholics Anonymous put cocktail peanuts
4. A partridge (the sort found in a pear
tree).
5. All of the above.
The answer, as un -Santa and unsleigh
bells as it might be, is No.5 - All of the above.
Christmas trees aren't - and are - what they
used to be. Traditional trees festooned with
ribbons and bows, gingerbread people, lace,
dried and fresh flowers, bundles of pot-
pourri, angels and other things nostalgic are
the majority.
But there are other decorations that take
a decidedly avant-garde approach to the
season of mistletoe and holly. Entries in a
collegiate design -a -tree contest give the
non -conformist several ideas for trimming
his tree.
One tree built around a hardware store
theme was decorated with non -edible candy
canes. The decorations were four -inch
aluminum plumbing sleeves wrapped with
red glitter -covered pipe cleaners with pipe
cleaner hooks at the top. Clear intravenous
tubes were stuffed with the red glitter pipe
cleaners and spiraled over the tips of the
branches.
A new -wave theme tree was spray -
painted black then decorated with bluish -
silver chains and geometric, three-
dimensional ornaments.
Clear plastic drink cups and an oven were
the basic ingredients of another tree. To
make the decorations, preheat an oven to
400 F, line cookie sheets with foil, then place
the plastic cups right side up on the sheets.
Tuck colored plastic beads in the centers of
the bottoms of the cups, then pop them into
the oven for two minutes.
The cups will melt and collapse on
themselves creating crinkled shiny decora-
tions with colored -bead centers. When the
ornaments come out of the oven, punch a
hole in each with a heated nail and tie with
ribbon for hanging. The plastic cups look
very much like expensive crystal
oranaments.
The 12 days of Christmas was the theme,
and gold and white the color scheme of the
tree decorated with plastic calling birds,
white ceramic geese, foam swans trimmed
in gold, ladies dancing, maids -a -milking and
lords -a -leaping. The tree was finished with
white ribbon bows.