The Signal, 1911-12-14, Page 14y! Tilt'SWAT, Datums 14. 1.11
When Santa
Called on
Doubtful Boy
JOhl was one of those boys who
didn't belles• to Santa Clea&
lie had been sitting In front of
the library Sr. on Christmas eve,
glancing now and then at the emcun
twined window through which ha could
see the snow falling. Suddenly he
beard the tinkle of bells and went to
the window to look out. • little old
man with the whitest of hair, His red-
dest of red cheeks and the merriest of
brown eyes was driving up.
"Hello, hello, there," he called.
Joe ran to the door.
"[low tryst Ger called the tittle 014
gentleman. Then be put his hand into
his pocket and tithed out a bugs card.
On it was printed "Mr. Santa Claus,
Chrletmastown. North Pole."
Then the old gentleman pulled out a
book. Joe could see that In It was a
list of names of
children. Some
of them had
black manes be-
atdo their names
"Know a boy
nawed Joe JIn
gle7' asked the
little old man,
keeldug his fin
ger on a nani,'
beside which
there was a very
black mark.
"YBers," an-
swered Joe. "lie
lives bore."
"Ah, indeed."
chirped the little
old gentleman. "I
hear that be is
one of those
smart boys who
don't belt
in Santa
He doesn't -, le met What Tye
think of tl en I first began to
make my ,s rounds many,
many hued a ago there wasn't
a boy or gi ...,i the world who did
not know me and believe in me, and I
never forgot one single child. But aft-
er awhile the world grew so big, so
many children were born into It, that
it was very bard tot me to Set around
to them all.
"By and by things got so bad 1 nod
to get the fairies -only the good fairies.
of course -to go about and mat up a
list of all the boya and girls • the
world and to and out what the. :ant-
ed for Christmas and If they eyed
is Santa Claes or not. I ha?, . , the
names la this book here. Do y d think
Joe Jingle deserves anything for not
believing to mer'
"I -I s'pose not." mid poor Joe. "But
if 1 promise to tell him about meeting
you end prove to him that you're real
Weeps you'll forgive him this dine"
Old Sant* Claus shook his head lad-
y "it always makes me feel very
bed to think anybody needs proof of
me. A boy or girl ought to believe
what their parents tell them about ofd
Santa Claus."
" It i-1 meat if Joe had only seen
you come down the chimney once I'm
sure he'd never have doubted that you
were real." said Joe eagerly.
`That was all very well to the old
dam" replied Sante sorrowfully. "But
they make the chimneys so narrow
these days, and what with steam beat
and gas logs to the city bowies I
haven't any chance at all to maks my
Christmas calls on children to the good
old fashioned way."
"it you don't go down
mach bow do you manage
the stockings?" asked Joe.
"Oh, mot's May r'cried dant*. "l have
formed what 1 call a parents' league.
I learn from each parent just before
Christmas what
is beet to give
each child. tad
when it comes
Cbttsi as • v •
the fairies leave
the presents at
earls bones. 1
go about the
country just see-
ing that every-
thing go•s
right"
Ser • aaata's
little boles be
gins to paw and
tom Is, bead.
•tell, I mall
b• gettleg
•1••g." erred
Seats, a a d he
eltabed tat• W
eluate and as be
picked op Me
Mai be toilet
eat Veal night and a wary (broil,
see to year
Me ebk upel to W base tad to a
assemat wee sot It tit dews 0y
rest tine. Ibo 11eallll a •t the ladie-
bele mall be Mad lbr a law Asa
altar.
Breda.
"LtOW • BOT ••MID
JOS Jvgt.sl"
chimneys
to fill an
..coon meat oaf •
UMW' onhsa11t010
• • • e • • •
TMs sett toe fill tura N flam
bolas rains f1 r Asdiet and Ili
fathers voles teas Weft to bis mat:
"FM are yes-assfltj here by the
ctrl two Med de NM Nes b bed
loas ago Ws ate Beate
amts M mem*dull ire
Wm ses Ma wall I M IMIlom
ao Se_a ChM Time MA to. Bile
t•Myss to lei iiia Joe Ne hl gulag
IS IN gad Ingallair
SOME SENTIMENTS
OF CHRISTMAS TIME.
MF.BRY Christmas to us all, ay
dears, God blase us. God bleat id
every one, tumid Tiny nut the last ef
all. -Charles Dickens.
MEN cannot lire isolated. We are all
bound together. No higher was
can separate himself from the lowest. -
Carlyle.
REAL1Z1 that doing geed is the way
certainly happy action of a man's
life. -81r Philip Sidney.
CHRISTMAS time 1 have always
thought of as a good tip -a kind,
forgiving. charitable, pleasant Ums,-
Charles Dickers.
HEAP on more wood. The wind is
chill; but, let It whistle as it will,
we'll keep oar Christmas merry WIC -
Sir Walter Scott
THEN arose a joyous clamor from
the wild fowl on the mere, and a
voice within cried: "Listen' Christ-
mas carols e. en berm!"-Chy,!es Singe
ley.
AGAIN at Christmas did we wear*
the botly round the Christmas
hearth. The silent show possessed the
earth and calmly fell on Christmas
eve. -Tennyson.
OLD CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITION
Recalling Time When s Peculiar Pepsi•
lar Pr•judioe Existed
A well known fifteenth century carol
begins:
Holly and ivy, box and bay
Put to the church on Chriatmaa day.
But the customs of those times were
rigid regarding the removal of all dec-
oratiun,t from churches and dwellings
before Candlemas day, Feb. 2, for peo-
plo had superstitions about their re-
maining longer. Herrick alludes to
this popular prejudice In the linea:
Down with the ro.etnary, and so
Down with the bales and the mi tletoeb
flown with the holly. We, all
Wherewith ye Bret the Christmas hail,
That so the •'tperwutlous end
-Moons least branch there left hehled.
For look how many Leaves there be
Neglected there. Wolds, trust to me,
So many goblins you will see,
Perhaps the superstition was • pre-
text of the particular old housewlret'
who knew that by Candlemas day the
carped green things, dried by Tele
logs and many torcblights for ilium'.
nation, would be nuisances of falling
Naves and berries to tread underfoot.
However this may be, the belief obs
tamed.
FOR EMERGENCY GIFTS.
Advice to Avoid Last Minute Despair
Over "Another Name."
For the last moment gifts one
should alway have at hand some
boxes of can y and perhaps a few
very tine dowers. One, for instance,
might rather have a single orchid than
all the carnations to the shops, while
a ganlenla Is le most admired of all
blossoms by , ,e average young girt.
Ettber of these exotic gifts may be
tied up In a little box and decorated
with a spray of fern or holly, so that
it will look attractive.
For the big hearted woman who al.
ways at the last moment adds another
name or two to her Christmas list
what could be better than silk stock-
ings? These she may buy and have
on hand In assorted 'Mee, and waft
a name pope into her memory ail she
needs to do Is to tie up the silken af-
fairs tr: a petty box and they are
ready 'e send on their way. Having
a few inch auxiliary gifts In the
house seem the busy woman mach
dim ppolntmeet.
CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS
It has been said that a seal-
skin cost usually makes a de
vont Christmas churchgoer.
it's a Pontine girl who gives
bee been the mitten before
Ckrfstmas. Few dn.
Better a raid pork chop than
a fat turkey on tick.
Don't forget to Use your wife
just once under the mistletoe.
"FIRST LADY" WAS CHEF.
Wife of John Adams Cooked White
Reuse Christmas Danner.
The first Cbristmal dinner at the
White Homo was In 1600, whet the
wife of President John Adams. who
prided herself on being a model New
England housekeeper, served I. the
capacity of chef.
Vader her erections old colored
"sasstes," clad Is bright cane
traeks, lose white aeries mad bright
colored kerchiefs M their heads, alt-
tad
ibtad hither and thither Were the rear
fag biases es the hearths ma they pre-
pared the food far Preatdatt Adame
and his Yuletide mot .
The sea lee was bet daily lighted
compared with the present alNsa•a.
Noes by anserees ea ems and teagia
f•sssad of seas redlalere, beet we.
to alabed N greet weed Spee es lip
thread wrebe. wakef naiad aril
isactled sad seat showers et everts
op Ur mole dolmas"
Ttw MNtleam. ` '
awe le her father's IMry
Oa Maass. ere i wait esdaasr •
TM Mism en lesser somas ei of
Thea lamest most aurae SM sRNty.
AMM dasgthnq hoses eh. aaa•diew
A Alirtiol teras deft dans I item in
domes s preasits: hem me ben
t dart w yw-d. 5, 4 5,
,'Wl, Chiefs?• e•ea s bra em. • seer
tom seise mesh • abuse I taaer
b two res saes the ream I Ilse
Illemsom
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Santa Claus
- And the
Big Stocking
FOLLY bad • small toed clow to
that La which her father and
mother slept, and. although
she was nearly always asleep
In It by 9 o'clock, the light from a
S treet lamp which slyly slipped In at
a curtained window could have told
you that upon this particular sight
abs was wide • wake Wag atter U
o'clock and that her brows eyes had
bees opes eve,
dere the Ugbta
In the room bad
been put out
She lay very
stillhowever,
because she bed
something to do
which, although
the was good
• n d truthful,
for some rea•
son she did not wish her parents to
know.
Just after the little clock on the
mantel had struck 12 Polly rose half -
w ay lu bed and listened. She could
hear her father and mother breathing,
and a mouse was gnawing somewhere
near the dressing case.
She was afraid of the mouse, but
she was too much in earnest to let
eyeu a mouse stop her. So aloe thrust
her band softly under the pillow and
pulled forth what, had the light been
turned up and bad you been In the
room, you would have seen at once
was a large black stocking ailed with
a number of things which bulged it
out In the funniest way.
With this In her band she climbed
carefully out of bed and gilded across
the carpeted door like a wee ghost
which had forgotten and stayed out
too late. The bedroom opened with
folding doors into a sitting room, at
one end of which was a mantel,
where on all the Christmas eves that
Polly could remember her stocking
and bee mother's had been bong. Polly
bad many times asked her father to
hang his stocking there, too, but be
said that the leg of his stocking was
too small to bold the large presents be
wanted, and, beside•. It was only chil-
dren like her mamma who hung op
their stockings for Santa Clans, not
grown people like himself. Polly felt
her way to this mantel and leaned the
big black stocking against its side.
She turned and ran back and climb-
ed
limbed into her bed. The mouse was still
To tell the truth. It was far more timid
than Polly and had beard bat first
•WLas • r SIGHT.
POLLY'm PATE= swat Tei armpit)
noiseless footfall and was crouched In
tie bureau drawer, fearing the worst.
le a few momenta Polly was asleep,
and the rely of the street lamp tell
across her quiet little bead
Polly slept on Christmas morning
later than any other child in the greet
city, and wbea her tither, who had
risen before she bad awakened. passed
the Cbtistses mantel be saw the big
black stocking where she bs71 left It
Ar he baa helped to baag up the other
stockings the might before this one
eesened so mtnags to has that he looko
ed into Its contents. The vets ant
tang be /read was a Satan
Dear east• Caaee--ibis Is Mtf• Petty
Lest Cremes and thtsal•• hetero Foe haw
Woos* me se maw ir' sae I hay sent
eines Foe saytblag. Toe thaw dalys
and beaks and Osier bete ter rimer lit-
he ski I the tams but /w man hey thorn
1 west tee ay ye a We •nm as. flow
an roar win deers seed be with m•ry
CYlnota sad Mosel New Tear tram /our
doom lied Pay. Pomo esbeere mbt•lks
from Ina relay bre tr 51.
Pedyro tWsr beta the Mg black
Weenie. with at the bays which it
ceetabM and hall N whore Polly wit,
sever Sad It, thee to keep nail Masts
Ossa osssma M eiais It sad the der
Bag setter.
Wb.s Polly awoke sad roe to the
l brieta ss 11111.010111a bK halo, algat-
dreas be was ales to watch, sad wam
w sew that tee les gleaes of ter
deer brew• 4• well ter • big Intact
atarbl•g which was gra be pet kis
arms erased her and bagged low vary
elfin •M earl "Merry Metairie. At-
tie Pew- or ear,.My tht ens tow
'led be watt eta
S ae pat be► hoe *less to No and
.anted Me cheek wtb ber Mat ata
ties bar sdber ease, a I al eaetber
that bed • merry asrdttd oath the
*1e IOWA Mea tsar W brrlobt
heart said moor a mal Meat tet
A.M." Visit emo IMPIIher as. loSal
Oysters en Half Shell.
Calory. Olives,
Radishes,
Cream of Chicken Soup With
Croutons.
Soiled Salmon, Hollandaise Sauce.
Parisienne Potatoes.
Roast Turkey, Chestnut Stuffing.
Cranberry Sauce,
Mashed Potatoes. Mashed Turnips.
Boiled Sweet Potatoes.
Cauliflower, Cream Sauce.
English Plum Pudding, Hard and
Brandy Samoa
Minos Pie. Pumpkin Pia
Mixed Cakes. Asserted Fruit
Asserted Nets. Layer Raisins.
Neapolitan lee Cream.
Toasted Croakers.
Cheese. Coffee.
THE INDIANS' CHRISTMAS.
ttlttl• Redskins Not Slew to Get As.
emended With Santa.
From the time that Uncle Sam be-
gan
♦gan to socoorage the idea of schools
for ladies children the teachers made
mach of Christmas, and the tittle red-
skins were quick to show interest to
the Christmas tree.
The Christmas of the Brule Blot!
Indians shows business management
Is each village a committee of prom-
iaent braves Is appointed, perhaps sev-
eral weeks' to advance of the me-
mentoes day, to make a canvass of
the tribesmen and gather a fund to
be expended in the purcbase of a
"heap big feast." The committee
makes out t prospective menu as soon
as the cash is in band, and then. with
true Yankee shrewdness, the specifi-
cations as to eatables are submitted
to the various traders in the vicinity
for bids, the contract for this odd nn-
dertaking in Christmas catering being
awarded, of course, to the lowest bid-
der.
Tim Sioux Indians generally have a
Krfss Kringle, a member of the tribe.
who disguises himself for the occasion
and makes speeches and gives pres-
ents
A representative Illustration of the
Indian Christmas celebration In the
southwest can be seen any year in
Pueblo or San FYUpe. N. M. Tbe
Say celebration celebration is a curious mixture
of Christian and pagan customs. The
redskins there attend the minion
church in the morning, feast at noon
and later inaugurate a fantastic and
ceremonial dance that continues for
belt a week.
AN APPETIZING MENU•
Oysters.
Moots Turn. Soup.
Celery. Radishes.
Boiled Whitefish.
Sauce Hollandaise.
Welled Potatoes.
Roast Turley. Chestnut Stufllne.
Soiled Onions.
Stuffed Tomatoes.
Sweet Potatoes. Southern Style.
Mixed Salad
Phis, Pudding. Hard and Brandy
Sauer.
Camembert Cheese.
Cease
PRESENTS FOR ROYALTY.
_anility N Great That Heusiwg These
le $.$nus Problem.
Were a royal personage to accept all
Use ObrlLkmas offerings of subjects and
admirers, known and unitnown, stand-
ing room in royal residences would
soon be at a discount Presents arrive
at the British court from all parts of
the world. A registered package from
Vermont one Christmas was found to
inclose a prise potato weighing dye
petunia. Another present was a nug-
get of pare gold found In the Klondike
and valued at CON It was subscribed
for and sent by the inhabitants of
Dawson City.
Not all gifts to royalty are returned.
Where special permission is asked and
Obtained beforehand a present is ac-
cepted a the spirit in which it is of-
fered.
The present mint coveted by Boman
Catholic royal ladles of Europe b the
papal 'oldie rose. The jewel, the first
of which was presented by Pope Ur-
ban
i -ban VI. to Joanna of Sicily. is a mimic
plant of pore gold standing in a golden
pot. The leaves are set with dfa-
wen& in imitation of dewdrops, and
• palm teat blessed by the pope ac-
eeopanies the gift: --Chambers' Jour
sal
Only a TrM* Moe*.
Hubby (putting wallet in his pocket)
-i sincerely hope. Helen• this tnisbee
up the Christmas baying job.
Wlhy-Tes; that's all, Henry. 1 shall
eat need any -but bold awl ill need
about o'3 more. I want to get sons•
Shag nice for you, yes know.-PMtn-
etipbh Ledger.
•
Chistaee In the Country Pisan
Cha stores • the country pros. --
The a no ems lee ren hoes.
TMre the fey, the wend eetraedrf,
ie/ that is the world •-4aser't
Me an' teem the lifeblood reel..
Chrletwee Is the routtr7 trtmem•t
rtooseh to fear R btaet♦a/.
ow Mm to am It araaa'.
Ea ws the Woe* when wvi, s+eeofl
Tena to epw* • MMday
There Is whin •arsha' pees ls—
eMrbtmss r the esimettrY peoM
City bee the seed time. tea
i Tet to. emmetry all is pens,
l lbws Rho MIMI
to m eraser SM fit
am noon"
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Pae the amps sok piss Mere
ter ere mare a lbs tae.
Ili sew •t fret me-
tres 'asft frb•vvwe eye 'ss ea
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