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feel under any weight of obligation,
yet will let them know you think of
them and love them.
Even if there are no children or
young people in the family, make
home wear a festive Christmas air—
holly and evergreens, mistletoe, cakes,
daintily arranged—something to ap
peal to the Christmas spirit. Don’t re
member times past, but live in times
present. Keep down the ghosts of
Christmas past; drive them firmly
away; keep your grip on the present;
live in it, make it bright and beautiful
for all.
—T. W. R.
*
WHAT IS SANTA CLAUS?
“Aunt Tess, what is Santa Claus?”
Two dimpled elbows on my knee, a
dimpled cheek resting in a chubby
brown hand, and two blue-gray eyes
looking questioningly. “Charlie says,”
he continued, before I had time to re
ply, “that Santa Claus is a little fat
man with a pack on his back, who
goes to every house at Christmas and
carries something to put in the chil
dren’s stockings, and when I asked
him how he got to all the houses so
• quick he said he rode a bicycle on the
telephone wires. But, Aunt Tess,
there are no telephone wires to
just lots of houses, and he goes
to them, too, and I don’t see
how he gets down and up in the
dark with all the things he carries. I
want to know all about it. Who is
he, and how does he get around so
fast? I want to know.”
A very earnest, puzzled 1 expression
in the pretty eyes and about the red,
kissable mouth, and I kissed him
right then. He didn’t like it, but I
couldn’t help it. I loved him so, and
■ he was “just too sweet.”
“Chester,” I said, slowly, trying to
think up away to get an idea into his
very impressionable and bright, but
very young, mind—he was only five—
“Do you remember how you ‘play like’
you are Aunt Tess and hand out mail
to people? And do you remember
when you came from Sunday school
you ‘played like’ you were the super
intendent and stood up and read and
Bang?”
“Yes, I remember; we love to play
like.”
“Well, all the grown folks 'play like’
Santa Claus is a fat, round-faced man,
who goes all about and carries gifts—”
“But, Aunt Tess, we play like we
are real people; we don’t make up
people to ‘play like.’ ”
“No, and we don’t either,” I said
quickly. “Santa Claus is a real spirit,
a fine, good spirit, who loves all chil
dren and who gives them all gifts.
Santa Claus lives in the beautiful
spirit world of thought and is a spirit
of giving, and every Christmas he
makes us partake of his nature; he
gets into us, fills us with a spirit of
giving, and we ‘play like’ we are San
ta Claus and give gifts to everybody;
but when you think of Santa Claus you
of a fat man, with snowy
heanfejSfl hair, an( j bright, sparkling
eyes, and has a jolly time
and wants ellkbody to have a jolly
time.”
“Aunt Tess, who thought up Santa
Claus?”
“God. Do you remember hearing
grandpa read about spirits seen and
unseen? Well, Santa Claus is an un
seen spirit, and he lives in a spirit
land and comes once every year, at
Christmas time —”
“When did he come first, Aunt
Tess?”
“Long, long ago. One Christmas
night some shepherds were watching
their flocks, and a band of angels
came down to a lowly manger, where
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That was God’s gift—a great gift to
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And ever since, on His birthday, a
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“Then, Aunt Tess, I can play like I
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“Yes, and I will try to make Charlie
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“Yes, he loves everybody.”
“And can they be Santa Claus, too?”
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our minds, does he?”
“And in our hearts.”
“Yes, in our er —er —thinks,” he
said, with a wise nod of his curly head,
and away he went to find his play
mates.
TESSA WILLINGHAM RODDEY.
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