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• Uncle Sam a:3 Santa's Delper Please, Santa, souse my wenn' hand; Ws not plain or clean. My papa says when I am blg IT write on his machine. Avalanche of Children's Letters Adds to Annual Burden of the Postoffice Department How St. Nicholas Obtained a Per- manent Place In the World's Calendar. c sa NTsa olb.. I.A US. Ic t ri he most ide popul worl ad r .4t e_ -_oft ready now to Hoist Ai Militia; pilgrimage to U the seissts of maLy 'Minolta of Ifs antioutices that he bail the toys that have Ids factiiams at the north CHRISTMAS 1. Se Is ka: - /: there will be soi te g around. TItis year has There's no month, a II .\ one for tLe merry old ceinber. b ow. for had to nave a whole Which ring* us th• snow, PREPARATION. after all. st of • s.' ,,s sfassie that had never The evening group about the radar eon- l.a.n is., 4,.f. of before. But with all ber, Santa steadfastly fuses to go back on such old timelopw. preparation. ilea Lev. re The lam e ouiot n j l o lg y h o ra o f w r i ll o ow ,.. g Ti,.T mystery that hovers ev'ryw here, favorites as Riede, dolls. drum\' and Th• eager. yet •ubdued anticipation— rattles for baby's stockings. Ile Li up ' The Christmas in the &tr so poor that he was unable to give a to da:e. but hae an old fashioned The holy eve, it• ancient gladness bring- portion for his three daughters, and It Th. 1. e seemed Impossible that any of the trio streak In him too. n \Chrietmae comes but once a year. i ; The row‘en [l ot saint. stockings k e i x expected t from fo all th e %so m a soon, t el conld get a husband. St. Nichelas, and when it comes It 'bring. good ' swinging , learning of their plight, came at l'hrlat- cheer.\ That is the motto of Santa Since early afternoon— mas tine and threw a purse filled with Claus, and they say that If it should That time Is nigh. Jack Troet has went gold Into an open window. The art the warning happen that by any chance a boy or That frightens care from many lands was done as stealthily as that of the girl has been left off his list It almost and seas. modern Santa Claus; the nobleman spoils his joy over the happiness that I found upon my window pane this morn- could not tell who his benefactor was, he has distributed when he finally gets log A grove of Christmas trees. but he gave thanks and married off the back to the boson north with his eldest dattchter. empty sleigh. Children didn't use to wrtte lettere to Santa Mann They just depended upon tt that he wouldn't forget them, and he hardly ever did. If he did it was really tot his fault any more than it is today. LETTERS TO SANTA But since boys and girls have been writing him lettere the postotfice de- it:3 nts in this country and abroad 1 had their burdens greatly increas- ed. In feet, to be quite candid about It, they would prefer that the children of today should discontinue the practice. and Rants altos himself has ensured as that if they will dose he will remember them just the same, even though he ls Settled the pleasure of reeding and mews/lag such dear little notes as thew: Dior Banta Clans --Don't corn, down the ethinutey; oome Ln lb* door. I will leav• it ontooked. The room Is mice and warm and bright, and bring me • bracelet and a piano. I will learn to play on IL Please write and let m• know your number Rare you say children? Lowe to Km Santa. Ity Dakar Banta Clatut—I am a little Kiri name Is Ethel I obey my dear mam- a and papa and always try to be a good O K and now, dear Manta please brine me ▪ cupboard for my nice dishes you brought line tut Christmas, also a little candy and sets and a Christmas tree So don't for- got to oom• down th• chimney When children began writing letters three children, and that their feould be tuurdeler was a butcher. 0 * - In either case St. Nicholas performed the miracle of restoring them to life. back the skating and Thus was the first act by which S. Nicholas proved his love for children. The second bore still more strongly on the Santa Claus Idea, for it was a fa- vor that he did at Christmas time. A certain nobleman of Patera was like o:d Next Chrlettnas came another purse. their name and address on the outside and the second daughter took a bus - of the package and, where It tan be band. done so, on the Inside of the paekage. When the Chrlatmes of the third year Valuable Christmas presents are sent approached the nobleman s curoelty cot through the malls without having the the better of him, and he set himself sender's name on the package. Sonic ' on guard to see who It was that left of them are delivered and some of the money. When the saint appeared them are not. owing to the fact that the nobleman came forward and asked the person to whom the package Is sent i why so good an act should he perform - may have mortal or Callao( be I ' ed In stealth. Then the patron saint The paekage a - hi Li is undelivered of the children emit - whited the great goes to the dead letter °nice If the truth that the best arts are those that sender's name is missing, no matter are dime for the joy of doing, not the how valuable it may be. It is held at hope of praise or reward. the dead letter oilice for some time and - then is given to a charitable institution SANTA'S OTHER NAMES or IOW at auction.t s THE REAL SANTA CLAUS WAS ST. NICHOLAS, WHO LIVED IN THIRD CENTURY. Se' The real Santa Claus, the original of them all, goes way back to the third century. Ills present name, Sante Clang, or K rise K ringle, is derived from St. Nich- (des, the in , artiatiou of all that was good and generous. St. Nit -holes, destined to be worship- ed In viirtous forms by the ehildren of scores of centuries, was born In Pal ID Santa Claus their communications tara, a town of 1,y , to, In Aala Minor Were objects of great interest An In- Front his earliest dnys he showed 31 re- tnrweting Story is told of the first Santa ligious inclination that destined kiln to -Cans letter sent through the St. Louis peetottles. it was a great curiosity sad everybody In the office had to look at It Being addressed to Santa Claus *a* of his representatives, who hap- pened to be working In the St Louts postoffice during the Christmas rush. opened the letter The writer was a little girl who wanted a doll. While convinced that Santa (lane would grant her wish. the poetolbee ▪ ployeee were so Interested In her take a high lame in the chur. II As a young (111111 lie entered the mon- astery of Sion, and in time he became abbot and later bishop of Myra. ills eanctity anti learning made him shine even in the most illuetriiets ,-„ ne p en y , and he was one of the moat notable tieures at the gathering of Ills t.i.h o p s , who met at Ni. ca in 315 to coadenin the heresy of A tins. While St. Nicholas beearne famous in the councils of the clims h, it was silll Communication that somebody suggest- more as the spetaal frlend of the chill- ed taking up a collection, restricting dren that his fit me spread. each donation to 10 coots About $40 One of hie enrliest miraelee, It is re - lilted, bad to do with restoring to life two or three elditiren. TWO VERSIONS tine acemoti of the story save that an Asian sent het (vs.) 0 A linens to titlitly. En mule they fell in with a villainous Inuit...epee who. to g..t their valuables, !nee the two bOra and proportlons. cut their bodies Into lolls. tvlibli he GIFTS THAT GO ASTRAY put In Ids brine berrel to sell for pork. An evil which causes endless trouble Then St Nieleilatt havine si.1.11 the to the postoffice authorities Is the lae- crime in a vision. came to the spot and gileet of the majority of persons send- reniored the children to life lif$ manse $hesaiiik the Ilualla So put Another version says thou, were was collected, and the proposer of the Scheme appointed a committee to see that tbe doll and • lot of other pros - wits were duly delivered The newspapers heard of the story and made much of It The following Christmas Santa Claus' mall at the St. Louts postoftles attained formidable 'Fire Idea of St. Nieholits was an beat -- Will (Lit it took its td,i,t• aiming the great heliefs of the children, and in clItTerent forms it is found nearly every cent ury. Both his name and his form differ, but everywhere his labia . Is the Ratite. In Frame, Germany, [tussle and the Netherlands he is the embotlitneet of an essentially religious Idea, but In Emsland and the United States his of - tire Is more a secular one. Preece always represents Noel as the Infant and in Germany. too. the name li.rist Kitiniel, eorrupted here Into Kriss Kringle, means literally the Christ Child. In israni-e the little benefactor, who slip a in the home of the poor and leaves gift that would be far beyond the power of their part•nts to buy. Is 1111 Inspiration to the ytaing,ster. Child is believed to come with gifts for the little ones, he is dressed like a maiden. currying a silver bell, lighted tapers and wearing a crown. Itelehinee children think that he conies on a while hi trap. They (II alt their little shoes and leave in them vomits and hay and oats, so that the Ii, rse can he refreshed when he pauses for ii brief minute's rest. St. Nieholas carries the same name in Holland that he tint's here -Santa Clime lii Switserlatid they call him Santa Klaus and In Heligoland Sonner K Ilt• Is NIkIn or Nieto in Austria and boosts the luxury nit 111111lle!1411111. runt 111111 Ill carrying all his lentil es LANGUAGE AS A VEHICLE. Shortcomings Apparent When rffort Is Made to Express a New Thought. To the student of thought It is inter - WIN{ to see how long a theory persists a tter ita foundations have been under- mined. One eau almost say of theories that, like superstitions, they never die, Uri Professor Simon N. Patten In Popular Science Monthly. They have at least nine lives and are killed again and torah) before their adherents can give them up. And the worst of it is that disproved theories have an espe- cial attraetion for the best tnInds. It Is not poor thinkers, but good ones, that try to square a circle or to create per- petual motion. Old thought Is also well formulated thought. It has a complete terminology, and Its shades of meaning can be expressed with accuracy. New thought must use terms that are unfa- miliar to the public or are twisted somewhat from their popular meaning. A logical thinker let loose on new topic can play havoc with the printed page of his opponent who has the facts but does not have the language to ex- press his view. Only when one has tried to state some new thought does he realize how poor a vehicle language really is. Ile ends that most words are itytionyins used to express old ideas in many ways. None of them is free from Implica- tions that turn the reader back to the older view Instead of helping him to break new ground. New thought does not get Into the printed page until long after it la a reality to those who study nature instead of books. MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION. In Which Problems Hitherto Uncon- querable Have Been Worked Out. There seethe to exist a tendency to ascribe inepiration to a process which Is the result of a preliminary effort. Many have notieed that after long and fruitless mental effert the result for which they have been striving comes to them suddenly while they are think- ing of aomething entirely different. The preliminary mental toll hats borne its fruit subconsciously. Poineare says that many of his most abstruse ninthematleal discoveries have come to him In just this way. Once. after laboring tin a difficult problem for t WO weeks, the solution came to him Hanitaneottsly at night while he Was trying to sleep. Another solution came to him while he was entering an omnibus. his mind lasing apparently quite free from all thoug,lit of mathematics. Again an Im- portant conclusion forced ibtelf upon lihn with what he terms \brevity. laud- dennens and certitude\ while he wan resting on n seabeach after a period of apperently futile cogitation. The striking part of It all, says the New York Sun. is the appearanee of \spontaneous Illumination.\ which may be taken to lie the sign of long subconscious dellberetion. Experiences ' of this sort appear to be very common j In the ease of mathernaticiane and with other men whose work entails long pe- riods of mental concentration. S. Grist From tlic Sport Mill By STADIUM James E. Sullivan, chairman of the c ha mplonntilp committee of the Ama- teur Athletic union, has announced that the national indoor championshies will be held at Matileon Sqa G ure ar- den, New York eity. on March 0. Here- tofore these championships ran over two nights. but this year the cham- pionship committee has decided to eliminate the junior events entirely and only run such senior championship events as have not been decided out- doors during the year and In that way run them all off in one night. The list of events this . year will In - elude a 75 yard dash, 300 yard run. 000 yard run, 1,000 yard run, two tulle rim, two mile walk, 70 yard high Iterate (three feet six Inchess standing high jump. standing broad jump, threo etanding jumps, 50 pound weight for height and 24 pound shot put. Drastic reforms in the sport of pow- er boat rating are advocated by Her- man T. Koerner of Grand Island, N. Y., president of the American l'ower Boat association, In the annual report of that organization. Among the pro- posed reforms are a change in the tim- ing system and the exact measurement of courses, so that c m ,orrect time may be had for ail races; the discouragement of offering cash purees; the authoriza- tion by the assoelation of all races of nation wide interest and the general prevention of dishonest methods stiAt as have marred the sport in the past The association ell] have representa- tives on hand at all races, and where regulations are not obeyed the ofieud- ers will be disqualified. A new variety of chrysanthemum as h received the name of \Christy Mathewson\ and WRS 011 exhibition et thedower show at the departmeut of agriculture In 1VashIngton, man of the German -American meet committee, In Boston. lentrlee will be restricted to boats completed andi launched. The Bonder yacht, which is a fin keel (raft of 4.035 pounds displacement, and the length, beam and draft of which do not total over thirty-two feet. with a all area limited to 550 equare feet, hue been a popular type of boat in eastern waters since the first inter- national races off Marblehead six yearsi ago. A. G. Spalding, one of the oldest lir- ing baseball players, who was appoint- ed by the late President McKinley Americau commissioner to the Olympic games at Paris In 1900, has a theory about the invariable success of Amer- ican at in international con teats. \Of course,\ said Mr. Spalding, \I was ttot surprised at the result at Stockholm. History has been repeat- ing itself in that way ever since the celebration of the Olympic games was inaugurated at Athens. America won the victory there In 1890. she tri- umphed again at Paris in 1900, our athletes defeated the contestants at St. Louis in 1904, the victory was ours at London in 190S, and It was a fore- gone ccincluition that we would win at Ston-kholm. \lint there la food for thought in this uninterrupted succession of tri- umphs. Why do our athletes always win? I believe the whole secret of these continued 'successes is to be found In the kind of training that he collies with t playing of America's national game. 'Youngsters not yet big enough to attend school begin quiekening their eyesight and sh arpening' their wite anti streegt honing their hands and arms and legs by playing on baseball fields ready at hand in the meadows of farms, the commons of villages and the parks of cities all over the land. lit' at ball comb in u nn es rin m g. juping, The fifth series of international son- thrsiwing tied everything that constl- der yacht rart•e wit! Inc. next Sc'!'- tides the athletic events of the Olyln- tettlher off Marblehead between t;er- pie games.\ man anti American boats. 'file inter- netioaal contest between the two 1,01111 -California Inn - n tennis players Wien trieta for this type 'ifboat now stands been 11..11:ing overturee to the English three Amerienn vletorlen to one Ger- s n i ti o welt the view to bringing As In fhe four previons contests. neer t ,, eimatry a team of the lead - the races Will be Sane(' ltilller the joint lee wo men plavers to compete along management of the Kaiseri c i-lier Yaht the Pa, Shirr, the tereems- elubi of Kiel and the Eastern Yacht fill camp:tient whleh Miss May Sutton club of Boston told according to the m ade of Enslish courts. finally winning ruler] cif the luternational Yacht Bac- the All England eleimplonshIp. several Mg union. There will be at least five Reasons ego there ham been an effort to races. establish an International aeries for The Anteriettn trials will be held off • WOthell of Great Bsiteln and the Era - Marblehead beginning Aug. 16. 1913, eti States. with the first international race In the The clean sweep the Cantor -- same waters ett Sept. 1. The Amer- ' nians have made the - courts, th - courts, and lean trial races will be open to the especially the showing of Nike Mary yachts of any organized Anterienn Browne in her winning of the Amer - yacht club. and entriem will close July lean eimmidonship. has still further in - 19, 1013, with Henry Howard, chair- ; spired the Californians. In a Spirit of Raillery Going Up. Jacques --My dear sir, here in our barracks we have the tallest soldier ever seen. Jeems—The tallest? How tall is he? Jacques—Six feet nine Inches. Jeents—Six feet nine In -lies? That Is nothing. in our bort - tick:4' we have' r. sergeant who Is so tall that he is • compelled to kneel when he wants to scratch his head. A Trustworthy Friend. \Really.\ began the collector, \I can- not underetand why a man Of yoar re- mources will refuse to pay his homiest debts.\ \Then I'll tell you,\ said the well to do izen confident Ily. \If I paid up I'd throw you and several others out of work, and 1 haven't the heart to do IL\ —Satire. Between Two Fires. \A person PhOUld 111111k twice before speaking.\ \Perhaps so, lett if eonie People were to think twits. before vea king they wo111(1 be Si ex ha listed they couldn't speak.\ — Birmingham! Age-llerald. On Second Thought \Do you Bete, orinittaii will really swear off this New Y.eariar \Well he thought it, but derided to marry a snake charmer Instead.\ Vindicating the Sex. The ie.1111 4•1* tiltsews_ man\ at the Indies' Itmeheou. lie said. This aesietntit to Santa Claus Is knesee **The (•bartieli•ristic of women Is that its Krampus and with the elilliiren Is they always nplily thinge personally.\ \wi l y, - Hind the hostess angrily, only a shade less popular than his chief. don't\—Eife. Holy iInn Is the term by which the petrel) saint is known in the Tyrol, An Advisable Course. and here. too, be his help. helm: cc- Patron (to very slow walter)--BrIng colillalitied by 4 lirimt st. me Salml, please. Anti you might Lucy. Christ Child himself comes Just semi me a postcard every now awl In Alsaca i thou while you're away.--jutige. Her Fighting Clothes. A certnin matron alludes to a certain gown of hers as her \quarrel dress.\ \I always wear it,\ she explains, \when I have had a quarrel with my husba nil.\ \But why do you call it .a quarrel dress?\ \Because it is the only gown I have that doesn't button in the back. Con- sequently I don't have to call the old grouch to help ule.\—Louisville Courier Journal. Indicating a Redeeming Trait. \Why does Miss Schret , her close her eyes ellen she sines .- \Perhaps she haa a tender heart.\ \I don't quite understand.\ \Maybe she ran't bear to see how we suffer.\—Birmingham Age -Herald_ - Two Hidden Reason.. Th , shades of night are falting fast. Ob. do not think it queer! Behind the shades are sister Sue And her oriliest. sweetest dear. An Idol Shattered. \What does your paw do, Sammy?\ \NI:: paw's II veterinarian.\ \Shucks! My paw says anybody what won't Putt meat's a crank.\—Birmingliam Age - herald. There Are Others. \It's gOing. to be a hard winter.\ \Flow (lin you tell ?'• \By the size of the tottery I'm getting.\—Iloston Tran- suript. When Peer Meats Poor. \So yam advertised for your lost purse, preteeding that the person who found it was recognized?\ \Yes.\ \How did the bluff work?\ \Didn't work at ell. Nest day this ad. apseared In the same paper: The reeoguized gentleman who picked up the purse on Boylston street requeets the loser to t'till at his house.' \--floe tun i'ruus-mipl Subtle Flattery, While the king was looking at a pit pony which had heel, brought up for• his inspection the pony proved son:m- illi:it restless. \I expect the day light worries him,\ said the king. \No sir.\ replied the miner, \it Is the beadstall he doesn't like lie can't see your majesty plain enough.\—Lon- don Spectator.' Hope. \What's that you say?' \I say our ancestors - didn't knew henna\ \Well If prices keep going tip our descendants will become very well acqiiainted with thetn.\—Louisville Courier-Jorunal. A PhIlosoph•r. \Oh pshaw!\ said the fox. after try- ing vainly to reach the grapes. \They'll only give me appendicitis anyway.\ After Throwing the Bull. owhy did the thither of the prodigal FOP son fall on his k end weep?\ \Coo of Course She Was Right! had ter kill the fatted iatlf, an' de \Do you vote the same as your hue- t h :o e n wasn't wort' It\—Houston Post. blind?\ \I should say not! Ile votes the same as me.\—New York Sun, Johnnie Jones' Soliloquy. \Gee'. I %Skil I had a history tAat would repeat ItselL\--Judg• May Be True, After All. Contentment Is the sweet satisfaction of I:willing that you hale more of this world's goods than you MO poluatbkr asio.---i'uclt. -4 'I • s e
