The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1853-12-16
HOLIDAY PREsENTs.

Christmas and New Year are apparently
So far IN advance of winter, tins season.
that it can hardly be realized they are 50
near. Still we do not believe children have
forgotten 1t. It will be dire disappoint-
mcnt to many an cNpectant little one, if, on
Christmas and New Years mornings they
should find that Santa Claus had neglect
ed to rcaiize their hopes. Heart happiness
is the best stock in the world in which to
invest capital. and the man or woman that
will not take shares in it voluntarily deprive
themselves of pleasure that only needs
participation to he appreciated.
There is perhaps no disappointment
greater to IA little child, and certainly none
that makes them feel so keenly that they
have been neglected and forgotten, than
after months talk and longlngs for Christ
mas Eve OF stockings jul of dolls, and toys
and candies and cakes, and oh $50 nnny
things g to have them spring from their
beds in the morning isn't it singular that
the most lis,lcss and delicate children have
no dread of the cold on Christians mornlngl
and hasten with one bare little foot, to
where the stockings hang, to find them
empty; empty as when taken from their
little weary feet the night before, and hung
up on nails and pegs aud chairbacks and
I in every conceivable place.
But not half so empty are those topless
stockings, which few shill!ngs would
have filled so nicely as are the sad, loylcss
1 hearts of the disappointed, neglected little
ones. They don't often fret and cry about
/ It, for their sensitive natures won't let them,
but how the big tear bulgcs up into the
eve, quietly and unseen, as they bend over
to put on the stocking that was hung up for
Santa Claus to fill. Tbs little one goes TO
the window and looks out sorrowiuly, still
broodnr upon the neglect, until, not able
longer TO control its grief, the child sinks
down by the chair or by It's mothers knee,
aud hiding It's face in its apron, sohs out It's
sorrow, IN manner that hcort-broken
child only can. Promises for New Year
don't signify, and coincidence only incrcls-
es the grief. The pennies given TO 20 out
and "buy some christmas" poorly compen-
safe for the neglect that the child feels, ior
IT amt the lack Of a toy, 50 much as II is
that the child's god, Santa Claus, should
have forgotten 10 "come down orr CHM
ney." And men and ,comen know what il
is to feel that they are God-forgo,ten crea-
lures the thoughts as horrible as hell
INV III Alif i*ilhll 'I'lt0 lNSA h'N-
cribcd from one where presents and delight
abound on Christmas. How "Santa Claus
is thanked in thought and word. II CUES
| do, for see what lois of pretty things hc
brought me. | guess do love him, and
'm going to love him all my ife." Bye
and bye they learn that God ia the ''Santa
Clause" of all the world, and that he fill,
life's cup brim full Of blessings.
As we have said, happiness is cheap AT
this season. On Christmas, a liily-ccnt dol
is priced and loved by the little girl witt
more gratitude and care than is, perhaps,
bye-and bye, in after life n living daughter
and the chid-boy has greater dread Of get
tug a whip in his stocking, than, too otter
in ripper years, he is deferred from doing
crime by n fear Of the severe infection o
the penalty for violated aw,- Poughkeep
sic Telegraph.