The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-28

4 Pleasant Chrlstmc- Entertainment.
one OF che most Interesting al the Christ
mas entertainments lot the young folks of
our city wua the entertainment given by
the Lamar street Sabbath'suhool in the coll
icgc chapel on Christmas Eve night. a
Santa Claus house was erected uron tenn
porary stage, and WAS perfect representa-
ton of what uur fahcv has pic
turcd rs the donnilr ~ the great
stocking filler Tie housc was about
brl,& chimney earring Though the roof
was perfectly natural while the
snow-coyercd roof and caves of
the house sparkling with iciclcs, and the
fence surrounding the house all covered
with snow and the cedar trees in the ward
all frosted over, made Il iairy-ike picture
of the Arctic home of Santa Claus.
The charadc acted in connection hv
pupils of the scIin"i added .nuCh TO the
interest of the ucc's, o..
The little girl ,tuc ch.radc, at the bid
ding OF the Su rr,ntendent OF the school,
went in Srsic U Santa Claus, 10 remind
him that d. mni forgotten their Sunday
sch"o ;t.a t,Irsmas. When they came
tn t!t' o" .iptise in their search for Santa
tlau-, rc, naturally supposed this to be
his i'",ac, ana ringing The door-bel, two
lltile dwarts cane running OUT. much to
their fright but bring treasured bv the
dwarls that santa Claus was in the house.
but that he VA, sound asleep after the
fatigue Of the night through which he had
Just passed, the little girls rang the bell
again and again to gnll MN lp to remind
liim that he had forgotten the Lamar Street
7 La a
| After ringing several times, n strange noise
was heard IN the house, and the yeritsbl.
/ Santa Caus put his head out of the
chimney aud called to know who was
there arousins him from his slumber. The
| llim EirlS, ihnu~tl s,cirIngly frightened
presented their claims in pleading tones,
when down came Siuta Claus and opened
the door, ana ,tItn : aon,i-Haturcd laugh
came ont into TIE vard and shook hands
with them; and when they saw his shaggy,
tar clnincS an ms iung J.rnv whjskcrs, they
were Sah'lCl THAI they Had found their
friend al last. Jl,on hearing the doleful story
from Inc little urls, how their Sunday school
had thus far ncon forgotten, Santa Claus
seemed much distressed, and calling to his
dwar.s, his messengers, lie ordered them to
see i there Was anything lcft in the house
| for Lamar street Sunday school. But when
| they returned with the answer that there
was nothing left, the old man seemed trou-
hlC-l indeed, said he had always felt an at.
tachment for that school, that he had filled
HE stockings ofthcir Superintendent, when
! he was Il little boy, and to
think that this school had
been forgotten was too bad. He seemed to
ponder the question moment, then, with
q good-natuled chuckle, he said he knew a
| friend who would help Kim out of the diff
Guilty; so blowing his whistle. fairy music
was heard softly sounding, and from an
evergreen bower erected in one corner of the
stage came forth the radiant little fairy
queen, Santa Claus' friend. She heard
from Santa Claus the sad story Of the little
| girls, and with brightly beaming smile
she assured them that she would bring
Item gins; and Santa Claus, on hearing
This, called the dwarfs, babe them &C.
! company the fairy queen and do her bid.
| ding. They retired within the house, and
s"pn the door opened again, and the
fairy queen assisted by the dwaris
BEGAN handing out to Santa Claus presents
numerous and lovely, aud he in turn called
| The name OF the pupil attached to each pres
ont, and handed them to the three little
girls 10 distribute among the pupils of the
school.
After each one had received their gifts
the school united in singing a beautiful
| Christmas hyNn, and all then dispersed &c
their homes well pleased with Santa Claus
and his snowy domain.