St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-25
What Many Of Them Expect
to Get in Their Holiday
Socks for Presents.
Startling Discovery Made by
"Foseo" Regarding Mas
culine Footwear.
An interviewer Who Finds He
Has Been Blindly Cropping
in the Dark.
The Christmas poet MARBLES,
And his lay is long and sweet,
And you'll notice that his measures


And you'll notice that his measures
Seem to go in stOcking-feet.
Washington Star.
Oh THE WING AND STILL WINGING,
Dec. 24.-Dear GLOBE: When these
lines reach you S hall be far, far away.
1t will be worse than useless to attempt
to follow me. or hire Sleuths to camp
upon my trail. l am something Of a
Bleuth myself.
Speaking of self-made men, I am re-
minded of those who have achieved
prominence in this home industry in
st. Paul. 1t was recently my rars good
fortune to interview number Of them
upon a holiday topic dear to us all
dearer, perhaps, to dotlng parents and
their pOcketbooks than to careless, sang
frOid childhood Christmas stockings
and, exc, the holiday socks,
Gov. William r. Merriam skillfully
avoided discussing political topics with
me by being entirely absent from his
Quently, by aid of a compound, reYer-
berating telephone with electric buzz,
duplex denunciatOr and patent profan-
ity check valve, | learned that the gov
ernOr would hang up at least one stock
ing in its accustomed niche and trust
TO luck.
You may say" added the governor
''that the stocking may be found on the
first floor, as l would not require an old
man like Santa Claus, who has long
Outliyed his usefulness, to climb up
stairs in the cleaning"
Mayor Robert A. Smith candidly adj
mitted that he expected to get some
thing in his stocking tomorrow morn
ing, which he should ever afterwards
prize most highly, not so much for its
intrinsic value, but as a guarantee of
good faith. He said:
Down at Washington, d. c., from
which city l recently had the pleasure
of returning, they are preparing to hang
up one of the stockings Of the Goodies
OF Liberty a derrick"
Mayor Winston, of Minneapolis, met
me cordially, inquired If it would be
necessary for me to remain long, and
finally said:
Il understand that Mayor Smith pro-
poses to hang up one stocking, and at
first the thought occurred to me that
would go him one better and hang up
two. But that would be in rather bad
taste, look OStentatiOuS and all that sort
of thing, you know, so you may say in
the GLOBE that l have decided to hang
up the same stocking twice. That is, l
shall remain alert and awake, and when
his jays, Santa Cruz, or Santa Claus, fills
it, shall proceed to dump the goods
in the back room and set it again. l
give you this confidence frankly, be-
cause | know you will not abuse it, and
that l can trust you to say nothing
about it."
Consequently, under such circum-
stances, cannot let it go any further.
Clerk of the District Court r. T.
O'COnnOr said that he had a pair Of
pink silk stockings, clicked with terra
,I,s-rf Of i'll, E,o
should certainly suspend near the steam
radiator, and to which Santa Claus, and
the public as well, should have free ac-
cess. From time TO time they could
deposit in it such vOtive offerings as
they thought the owner of the stocking
could adyantageOuslv utilize.
However" continued Mr.. O'COnnor,
eel would not be understood as belong
Ing to the silk stocking Democracy, and
don't, and these pinky, crinky stock
ings L never use except for Christmas
purposes"
Hon. Ignatius DOnnelly said:
80 they propose to celebrate Christ
mas again this year. Well. it is all eX-
Cellent idea to preserve these old tradi-
tons. They gladden. the heart of child
hood, and cause even wrinkled age to
renew its youth. You know. of course,
that in all civilized countries the an
nual recurrence of Christmas has been
celebrated with festivities of various
kinds. In none, however, was it more
joyfully welcomed than in England.
where even still the old honour has not
altogether fled. In that country it was
the custom on Christmas eve, after the
usual deyOtiOns were over, to light
large candles and throw on the hearth a
huge log, called the Yule log, or Christ
mas block. At court and in the houses
of the wealthy an officer named the Lord
of Misrule was appointed to Superintend
the revels; and in Scotland a similar
functiOnary used to be appointed under
the title of Abbot of UnreasOn, till the
year 1855, when the Office was alb an
doned by act of parliament"
My object, Mr.. DonGelly, is to ascer-
tain the antIcipations of some of oul
prominent men concerning the probable
yield of their individual stockings OIL
Christmas morning."
''Ah, yes, exactly" replied Mr.. Don
nelly. "Well. it occurred to me only
yesterday that might hang up my left
stocking by the fire place, and, in case
Santa Claus didn't have anything left
would, at least, have something left
and, consequently, not be left. Now, q
dollar, for instance, a silver dollar
might nestle Snugly in the region in
habited by the big toe in the day time,
or it might be. injudiciously, invested
in pop corn that would fill bed tick
The possibilities of dollar, you see, are
almost infinite"
Ii. p. Hall-What do expect to gel
in my stocking? Not the earth, Ger
tainly, for those who know me best wei
know that | have never clamOred fol-
it. | shall hang up my stocking promptly
at $50 p. m. and visit it every half hour
throughout till morning. Then l shall
go through it, deity, and swipe the
doodle. / have heard great deal abou
Santa Claus-a great deal that
wouldn't say anything about for thu
sake of his family-and l want to SCI
how he does it; catch him in the act, al
as it were.
Sheriff Beam shall run one of my
stockings up on the city hall flag hal
lizards at 7:25 p. m. Santa Claus il
passing over the city will tumble to it
OF in it, as the case may be. 1 expect Il
get bananas, haVanas, bandanaS, cara
mels, butterscotch and peanuts.
z. j. Smalley-Yes, l shall elevate
one stocking on Christmas eve. l hav,
already written a letter to s. Claus
Esq, in which the writer makes nj
say,
last farewell tour of the United State
you made slight error in filling 10!
order for Christmas goods. Instead o
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