St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-25

| letter, blonde switch. six boxes tutti
frutti. one of JenneSs- Miller's divided
skirts, sage green riding habit and
three ostrich tips. AS the restaurant
waiter quantity observes in alludlng to
plate of buckwheat cakes, take 'em
away"
Chief of Police Clark-Will hang up
my stocking Christmas eve? Sure
| thing. Who knows but some one might
| put bulls eye lantern, pair of come
alOngS' and patrol wagon in It, Still, |
| should prefer marshmallows. chocolate
| glace and walnut taffy. But | don't
| suppose the hanger has as much to say
about this business as the hangee.
Cy. Wellington-YOu may say that
l shall hang up at least one stocking
| Christmas eve. Some men would be
| greedy enough to hang up q whole suit.
But l never hang up my suits. inn
agine my stocking will resemble a we'll
filled cUrnucOpia by morning, kind OF
q PandOra'S box, as it were. although |
have seen more jury boxes than l have
! those under the exclusive control of
Miss Pandora.
o. 0. Cullen never let Christmas
| go by without hanging up a stocking,
and SO far have lost but three stock
| ingS in the operation. / have been eX-
| tremely lucky in getting my stockings
back, and On one or two occasions have
realized quite handsomely Oh the
"hang"
Frank L. BiXby was seen at his off1ce
! at the Grand opera house. Upon being
solicited TO impart his expectations re-
! garding the box Office receipts of his in
| dividual stocking, he blushed deeply
and said iii Sub-rOSa tone of voice,
please step this way moment" Upon
! retiring TO Il curtalned alcOve MI. BiXby
ca1 in al -aI r,-;&
II do not wear stockings; | wear
! socks. Have you been wandering
around st. Paul asking gentlemen what
they expected to get in their stocking?"
why, yes" l admitted cOyly, II
thought everybody except Jerry Simp
son WORE
mo matter what you thought" in
teIrupted Mr.. BiXby, CURLY, ''you are
| old enough and tough enough to know
the difference in the parts of speech.
! Stocking Is feminine, sock masculine.
| Yes, | shalt hang up my sock, r. u. E.,
and expect to get full house."
ID. II. MOon-YOu may say for me
| that Santa Claus will find one of my
socks hanging in its accustomed place.
lie has been there before. | expect to
! get about the same invoice l ordered
last year. 1t was fair line and we'll
sorted up. No, never discount Christ
! mas gifts. The surprise Is worth more
than 10 per cent off for cash. Splendid
! convention weather we are having.
| Drop in again sometime when you can't
| stay so long.
l.. n. ScOtt-GoOd morning. / am
! glad you came in TO see me before writ
| ing anything about what L now say
! concerning Christmas. Some needless,
| feather-headed individual would have
] printed lot of stuff which never Oc-
CURED 10 me, and thus place me in a
! false position. l alwayS like to be cor
rectly quoted when it is not too much
! trouble to the quOter to see me before
| interviewing me. You may say an idea
has obtained that | shall hang my
sock in the foyer and expect the public
| to drop ten-dOllar gold pieces into it as
they pass on to the parquette and dress
circle. This idea is erroneous. ! shall
| hang my stocking
Sock
''Sock, should say. shall hang my
SOck-One of them-in the property
room as the most appropriate place to
accumulate property. 1t will remain
there from $50 till morning, when it
will be taken down and unloaded. Aft
er a short rest in the forenoon it will
give matinee hang in the afternoon,
| at which those who overlooked 1t dur
ing the night would better call around"
City Clerk Thomas Prendergast-Up
with the Christmas stocking on the
outer WALL
Sock, you mean," gently corrected.
didn't l say sock?'
mo; stOcking.''
You are right about it. | shall hang
medlum-siZed, rOtund sock right over
there by that window and-wait till the
clouds roll by. What do | expect to get
- al J !. ..
one imagine that | could rudely suggest
certain gifts from friends. as after had
| got through suggesting they might rush
in with other suggestions and swamp
me. You may say in the GLOBE that
haven't seen anything yet in the jewel
er'S stores that | wouldn't take if it
came my way"
Chief JacksOn--Yes, shall hang up
my stocking Christmas eve. though
wouldn't insist on having any one hang
! up their OvercOat to get money to buy
something to put in it-that L didn't
! want and didn't know anybody who did
want it. Now, if you won't say any
thing about it in the GLOBE, I'll tell
| you something. You remember what a
racket the boys down at No. engine
house made last Fourth of July with
anYils. Well, Fye heard it whispered
| around that they intend to put one or
two of those anvilS in my SOCK You
can readily see that if they do that
there will be hardly any room left for
anything else.
{. ID. O'Brien-I will yield to no man
IN my love for everything pertaining to
Christmas, and the innumerable pleas
ant associations which cling to its hal
lowed traditions like the ivy to the moss
grown wall. Christmas carols, Christ
mas chimes. Christmas festivities.
Christmas stockings
Socks
Are they saying socks this season."
$50 BiXby says. He claims that the
man who goes around asking men what
they expect to get in their stockings IS
either outre,de trop, non compos mentis
or talking through his hat"
"All right, socks 90. If socks is
good form, socks it is. l do not
know what L will get in my took
sockingS-l mean sock. But whatever
the gifts, whether from innocent child
hood or from the hands OF adult friend.
my personal sentiment will lind express
sion in:
'"God bless YOU merry gentlemen,
May nothing you dismay."'
f. A. Seymour shall hang up my
stocking
Sock"
''See here, 1 am dead on to the egotisti
cal arrogance OF you newspaper hacks
but before this goes any farther allow
me to impress upon you the fact that by
virtue of the constitution of the United
, States and the gracefullyWorded and rhe
tOrically correct preamble thereof. l am
permitted to wear stOckings-S-t-o-c-k
i-n-g-s-if choose. -Four pairs of them
at once, if the humOr suits me. Yes,
shall hang up one of my stockings
Christmas eve, and whatever l receive
will be duly esteemed, not according tC
its intrinsic value, but by the kindly
spirit of the giver. And now. as you
have not yet been identified, and the re
ceiving teller looks anxious, I'll have to
ask you to step aside from the window
and let people come up who have money
and know how to do business"
then came away. as Sir William