St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
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CHRISTMAS a KEJUvENAToR

CHRISTMAS "A fsEJUVENATOR
If there is man, or woman either,
for that matter, whose sympathies have
become so caked in the hard struggle
for bread and butter, that they no longer
feel the impulses of charity and gen.
crosby and kindly remembrance which
this Christmas season should stir; If
they cahnot recall the sensations it
aroused in them in the far-away- days OF
their youth, and feel somewhat of the
old-time glow. he, or she. or they, should
purchase ticket for WeiSsnlchtW0 to-
day, and take an afternoon run out
there. If what he or she saw would not
rub off the crust of the years from his
or her heart, and set the tide OF warm
sympathy coursing through it, and
make him or her cudgel their brains to
think what tokens of rene mbrance
they might distribute, and set them to
thinking about the good st. NICHo-
LAS, and of their youth, and how the
old saint withstood and survived the
shattering of the first illusions, then
might he or she feel that life had been
hard with them, and that they had
been hard with themselves.
If you go, get to the train early and
take rear seat and watch the car nll
up. That man with the seat and rack
full of bundles is surely some father
who has run down to the city at the
anxious urging of the little ones TO
make sure and have SANTA CLAUS come
their way tonight. and he seems posi-
lively happy at the fraud he is helping
along. There father and mother are
going home laden with the material
which will fill and overflow all the
stockings in the house and make lot
of children yell with delight very,
very early tomorrow morning. Inere
are lot of young fellows VINO
came from the farms moons ago to make
their fortune. They are very spruce as
to clothes, a trif1e gorgeous as to neck
ties, their city SmartneSS rather over
done-a reaction from the loutlshness
they have Soughed off-golng back to
the farm with an under feeling that
they will make somewhat OF all impress
sion, especially among the girls. one
thing is noticeable carry small
grips that can't hold much aud they
have no or very few parcels. They have
forgotten all about SANTA CLAUS in the
swim of city life, or if they think of him
at all, it is as one of those rather silly
delusions which children easily fall into.
but which no business man can afford
to indulge in.
But how the girls troop in; girls who
found the income of the farm or the
village too narrow for their wants, and
have come down to the city to help out.
They come with cheeks kissed to roses
by the frost, and their eyes sparkle not
with the cold, but with the light of eX-
pectant Joy. And how laden they are
with bundles. They, bless their souls,
believe that if there is no real SANTA
CLAUS there should be one, and each is
bound to be just as much one as
meager purses and ingenuity can con-
trive. They are thinking as women
always and men rarely do, more OF
others than themselves, and each par
eel they carry is proof of it.
At the stations they leave in squads.
and as YOU sit and watch the greetings
and hear the shouts and laughter, and
witness the kisses given and see them
bundle into the sleighs and stow away
the gifts they bring, and see them drive
away and hear their merry laughter
and chatter mingling with the bells-if
you can take this ride and see all this
outflow CT the best feelings men and
women are capable of, and cannot feel
the crust breaking and the old flood OF
memories yelling up and your sympa-
thies getting in warm touch with your
fellows, then there is no cure for your
hard. selfish hearts, and may SANTA
CLAUS have mercy on your souls.