Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-12-12
EDITOR HoLoNUA:

lo'o' the Venerable Father SAINT.
Claus in company with his com
panion Old Time having finished
the distribution of his Christina,
gifts for that year prepared to
make his next annual visit to his
many little fayorites although his
locks are whitened by the frosts
OF many winters and his cheek.
furrowed by age aud his limbs
seemingly little able to sustain
the fatigue of his long journey Of
800 days In his usual path around
the sun, yet his great desire to
crafty the eve and please the
taste OF his lilliputian like family
SO widely scattered over the world
urges him on whilst Love in her
giitterlng mantle and rose
wreathed brow nestles at hi. side
reckoning him forward. Old
lime with scythe in hand who
waits Tor no one points to the
indicator that marks the flying
hours admonishing him that the
time has come for him to start on
his mission Of love and touching
a chime of little Christmas bell
onward they speed, regardless of
the croakings of "hard tines
no obstacle can impede his pro-
gress or obstruct his course as he
scatters his choicest gifts on
every hand-no torrid zone too
hot nor artic region too cold for
him but onward they speed
through the realms of space, over
the ice kings dominions with its
crystal palaces FURNISHED by the
cold pale rays of the artic moon
and the snow capped cathedral
like domes glittering in the prs
matte and scintillating rays of
the sun and with their icy
columns standing as station tails
man to mark each passing hour
and over valleys of frost bitten
fruits that cling to the stitfened
and leafeless branches held in
the ice kings relentless grasp and
over the babbling brooks and
silvery lakes now bound in whit
ers iron like letters at length
they reached this station known
as the Paradise of the Pacific,
and after shu king from his man
tie the frosts from the many in
hospitable chimes through which
he has passed stops to warm his
chilled and weary limbs in the
temperate and soothing water of
the bay of Honolulu, and then to
distribute the many rich, rare,
ornamental and useful gifts select,
ed from every CLINE, to those
children who have been good and
obedient during his years alb
sence. Santa Claus has come
and many god little girls with
sunny locks, laughing eyes and
winsom smiles, who have been
wishing for the Cha istmas time
that would bring them his return
are now Joyous and happy. Santa
Claus has come and bright "shin-
ing morning faces" are at the
windows, rosy lips and dimeled |
cheeks press the glass, and the
sun steals kiss from
the brow of little Lilly and the
cheek of little Rose who wished |
that Santa Claus like their good |
Mammas and Pappas would al
ways remain with them. Santa
Claus has come and the little
prattler perched upon its mothers
hands chirps. and like a bird
about to spread its wings and
fly, throws up its dimpled arms
upon which the rose color and
lilly lines seem struggling for the !
ascendeney, anxious to mingle
its shril voice in the general
,lee. Welcome Santa Claus,
dispenser of happiness to the
title ones may you continue long
% visit them and to bestow upon
hem those things which contri
,ute to make their young hearts
oyous and happy for too soon
he disappointments and vex-
atoms of the cold world will
cause their Joy to pass away
like the baseless fabric of a
lream." Your name Santa Claus
$ not that which will perish with
he dying year but will continue