Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24

should be sure the change Is one In
,1e right direction.
In this age Of fact we ned some
fancy; In this era OF pfauiNal things
We need some poetry.
THE mind % if,'ancy AMI youth 81
80 paste and imprcsslomnblg that "
We crowd II TOO much with facts and
figures and che stern ,rcahiies OF life.
ana "nrnli the imagination hcufics
90 De dormaff. We are an 20 rruduco "a
race Of Cradgrinds and scroogoa. We
have TOO few myths aa 10 H. Take away
santa Caus and naNt Mother Goose.
ard Adce IN Wonderland ana Grimms
Fairy Tales and Acsop's Fables VIII
have ;o ~. And What wuuId therl De-
.0' for childhood % weep over unl
laugh over and cnjoyi IT, rob q child
OF all the anflclpat0ry pleasure o.
Christmas would he u sln; il rob the
world " .ric exultans Joy d icit1 on
every feature of the child when q rsa-
llzes fh1g Santa Claus has nii,1 its
own particular siockiLx, wUud be the
work II a ghoul. II a change IL 90 be
made and the myth q 60 81. ! my 10
me dgapOiierH Hands on. unlags you
can place the myth with somcshlnE
watch will nil the earth ws'a ds many
smfCs. oa many happy hearts and as
mary ialting. Nfeurg momuf T."
Human NE II fuli u myth and mys-
terry md hih ois charm ctnoa from
Wat fact believe VA CHRIS mas myth
plants in the lufate mind Shh, thought
u Chriirmas which Dickens expressed
when h. said u have uiWuju Thought
n Chr.atmla-elmc. when b has come
around a. a good time. Kind. forgiv.
lnE. charitable. pleasant tlmt ihe only
time ! know OF In she long calendar 81
fhc year when men and women racm
hy ono consent 90 open their shui -up
hearts freely ar1 80 think ~ poufgr
below them ~ II they were really fel.
low paHscrErrs 10 the vfovo. ana MT
another race OF creatures bound on other
Journey"
PROF WILLARD DONE.
II have always boon an ardent advo.
cate Of the saniu Claus myth. should
very much dislike 90 fts % abolished.
or even discouraged. Because. In thr
iirr place, ! DO not rac chat O. IN az an
harmful. The myth il one NJ The ncc,n.
sary elements 81 child me- A. In fha
history OF the race. 90 In the blstnf,,
o. each individual child. more Ia thc
age OF myth ana fable. This period ha /.
come IN the early history of each ma
hln. and haH boon apparently nocor
faFy part " "a development. Tho his.
sVry Of che race a. repeated in the M.
cory or each child. n h not In accord
amos with The law ~ eye.lpmsut i,
Ignore ;hls perod. OR 10 fore tho rhiiI
shi1ugh % unnafunlly. MeueaI IA.
weil 40 physical food must b. aiaptri
70 ple child'n ngc. The natural mon.
tal rood OF the child II that which np.
p,Hlh TO the Imagination. The story
whether true or mythical, makcs mi
appeal. Hence she chnda lnr,ffabie
appetite for stories. Truths or Fnbie..
thgy arc an rwaii0wcd with snt,i
aNldlty. The Santa Claus myth Ia one
u firsa. " Wv
''rhe story which ombodlcs a nationai
Or universal hero. and hoida him nm
Tor admiration ana love, l. mo.t eager.
~ seized. And who would d,rs -.
thdi 10 she child George Nylsiiips.' M,
any more of horo INN Ja"E az
Giant killer. or Joan OF Ar NOR, -,
,nan rne mythical Clndcrela9 Iiut FOR
l,eP Eeol humur and the cmh1dlmen.
~ ~ ihat u loving and generous, ola
-. Nisholi. stands ptc-cmlncnt ainons
wv .hllus h'fuor. lie IN always = riv-
,ns 70 make others happy AMI sacTtic-
lhk MS own comf1r (aiways gool-
i'sufrily) for theirs. lie Il IN. prince
o. good feliowr. she glvcr - gS.si i.lftr.
.nc friend OF the children. T.hSy 80
VIII with delight at the siFhe of Ma
plotnfe. and a zeal, live" Siula clan.
N thrif.mas haxar or shup window (,
y yours wonder. Who woul ctn, "a
dspriNe tue little ones OF the ipy an,
me unrcliHh devotion 60 oihers whIeh
w. myth u Santa Claus cngoniersP
our supreme duty TO Childhood II "a
make happy, The day of All day,
"hoh ihia should Dc donc. a Christmas.