Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-18

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Dear good old Santa Claus. From you
loving little BERTHA Il. BARKER.
Dear Old Santa Claus: You Dame Las
! Christmas and brought me lots of prett-
| Things, but now / am going 10 school
so know you will bring me nice present.
this year. / want a gum coat and desl
with lock and key. millS-wagon with lin
| cans, and leather book-bag with &
| place to put my lunch. ! am your hstl,
! boy. EDWIN RoAZ,
! Dear Santa Claus: am little boy ant
| live at 90 south Laurel street. Yo,
| came to see me last Christmas anC
brought mo lots OF pretty things. anC
now 1 want you to bring me barrel
wagon, IRE engine. hook and ladder, hose.
wagon, truck, and the battleship Maine
that the Spanjards sunk, and please don't
forget nuts and candy and pop crackers
Your boy,
WILLIAM DANIEL BOAZ.
Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a
cape and muff. with a pocket-book or
TOP. hat and dress for my doll. shoes
ana stockings for n doll, with a right
large foot Then I want a bedroom set
ana II you can spare the money. q music
box Ike Icons. If you will bring a lot OF
cahdy, nuts, oranges. etc. / will be- very
glad. Please don't think am greedy.
Lillian WELLS.
Dear Santa Clause: Please bring me a
drum, sleigh, tool chest, fire crackers.
and few nuts and candy. will not ask
for much, as / have a little sister to this
Xmas. Please bring her a rubber baby
that cries and high chair. Don't forget
TO bring my tree back this Xmas Good
night, Santa. MERRIE GREGORY,
POS Randolph street
Dear Santa Clalls:
I'm little girl just five years old,
And so many nice stories of you I've been
told;
OF big reindeer sled, all loaded with
toys, .
30 kindly to bring to the girls and boys
When you load up your sled, please put
In for me
"A nice new dolly and big scrap-book,
That have big stove, in which / can
cook.
And for my dear little brother, a nice lit
tie horse.
A big eXpress-wagon, which he is sure
to be boss.
And, Santa Claus, anything else that is
nice
OF bonbons and raisns and chockolato
mice.
live at 620 south Pine street. Come up
stairs.
ETHELYND A. TILLER,
WARREN l.. TILLER.
Dear Sanity CLAUS: know you will be
here soon and 1 want a warehouse, a
book, a game, few horses. one little sta
ble-dog that will match with my stable,
and q few COWS that will match with my
stable, cakes, candies, hickory-nuts, wal
nuts, umbweila, pair boots. I want 2
baby-wakers. pop-cwackers, skywockets,
packages Of pop-cwackers, skywock-
cts, 7 devil-chasers whistle-bums
think that IL all. Don't fall down the
and break my warehouse. Dear
Sanity Claus, love you ali my heart. l
am your little boy. years old.
RICHIE Schultz,
no. IS south Pine street.
Dear Santa Claus:
The two best girlies you ever did see
For whole long week have been sister |
So please come TO see us on Christmas
Eve night,
promise you, Santa, we'll keep out of |
sight ~ .aLiaa S.a.Als.
want for my Bruce a nice little bed,
tell you, dear Santa, I'm really afraid
That she'll be afflicted, with crick In her |
neck.
Cause she's slept in her carriage since q
wee little speck.
IND bring us some books, with strongly.
sewed leaves;
'ome candy, and raisins, ana nuts, II you
please:
, tea-set for sister, with flowers OF blue
IN orange so sweet, and a big apple, too.
md Just one thing more, I wish you
would bring,
tut don't tell papa, you dear, good old
thing;
Tow hold your ear close, and keep II
quite mum.
nd bring us, please, bring us, q big chsv
of gum.
ALYSE AND ELvA BATES.
NO. 4O6 north Twenty-seventh street.
Dear Santa Claus: hope you win coma
see me this Christmas and bring me-
rs OF pretty things. hope you are well
nd strong, and when Christmas time
'mes you will surely be there and leave
your treasures bountiful share. I
less IL is cold in Alaska, because IL is
the North frigid zone Your sleigh IS ,
harnessed with care, and race-horses ;
'ance through the frosty air. 1t is fun ,
listen for the bells ringing. His sleigh 7
covered with jewels and pretty things | :
lnta Claus is a jolly fellow, with his | {
yglass in his hand. watching for the =
'od children all over the land His =
eeks are rosy and he is covered with i
r from head to his toes, SO that the
Id can't get in. Santa Claus, you know
no the good children are and through !
ur great telescope sees them fair. And
hen Christmas-eve comes wen put our Q
ockings close to the chimney with care. G
would like to have wheel, some few b
mes, books and l doll-baby. 10
Yours truly, ~
HELEN LOUISE BOUDAR,
= 100 east Clay street.
Dear Old Santa Clause: This is my first
ter 10 you, and l hope that you will d.
rdon me If be eny mistaks. I haven "
V father, and mother says that she 10
mt b able to see VOW this Xmas, and
at is my reacen for written to VOW. pC
/, Oldest sister got burnt up last Xmas,
a another one of my sisters had TO go
,ov for her boltl IL VOu will | an