Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21
Xmas and Its Effects.
By our old political friend and con-
tributor, Jimminy Cricketts.

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EDITOR TRIBUNE:-A merry Kriss-
mas to the Tribune folks and awl the
Tribune readers and readeresses.
May thare kup of JOY and thare stock
ms be tilld to overlooking, and thare
stummicks be komfortab]y filed with
awl the good things that geuerall ly go
to make Krissmas dinner. And may
thare harts be filled so chock full Of
Krissmas feelings that thay'n spill
awl over thare nayberhood. Thare is
sumthing kewrious about the way
Krissmas afel<ts US ANYWAY. Thare
ain't nothin els like it. We may get
chOck full of enthewsiazem and bad
likker on forth Of Jewly, and raze
Kain. and feel big abowt the way the
American eagel has nocked the tarnal
stuffin owt of awl the other burds and
beests in kreashun, but it don't etfekt
the hart at awl. We jest git prowd
and stuck up, and reddy to lick the
socks off from evry other nashun, but
it don't make us feel like dying down
in Owr trowser pockets for nickel to
give to pore kuss what haint got
nothin to eat. Of cOrse it is awl rite
for us to git up patriotick feeling;
we need to be tawt to luv Owr kOuntry,
but as 1 sed, it don't make us luving
toards other people. But when kriss-
mas kOms what ditferens. No mat
ter how krabbed and sour and kross
and meen and haitful we generally are
we jest kant help gitting over owr
natcheral born kussedness and feel
like we wanted to hug awl mankind
shed teers of Joy and happiness down
thare necks. Why reckon I hey sed
about as menny meen things abowt
neepel that didn't agree with me in
poltvticks as ennyboddy, but if e'eck-
shun shud kom off on Krissmas cav
reckon I'D vote for evryboddy on the
ticket regardless of seckt, religun or
previus pollytickel kondishun. [ jest
natcherally koudn't pass any name
without voting for it. And my nay
bor, Tom Scrimper, who is so kloas
that he wont out a button into the
lzontribewshun box unless the afoursed
button has been busted beyond repare,
will plank down a qwarter in the box
on Krissmas day without blinking.
Tt is lucky for hewmanlty that we
hev a day like this to bring into owr
lives a feeling of luv for each other or
els we'd bekom so meen and selfish
that life would be an infurnal torment
and the devil would take owt his
natcheralization papers here and aban"
don his old homested, bekaws this
urth would feel more like home for
him. But this blessed Krissmas day
wipes owt awl old skoars of halt and
1neenness and starts us owt with a kap-
pital of luv and good feeling that we
kant quite ews up dewring the other
1854 days of the year. When l see the
children getherd arownd the Krissmas
tree, and see thare joy not ownly oyer
the presents they git, but awlso over
the little things thay hev got for pa
and ma and thare unkels and ants 1T
makes me feel like a boy agen.. l feel
then that thare is sumthing in the hew,
mon hart that is of hyer origin and
/ that will awlwaze work tOards lifting
Us to a better stait of things. 1t makes
me me feel a hoap that the time will some
b AZ kom when this old world OF owrs
. viii 5hey turned the lesson OF. krlssmas
Is thurulys that the word hiatt" Will
ia IA dropt from the dickshunary, and
eyrybuddy will Try thru the hull yeer'