The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-12-24

Oh, where IL old Santa Claus; where, on.
whsref
Then. Santa Claus. Santa Claus. mind what
you do.
II you give TO the rich help the other side
Pass not by the orphan, so helpless and
cold;
Pass not by the oId-pass not by the old.
Pass not by the widow. whose somber black
weeds
Speak all too plainly of her needs-of her
needs.
Pass not by the sick. those shut ins" so
dear;
They need your good cheer, they need your
good cheer.
Pass not by the prisons-in one moment
brief.
You may whisper a message TO the thief, to
the thief,
/ which will touch his poor heart. so dead
and so cold.
which will carry him back to his dear home
where the father and mother gather into
the fold
Their children so dear. their children so
sweet;
GO, santa Claus, go-be feet. be aeet
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we know your old heart Is made all of gold.
And you need only to be told, TO be told
where the poor of Ardmore are looking In
vain
For the sunshine-the sunshine as well as
the rain.
Then come to US, Santa Claus, VIC can tell
where
You are needed the most; go there. go there.
halle orir ont qn
You will see on the face of some little child
A smile so sweet you will stop in your fight
To gaze on this one little jewel so bright.
oh, Santa Claus. Santa Claus, go to that
mother
Whose reason has left her-her husband be-
reft her
Bring back 10 those orphans that father
long gone
To those children who need him. bring MIN
home. bring him home,
Then GO 20 those haunts of vice anh Ill fame,
: where womanhood bushes for it's name. for
its shame.
Go. WOO them back from life so degraded;
From those cess-poOls Of vice
Where their dear feet have waded.
3, Go. place them in homes where the lag
rance of virture
Exhibits-its sweet perfume to nurture. to
nurture
All womanIy graces, all womanly love,
Till peace, sweet peace "cometh down hk
dove"
II GO east of the railroads. glittering track
Go. rescue the perishing; call them oack
r call them back.
No mother ever crosses t"se threshoios vi
sorrow.
Z No father Will come on the morrow-the
morrow
: To bring back his fallen, sln-burdened
child.
y From those haunts so Wild so dehled' sc
$ denled.
Oh. how pitiful, how pitifui tnat In 'hi'
whole city full
There should be none the poor out-cast te
love;
No finger of love pointing tenderly upward
n To her home, to her home in that city above
Then dearest old Santa Claus, when you have
fnished;
when hunger you've iessened and sin you've
diminished
e Come sit with us all by our hresides 81
bright;
r Come right in our hearts, CHRISTMAS night
Christmas night.
Go into the highways, go into the byways;
!. Help US to find each little elf so zone,
And ere winter brings again The fierce storm
king,
d Help US build for the orphan home
3 And now. farewell. dear Santa, go home in
trice;
!, Go back to your glittering. palace of ice,
Hung round with rich tapestries, rare oh
- so rare: 49,
But, sarta, old Santa, Bewares have a care;
!. For the sunshine and shower, the SUNSHINE
and shower,
May melt down your beautiful home in al
IS hour.
q So sit by your preside and with wilini
fingers.
Keep working for children while childhoo'
still fingers;
And when your ice palace melts and put
IL out your fire,
You will hear voice saying Come u
'e higher. up higher
's Go to A. A. Bulard g. Son 70
or cut glass and silverware. Z, t24.