New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-19
SANTA TOULDN'T FORDET."
sixty-fve Eager kindergarten Tots Have
Put Their Trust in Him

Santa Taus touIdn't fordet tould hep was the
terrible doubt that filled the mind Of little hVe-
year-old Annie Tomasso. of the Overflow" kinder
garten connected with the West Side Italian Set
Element. Last Tismas Daddy pornised me dollie'
but he vented to seep on de floor all day ana lor-
dot. Santa Taus touldn't fordet, tould her?
They had been playing Here comes Kris Kringle
and his Sleigh, the sixty-five little tots that nVe
mornings IN the week fill the big, bare hall at
No lib Ihompson-st.
In the few weeks during which this kindergarten
has been in existence a squealing, bowling mob
has been reduced with few exceptions. to a lot
of jolly game loving land mischief loving stilD
boys and girls. Even those who cannot under
stand English do not mistake the meaning or con-
tinued. unwearying kindness and patience of the
teacher. The reindeer that at first kicked ana
bit their fellows in harness, and accidentally on
purpose upset every sleigh to which they were
hitched, prance along in true reindeer fashloh
Santa Claus spirit while the rest of the sixty
five hide their heads in "a snoring sleep" huddleo
the floor about their teachers knees And TINS
teacher thinks her months work well spent IL ohiy
they learn a little of the real Christmas feeling
There almost all nationaties represented,
but the Italian predomnates, and the bright caros
and worsteds in the busy play are source ol
never ending delight to these color loving tots.
There are Hargop and Aram Trosian. the little
Armenian twins. whose silent, sleek BROWNIES mas
for them the name of 1.-The SEALS, and Angelo
Puscalini, who is always wanting to do things
week, OF similar tastes, who is never SO happy as
when playing flea" by which she is now
known. There is also Lizzie t. whose fingers even
yet just cannot help pinching the luckless little
boy or girl to whose lot the place next her falls
and Freddie, who is five, but who seems hardly
three, because he has had spinal trouble al his
short life. Freddie is never noisy and always
ready to pick up balls and unravel threads and
mend torn papers. 1t was he whom the teacher
found in one corner Of his home (Which consists
by himself rs eatin bread an Jelly" ne eSo
teacher, who knew that IT usually as much
Freddie's mother could do to provide the neces-
sary bread We'll" returned the mite with some
reluctance displaying a dry crust, anyhow it's
bread, an'-an' I'm just maxim believe it's jelly"
The Kindergarten thought the frequent and almost
hopeless appeals made to the fancy of her little
people (for whom only the tangible seems to have
value) were bearing quick if somewhat queer fruit
1t is little frankie H. with his Unsuitable desire
to make things" who has prevailed upon his
father stay at home at least two or three nights
in the week and white and and paste with
him
But despite the assurance to little Annie Tonasso
that Santa Claus would surely not forget" the
overflow" teacher fears that unless some proxy
Santa Clauses with big hearts and helping hands
ind time to do the Christmas Saints bidding in
the next week; it will be pathetically poor little
remembrance that comes the way of the Overflow
folk IN Thompson-st The school is SO lately Or
ganzed that 1t IS feared Santa Claus may
hardly have heard OF it yet