The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-22
Where Santa Claus Nav Be Found

The Press has this letter. written in pathetic scraw
"Please tell where is Santa Caus?''
What question! What great broad question;
And yet when studies the history of the festival and
realizes how much this celebration has whened the lives
of men and developed human love in the breasts of
kind it is plain that it be answered.
Here is who write check for million
He has made money until his heart is hard his dol
lars He has been too busy realize the real possibilities
of life. Charity to him the signing of check
nothing
Is Santa Claus in his home-he palace the avenue?
Is it possible for Love to pass the servants and ackeys
that line his halls and find place at the fresde?
Perhaps But remember that money alone will not
buy the Spirit of Christmas If all the gold in the world
lay in the Golfers of man, and his heart not
right, he would be unhappy.
Let's look into little home of the millions that
go to make up this great prosperous joyful country 1t
is almost sacrilege to peer into the privacy of that home
The works for wages. If you will look close you
the marks of toll unceasing toll his strong hands
There is who has also worked She has given
up the charm Of her grhood for the of mother
hood. She has done her full duty from the beginning.
Perhaps she does not say much about it, but her love
for that plain, rugged the father of her children is
boundless They well mated. They happy
happy with les shan spend their bonnets;
happy when the earnings of 10 years wouldn't pay for
the modern automobile of New Yorker.
1t is Christmas morning Listen and you will hear the
sweetest music that made. There not be a
dscord for this is the laughter of children natural
healthy children-unspoed by fattery luxury There
lot of them The fortunes of the poor often their
little ones, and who shall say that they not rich be-
yond the dreams of avarice?
There, did you the girl pull orange and doll
from stocking and then throw her about 'papa'
and place her pure lips against his? That is heart aec
ton. 1t not be counerfeted What would you give
for the real love of child? Millions? 1t is not for sale
If you will watch that home with it's children
for fe whours you will real Christmas than
you knew existed You will see happiness caused by
trifes You will find that babes have denied them
selves for weeks in order to pennies with which to
make happiness for Others
And you will discover why and are
willing to toll day in and out to suffer some, to
late gray hairs and wrinkles to dress poorly to reduce
self denial to science, while the children and the
joy of their presence lghtens burdens and makes life
worth the living.
The question is: "Where is Santa CLAUSE"
He is wherever there is unsesh love; wherever there
is charity that carries with it that bit of divine spirit that
it's sting; wherever there phanhropic self
denial and real appreciation of the brotherhood of
mankind.
You MAY find Santa Claus searching for human hearts
among stocks and bonds and jewels and heaps of gold
You will surely find him in the homes of the plain
people who still unaffected still true to their good i'm
pulses and who still believe in the gospel of the lowy
Carpenter, "PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO