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 me where is Santa Claus?
What a question! What a great broad question;
And yet when studies the history of the festival and
realizes how much this celebration has whtened 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 a million.
He has made money until his heart is hard his dol
lars He has been too busy to 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 possible for Love to the servants and ackeys
that line his halls and find place at the freside?
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 saclege to peer into the privacy of that home
The works for wages If you will look close you
see the marks Of toll unceasing toll his strong hands
There is woman 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
boundless. They well mated. They happy
happy with les shan some spend their bonnets
happy, when the earnings of 10 years wouldn't pay for
the modern automobile of a New Yorker
1t is Christmas morning. Listen and you will hear the
sweetest music that made. There can not be a
dscord for this is the laughter of children natural
healthy children-unspoed by fattery luxury There
are lot OF tnem The fortunes OF the often their
little Ones and who shall say that they rich be-
yond the dreams Of avarce?
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? Mons7 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 happiness caused by
trifes. You will find that babes have denied them
selves for weeks in order to pennies with which
make happiness for Others
And you will discover why man and are
willing to toll day in and out to suffer some
late gray hairs and wrinkles to dress poorly reduce
sedenia 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 loves wherever there
is charity that carries with that bit of divine spirit that
its sting; wherever there is philanthropc 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 owly
Carpenter, "PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO
MEN,