Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-24
little celebration for the

provided little celebration for the
Youngsters
i don understand stamme7ed the
mother. It's so good of you. | don't
know what to say, but God bless all of
YOU Then she broke down.
~For a bachelor and a shy man Peters
had done pretty well up to then, but
when she began 20 cry he was up III the
air.
Now. see here, ma'am. there amt no
iuse in that he urged. Besides. it amt
us that's to be thanked, but Old Matty-
er, that IS Santa Claus"
.Then il ali came out about the box
Only Peters left cut how Aatty hadn't
exactly entered into the spirit of the
thing and gave him most of the credit
| for the job. At that. nothin' would do
but the woman and children must 90 and
thank old AIatty. So they all three went
4 out into the baggage car, where the old
man was boiin' cctfee. Afatty turned as
/ theg came ir anl both he and the girl
| looked as if they'd seen ghost.
Fathern cried the young woman. as
4 she ran and fell down on her knees in
front of him oh. fatherl'
Oracle my little girl sobbed AIatty.
/ iIOiaih heI up buC uoH GIucISttilu,
Oracle
BILL whispered Peters, that's our
cue to sneak. There's more in this than
we know about, and it isn't any of our
/ business to crowd in on family affairs
$50 we went out into the other car and
waited and after a while Matty and the
woman and the kids came out. We hard
/ " knew it was Alatty lie was carrvin'
1 4t.o- Il nd
kers, and he was laughin', and the girl
was sort of laughin' and cryin' at once
You see. she was Alatty's daughter. They
had lived out west, and she had got
married soon after her mothers death, to
some young fellow her father didn't care
much about. Matty had been pretty sore
over the match; told her she could 90
where she pleased: that she had disgraced
i him. and a whole lot of other things he
WAS sorry for afterward when she took
him at his word and went away. with her
husband. Then Matty tried to find her.
but couldn't, and it was that which had
made him so cantankerous. The girls
husband had died in Boston, a few
months before and she had had hard
job to get along. She wrote to her father
finally, but didn't get any answer, be-
Il
and the children We're going out west to
try to fiEd him, when we run into the
blizzard
you can bet we had a Jolly Christmas
| in The snow that day, We didn't have Il
turkey, but Matty had some dressed
young pigs ia ais ear .e-ud we cut up one
q them and broiled it, and, with the
tuiE from the box, made Up a feast that
heat anytmn' | eveP tasted, even if it
Aass served on a car seat turned over for
Is table. AlqAig in the afternoon the snow
lElow got through the tunnel, and we
made Albany the next day.
That's about all there is to the story,
eNceptin' that Peters had had so much
fun playing Santa Claus for those young
sters tnat a few months later he asked
4 their mother if he could have the job reg
uiar, and she said yes. They all live in
Brooklyn now. The girl is grown up, and
Is goin' to be married soon, and the boy
IS studyin' law at Columbia Matty lust
/ takes things easy. Mrs. Peters is some
stouter than she was then, but Jim de-
clares she gets better lookin' every year.
Pm goin' over to eat Christmas dinner
with them next Thursday Herman
4 Bartlett Walker in Newark News.