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

nave DauDieS Tor the DaDleS anu
dolls for the children, and furs for your
self oil your long drives out into the
country, pleaded Santa.
The furs might do some good,
laughed the doctor, IF | were to take
seriously TO the Sleigh as You In your
role of Santa Claus do, but yon see. !
have little faith in the deer | leave it
all to the storkr Then the doctor
laughed
What could Santa Claus do? Notb-
ing, except 10 fly away with all haste 10
the architect. Santa showed him how he
could descend the chimney without even
breaking the corner of window pane or
lifting single from the roof Would
you not. q architect, delight TO awake
and lind my gifts here mt the 6reside?
Can leave nothing to make you happy
this happy time?"
Why, | would have TO make a special
arrangement in all the houses | build. if
were 70 encourage your visits said
the architect derisively You couldn't
get down any modern chimney with that
pack of stuff. We make chimneys now
that would grip YOU at the first foot
down, and there you'd stick and smoke
every body cut. No. sir; can't Encourage
Your visits The architect turned 10
the design for noble church. Santa
was too angry to explain his trick Of
coming down any chimney. be ii ever 80
narrow and with a tossing of antIers the
deer were off and away,
By and by, he had cleared the town
and was gliding over the country when
he me- the Farmer. 1t was nearly night
now, and he feared that ne could not
dispose of single gift before the Christ
mas dawn. Santa was Desperate He
stopped the Farmer.
Wal, l don't know that there's any
thing that want. l have the finest pigs
in the ~hul county. My boys jist as
smart is 'tcEher chaps hereahouts, / reck-
ON, and my Liza jist as hanson. Struck
the wrong man, neighbour and the indie
pendence of the Farmer stuck out in his
pulled bosom. and bulged in his cheeks
Surely Santa Claus had found the world
Ungrateful. or overfed. or spoiled with too
many good things already.
Back. Bonner! Home. Blitzenr' he
yelled at the deer But the poor little
deer had been OH their 16ngest journey.
They were weary indeed Their little
feet left tracks of blood ON the white
snow, like the shoeless feet of hard
pressed and hard-pursued army Their
speed was as a wind died out. and their
breath as the breath of a summer rose
passed away.
When Santa reached the house where
lived the Farmer. he decided to make a
stealthy lodging for the night there. He
| drove up onto the roof and down into the
chimney. He found an open fireplace in
the flue leading into one of the little
rooms upstairs. There. he thought, he
would make his nights rest, disappointed
and sOre-hearted With scarce a tinkle
OF their bells. the deer slept. Not a soul
in the house knew of that quaint visitor
slumbering there, with his deer and his
unaccepted gifts.
Slumbering. did | say?
Good deeds cannot Slumher, neither
can the good rest in well doing. Old
Santa awoke from his dream. He
thought he heard merry voices. but all
was still! He crept from his hiding, and
down the chimney went he. All was
still there, too, but children slept there.
The farmer had plenty for hungry chill
dren's mouthsand he had plenty Of chi
dren, too The rosy lips pouted from
| pillow after pill0w-the little pout of
sleep. Good old Santa, he had been wor-
ried and weary and fretful after his UNI
fruitful journey. but he could no more
remain angry with the world than could
! the world do without him today. And so
he planned Il little surprise for the chill
dren that slept-the children of the Farm
er. and their city cousins. their visitors.
Softly he gathered his pack into the
! sleigh in the room above the ch9Swen.
where he himself had doZed and dreamed
| in rest. Softly tho deer sYere driven
/
toys and the candies, the dolls and the
monkeyiacks, and the tops and the little
arks and the painted beasts for it. and
the tin horns and the tight drums, and
| the wooden soldier and the miniature
| train and cannon and engines-all he ar
ranged before the fireplace. or tucked
into the stockings of the children as they
slept. The stockings he hung in the fire.
place.
Out in the yard of the house he spied
n green tree. This he brought in, and it's
branches he loaded with toys and bau-
bleS and trinketS-with here and there
the sparkles of the snow upon it. too.
And he set great tinsel star at the tip
ton of the trembling tree, and he lighted
tiny candles i'll myriad flames. Then dc
turned To go.
But in the light the deer frightened.
Their bells tinkled The children awoke.
Santa was seen. There was hubbub
and roar-frSt of fright. then of de-
light. Out danced the children. little
ones and big ones. rubbing their eyes at
the wonderful dream
Every tiny gift was to them a boon.
Every little trinket had its place in the
affections of the children. And Santa
They chung To his coat-they called him
good names and dear names. They hailed
him as their patron saint forever.
AT first Santa was completely Devil
/ ANAtN ny tllt JOY III ttlt' tHlluFeU. Il nRn
he recovered from his surprise, and with
4 Merry Christmasr' he was gone.
And as he sped over lake and river and
upland and lea to his home he remeu-
hered how all men had rejected him-the
priest. the doctor. the architect, the
fnrmer-and only the children had well
coined him.
Now do you wonder. children. that he
never forgetS You ON the glad Christmas
morn pttsburg Dispatch