Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-15

although you dare not speak to him. you
feel as II you knew him; and you come
to understand all his kind-heartedness IN
never giving rich gifts to poor children
st. Nicholas indeed, would think 1t q
bad break in Paris to leave SIS talking
doll with hair that does up for girl whose
papa is so hard up that her mamma IS
BARRIERS: or to bring q $50 automobile
model yacht to q boy whose mamma is
turning her last winters skirt. Papa and
mamma might feel jealous.
st. Nick Is helped not to make errors by
just looking at the chimneys Only few
of the richest live in separate houses. The
rest occupy fats In apartment houses, SIX
or seven stories high. Of cream colored
stone that turns dark in the smoky air.
The air Is smoky because of the immense
quantity of chimneys burning soft coal.
Sleeping rooms-and many dining rooms
and parlors-are never heated by registers
or stoves; they just build fires in open
twenty families. Each family has from
five to ten rooms. Each room has its fire.
place. and each fireplace has it flue staight
to the roof.
Thus were carved stone monumental
chimneys, great but few, proclaim the pri-
vate house or select, spacious flats, St.
Nicholas Is delivering automobile voitur-
cites and model petroleum boats from the
Avenue de la Grande Armee, ponies. and
saddle horses from Tattersalrs, dogcarts
from the Marbeuf quarter. marionette the
aters~ that are works Of art and new art
dolls houses in which nothing lacks, from
the telephone at the doll madame's bedside
to the electric-heating curling tongs in the
doll madame's boudoir.
Where Chimneys Are More Numerous
When the chimneys are rifle more nu-
merous st. Nick takes down fur Jackets.
talking and walking Nuremberg dolls. gold
watches and long chains for girls, trains Of
cars drawn by practicable locomotives, the
auto-accident toy. where everything
smashes; model yachts to sail In the park
basin, pedigree dogs and armies Of toy SOL
diers that lack no accessory of scientific
warfare. The parents will not be jealous
Mamma has $3.50 astrakhan paletot from
Klein's and papa platinum-coyered watch
that strikes the hours and minutes.
But when ST. Nicholas sees roofs with
quantities Of rickety brick chimneys, shut
up chimneys, enlarged chimneys, repaired
chimneys, he has to be careful. These are
houses packed with many families, where
small rooms must not be Uttered up with
large-siZed gifts.
With all such St. Nick compromises very
much on useful presents, clothes, books.
silver-handled umbrellas, a hairbrush for
mamma, a shaving stand for papa, a read
ing glass for grandpa an easy chair for
grandma, q bookstand for Robert, a new
curtain for Julie and a gold safety pin for
the baby. 1t not only makes intelligent
children glad. but helps their parents. saw
ing them the purchase OF those useful OBJ
jects in the usual course.
have known few cases In which this
admirable delicacy of st. Nicholas was
misunderstood by children. For example.
a small boy and his smaller sister ardently
desired a life-sized woolly .heep and guam
titles Of dolls and things.
Writing to the Little Jesus.
1--WE must write to the little Jesus on
the quiet" the girl said. Now. writing to
the Little Jesus in the weeks preceding
Christmas Is q thing done in most old