Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-24
SANTA CLAUS VERY BUSY
PLANS TO GIVE AWAY REAL
MONEY PRIOR TO CHRISTMAS.
Has the Assistance Of The Star in
the Good Work-Prize
Offers.

santa Claus Is beginning to sit up and
take notice. for leaf by leaf the calendar
is falling and December is so close that
t Is almost here, ready to usher in the
| first day of the month in which Christ
mas lives. So the goou, gray-bearded pa
tron OF the young is grooming his rein
deer for their long journey and mendine
the harness that bitches them to the gift
laden sleigh, making everything ready fol-
his bunny trips over unequal roofs.
| In these days of steam heat 1t may seem
a difficult feat for such a round person
as Santa Claus to enter a room by the
radiator vent when he used to come in
by a wide fireplace, but nothing is I'm
possible to him, and he manages to land
| where he wants to, and even a stocking
hung in a radiatorless back room is some
times found on Christmas morning mys-
teriously filed just as easily as If Chin
ney as big as a theater stage arch opened
into the apartment.
But this has nothing to do exactly with
| what Santa Claus Is proposing to do just
now. His plan is to give away 1920 in real
/ money. and he will give it away two days
before Christmas, SO that the lucky ones
will have pleasanter holiday than other
| wise. The Star is helping him at his
| pleasant task and will distribute the
prizes for him. This is the method Santa
Claus uses:
Collection Of Slips.
Certain stores advertising on pages 8
| and Of part of this issue Of The Sun
day Star are issuing to their customers
what are known as sales slips. All you
have to do is to save these slips. and
perhaps get others from your friends-for
you do not have to obtain all you send in
by purchase-write your name and ad-
dress on the slip, or on piece of paper
attached to it, and send them to Santa
Claus, in care of The Star. Sales slips are
good on all purchases made up to and
including December u.
The rewards are as follows: To the
person sending in the greatest number Of
sale slips to Santa Claus before Deem
Der % he will give $25; to the person send
ing in the second most sale slips, SIS; to
the person sending the third most, SO; to
the fourth, IS; to the fifth, SO: to the
sixth, seventh eighth, ninth and tenth,
81 each, and to the next thirty-two, 81
each. To the person whose sale slips total
the most In dollars and cents Santa Claus
will give $20 In the event Of tie the
prize will be divided.
The stores issuing the slips are Golden
bergs, Giddings & Steele, Saks G. Co., the
Shoemaker Company, s. Kann, Sons &
Co., the N. Auth Provision Company, Will
liam Hahn & Co. and Barber & Ross.
Several Special Prizes.
In addition to The Stars prize, S. Kann.
Sons & Co. will give one prize of $1O0 in
gold to the winner Of any prize in The
Stars offer who sends in the greatest
number Of sales slips from that store, and
another prize of $50 will be given by the
same firm to any winner under The Stars
offer who sends in the most sales slips
from that store dated before December 8.
The latter prize is an inducement for early
shopping.
The Washington Dairy Company also Of
fers $50 in prizes to the person bringing
in the most of the coupons in their ad-
vertisements which have been stamped
at its stand in Center market, showing
| that one pound or more of White House
butter, or high-grade "butterine'' has been
purchased there. For the most coupons
turned in before January /, 1903, $25; sec
ond prize, $40; third prize. $40 and fourth
prize, pair of ball-bearing roller skates.
Saks & Co. offer prizes for those bring
ing to their store the largest number OF
the pictures of Santa Claus clipped from
pages 8 and 8 of this issue of The Star,
and brought In before December II. The
first prize is an order on the store for SIS
worth of goods; the second, an order for
IS worth; the third, So order, and the
fourth, 81 order.
&c. you see, Santa Claus is not idle,
even before his regular work Is scheduled
to begin.