The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-05
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.
(Peter Finley Dunno in the Christmas
American Magazine.)

| American Magazine)
Ye can't injye Christmas onless we've
got tn Christmas feelin'. I can't just
tell ye what it is. but it's as rale as
anything that we talk an fight about
tn rest Nv tn year.
! It's as rale as tn rate bill, tn tariff
or tn Ph'lfpeens. I niver seen amy iv
thin things, though I've taken me life
| in me hands nanny a time FIR an again
thin. It's good deal more rale to me.
fr 1 can feel It, 1 can hear 1t, an /
can see it AS me mind runs on Chris
mas day I'll vote f'r no man FIR Prisi-
dent who stands on amy other plat
form but to uphold thin principles FIR
which NANNY thousands iv American
citizens have almost been cremated
thryin' to play Sanity Claus.
Christmas brings good cheer, says ye,
an ye're right. Lasteways ye're part
right. TIL thruth is We can't iniye il
onless We have tn Christmas spirit. an
We can't have tn Christmas spirit on
Chris mas onless we've had 1t tn rest
iv tn year. Ye must have it, but We
mustn't show it. I'd advise we not to.
If people knew We had tn Christmas
spirit at other times they'd take away
ivry thing else we had. They'd say to
thimSilves: This fellow looks sthrong.
but he amt He has a fatal defect.
He's afflicted with tn Christmas spirit.
which units him FIR tn crooI struggle
w existence. Let's take his watch"
IT'S better TO give thin to rayceive.
says tn good book. Mind We, it saws
betther, not more nachral 1t amt
nachral to do ayether. It's aisier to
keep thin to give, an more spoortin' to
take away thin to rayceive. That's the
human nature, me boy.
On tn night iV D6Cfr1hor
fourth tn man who hasn't tn Chris
mas spirit stands at tn head iv his
class. He's champeen Nv tn wurrlld.
All tn purses an stakes an champeen-
ship belts belongs to him. He has his
pitchers In tn pa-apers, an as he goes
by with his watch chain clankin' on
tn dimon button iv his vest. tn neigh
bors point him out with cries iv rage.
On tn mornin' Nv Chrisman day he's 10
arly an out in tn sunshine There's
nawthin FIR him to do, because tn
banks ar-re all closed. No wan gives
him tn attintion he likes Nobody
looks at him respectfully as Il they d
like to kill him, but don't dare to. Ivry-
body is ,thryin' to seem happy. tn DO
liSman on tn beat feels that this is
wan day Whin he can be polite without
endangerin' his life, an is chattin mer-
rily with his old inimy, the lootinant iv
thruck nine. TIL saloonkeepers who
have holly an mistletoe hang it out, an
those that haven't hang out Tom an
Jerry sign. TIL groceryman has pref
tily dhraped tn box iv dhried apples
with macarony an put a jar iv pre-
serves on top iv the mountain Nv canned
corn In tn window. He is supposed to
be stingy man, an is most iv tn year,
but now he's givin' away the bad
oranges he was thryin' to saw off on
his customers yisterdah. A good
NANNY people who niver smiled before
ARE GRIMM. Even tn motorman
looks less like millyonaire automobile
list and more like human bein' that's
paid TO commit murdher.
Thin Pluckem, tn man who hasn't tn
Christmas spirit, meets Father Kelly
an wants TO get in on the ground flure.
9TH whole issue was over subscribed
long ago, an tn raysults, says Father
Kelly, have been so satisfactory that
no wan will let go his holdin's,'' he
says. "Well, tits strange" says Pluck
EN-. ''but this is tn first bit iv undher-
writin' I've missed I'm a long time,'' he
says. How did it happen?" he says.
Eye weren't left out" says Father
Kelly. II offered We chanst to sub
scribe tn day passed tn hat FIR Casey
tn cobbler, whin he lost his leg. Ye
didn't think il looked like a good thing,
he says Who got most iv it?' says