The Washington times., 1909-12-21
Santa Claus Expects Much
of Parents Who Have
Lost Babes.
NAMES PUBLISHED
OF CORRESPONDENTS
Autos Offered to St. Nicholas Girl
to Help Distribute Gifts, But
More Are Needed.
BY SELENE ARMSTRONG,
The St. Nicholas Girl.

No child can ever be so dear to me,
AS thou vert, sweet.
And yet. all childhood is moro dear TO
me
Who bode with me so brief a space,
Yet left upon nay life forever more
The glory Of Gods grace.
Thy. cbildIess mother. little son,
/ cry to childhood motheTless,
Iy0i Here am l. NY heart is open wide,
To welcome and 10 bless.
one stands within, invisible and sweet
He calls the children 20 me from the
street,
Himself their host
Many and many n home contains the
chest filed with yellowing little gar
ments. and many and many mother
heart holds the memory Of that little
life which shone like a star. fickered,
and went cot. And because OF the mem
ory. all childhood has become more
dear.
II Is as n hunger. and cold and joy
lossnoss which befau the children OF
the world befeH also that other little
one. II is. oh it is as II the angel child
laughed and clapped its tiny hands when
the children of the street shouted for
ioy. And knowing this, the St Nlcho-
las Cslrl asks every parent who has lost
a child 10 remember one OF these llllie
ones this Christmas; TO nh one OF tne
stockings which are waiting LOT SANTA
and the s.. Nicholas Girl
And when every childless couple mas
adopted its Christmas child, when every
lonesome man and woman has taken a
stocking to I'll. and every parent whose
heart holds the memory OF chlld mas
found another child, and when every
old person who wants TO be child
again has joined the Santa Claus game
Tn he
Times office will be bursting for very
JOY. and the furrow win disappear from
Santa Claus brow.
Found Again
Have you lost your little boy OF little
girl? Then among all the children OF the
street. or the hospitals. or in the homes
which the hands Of love have built for
the homeless ones. you shall surely ind
him again.
II 81 dangerous for Santa Claus in
The Times building these days For the
children come, bringing the toys which
they have had great fun collecting from
their playthings at home. or bringing
their pennies. and all Of them asking to
see Santa Claus. And what can he dc
nut Jump in the telephone booth, OF
run up on the roof Of the BIunsey build
ins. or sprinkle silver dust in the eyes
Of little boys and little girls that they
may not see him2
So. day by day. the toy fund grows
and the stOTerOOm that Is as big as
santa Claus heart, Is full TO running
oyer Withal, we need more TOYS. Day
.by day the letters Of the children be.
come more numerous and more pathetic
we wrote YOU last Christmas, and be
fore, but you did not get IT. I'VE arr
depending on you. Miss St Nfcholai
Girl. 10 tel Santa where we live a,
ne lost his way last Christmas"
Money Received.
Tho money is coming I'm, too. on
Monday we received as follows:
Mrs. Joseph AarOns ............- & o
Mrs n A. Mccullough .............. -
81 dtheL - -..-'........-..-....- 10
Harry Yates, jr-----.................. 4
Mr.. EDWARD BLOCK ---.-----........... 10
Peter Pan ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1 n
Dear Little Hawley Wharton Cole 10
A Friend and Little Girl.............. 10
Mr.. r f. McCalip- -....................1 10
Mr.. w r. IhalbOr.-........-.-..... ]. q
John A Nelson. ...--.-.............. 81
Mrs. 9. ". Lake. ....................1. q
Ruth T. Scbring ..-..-.......-....... ] o
G.. S. Wainwright. 90
Boy Knights OF the Round Table,
Harry NanderliD, George Torch,
Raymond Bradley. Timothy JoT-
dan, Fred SteifTel, Joseph PIE
ana OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4
Autos Offered.