The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-09
SANTA CLAUS
IS BUSY MAN
Salt Lake Children Keeping Bell
Wire to TOyland in Con-
stant Use.
TRIBUNE MAN CALLS ON
SANTA IN HIS T0YSH0P
lions Tots Requesting Every
thing From Teething Ring to
Capitol Building.

Special to The Tribune.
ToYLAND. North Pole. Dec s.
From the large number OF cells for real
dolls, Instead Of Teddy bears and blli
kens. coming from little slrls In Salt
Lake City as well as In all parts Of the
world. Santa Claus said today that he
looks for u healthy return Of maternal
interest among the girls. an interest
which. for the past few years. has been
waning at noticeable degree.
Santa Claus also Is well pleased at the
early interest taken in Christmas by
the children this year. He says this
will be greatly appreciated by the shop
Keepers According TO Santa Claus. salt
Lake City leads all other cities In the
west in early shopping this season.
Over the lines of the Bell Telephone,
an average of 800 calls a day from boys
and girls living in Salt Lake City In
an Interview Thursday afternoon. he said
that the service OF this telephone COM
pany to the north pole has been salts
factory and that more requests have
come over it's lines from Salt Lake City
than by telegraph OF wireless service
Old Santa's Story.
After throwing his big. red. snow,
covered coat aside. and when he had
fire In the office of tine. toyshop, Santa
Claus gave out the following story.
Thursday afternoon. TO Salt Lake CITY
newspaper man who had Travelled many
miles. behind e dozen prancinG REIN
deer teams. TO talk to him:
Already this season | have received
many funny. interesting and pathetic 1T
tie telephone messages from Salt Lake
City children They ask for everything
from teethiug ring up to new capitol.
So far as / know now ! will be able TO
III of their orders. with the exception
OF the capitol and a few other things.
The capitol gift will have to come when
the older children cease souabo!ing for
1t. however.
have received so far, I should Judge
that Salt Lake City children have been
pretty good this wear They seem TO
realize that they have TO be that way
little fellow Willie Smith. living at the
Heron hotel, wrote that the only thing
I'm this world that he desires is a bottle
Of beer ! Will have TO disappo'nt .., that
to. His letter should have gone to ny
hated enemy. the devil, No good little
boy would ever taste beer.
"One little girl says she wants doll
with curly eyelashes. She knows what
she is talking about and | will have her
dolls lashes curled If / have 10 do the
curling myself. I wish more girls would
figure the same way. l like the idea.
AOIOpldu0n Ill OSuldlltt-
"Acroplaness are in great demand 100;
boys I'm salt Lake City Indian clothes
also are popular. l hope nobody In Ziou
is going on the warpath. Waldo King
wants an aeroplane. He says he wants
IT to fly away in, / will give him one If
he Will promise to fly right up here where
'.Willle Wye. 1857 West Second sout!.
street, asks for nothing but a wheel
barrow. ! shall glvs him that present,
unless he does something wrong be-
tween now and Christmas eve. Willie
is a boy after my own heart, and II lie
proves 10 be good man with the wheel
barrow will try and get him job
with Pat Moran. Pat was always one
he has done | think shall give Pat a
couple of barrels OF asphaltum this year
Anna Allen, l34 North seventh West
street, has phoned me for little naised
dolly. The dear littlc girl shall have
her dolly. naked or hobbed. just as she
desires.
Bert slade.. who lives on Fifth East
gloves aS seisS a aor sword Gas and o. 10Tlns ne1
suit ! VIII try and fix him out with
everything but the boxing gloves l gave
Battling Nelson pair once.
little messages, but I love every one Of
them and the dear little senders, 100.
One little boy. living at "A B street,
thing his name is Richardson's he wants
,,one, cat II the neighbors don't object
will satisfy his request. although there
are about 1900 cats in that vicinity al
ready.
Wants Baby Brother.
One certain little girl living in Salt
oahy brother She said they had two sets
OF twins in the family and that all the
relatives were just dying fer boy II
J had time would Try and do something
fc ,lrs
turned In earlier in the year
II have enjoyed listening to all the
sweet little messages. but one I'm partic-
ular made me feel very, very sad. This
eyed boy, about Z years old He wants
a mamma and. bless his precious little
heart, he could have one II had the
power to give her to him. Mothers are
the greatest Sif, a boy possesses With
out her tender love and attention lie is
a heap harder She smoothes over the
can. God bless every mother in the
world and help every boy who hasn't
got one. This lonesome little boy tells
me that he hasn't had a. mamma for
taken away. II WAS Just before Christ
mas. toe. and cried with the lSiddie and
tried to make up for, his loss a tiny bit
that sorrowful Christmas day. when he
sal on his daddy's knee looking At a pic
ture on the mantel. and crying most Of
the time as II his little heart would freak
for the mother who had kissed him and
tucked him In after the Now ! lay me
had been said. I'm going 10 make that
boy happy this year. by George. II |
have TO make an extra trip or two down
the chimney.
Not a Fake.
Sometimes I think continued Santa
Claus, that some Of the boys and girls
believe that ] am a fake. and only H
bright myth, That hurts ms in a way,
because / am about the most genuine
pure and unadultcrated being that ever
existed. Just today one little fellow
called up and said that he had investl-
gated and had learned that I am a fraud.
! He said I'm going to see about that
Jesus business now, cause there amt no
Santa Claus Well. il that boy learns the
true meaning and the happiness to be
found In that Jesus business. he'll come
out all right, and there Will be "a Santa
Claus for him every year. just there
is for every little boy and girl who fol-
lows the greatest teaching in the world
do unto others as YOU would be done
by.
When Santa Claus had finished his
story he invited the newspaper man TO
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