Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-16
Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
p, FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
SESSION EXTRAORDINARY.

TON age nine, pushed his glasses
Y Mn over his bulging brow, cleared
.. throat and pounded on the desk
-.;,b babv's rattle for gavel
7,,ara was a sudden dying away Of
,..u childish voices fat little legs
..-.,.ar4d across the hall. bearing lit
5,Iseates to accustomed seats: there
WAS pull and push while unusually
...,,Ir and unusually fat little delegates
....f.,5 breathlessly into their chairs, a
sl7ing Of little arms across sturdy lit
ia breasts, and the one hundred and
.-,,t,-nfnth session of the Children's
congress was in order.
Cbauncey Devere Appleton pulled his
.,sssas over his eyes. Then he low
-s5 his head and glanced sternly over
~, at q sea of little upturned faces.
A., we're serious almost to sadness. The
.-.,.it,- of the occasion was great, and
9r.,o. little delegate recognized it. A
crisis was here, and it must be met
.a,,aralv and brayely
"Ou parents" Numbered the speaker
,r.reing chubby little INST down on
ts. desk with a whack. what must we
do with them?"
sigh trembled on every lip, but not
am eve was turned from the speaker.
oOur uarents. what must we do with
.es-,a o.. had. alas, been discussed many,
many times. and no answer found!
.I repeat." said President Chauncey
r.r. ..v-ba+ m11st we do with them ."
H. looked so sternly at Marybelle
Smokers that she felt accused of hav-
inc done something with them, though
she knew not what. and began to cry.
Proceedings were delayed while a door
keeper removed her from the room.
"llGst We continue to deceive them
liz letting them believe they have de-
..iyed us? ] ask" stopping to drink a
a.ass of water. Must we continue to
deceive them by letting them think they
have deceived us? Discussions are in
order"
Then he mopped his feverish brow
and took his seat. burying his face in
his handkerchief after the manner of all
great speakers who are overcome by
their emotions.
The Honorable Peterkin Prim, age
six slid from his chair to the floor, and
in a voice so fraught with tenderness
his own mother wouldn't have recog-
nizad it, said:
81 was six months old when | had my
first Christmas. and l shall never forget
the joy that good woman, my mother,
found in telling me that a great big fat
man was coming down the chimney with
new rattle. and 1 would find it in my
stocking Christmas morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, / had seen
my father bring that rattle home three
weeks before. and had heard him tell
my mother how much he paid for it,
But I knew that the deception about
Santa Claus bringing it to me gave
them JOY and didn't undeceive them!
Then me climbed up YEARLY and sat
down waghtily
Little Susie May Sparkles arose.
When ] was two" she said, my moth
sat up all night to dress me a doll
and told me next morning that Santa
claus brought it down the chimney. !
made her happy by feignins belief. She
told me more and more, about this
man who came down the chimney. But
lie falsehoods," with sigh seemed to
7Ee her happy, and ] did not reprove
a-r,"
either delegates gave similar testi-
HHN, and it was voted. after much
'H.ussiou, to continue in letting pa
rents tell Christmas falsehoods without
E1uke
We owe it to this worthy class the
resolutions read. Ito make them happy
and if it makes them happy to invent
torie, Of Santa Claus. we must en-
outrage them by feigning interest and
fath."
Then the congress adjourned, the del
gates walking out with bowed heads
and troubled brows.