The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-25

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her baby brother, helped mother set
the table-Yes. yes. Mary may have
= doll and a tea set for Christmas"
You See" said Santa. Claus. ~AiiI
the good deeds and bad deeds which
a child does are recorded here. At
Christmas time all the records are
gone over. II child has been good
/ do my best to give 1t what II
asks for. unless IL is a greedy child
who asks for too much. The bad
children, I am sorry to say. have to
be punished and get less. Some
times, alas. when u child has been
very naughty can only leave a
bundle of switches" and Santa
Claus shook his head and sighed.
Both children thought hard ~
what they had done which was
naughty. Tidy Lou recalled several
times she had been cross and Bobby
Bright remembered quite well the
time he had said he aiAn't believe
In Santa Claus. That WAS very
wicked. OF course. for ne matter
how long Santa Claus is i'm coming.
IL child believes hard enough and
long enough he is quite sure to
come at last.
THEY next entered room even
i larger than the Others 1t was
shelves upon shelves OF toys of
every kind.
In this room. too. there seemed
to be much hustle and hustle. fov1
hundreds Of tiny elves were busily
taking the toys from the. selves
and packing them up with tissue
paper and. tinsei. and other little
elves were rolling the packages
away in small wheelbarrows.
This is my warehouse" Santa
Claus told the children. Here my
little helpers have been busy pack
ing toys all the year. They must
make haste now for they have yet
to be put into my sleigh. and to-
night i must start upon my Christ
mas journey around the world"
After this he led the children
through one glittering. sparkling
room and then another-rooms
hlied with sweets and fruits, and
nuts and books; through the toy
hospital where broken dolls and
toys were mended and made whole
again: and last of all they went
outside to the stables where the
eight little reindeer were stalled.
and the children were allowed to
pat them and give each little deer
a lump Of sugar. !
Now I shall show YOU nv
Sleigh" said Santa Claus. TT fs q
miraculous sleigh, for no matter
now much Is put into 1t. it will |
still hold more"
The sleigh was red and all hung
in bells, and must indeed have been
a magic one. for. although IL WAS
already overlooking. little elves
were constantly bringing loads of
toys and examining them in.
Finally, they returned to the
mouse and found Mrs. Good Heart
and Fairy Jack waiting for them
In the hall from which they had
started.
There is just one more room
which you have not yet SEEN"
santa Claus told the children. TT
Is the room in which I keep my
Christmas magic. Now close your
eyes and don't open them until II
tell you to-"
Tidy Lou and Bobby Bright did
as they were told. They closed |
their eyes and could feel themselves
being led along, they knew not
where.
Ok1oW open your eyes, cried
~ Santa Claus.
O. Both children stood breathless
with delight. They were in the
most entrancingly beautiful room
they had ever before beheId. The
ceiling overhead was a deep blue,
dotted with little silver stars, which
looked like real. The walls shown
irtdescently pink and violet and
blue. The floor was covered with
a carpet Of deep blue velvet. while
one end of the room was hung with
velvet curtains OF the same color
In the center stood several
golden chairs.
sit down. said Santa Claus.
seating himself in one OF them.
They had scarcely seated them
selves when through the blue vel
vet curtains at the end of the room
there stepped BEAUTIFUL fairy,
dressed In sparkling white. She
wore a silver star in her hair and
in her hand she carried a silver
wand. Bowling to the children she
smiled and sang in beautiful
voice:
ct am the Christmas fairy. the
Spirit Of Christmas am I.
bring to all good children the
things for which they sigh"
She then waved her wand and
twelve beautiful wax dolls. dressed
In satin, silk and lace. blue. pink.
white. green. violet and yellow,
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and danced about the room singing:
I'VE come from Tee-To-Lena Land.
See us dancing hand in hand"
Then an amazing thing happened.
A doll dressed in pix sati. the most
beautiful doll OF all, danced
straight over to Tidy Lou and
whispered: II want to be your
dolly; I am going home with you"
Tidy Lou was so happy that she
thought her heart would burst as
she moved over to make room for
the dolly to sit beside her and
Rugged her close. - =.
IN the meantime the other dolls
had danced away and through the
the curtains came tumbling q
number of stuffed velvet animals.
bears. tigers, dogs cats. elephants.
and funny ones with no names at
all. Dancing upon their hind legs
they pranced about singing.
IRA, la, la. See us dance,
On our two hind legs we prance.
A ROUND and around they went,
"A and q funny little velvety dog
with brown glass eyes trotted
over to Bobby Bright and bark
ed, Bow, WOW, wow! I am your
doggfe, take me home with you.
Bow, WOW. woww