The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-23
DELIGHTFUL STORY
BY SARAH ARLINGTON.
FORMER LOCAL GIRL

Sarah Addington, former Rich
mond girl and graduate of Earlham
college, who stands we'll up among
those who are among the nationally
known group called Indiana writers"
/ is the author of one of the most de-
| llghtful children's stories of the year
which makes its debut in the Decen-
! Der issue of the Ladies Home Journal
! Sarah Arlington, daughter of Mrs.
| Benton Addington, who in private Lie
! is Mrs. Howard Reid, studied at Col
umbia university following graduation
| from Earlham and Immediately launch
! ed herself on a successful career i'll
! publicity, story and feature writing
for New York publications.
! Recently she has become affiliated
with the Ladies Home Journal staff
of writer's. Her husband, Howard
+ Reid, formerly resided here and grad
uated from the Richmond high school.
Later he studied at Harvard univer-
sity, graduating and doing three year,
of post graduate work. He is now
| associated with an influential law firm
in Wall street.
Is One Of Series
The Christmas story is one Of a Sc
ries of children's stories which are
contained in book by Miss Adding
ton which comes from the Atlantic
| Monthly press next spring. This :
the first of the stories to be pub
lished
1t is a Christmas tale, described as
being "a true account, if only YOU
will believe it, of the life and ways
of Santa, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs
Claus" And the story's title intro
duces Santa as There was a boy who
lived in Pudding Lane"
Inc humorous and original manner
IN which the story is told lends it a
rare charm. Santa is just a little boy
like other boys, "a fat little boy who
always was dressed in a bright red
suit. His father. Mr.. Claus. was =
baker, and lived in Pudding Lane. be
tween the butcher and the candlestick
maker"
In whimsical little foreword the
writer explaining the uniqueness of
her undertaking in compiling data on
Santa Claus says:
This brief biography of great
nero, Santa Claus, is entered upon
with the reverence due TO the nature
. OF the undertaking. and with the tim
ldlty that necessarily arises from the
TACT that it is breaking of new ground
Ignored Great Figure.
Just why historians have in all
epic accounts ignored probably the
greatest international figure that ever
existed is mystery to the author, for
whom the antecedents, early life and
young manhood of Santa Claus have
always been immensely fascinating.
Nevertheless, the life of this great
T man has never been written; and even
/ MI Wells, in a history of life from
? the amoeba to the Peace Conference
= has not so much as a footnote on Santa
Claus, though there are critics @.
youthful, and therefore unprejudiced
t minds, who will rate him far above
: Napoleon, Lincoln, and Garibaldi.
Purpose to Shed Light
TO shed light. then on the life OF
, a popular idol, shamefully neglected
by the historians, is the purpose OF
this little study. which has been care
FULLY and scientifically compiled from
original sources
The author is fully aware that her
story cannot add a single huzza to the
, worlds acclaim of Santa Claus. for he
mas gIorlously risen above the con
splracy OF historians to world wide
/ celebrity. She writes the account 10
please herself and possibly a few
other fellow admirers (preferably
= under twelvel who, like her, must
{ know where Santa Clause lived As a
little boy, what his mother was like.
and how he got started on his en-
chanting business, before admitting
this to be a perfect world"