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weal to bad; On CkrtoM mam they’d find their sturdy shoes filled with ell meaner of delightful gifts from St. Nicholas. But other colonial children, who quickly adopted the enchanting legend of Santa Claus, had no wooden shoes to lay out invitingly. So they hopefully hung stockings from the fireplace mantels—thus beginning one of our most universal present-day Christmas customs.
By 1809, Washington Irving was describing Santa as a jolly Dutch citizen looking very much like Father Knickerbocker. But the famed novelist began to wonder how Santa, on a horse, could get to all the nation’s rapidly-increasing homes on Christmas Eve. So he invented the familiar reindeerdrawn sleigh—and Santa, a cen. tury before the Wright Brothers, zoomed off into the skies.
Meanwhile, Santa had been growing smaller and smaller—perhaps from sliding down so many sooty chimneys. The first clear description of a modern Santa Claus—somewhat diminished in stature—appeared in 1828. The Troy Sentinel published A Visit From St. Nicholas, the children's classic by Dr. Clement Clarke Moore with the unforgettable beginning line, “Twas the night before Christmas. . .”
Shortly after the Civil War, the noted cartoonist, Thomas Nast, endowed Santa with the erminetrimmed re&coat that is his trademark today.
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