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Mrs. John Frizzell was the first person to identify the famous writer that popularized these lines: “You are Old Father Williams,” as Lewis Carroll.
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“Jolly Old Santa Claus and his 7 prancing reindeer” have been sadly exploited. Not so much by stores, though they too are at fault; but the individual parent has exploited him even more. And thus* we arrive at a time, when the so-called religious may say, “All the children talk about is Santa Claus. . .why they don’t even know whose birthday it is—awful, awful.” And in attempting to reverse the pendulum they talk) endlessly of the Christmas story.
The Christmas story is a lovely one it grows on you with age, becoming more meaniful each year, But even so is Santa Claus a wonderful story. Seen clearly, he is „rQuite Christlike. More important, he is a living image, that a child’s mind can grasp much more readily than he can, angels, and wise men,
He has a disposition that makes him a cheerful giver and a gracious receiver. The gracious receiver, w< have exploited, often ignoring the • “giver.”
This year, when we talk oi Santa’s trip down the chimney let’s have a word and a thoughl for the “giving Santa.” Let’s teacl our children to see Skfita Claus as a live person and as an image too So. when they grow to the age ol realization, they will not experience a rude awakening but i transfer of allegiance from the _one to the other. Thus they will see Santa Claus all around them and perhaps, in the looking glass too.
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