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We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: I tear hdttor:
I am h years old
Some of my little friends sas there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says "If yoiPsee it in /he Sun it's so."
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus'.'
Virginta O'Hanlon
I 15 West 95th Street
Virginia, your little friends are wrong They have been allected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. I hey think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared wifh the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes. Virginia, there is a Santa C laus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Max! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no |K»etry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. I he eternal light with which childhood (ills the world
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