Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — The Spirit of Christmas [ARTICLE]

The Spirit of Christmas

mHAT the spirit of Christmas is upon us one need but walk through the shops these days and be convinced. Visit the toy department of any store and learn that Christmas, with its kind old Santa Clans, and, in fact, the whole Ynletide spirit lie deep in the hearts of the children. Perhaps there are among the grownups some who haven’t noticed that Christmas dolls and rocking horses and skates and such delectable things are ever so different from the common or garden variety of the year round. Miss Bessie, the Christmas doll, for instance, is not to have her silk clad body and waxen curls swathed in brown paper and delivered by an ordinary delivery wagon. Most emphatically not! The spirit of Christmas is abroad, and he whispers of Santa Clans and reindeers that pull the jolly old man and his sleigh over the snow covered roof tops and stand prancing and pawing at each home while Santa slips down the chimney. For it is in just this way that the Christmas dolly, the Irish mail, the rocking horse and even the big toy automobile are transported from the show cases and windows of thp department stares to a place beneath the Christmas trees of eager little girls and boys on Christmas eve. If any one doubts this let him ask even the first little girl or boy he meets in the toylands.—Washington Star. i -