Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — FUN IN PLAYING OLD CHRIS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FUN IN PLAYING OLD CHRIS

Amusement for Both Ytung and Old in impersonating Blustery/ Present-Laden Santa.

HERE is great fun in Impersonation and none more thnn i in taking the part of that : prince of good fellows, Jolly , old Kris. Several little

brothers, sisters or cousins should make up the audience to be amused, all of them young enough to believe implicitly in the whole story of the journey in reindeer sleigh from the North Pole toy country to one’s own particular chimney. Parents and other big folks must, of course, be in the scheme and coached to play an active part. You will be missed from the company, to be sure, and dad and mother should search the house and look dp and down the street and make all sorts of excuses for your absence. Tthd if your voice cannot be continually and very successfully disguised you had better not talk, but convey your meanings by nods and motions, not forgetting to shuke hands all round repeatedly and to laugh, silently but heartily, with much shaking of sides and bending over. Santa may play at being late, and after he has filled the stockings he is caught by dad, who loudly notifies the household and Insists that the old feflow pay a visit and distribute the gifts. Questions are asked about the sleigh, which is supposed to have gone on without its driver, so that the youngsters won’t want to run out and look for it. » At the end of the ceremonies, which should not last over half an hour, a sudden disappearance may be ar ranged by calling the children to the window with the supposed discovery of the returning sleigh, and Santa may slip out of the room door, shed and hide his duds and get out of the house, by the back way, returning presently, with much noise, by the front way, as though having been gone for a long time and, of course, much disappointed to have missed seeing Santa. As for the costume, that is a matter of varied opportunity, except that the white whiskers and wig, the funny little old tassled cap and the fat stomach are essential.