People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Merry Christmas. [ARTICLE]

Merry Christmas.

Christmas ought to be the merriest day of the year. From the busy man tq the little child, let the cheerful greet? ing, “Merry Christmas,” ring out gladly to all. Christmas is the time when, after weeh| of expectancy, Banta Claus appears to the dear children. The time has come for the hanging up of stock? ings, and many bright eyes will look, on Christmas morn up the chimney for a glimpse of Santa Claus “and his eight tiny reindeer." The days will come when belief in the beautiful myth of Santa Claus will disappear, but let it last so long as it can and gladden the hearts of happy childhood.