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PART THREE
EDITORIAL
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MAGAZINE
PAGES ONE TO EIGHT
VOL. XLV NO. 2.-).
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNINO, DECEMHER 5, 1915.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
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Just for a Moment
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Oh, just for a moment, when Christmas has come,
Sit down, little girl, little boy,
And silence the trumpet and muffle the drum,
Forget every doll, every toy
Then think, in the stillness that fills all the room,
Of somewhere far over the sea,
Of hearts that are dumb in the sense of their gloom,
Of Christmas that never will be
And just for a moment, you grown-ups, suppose
You return from the gladness at home,
Where candle shades give things the color of rose,
And then let your quick fancy roam
To homos that were once, and to hearths that are bare,
To children who know naught of glee
Then, just for a moment, in thought you will 6hare
The Christmas that never will be.
So, just for a moment, suppose you and I
Agree on this deed we will do
"We'll think of the children who wonder and sigh
Of Christmas that they once knew;
"We'll send them a prayer, we'll send them a thought,
And hope that we never may see
The days dipped from hell that of warfare have wrought
The Christmas that never will be. "W. D. Nesbit, in Life.
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A NT A CLAUS is, without a doubt, the per
on most universally loved by the children
of this wide, wide world. Dear old
"Sandy Claws," at eight of whose snowy
beard and jolly face, and red, fur-edged
ult . the face of every youngster lights up with
joyous anticipation and trustful love!
Who doesn't know that Santa Uvea up at the
North Pole, and there be works away all the year,
making drums and wagons and v'loclpedea and
guns and trains o cars, and games, and dollies and
sets o' dishes and oh, everything, for little boys
and girls. '
And then Krismus eve he goes out to the barn
an' hitches np the reindeers to his sleigh, and his
wife helps him load up all the toys, and away ha
goes like the wind, stopping at the chimneys of all
the houses where the good little boys and girls are
asleep, going down and putting tbelr presents la
their stockings.
The child mind, characteristically full of faith,
questions not the possibility of old Santa perform
ing his herculean task In one night. No more does
It question the genuineness of the Santas found In
the various stores of the city at present. Each
Santa looks genuine. There he stands, the dear,
tunny, fat fellow, his white beard not concealing
his laughing eyes. A Jolly old fellow. Indeed!
And fond parents aid and abet the various im
itation Santas in the benevolent role. Little John
nie needs no urging when, in the midst of all the
excitement of Toyland, his eyes alight on the good
old saint himself in his red suit, bordered with
fur little Johnnie needs no urging to leave th
protecting paternal hand and go up and whisper
In Santa's ear Just what is his heart's desire.
"And have you been a good boy?" Santa often
Inquires.
Little Johnnie hesitates, perhaps, just mo
ment, as he remembers that be pulled the cat's tall
and slapped his little sister that very morning.
Then be takes a chance. Santa probably won't
hear about It and he'll be very, very good from
now on. So Johnnie nods his head.
"All right, sonny," says Santa, "I'll come to
your house."
And back runs Johnnie to his mamma, filled
with untold Joy.
The different Santas who carry the secrets of
Omaha's Juvenile population declare that the de
mand upon them is tremendous this year. And
Q O tbe we" stocked toy departments show that the
V supply Is bigger than ever. And with bumper
corn and wheat crops. Old Man Good Feeling is
backing Santa's efforts to the limit
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