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Show AMERICAN FOItK. CITIZEN mHmmHttmjk it M A. iitW k fot fctC.,. 5 LM - Vs-f J'i 7 fc - f yfl (At jjtitf Si ti JU W Um 'mishit iUmI a4.Xi liMiM4 fUIJfa.U-J W hmI (a &, M MlCay lhW, af U Almmtj UH WUU .v. Am Mrf ly ELMO SCOTT WATSON BAT la a "Chrtatma classic"? It Is a piece of writing or a picture, associated with Christmas, of which people are ao fond that they never now tired of reading it or seeing It tpln aud again, no matter how many times before they hare read it or teen It. the birth of Christ the event which auon for the celebration of Christmas, 1 ttw inspiration for some of oar great-. great-. But among all the paintings of fit, there la one which probably has a jipptal than any of he others and Is true Christmas classic That is 'ft "Holy Night" il years ago Dr. W. R. Valentlner, dl-Jjfthe dl-Jjfthe Detroit Institute of Arts and a Wn authority on painting, compiled ,ftw York Times llagaztne a list of the test Christmas picture." Of these ed Botticelli's -Mystical Adoration MT first but of Correggto'a Holy said: "it Is undoubtedly the most ' K the representations of the theme old masters. It Is, for the most part, the radiating serenity of Cor Mch makes his portrayal so charming. ; charm emanates from the youthful Z7, what magic from the Child, from for perhaps the first Ume In Italian '"tht streams ont and envelopes the lAe Christmas hymn, Jubilant and 1 1th the ecstasy of the new message, ' from the beaming faces of the shep-, shep-, f Hie women, from the dancing ges-jtw ges-jtw angels."' ? the Nativity has been the Inspiration o have various phases of Chrlst-? Chrlst-? n Insjilratlon for the poets, fill the Christmas poems, the one which cellen?e a Christmas classic, In that ft often reprinted and is most familiar iciest number . of people, la that old, A visit From St Nicholas." arkahle thing about-this Christmas ut It was written quite by chance by Chance it was atnrteri nn Ita mnd I h is2 Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, f Oriental literature In the qeneral seminary in New York city, wrote "tmas poem for his two daughters, that his niece. was spending in the Moore home. She copied her iilbum, from which a copy was Wen(1 of hers who lived to Troy.N.Y. !wr 23, 1823, the poem was printed jIOy Sentinel with this note from the V "6t know to whom we are Indebted ?lnc description of that unwearied ll.lren-that homely but delightful 'non of parental kindness, Santa costume and his equipage as he ,J ltlnK the firesides of this happy 'th Christmas bounties; but, from jvT "I maJ have come, we' give thanks l our apprehension, a spirit n ; a playfulness of fancy Lnt alacrity to enter Into the feel-Promote feel-Promote the simple pleasures of chH-?ttre chH-?ttre ,,,t0Ketner charming. We hope '. iB lads aad lassies, wilt ae-iuT0,f ae-iuT0,f of our ..unfeigned., good, .will rfS a bikm of imr nrtnHt wl.h 7 ttay have many- a Merry ChristmasT I r s. ' . . . all ' '--I a - vS "i ill fir' ' I . V51 Hi! I If - - i """iv -v4 V. II Lr - Tii,; " W XvvHhe Nativity" by Correqqio I ( iv S M d-c few I v i Howe About: Love and Poverty world Garden Spots Disrobing the Great C rJt WNU SmvU. Clement C Moore that they may long retain their beautiful relish for the unbought homebred Joys which derive their flavor from filial piety and fraternal love, and which they may be assured are the least alloyed that time can furnish them; and that they may never part with that simplicity of character which la their own fairest ornament, and for the sake of which they have been pronounced, pro-nounced, by authority which none can gainsay, the types of such as shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven." Other newspapers copied the poem and soon It had become known all over the country and even found Its way Into the school readers. But despite its popularity, its author preferred to remain unknown. In 1800 he had published his monumental Hebrew and English lexicon, the first work of Its kind to be Issued In this country and a scholarly work which he hoped would make his name famous. As a scholar he dlcT notTwant It known that he had composed what he called this "silly verse." But he could not help It becoming known .trial, fie had written writ-ten It, for In 1837 the poem was published In "The New York Book of Toetry" with his name attached to It Finally In 18C2, forty years after he had written it, he admitted Its authorship and presented to the New York Historical so clety an autograph copy. (Reproduced above.) There are several pieces of prose writing which have some claims to being Christmas classics in the -truest sense. But the outstanding out-standing Christum s classic In prose, like Moore's "A Visit From St. Nicholas", made Its first ap pearance in the columns of an American newspaper. news-paper. That Is the famous "Is There a Santa Clausr editorial, written by Francis T?. Church of the New York Sun. Although this has been reprinted thousands of times, translated Into foreign languages (even the Chinese 1) and Christmas would not seem complete without its being reprinted again around Christmas time, curiously enough It first appeared In type fully three months before Christmas. It was on September 21, 1897, that the Sun printed the editorial In reply to the childish scrawl which la reproduced above. Not only did this editorial become a Christ mas classic, but the little Virginia O'Hanlon, who once wanted her faith. In Santa Clans re assured, became something of a legendary person per-son and some have doubted, even as she once doubted, that there ever was such a person. For the reassurance of those,. It may be said that there not only was such a girl but that she Is still living. The little Virginia O'Hanlon of 1807 Is Mrs. Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas f today, to-day, a school teacher In New York, a widow and the mother of a daughter," Laura Virginia.' who, It Is needles to say, brtcves that "their Is a Santa Clans." O by WwWrm Nwippr Union. It There a Santa Clam? We take pleasure In answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratifi-cation gratifi-cation that its faithful author u numbered among the friends of the Sun: Dear Editor I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Clans. Papa says: "If you see it in the Sua it's so." Please tell me the truth; "is there a Santa Clausr VIRGINIA O'HANLON. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's w little children's, are little. In mis great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of graaptng the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a SanU Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that thsy abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alasl how dreary would be the world if there were no SanU Claus. It would be as drear as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight The eternal light with which childhood child-hood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch SanU Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no SanU Claus. The most real things in the world are thpte that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders won-ders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart Only faith, fancy, poetry, po-etry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain cur-tain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus? Thank God I he lives for-ever. for-ever. A thousand years from now. Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. By ED HOWB I UEAIt a lot of love stories. In 4 addition to those hurling them- eelvee t me fwm nearby, other! get Into the newspapers, magaxlnea and books, and every library is full of such recitals hundreds of years old. . . . So I'm as tired of the love story as I am of the poverty story. We are all poor, and all of us have been shamefully in love, but ahould we not be quieter about such misfortunes. Instead of making mak-ing moving ptctures of themt The unfortunate, (n their love and flnan-clal flnan-clal affairs, have not only broken my heart, but are boring me to death. In motoring, I note that when we stop for gasoline, the attend ant tells us his town la the Garden Gar-den Spot of the World. A little rougher country beyond, he will ad mit, but hla section la perfect . . . I have long lived In a section of the -West we call the Garden Spot of the World; I'd like to take you over it It Is really very beautiful, very fertile; the realdenU very worthy people. Everybody In the United States lives In the Garden Spot of the World. Wilt we let such a country go to the bow wows unnecessarily? We are not making the effort we should to save It from the present effort of the politicians to ruin It A thing I have noticed all my life Is that great men do not amount to very much more than the rest of us. I have lived In many communities com-munities with noted persons, and, after their Washington robes have been replaced with the usual rags, we have said of them: "You wouldn't think that man had been In congress, would your Judging from what I see In the papers, it la quite a Job to leave a wife. I wonder so many men risk It (although lately I note Judges and juries are treating men rather more leniently. One man was treated almost Justly In a recent re-cent alimony suit, although It must be admitted the defendant himself was a United States Judge; that makes a difference). It occasionally happens that the men can outtalk the women in these dreadful affairs, but In a recent re-cent case, the wife of a pastor la easily the peer of her husband, pre sumably a trained orator. Her statements In print are like magazine mag-azine articles. She charges her husband hus-band with habitual drunkenness; with cursing their young lady daughter and her friends (all very tough) ; with .visiting the home of his bishop, and being reprimanded by the bishop's wife for acting In a vulgar manner In presence of her children. The pastor, In court, when his wife testified that she bought his wedding suit and fed htm before marriage, called out: "It's a He." His conduct has been weak all through bis quarrel with his terribly ter-ribly capable wife; easily the heroine hero-ine of the past two weeks. The men say that quarrels between be-tween husband and wife become so bitter that the most truthful wives tell shocking falsehoods, and believe be-lieve them. Women are more truthful than men, as a rule, but In quarrels with husbands, the men say (and I say) women throw truth and discretion to the winds. When a woman talks to me about the men (especially her husband) I believe her no more than I believe a man when he Ulks of the fish he catches, the ducks he shoots, or his outrages. I have long been Interested In a statement made about Thomas A. Edison eight or ten years ago. It was estimated that, In the manufacture manufac-ture of Edison Inventions, upwards of seventy thousand men were employed em-ployed at high wages. And all these Inventions were patented, that Edison Ed-ison nilxht tax users of the appliances appli-ances he had thought up. . . . Here was plainly a wolf who, In spite of himself, was doing good. Many other wolves do It The thirst for the blood of the rich has been enormous as far back as I can remember, but It seems to be fiercer now than ever before. If the long expected rioting finally breaks out this winter (somehow the worst Is always expected In the winter) the flow of blood will at least be much less than rould have been the case during the winter of li)2S, or during any future period of prosperity. There are almost nc rich left now to shoot at. Arthur Brisbane ald over the radio one night that the almost universal uni-versal w iping out of millionaires by the Wall Street sharks was really a good thing for the republic, as It would compel these smart fellows to go hark to work, and. In making more millions, they might give the employment neeessnry In bringing liii'-K pr.osiierI.ty. So I nm almost lomnciled to the worst this winter, and having It .ier with. Fifty Famous Frontiersmen ELMO SCOTT WATSON Capt. Bill McDonald, " Texas Ranger (INE of the classic stories of the M Old West 1 the. tale of the riot which broke out In a Texas town and how lu aglUted mayor sent a hurry-up call for a company of Texas Rangers to come forthwith and suppress the rioters. In due course a lone Ranger rode Into town and sought out the fearful burgomaster, who, seeing him, sputtered sput-tered indignantly: "Why why . . . I asked for a whole company of Rangers and they've " sent only onel" "Welt" drawled that taper-turbable taper-turbable guardian of the law In the Lone Star state, "There ain't but one riot, Is there r The Identity of thla casual officer bas never been authoritatively established, es-tablished, but It might very well have been Capt Bill McDonald, for It was just about the sort of statement state-ment you could expect from the man of whom It was once said "He'd charge Hell with a bucket of water." He Is remembered as the deputy United States marshal who, almost single-handed, redeemed No Man's Land In Indian territory, tamed the Texas Panhandle and reformed the notorious Cherokee strip. In doing this he faced a task which federal, sUte and territorial officers of the law declared Impossible and, braving brav-ing death a hundred times at the hands of desperadoes to whom there were no rules of war and whose slogan was "Shoot Capt Bill McDonald on sight," he lived to see law and order prevail But he was more than . Just a hard-riding, hard-hitting officer who knew not the name of fear. His native Intelligence made him a de tectivo whose feats of solving baffling baf-fling mysteries compare favorably with some of the best city-trained sleuths In the history of crime detection. de-tection. And he had something else a psychology which made him Invincible In-vincible and which Is best expressed In hla own words: "No man In the wrong can stand up against a fellow fel-low that's In the right and keeps on a-comtngl" When Captain BUI died In 1818. press dispatches recalled the fact that he had been a friend of Presi-denU Presi-denU (he had accompanied President Presi-dent Roosevelt on T. R,'s . wolf-hunting wolf-hunting expedition In Oklahoma In 1006 as chief guide and special bodyguard, and he had served as bodyguard for President Wilson during his campaign for re-election In 1016). But It Is doubtful If he himself would care to be remembered remem-bered for being "a friend of Presidents" Presi-dents" so much as for being "Capt Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger." He Made the Bowie Knife Famous DEFORE the race of dime novel writers died out, they really should have banded together and erected a monument to James Bowie. For unless their heroes had "a huge bowle-knlfe," how could It have been possible for them to "carve ther nose offen ther galoot thet laffs at me, or dissect ther In'ards o' ther pilgrim or tender- Toot what looks crosswayt or puck ers s Up at me?" Yes, Indeed, the dime norellsU owed a great debt to Col. James Bowie, a native of Tennessee, who emigrated with his brother, Resla P. Bowie, to Louisiana In the early 1800's. Described as "a man of surpassing sur-passing vigor, headlong energy and of great ambition but reserved la manner, when his anger was aroused, he was like a tiger." On such occasions be was accustomed accus-tomed to give a good account of himself with a long-bladed, keen knife which was a fearful weapon at close quarters when handled by such a man as "Big Jim" Bowie. Whether It was James Bowie or some other man who "Invented" the knife which bears their name, Is a matter of dispute among historians. But whoever the "Inventor" may have been, the fact remains that It was James Bowie who made the knife famous In more than one desperate des-perate encounter. One of them was the celebrated "Sandbar Duel" near Natchez, Miss., on September 10, 1827, a free-for-all among twelve men In which three were badly wounded and two killed. Another was Bowie's fight with three desperadoes des-peradoes who attacked him and all of whom he killed. After that, men began saying to blacksmiths. "Make me a knife like Bowie's." It Is wholly appropriate that the last act In "Big Jim's" life should find him with such a knife In his hand. That was on March 0, 1830, at the Alamo. When the Mexicans swept over the walls of the old fortress and swarmed down upon the handful of gallant defenders there, Bowie was bed ridden with a fever. But he left a trail of dead Mexlcnns from the door of his room to the side of his bed before they finally succeeded In hearing him down to his death. And when others oth-ers of Santa Ana's men came rushing rush-ing Into that death clwimlier they saw one of their fellows sprawled across the American's "body with ttrnt terrlhle Bowie knife burled deep In his heart 1 ii, 1933. Western Kovstir I'oloa. FOR HEALTH IN i WINTER MONTHS i Important Protective Foods Necessary. s . Lack of the right variety of food la winter frequently affects our healthy In, y the , swings Fruits" ' amty leafy vegetables, with their vitamins, their calcium, Iron, and other mineral min-eral salts, are among the ImporUnt ' protective foods. Although Just as necessary when out of season, they cost more and are therefore often omitted if the Income Is reduced. For the limited food budget, the bureau of home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture Agri-culture points out the following possibilities pos-sibilities In the winter market: f Cabbage beads the list for protective protec-tive values. It Is stored for winter use, It Is always cheap, and It ta served raw or cooked In many ways. Turnips and collarda can be had most of the year In mild climates. Spinach Is cheap In some localities and so Is kale. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are high In protective value. . Irish potatoes pota-toes furnish vitamin O, sweet potatoes, pota-toes, vitamins, A and C. Yellow turnips tur-nips and carrots are rich in vitamin A. Dried beans and peas supply minerals, vitamins and protein. Tomatoes, canned or freoU, rank with cabbage and other green leafy vegetables as protective foods. Their vitamin value Is about the same as that of the oranges and grapefruit. Canned tomatoes and tomato Juice may be used when fruit la scarce. The citrus fruits Oranges," tangerines, tan-gerines, grapefruit, lemons are rich sources of vitamins. Raisins, prunes, and dried aprlcoU are especially Important Im-portant for their Iron. Among the cheaper canned fruits, peaches and pineapple retain much of the food value of the fresh fruit Do not fall to eat vegetables and fruit as regularly In winter as In summer, ssys the bureau. " The more limited the family purse, the more uneconomical It Is to spend food money for a one-sided diet, too heavy with breads, cereals, faU and sweets, and lacking In vegetables and fruits. Placiag Him Lecturer (speaking on the value of education) -Yes, what can take the place of a university education! Nothing. Look at the man who only finishes grammar school. Where Is he now? He Is a motorman on a street car. But where Is the man who has gone through college and has his diplomat Voice In Audience He's the conductor con-ductor I Tired.. Nervous Wifo Wins Back Pepl HER nt nerves were soothed. 8h banished that 1 " few. Won m youth M cotor wtful nictits, active ton in b-cauM b-cauM at rid her lyMcm o bowal-cJorjrtnj waatca that wen ppk kw vitality. 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