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Show Some Suggestions For Ogden's Stocking. ' m AlB After this issue of The Weekly there is still jj jtfl fB time for those is doubt as to what they want for If I ' B Xmas to write old man Santa and put in a bid for Hi,' fB what they would hope to get if the wishbone broke w" '?B just right. To make my meaning plainer and get i ig I fjB closer to the infants who hope for a visit from (M Jt f PH St. Nicholas, let me give a hunch or two in the , '" 1 ,'t,B right place so that it will not bo my fault if Santa ! I S jlH Claus makes a mistake. To the City Councilmen . .r VtB hang up your stockings on a hydrant; spend the 'iiM,,"H evening reading the promises of one Bill before ! B the last municipal election; drink copiously from w , H Ogden river until the tears run down your back; !' k. 1B keep your muzzle to the east wind and put on your ' B skates shortly after midnight. If you have not '- Jj P t'H got waterworks in the morning it is because Santa L 3 t i H Klaus thinks you are so dead that you would pol- u w U ' H lute the water system if you had it! ' f fH I T ' .t'H There is a Santa Klaus up here and a good t ' V ' i't"H one, if the Mayor and his half-score infants only I f,1 U'l'.H knew him when they saw him. His name is n k ' I l B Eccles. He has more good gifts for Ogden in his 'MJi? '"H toy bag than all the other Santas put together. ' 4$ i'l During the season his factories and w '.' -'H industries in the county have paid to f 'Jib. JH Weber county labor no less than ?200,000. That l iNiv JH is directly and indirectly that much more. Mr. SktVmB Eccles might be induced to play Santa Klaus with " m m tWM some waterworks if the children managing the 1p?fI1H city know how to tickle Santa under the chin. $4L HB Iffc'jr , h There is another Santa Klaus I should men- .'li'TB tion. A Miss Santana, if you please, who gets all ' flv' ' the letters at the postofllce addressed to the good S& tf H Nicholas and who sees that no child appeals to jjg ' g H the patron saint of Christmas in vain. This Miss v l$ & N&jjH Santa has played the role for several years now, j, lfffij and, while she does not know I know it, she has ,; ft$i IfB established a reputation for Santa Klaus in many rJ jrv&jfjl a poor home that otherwise would have been cheer- j filir llB less. And she has done it so graciously and unsel- ?4 jpj&yjB fishly. No blowing of trumpets and bragging of utP I fB mouths, but just presents to the poor, the very lllH poor, whose dawn is expectation, whose high noon 8 ilinllB is trouble and whose sunset is miserry and dis- j, jjgfn iH appointment. To scores of these she has made $')! flH Christmas an angel's paradise and Santa Klaus a 1; i9MsH living reality. "If ye do it to the least of these vf$r U H my children, ye have done it unto mo." Hail to H u ' ' Miss Santa Klaus. More length to her purse np r, H strings! , klL LH nirjftr "illB I am requested to suggest to Nick old boy that S IIS lfl stockings in expectation of the following will be IBUffiH found at the usual places: lliffiSJH At Judge Rolapp's An automobile. SI JOH At Judge Howell's A new hat, just a little ill I HIM larger than the last one, Santa, dear. 1 W& jfl District Attorney's Office A commission i lliJH something nice in Washington attorney for In- ilfvff fH terior department would do and say at Murphy's WJS lijH office leave the assurance that Hayes will be ta- &m if $fi ken care of it will ease his mind. On the Mayor's $ j&jp if IB doorstep a noto from Tom, to wit: "If the terms lilil last time will suit, come again. I shall be a candi- 1 S$(;II H date two years from now." Undernearth John Sea- jffHi! man's chimney a boomerang, marked "overtime" i UMiiilfl warranted to come back in any campaign and also f 1fft,fB bring chickens home to roost. Also, Guide to So- jfa$B cialism, or Where I get off at next year. At the H mw OB courthouse an amended salary law guaranteed if i'lB to make the State pay half every rattle out of the yLi '!B box. Now, Santa, if these things can be arranged. H AlB it will be a very great favor. 1 mm jliJB |
