OCR Text |
Show Santa's White Beard, Red Suit Come from Cartoonist Who gave Santa his red suit, broad girth, white beard, ruddy cheeks and nose, hat and coat? Surprisingly enough, the first described in print. Nast followed Dr. Moore's description of Santa in several particulars, but many of his concepts were original. At the time of Nast's Santa Claus drawings the nation ed donor was a political cartoonist. The artist's name was Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Illustrated Weekly, who also created the symbols of the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey. The figure of Santa that Nast drew in 1863, and perhaps earlier, has proved to be the definitive one, and even today the figure as drawn by Nast appears occasionally on Christmas greetings. "Nast's image of Santa was extraordinary," says Mrs. Jeannette Lee, director of was at Civil War, and families were separated. In a note to cheer both soldiers and their waiting families Nast drew "Santa Claus in Camp," for Harper's Weekly. us now-famo- This earliest Santa was different from any artist's creations up till then. He was shown wearing stars and stripes of the Union and distributing gifts to soldiers. Actually, this Santa might have been meant as a representation of Uncle Sam also. A later, equally moving Nast illustration featured a soldier's Christmas home- design at Hallmark. "He gave Santa many of coming. Born in 1840 in the tiny hamlet of Landau, Bavaria, Nast probably pictured Santa as the Saint Nicholas of his childhood. Albert Bigelow Paine, a friend and admirer of Nast, said the artist often revealed to him his love of the Santa illustrations. He later wrote in his biography of the cartoonist : "His own childhood in far-oBavaria has been measured by the yearly visits of St. Nicholas . . . and the girlhood of the woman who was to become his wife (Sarah Edwards of New York) was intimately associated the qualities that have endeared him to children ever since, and we wouldn't dream of tampering very much with them today." Nast first credited Santa with keeping books on good and bad children, having a Christmas toy workshop and reading letters sent to him by children. Perhaps it was the long-imagin- ed us now-famo- poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," by Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, that inspired Nast's illustration of Santa. In this children's classic of 1823, the right jolly old elf, who looked like a peddler with a pack on his back, was ff ... include interviews with some of the families who have a father, son, or brother missing in action or a prisoner. Lelfer Writing "Twenty families in Utah have this situation," Capt. Moss said, " and public pressure has already Gains Momentum stirred the North Vietnamese to announce some names of prisoners during the past six months." With approximately 10,000 letPersons writing aletter should ters already in, the Brighara ask that the North Vietnamese Young University Arnold Air Sog comn'y with the Geneva Convenciety's statewide they agreed to and campaign to free American tion which in and to ask for the 1957, is in of war Vietnam signed prisoners release of names of all prisoners, gaining considerable momentum. High schools throughout the humane treatment including full state have now been invited to mail privileges, proper medical treatment, adequate food, imparparticipate in the letter-writ- i. campaign. A trophy will b tial inspection of prison camps, awarded to the school with tlu M release of seriously sick and highest percentage of parti- wounded prisoners, he added. Letters should be sent to North cipation, reports Capt. James A. Moss of the Aerospace Studies Vietnamese Peace Delegation, co POW, Provo, Utah, 84601. Department. Speakers from the Arnold Air A quarter should be included Society and wives of some of the to help cover costs of getting the Utah men missing in action or mail to Paris. giving prisoners have been speeches throughout the state in both junior and senior high Some Tips on schools. "Some youngstess have even Buying Toys brought in crayon and water-col- Program of BYU letter-writin- or the drawings prisoners of war, accompanied by letters in typical youth fashion asking the North Vietnamese Peace Delegation in Paris to treat American prisoners humanely and release them,'' Capt. Moss said. "Families of the men missing in action and the prisoners are extremely happy that the government this week attempted a rescue mission,' Capt. Moss said. cam"And the letter-writipaign was given a boost last ng the LDS Church the campaign and encouraged church members everywhere to cooperate with their letters and with their faith and pravers," he add- weekend when First Presidency supported ed. A Department of Defense official from the Pentagon working on freeing prisoners said that BYU's letter-writin- g campaign was the best and ambitious program of this type in the United States. Radio spots and short tele- vision films about the prisoners are being broadcast throughout! the state now. The radio spots student-conduct- 0, ed For Handicapped Placed lp cost-of-livi- ng tK" red-nos- hi; . book-togeth- er Don'tgive involved manipul- ative toys likely to cause frustration in a child with problems in coordination and control. Don't exclude toys requiring the use of arms, hands, legs, and body, because many toys in this category can be adapted for use by a handicapped child. (Wheel toys, rocking toys, exercising toys, and balls of vary- sizes.) Don't give toys with many pieces likely to be lost, because the fun is gone when a gap can- Dear Santa, I hope you come to my house on Christmas Eve. Love, Shawn Gerber to further acquaintance with all kinds of textures and materials through sense of touch, an sensory response to children with cerebral palsy, Pebbles in a box, rubber bands, clothespin, bean bags, and stones and shells offer a variety of possibilities for homemade toys. Easter Seal toy guidelines offer a final thought: Give of yourself to the handicapped child. He enjoys playing with grown-up- s as much as other children do. j ed (Blackboards, easels, tft$- oiees e cry where art in exultation, rai-- DECEMBER Santa not be filled. Handicapped children want toys Based on studies of disabled for Christmas just as all youngsters do, but when you go shop- children at play, the Easter Seal ping for that disabled boy or Society recommends wider use of girl on your list, there are some toys that can be made in the "do's" and "don' ts' to keep in home. Pieces of fabric velvet, be silk, corduroy, nylon--ca- n mind. Ted Priestley, Executive D- joined or simply put in a box irector of the Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults of Utah, Inc. serving handicapped children in Utah, recommends that relatives and friends first check with a child's parents about his abilities and play interests, and then be guided by these tips on toys for disabled children: Dokeep uppermost in mind the child' s physical development and the type of play in which he is interested. Do give toys that involve the child to make them work. Some battery-operattoys offer only initial novelty interest and are soon discarded. Do shop for toys, appropriate for the child confined to awheel-chai- r. At THURSDAY. - el v6V pmelaiminji the woiidrou- - events of that fiit ' Christmas, Come, let ns all adore Him ' 'SMS l The peace W( ! an6 promise ii of ii xs- - The Light that shines at Christmas is radiant with the promise of "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men." We join you in this prayer. Snow and stillness, home and happiness symbolize the spirit of the Christmas season. With these glad thoughts in our minds, we greet our friends and neighbors, wishing one and all the very best of this bountiful, beautiful time. May your holidays be merry and marvelous! STATE BANK OF m DRIVE INN 24. 1970 regress if put back into buildin ings where the attendant ratio Babies Briefs Legislators 35 to resiabout one is every dents,' Supt. Paul S. Sagers Gay Christmas said. He said the training school Many mentally retarded younhas applied for a similar grant gsters previously classified as for Birch Cottage, "But I'drath-e- r Stockings 'custodial' and"untrainable" can withdraw it now than have it bridge the communications gap cut out from under us when it New babies born at the Amerskills if plac- runs out three years from now. ican Fork Hospital during the and learn self-heed in an environment conducive holiday season are being sent for them to do so, Utah State Jay Stevens, assistant superin gay Christmas stockings. home a brief reTraining School officials said intendent, presented The bright pink, red or white at the sume of budget increases here Sunday. flannel print stockings were made He noted This fact was also shown to school since 1965-6- 6. members of the Pink Ladthat the increases have made it by Utah County legislators who aties Auxiliary and presented to the tended the monthly directors' possible for the training school nursery. hospital with meeting of the school's Parents' to provide staff members Mrs. Rowene Vibbert, project and merit wage Organization, held at the in said the new infants not provided chairman, stitution, as they heard a plea increases, but have sent home in their new be will for budgetary assistance for the for much increase in resident wrapping throughout the holiday programs. school. season. He said that during 1969-7- 0 A demonstration was given by Assisting with the project have three residents of the school's the school received 63 percent been Mrs. Myrtle Houston, Mrs. the state; 10 hospital building who had lain of its funds from Eloise Ferguson, Mrs. Maude behind crib bars for several percent from parents and 27 Roberts, Mrs. Betty Harvey, years. One could identify colors; percent from federal grants. Mrs. Luana Smith, Mrs. Arreva another answered questions with Supt. Sager said that every fed- Peterson and Mrs. Marcelle a nod of the head. Neither can eral dollar receivedby the school Skinner. verbalize. A third girl sang two is earmarked for a specific use and cannot be used otherwise. Dear Santa Claus, songs. He pointed out that only about All three are now attending a I want a soft dolly and I want fourth-centurperceptual motor training class 240 residents of the training a game called don't Break the ice school are currently in educain the school's education departand I want a game called toss a tion programs. Several hundred cross, a doll called finger ding. ment. more could participate if more And some clothes, a pencil box The legislators and association directors also visited Elm staff and more room were avail- and a little box of pants. Now I O 70- - MAT PAGE 27 able. have to go sing. Cottage and the Hospital ImOther residents currently Now dood bye (HEP) cotprovement Program W l faint-iFOI5 AS llii I.ITTI.K T1TI.K .Iranins "HKI.I.O, two for but received where only attending school, Traci tage, l they ViM nolt-iTIkiiikis from of S;illl:l, liy :i Harper's Weekly. views of what can or three hours a day, could also P. S. Trow love. 19tli century political cartoonist, Mas the lirst to illustrate Santa have more training. be taught to the profoundly reas a bearded, jolly old man whose rotund figure was red suit, according to researchers for Other speakers Sunday were clothed in u tarded when they are placed in Hallmark. sitDean Jones and Garty Elton of small groups in family-typ- e Sen. Gardner, chairman of the the administrative staff. Mrs. appropriations committee, said uations. Elm is a regular dormitory Byron (Elaine) Sharp, parents ashe didn't want to be a pessimist. child-sca- le kitchen items, and sociation president conducted the "But I don't want to tell you and HIP a federally fundbuilding Letters to manufac. . . Dear Santa, other toys adapted by The legislators in ated demonstration program. meeting. you'll receive your fund requests I wrote early so I might could turers for use by wheelchair-boun- d HIP has been in operation for tendance included Sens. Wallace and then you don't. The money need Dear Santa, get these things. I want a camchildren, though gifts Fork; just isn't available. Funds are years, and its grant runs N. Gardner, I want a guitar and a sizzlers, not be limited to specifically era and two real walkie talkies three out in March. Training school Dean C. Christensen, going to be harder and harder to I and and have an excellent a been made toys.) tape recorder. and Ernest H. Dean, officials appealed to the legisget unless you people and the be to but that can Love I sometimes Lisa toys Hardman boy, forget Dogive to help provide $100,000 Fork; and Reps. Dean Prior, citizens of the state come out lators I cat. I feed do litnot do will P.S. and better. held with care what else I needed to continue the my grasped easily Robert O. Bowen, program. and say that you want higher tle effort. (Stuffed dogs, plastic I will give you a cookie. get. am afraid these children will E. Smith, taxes." "I and John Fork; Love, books, suctionspin top, and small Kurt Harding autos, trucks, and tractors.) Dogive toys that represent familiar things to a child (Mail- Dear Santa, How are you? I am fine. I have box, train, iron and ironing board, hammer and been nearly perfect, but sometimes I have not obeyed, but I nail set.) te do better. Well, what I want will child a canman-ipulatoys Dogive and that enable him to for Christmas- - I want a dart create and use his imagination. board and what I want next I (Toy telephone, string puppet, want a lot of candy, but that is balancing toys, take-apa- rt toys.) not all I want. I want a lot of safe other things. a whose toy Don'tgive use is in question. From Craig with brilliant and joyous celebrations. "Nast's children later recalled there was always a multitude of paper dolls marvelously big and elaborate, a race long since become extinct. "And these the artistic more than half a father child himself at the Christmas season arranged in processions and cavalcades, gay pageants that marched in and about those larger presents that could not be crowded into the row of stockings that hung by the family fireplace. "It was a time of splendor and rejoicing the festive blossoming of the winter season and it was a beautiful and sturdy family that made Merry .Christmas riot in the spacious New York home." In Nast's day, the idea of some sort of Santa was not new to this country. He was introduced to North America by the early Dutch settlers and his name was St. Nicholas. The annual visit of this kind man, who was thought y to have been a bishop, was his feast day, December 6th. By 1809, Washington Irving was describing Santa as a small Dutch citizen who looked much like Father Knickerbocker. Irving wondered how the poor old man could get to all the homes in a growing America on his horse, so he invented the famous reindeer-draw- n sleigh. ing depicting Training School THE LEHI FREE PRESS, JO'S FASHIONS |