Show 1 RU Darr 1 in in 1897 rain I Jl Vi ni I O C r l Ini y n a. a 37 tin tG l A la ro I 13 o of f I N u uJ w S J urI or I S I nr an S II 7 Sum SHri 11 1 o 01 o c I f ap I tR n I Cf IAIN Ih it it no 0 Santa nl Papa P- P PI I S. S 1 you M m TM 11 0 wI ln y W w A H v I w r OM I II u iA I h. h f d A In ClUN r ranJ q I ly p r 1 M t I 11 d tram i 1 a Jl li N i f in I I r ol J. J w tl i t 1 j rM il It i AI I 1 w L q 1 11 r. r L 1 Yes indeed 1 Virginia your little 3 are wrong They The have ave b en affected by the skepticism skepticism m of a skeptical age they age they do not believe except what they see see see- they think that nothing g can be beJ J which is not comprehensible by their little minds QI J w i I i All minds mind Virginia V inia whether they be mens men's hild n ns n's r are little p j In A this Y f great U universe lJ l U f of ours sir i ii A R j A t r o I o j x jl y man is a mere insect an ant in in inS S his intellect as compared with th tB bj dI ss world about him as measured red by the intelligence f b e b bb 1 a. a J c R V L J 1 f S 1 I tl r rt t f nT j 1 t I 1 I II I F j I b i I II I I Ii i capable of grasping the i o of truth and knowledge kno Jed j Yes les' les Virginia V. V Virginia there th ere a is-a Santa Claus Glaus i L T He exists He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy Alas how dreary would be the world vo ld if there were no Santa Claus Glaus It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias There would be w no 2 ii childlike lY faith then no p. p poe poetry noe- noe 1 try wy no romance to make tolerable toler toler- tolerable tolerable I able this existence We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would woul wo ke e extinguished Not beli J Sr aus S 1 You might as Fell of lie e ein t in fairies J You IOU might mig h. h t get your papa to hire men men to watch in all the chim chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Glaus but even if they did not see Santa Claus Glaus coming down what would that th t prove I Nob Nobody dy sees Santa Claus Glaus but I that is no sign that there is no Santa Glaus the Claus the most real things in the world are those nei nei- neither neither neither ther children nor men can see Did you ever see fairies rill 1 11 I. I o w r fy a I P 1 i. i r j jI I I dancing on the lawn Of course not but that's no proof that they are not there there nobody nobody can conceive con con- conceive conceive or imagine all alt the wonders that are unseen and f 11 ID You tear apart the baby's rattle rat rat- rattle rattie tle tie and see what makes the noise inside but there is a veil covering the unseen unseen world which not the strongest man or even the united 1 of all the J I strength strongest men that ever lived could tear apart I k Only faith fancy poetry love romance can push aside the tIle cur cur- curtain curtain tain tamp and view and picture the tIle su BU- supernal suPernal pernal beauty beau and glory beyond 1 I Is Is it all real real real-ah ah ah I Virginia J Jin in all this tIllS world there is s nothing else real and abidin T TV f V c 1 V j jJ jl J l. l No Santa Claus aI k God S u ui uhe k I i c che he he lives and he lives lies forever forever- a thousand years from now Virginia Vir Vir- V Virginia r- r t ginia nay ten thousand years ye rs from now he will continue to tomake make glad g lad the heart of childhood I r i-r I 7 G d I n fl d nl A S j 1 r 1 r 1 W n w J N V i I 1 |