Show an arctic christmas the crew of an arctic explorer had great pleasure one christmas amid the ice and snow in teaching the little eskimo children how to observe an american christmas the queer little tots had never heard of a christmas tree aad santa olaus was an unknown personage the sailors were desperately homesick un il one of them wiy little onea of his own happened to think of a christmas treefon tree for the little chubby eskimos with their round heads and soft dark oyes A real live green tree was of course out of the question in that icy region BO the men gathered up the bones of slaughtered walruses bears whales and other creatures and tied them together BO that they branched out in every direction when it came to candy they could not get that either but instead they mado balls of whale blubber or fat of which the little fur wrapped eskimo is extremely fond and those queer substitutes for ca were tied on the tree with colored cord bright beads shining buttons somo brass headed tacks and a few other such remarkable presents were also tied on and then bits of lighted candles were stuck all about giving quite a festive air to the queerest christmas tree that was probably overseen but the eskimo children enjoyed it to a wonderful degree and the homesick sailors grew bright and cheerful in giving them such a novel pleasure new york tribune |