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Show IS THERE A SANTA n.ATTS? MANY ASK By BETTY BLAIR Hundreds of Salt Lake City children have the beautiful faith in Santa Claui that the Virginia in the following letter had. It will require hundreds of Subi for Santa to make that faith a reality. Will you help? Dear Editor: I am g years old. anm. ft ; Utile friends say there is no Santa Claua. Papa ssys: "If you see it in The Sun it's so." Fleass tell me Ths truth, 1 there Santa Claui' VIRGINIA O'HANLON. lis West Nlnsty-flfth street. ' Virginia, your little friends ars wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a akeptical ate. They da not believe except they see. They think that nothing Heart's Haven can be which la not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, ara little. In this great universe of ours man la a mere Insect In-sect an ant, in his intellect, as compared com-pared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the In-tellisence In-tellisence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowladgs. Santa, Exists Tea, Virginia, there s a Santa Claua. Hs exists as csrtalnly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your Ufa Its highest beauty and Joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claua! It would bs as dreary aa If there ware no Vlr- Christmas grsens fresh. We've hsd our wrsatha and sprigs of holly several days and already they're looking the worse tor : ""wear TwouId "like to do soms-thlng soms-thlng to refresh them if possible. Thank you. "M. M." e "a"-a Immerse the greens In cold water and keep In a cool place before hanging them. If they had been kept in a cool place from the time of buying until time for hanging they would have kept freaher. CANDY SUBSTITUTE Dear Miss Blair: During the holidays ths children chil-dren always sat too much candy. I wondsr if you have a recipe for a fruit paste of soms sort that will taks ths place of the candy. Something with dates, figs and other fruits with nuts will bs nice. Thanks. "R. E." a Hera are ginger fruit aquares ths oalldroa all Invaj Qnacup stoned datss, 1 cup figs, 1 cup raisins, 2 packagss or 1 dossn gingsr snaps. 1 tablsspoon grated orange rind and orange Juice. Put fruita and ginger snaps through food grinder. Add orange rind and moisten with orange Juice. Pat into a flat aquare cake about half an Inch thick. Cut In aquares, sprinkle with pulverised pul-verised sugar. ginlas. There would be no child' like faith then, no poetry, no romance ro-mance to make tolerable this exist enee. We ahould have no enjoy' ment except In sense and sight The eternal light with which child' . hoed fills the world would be extinguished. extin-guished. Not believe In Santa Claua! Ton might as well not believe In falriasl You might gst your papa to hire men to watch In all the chlmneyi en Christmas eve to catch Santa Claua, but even If they did not ass Santa Claua coming down, what would that prove? Nobody esss Santa Claua, but that la no algn that there Is no Santa Claua. Ths most real thlnga In the world ars those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing en the lawn? Of eourae not, but that's no proof that they re not there. Nobody can conceive con-ceive or Imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable In the world. Miracle ef Faith Tou tear apart the baby's rattle and aee what makea the noise Inside, In-side, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not ths strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, eould tear apart. I Only faith, fancy, poetry, leva, ro-.maaee, ro-.maaee, eaa push aside that ourtaln and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. la It all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there Is nothing else real and abiding abid-ing No Santa Claua! Thank Ood! he Uvea, and he Uvea forever. A thousand thou-sand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten tlmea tea thousand years from now, be will continue to make glad the heart ef childhood. see The foregoing letter with Ha esarchlng answer was first published pub-lished In The Sun, New Tork. in lsrr. Since that tins this classic expreaatoa ef Christmas asntlmsnt haa beea reprinted more millions of tlmea than any other newspaper article ever written by any newspaper news-paper writer la any language. Many requests reach this column very year for its publication. Ws are grateful te "A Reader" for Its . receipt this year and hope Its message mes-sage resets em your hearts In ths only way that will make children's dream of Santa eome true. KEEP GREENS FRESH Dear Miaa Blair: la there any way ef keeping |