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Show """" " """""""'" f"" i in, .mi,i imiTiir THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER. UTAH ZWi.M If Jc& . Scmers Smashed in Collision at Maneuvers -- ki Ok , j r wm i mat , v;k , 7i - : fli ,! WUIi,: ' A 'v,. h : i skilled UsaM y pictures arejW; Picture,; as, using aques "f airttotW , . ' - V- - - mada' 'vf . ,.;-"'V,- 1 s - WA, A7k. vaV v Ar t J liip cornea ' B . HRISTMAS would not be Christmas Claus. flttf riaus, originally Sinterklass, nnnie of the Dutch children friend and jfw ihcir Bishiii St. Nicholas, came to America now New ,)fork.n of New Amsterdam, Iecember 6 was St. Nicholas !ln.v. mid on St. Nicholas eve he was ,Mii'i'd to make bis rounds on a fiery white charger, leaving gifts for good nliililren and a birch rod for the bad shoes or long blue . "iifs in the wooden stockings wliich they put in the chim-- ! ot'j corner. V1 en the Dutch customs began lo merge into the English in the colonial days, the observance of St. Xicliolas day gradually merged into the Christmas and New Year's Soon after the Revbolidayp. Belty olution Sinterklass began to change r and mid to become Santa Claus, an Amer-IctiJousln character. Instead of being a I Jtfa I tall, solemn person with long robes, t siig- - poitilnr tradition made him a fat, ly person wearing knee breeches and very i shoes with Dutch buckles. Ue also intlng I lieiiti milking his rounds in a little 't the V!ion drawn by a fat pony, and his visits occurred on New Year's eve instead of December 5. Washington Irving had something to do with the change in Santa Claus, lapes for In his 'Knickerbocker's knot History como of New York" he wrote a description ff this friend of the children which t made him look much like the Santa of today. However, it remained for Ut'v. Clement Clarke Moore, professor of oriental literature in the General to describe Thciilngical seminary, Siiiitu Claus minutely and to give him Isilit reindeer and a sleigh for mak-h)!- t his round's on Chrlrtmus eve. In 1S Professor Moore wrote the now famous poein. which he called "A Vis-l-l from St. Nicholas," but which is Mier ki.own as "The Night Before 'Iirlstmas." as a Christmas present for his children. A niece who was at the Moore home tliut Christinas copied the poem Into Iter album. The next year it np laied anonymously In the Troy IN'. Y.) Sentinel and was widely WAS the night befor Christmas, when all through th houM Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; the chimney with car, Itl Ti"' stockings were hung bysoon would be there; In hopes that St. Nicholas tlx K The children were nestled all snug in their beds. danced through their heads; While visions of Aigar-pluAnd mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Ha) just settled our brains for a long winter's nap Whfcn out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, . I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew Kke a flash. Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. snow, The moon, on the breast of the new-fallGave a luster of midday to objects below; should to appear. When what my wondering eyes But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came. And he whistled and shouted and called them by Dame: "Now, Dasher! now. Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid, on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall ! Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!" As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly. When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, the coursers they flew, So, up to the house-to- p With a sleigh full of toys and St. Nicholas, too. And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As 1 drew in my bead and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. Ha was dressed all In fur from his head to bis foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys be had flung oa his back. And he looked tike a pedler Just opening his pack. His eyes how they twinkled! his dimples bow merry 1 His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow. And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow. The stump of a pipe be held tight in his teeth. And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath. He had a broad face, and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of felly He was chubby and plump a right Jolly old elf And I laughed when I saw him,, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his bead Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread-- He spoke not a word, but went straight to his 'work. And filled all the stockings; then turned with a Jerk, And laying bis finger aside of his nose. And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. , He sprang to his sleigb, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle; But I heard him exclaim, ere be drove out of sight; "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a Clement C Moore. iiv Sunta "lie i. t r, s n jol-han- Asphalt Long in Use 8 n I rr - o ? ' ' ' I i.imSfA MfPw Hack in the days of the ancient suiiieiiiins. the Assyrian, the Per "lans mid the Egyptians, they were n!er. nil. linn their boats and castle !ills with asphalt; they were making hiwineiits v.ith ft ; they were creat h'K fiiiliiriiiii monuments with It and (i'"liably. iim.sl Important of all, the yi'ilans had found In It the sub Hhih'h which enabled thein to pre-"rfor all time their marvelous Porto Rico's Victory Monument SI it became over the country and had found its way Into the school readers. Professor Moore was the author of the first Greek and Hebrew lexicon published in America and had hoped that his name would become famous because he did not want it of It As known that he had composed what he called this "silly verse," but he mummies. Nature herself, many thousands of years- - earlier, was employing La I'.rea it In (he extraordinary California. southern of pits level, when they wt.v caught In a electric storm violent Lightning g'.ruck the peak and the steel in theli Th rope conducted the electricity priest, leader of the party, was killed copied. Soon all finally Fatal Experiment Nine Alpinists, ono of theu a priest, .ve lctlms of an odd accident while mountain climbing In the yroi. The party was experimenting " ith h new type of ope containing n They had man .illiible steel strand. nmit of Marmo-hidthe reae1! wi to aged feet nhovc sea 10.000 mountain. " and right others were very serious'.? Injured. to E. Jones, who will be introduced Washington society this season. GETS HIGH POST View during the unveiling of the Victory monument of Porto Rico la San Juan. All insular and federal institutions there took part in the impressive ceremony. Ambassador Morrow Studies Mexico 1 ! .1 Ii fr.iiw ' 1 J J..L. Miss Elsie A. Cannon of Washington, who has Just been appointed United States commissioner in the Court of Claims to serve for five years. -- - i-ff hfy MwiHx Old Custom Passing "Goose Day" Is another of the English customs which is fast dying out. "Goose Day" Is the first day of Michaelmas, and n goose is eaten, Jut as pancakes are eaten on Shrove Tuesday and plum pudding at Christmas. Poulterers of London say that this year only the hotels had roast goose for their patrons on Michaelmas day. Human Signal Tower There's a trafllc cop six feet ten Inches tall In Minnesota. He may be a good cop but a guy as tall as thai must be awful high handed. Fara and Fireside. of the Miss Ruth Jones, daughter director of prohibition and Mrs. James mtZ. admitted its authorship and presented the autographed original to the New York Historical society. His lexicon is forgotten, as would his name probably have been, if he had not written the poem that Christmas in 1S22 which $ now looked upon as the "birthday" of the American Santa Claus, known and beloved by all American children. known I I dm M TheNightB&foreChristmas But who Is Santa Clans and its. Th ih?fd why his name? well-fur- jfVA'T Whatever name he d to re-Is called Santa Jmbodies J Claus, St. Nicholas, ...si. Nick, or Krips f Kringle he is the spersmiiiication of the Christmas spirit find Hie symbol of childish faith. ie ' CAPITAL DEBUTANTE Lr1 fc without Santa I in-- r i, ELMO SCOTT WATSON md sli .Ie I a- - I Zellln during More than a million persons took part In the parade In Moscow during he celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Soviet revolution. The photograph shows part of the huge crowd in the Red square. nspicuons ring aa a rn ho ket for ie cr, S. rJ tyj . s going to m Million Soviet Russians Parade in Moscow . I - Awd-!- The U. S. S. Somers with her port quarters smashed in after she collided with the U. S. oil Point Loma, Calif. Vs& $jk&v - 5 .III m ' tk.J ?'- - i j Oil a'ief are' 1! I I ".. I mis K,"srF 1 i' V -- rfj'f " Ivory con- Although the layman usually siders the elcpnaiit tusk the source of Ivory, a recent Ivory ki!p In Hclghim Included 1S5 pounds of hippopotamus teeth. rrS-Mi- .I 'VS.- 'r c - J.SVaK' a. 1 Dwiglit Morrow, American ambassador to Mexico, is learning a lot about ruins at that country. He and his party recently inspected the Teotilitiiicsiii at th invitation of the secretary of education, Dr. Jo 3,000-year-ol- " Manue.' Pulg. |