Show recreation so it Is certain that the teddy bear and the loy dog of the coming century will be alps marvas the rover dog that chri little boy gets will be lite site ife will prance about on bin four legs and ito down mind toll over al oe hilding of bit master bl CT Iler haps the moat wonderful ceab y fa ure of all in our christmas in 2002 will be the methods in our daily life the housekeeping arrangements of that time would seem to woman at today to day it she eoula pla tursi ow A them in her wita the lack at com MR I 1 ST X A S a hundred years from now will be the old christmas raa doubt but it will be ce lebrat id under such vastly different conditions that N it you should go to sleep now and wake up a century later YOU would think you were in a 41 gerent world the christmas spirit will be the same dut whether it Is a hundred years from now or a thousand vmay be sure that when the christmas season comes the world will be full of the christmas spirit little rrt rl children and grown men and women still is will be made happy by giving and receiving grudges and gi t aches will be anle mies forgiven and good will will prevail can kill that the golden oil P motto peace on earth good will r r P r r r re fall 1 1 6 V 41 41 Q 0 r a F arpir berrr r J Z arrer r rc moll t I 1 vt to men will be just As 5 sacred and as new to the hearts ot men ra it was nineteen hundred ana bearg ago everybody will give everybody else a present but the vre presents will be differ ent little johnny will not covet a railroad train real cars on a real track pulled by a real locomotive that makes males smoke will not seem a wonderful thing to him as it does to the little johnny of today to day the lad of the next century will want a model of the latest airship in lila lits christmas stocking he lie will expect a working model that will sail through the flat like a live bird and perhaps carry his own weight the last hundred years steam and electricity have been developed aud it la Is entirely reasonable to imagine that within the coming century men will travel through the air as commonly as they now travel over the land the automobile the trolley car the railroad train and the horse aa us a animal all will be gone men will cusp the earth as the birds do for a resting place for their homes and the principal source of food aup in ply but when they want to move from one place to another they will mount into the ether even ae the birds do and flay ilay swiftly and safely to their it la Is probable that there will not be a wheeled vehicle ot of any kind on the streets of a great city on christmas day in the year 2009 our tunnel system vill have developed until the vast subterranean act net work of borea bores chutes and pneumatic tube tubes will carry on the heavy traffic of 0 the city without noise or contusion confusion the streets will be given up to pedestrians to those who walk for 1 pleasure or wish to brauel short distances the sidewalk aa as it is now will be no more but iut the en tire width of the street wilt will be given up to foot f passengers there will be neither car tracks trucks nor moving vehicles to annoy i the suburbanite who does not fly to work in 2009 will be shot through a pneumatic tube trav eling the five ten or fifty miles of distance in a space of time that may be only a few seconds and certainly cannot be more than a few minutes it may be that few people will walk anywhere in the year 2009 when man learns to fly he will corn walking as too slow a means of progress perhaps our great great grandchildren who no doubt will live in ira apartment building buildings tottering a half mil rails biorn the ground may go for weeks at a timo time wt vi hout setting foot to the earth with the passing of tho christmas sleigh there will be no longer any need for reindeers tor for bauta sauta claue claus lie ile too will travel by airship and while the old santa claue claus will bo be a myth the new now santa claus will be as real aa as the bewhiskered and boye boys who now entertain the eb children ildren in the department stores it li Is not bard hard to imagine that the big stores will develop the santa claua claus idea to the point that christmas purchases will be delivered on christ t by an airship driver mado p to imper forts and the inconvenience of life iffe la in V UE a cottage it la Is possible will drive or 12 0 0 Q WIL BE moet most of the city dwellers dw dwell ellern err into the OF apartment buildings which wilt will grow bonate tonate santa claus A hundred years from now it ou want to avoid the rush and do your christ mas hopping shopping in your mir own aai apartments the scientists probably will have provided for you a tion of telescope and moving picture machine by meins of which you can connect your toom with the toy department and see the display by wire or perhaps by elEga and at the same time yon you get prices and leave your order with the clerk by telephone dut perhaps the woman at of ZOO will enjoy the mad rush of the chops as much as eha she does to day during the holiday season and then she will go to the big store and order her toys and pros ente the store could deliver them through te t e pneumatic package tubes which will go tr tt all parts of at the city but it will bo poetic to have them delivered by santa claua claus christmas eve eye a scare or a hundred santa clauses wilt will set out from the shops with their airships laden with christmas gifts to be delivered at the various addresses it will no longer be necessary to deliver all goods la in the rear of at the big apartment building but whether you live on the or two hundred and twentieth story of tho the big bouse house you will hove your own private airship landing and white while the family ie to gathered at the door to receive santa claua claus the airship wilt will settle on the landing and the cheerful merry christmas of the aeronaut will greet you as he bands hands in the packages the Christ mad tree ck a hundred years from now wilt will be an marvel festoon festoons and wreaths of rainbow colored lights and chasers will scintillate from its green branches but the presents that hang on it will be even more won darful there will bo be dolls as large as the little tria who will receive them there will be dolls that can walk and with the improved phonographic arrangements range ments of another century there will be dolls that can talk and others that can sing beautiful songs some of them no doubt will bo be able to dance gracefully and to do tricks that would seem u miraculous it performed by on an automaton today to day the mechanical toy toys of 2009 will be marvels of perfection the most imaginative man cannot possibly conc conceive elvo of the new things that will be invented in the way of machinery but it Is I 1 safe to assume blat the transmission of at power will be perfected wh els will spin without any visible motive power power may alti L taken from the suns raye rays or warle kit a power stations may be operated by the waves the waterfalls or even the wind winds before the coal fipple la Is es exhausted hausted the died for coal either foi warmth or power will have passed away and whatever triumphs men make in the in du world they impart to their games and bagg taller as the year years pass un til III they will be literally skyscrapers within a cen tury in me ot of these theme big build inge lingo while tho the joachin cry will be out of bight sight domestic affair affairs will be as s mechanical even automatic that hat you can get al most anything the family needs simply by turning on a switch or pressing a button the flat dweller of that distant day will net not be bothered with servants or the servant problem by preshing pre pres abing bing a button the christmas dinner will come up noiseless y troal train the kitchen on the mechanical waiter or perhaps in a pneumatic tube after your christmas dinner Is over the dishes will disappear as silently and swiftly as an you could wish some et o 0 rt tt ot of mechanical d alb washer in the kitchen will talta talce care of them thern or fht ie to more likely they will be made of a cheap compo milu and will be dt dill troyed by burning after they are used once ta antiseptic r 0 oi the mod ern em burgeon surgeon witt be common to the kitchens 0 of tha th next century aid hygiene will be a real science when you hav ha eaten your christmas dinner it you want to go ou for the evening you can presa dress a button and an will come to the landing at your door or it if you biefer it you may drop down the pneumatic elevator to bt u ne point 50 60 or ID feet below the surface ot of the earin ual 1 I 1 w whirly through the pneumatic subway at a dizzy arse is ot of speed to your destination only the peed speed will not make you dizzy you will not be able to feel it 11 you may sit in your cushioned car well lighted and warmed and ventilated by come isome process yet to be b disco discovered vereA and before ya you u realize it the miles will speed away and you step out to the opera or the play it if you prefer to remain at your apartments th the attached to your telephone may be connected to any theater you desire and you can eit alt in your easy chair and smoke while you yot v jbf play projected on tiro wall like the moat most perfect moving picture all the stage settings will be there to make the play seem real and the improved telephone will bring every shade and subtle inflection inflect lon ot of the actors voice to your ear it seems certain that this tel arrangement the exact word to describe it wilt be coined after the process ie le discovered ft III be one of th the triumphs of the coming century it will enable you to see the person you are talking to over a tele tel phone the night flight oc of the coming airship probably will be so 90 rapid that the business man and even the sal arced worker if he layas the country cin etta have a ill tella or a cottage at a creat great distance from the city tit and go to vork work in his a own airship at slight coet cost on christmas day in the good c ottury to come conic this night flight in the air will bo be the means meant at of many family reunions that are impossible now dow A few hours will III taki one to the most distant part of the th country and the practical cessation of business busl nes il during tiring the holiday week will leave all tree frei to for forti gather with the loved ones and pay A 10 |