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Show 1 THEN AND NOW. Children Different Than They Used to Be When She Was Young. "If It wore not for my sister-in-law," said a young mother, "I could he per fectly happy In tho bringing up bf my little girl. Slsterln-law understands all about 'child nature,' nnd It pnlns her to sco mo treating my daughter as my mother treated mo. Sho has been worried to death becauso I've let tho jlbJld bdlojEO In Santa Claus. She says It's wicked to teach lies, and that n c'hlld'a wholo moral being Is undermined when It discovers that Its parents havo deceived It. It didn't affect af-fect mo that way, but children were different In my day. Sho worked me up so about It that last week I undertook under-took to explain to Dorothy about Santa Claus. "'Santa Claus,' said I, 'Is merely tho personification of the Christmas spirit of generosity and good will.' "'Spirit?' asked Dorothy, looking dazed. " 'Yes. said I, 'tho Christmas spirit.' "I was called away Just then, and Dorothy, was taken off to bed. When I went In to kiss her goodnight there lay the child crying softly to herself. At first sho wouldn't tell mo what the trouble was. After long urging, sho sobbed out; "'I'm 'frald, I'm 'frald. You said Santa Claus wbb a' ghost, and I'm I frald he'll como." I "I sat right down and told her I Santa Claus was .1 fat little man with I a red face and white whiskers 1 wish sister-in-law would let me alono. I believed In Santa Claus till I was ten years old." |