Show OLD SANTA M REAL BY HUBERT NORTHEN figot by w L tn I 1 NCE a clever borton boston papa ceaud ceased to le be lieve I 1 in n santa claus lie ue had bought it late state and pencil and nj I 1 it t out that the heigh sleigh which would costin the toy toys that com come to all lithe the little boy boys and girls in the world boull bare to be as B big bit go a hoi bov om A and that the pan span of reindeer that could pull nil it would be forty ton tons too hetry betry he try to t drag it up the wall eams at 0 the ant first house tor for t the trip oter ever the roof many other things did this wise oin man find and 0 out with 1 abe he help of big date state and arid pen pea d ell it and t then I 1 en be h added them all up and found the lum sum total to be that banta santa acus li is ft a myth lit ile joyfully told tbt this to bli his little ton son W who be win was an advanced student of an in dent clent literature to bli his great hla his little son on seemed tory very glad and w when ben be amazed parent asked him w wherefore b ba thus explained my amy worthy father became because of 0 tain ocular demonstration afforded by a surreptitious fiance or tiro two into our kitchen lait last christmas eve TO I 1 via was grav gray stating rapidly to the opinion that sun san ta ts claw claus doea does pot not exist the only ex of the phenomenon observed obi erred consistent tent with bin his existence ademeit to be that be could at once take the appearance pe arance of yourself youra elf air aad and aim also of mamma ta in your night robes and w with tb yur arma arms full of gift gifts for me I 1 ind ind this ivo while neither ot of you wa was in your own room I 1 established the alibi tot to you by a hurried hurtled visit it Is I 1 dot inot to be marveled BiarT eld at that my faith in sit santa clu claus received a severe jostle but your c relm revives my an cleat belief aad and pot puts it on a sure are foot toot ing ID you have discovered that santa clau claus ti Is a myth hurrah for the real true baaba clam claus king of myth hereafter I 1 trill will beller believe la in bin lim hope in him adore bluml you appear astonished parent but perhaps ix that Is 1 because yoo you do no not t vt derst aind myths there la Is nothing so 10 real BD an a myth when I 1 aay say that liei oa on rides across the lie sky in a golden 01 loo chariot every day preceded by blush ing aurora it li Is as true on a it if I 1 say ay that the lie sunrise follow follows dawn to in all the landa lands af f the earth wata I 1 bay that Illa hiawatha wrestle 4 with tha the corn and threw throw him and burl him only to aee see jilin rise abajo ala I 1 but speak of the tl ta to millar industries ot of reaping and alog and at of the sprouting ot of the new plant in to its it ti time e A myth Is I 1 a folk ula we describing veil ell through the altri or of the abstract I 1 IP m pd papa p a write that down let us n now op apply ply the definition to santa claus santa ants claue office ti Is to bring toy toys sweet sweetmeats meats or BOW more useful gifts at iiii his attribute attributes are gener dosity benevolence care for or dependent dependents that office to I 1 actually oiled jolted those at tribute tributes display themselves therefore according to myth law banta sauta clau claus really lire lives and act acts his bl useful and popular part mui nith a 0 bint blot or two as a to the man nor of 0 doing it I 1 will now leave you to pure plaue the tudy study arthr further tou will find flud tt it fascinating e that banta santa claa claus come comes out of the men frozen north that Is I 1 As a if you would aay say that the impute impulse of christmas geling proceed proceeds f atom om the cold at 1 heart A at 4 this leasot note that be del td J reindeer relo deer pleasing spectacle for or the mind a eye je I 1 it Is I 1 nik a it I 1 yoa you bould lay say that be seeks ek to a make a bli big guile or bli big gifts unusual tor for the better enjoyment thereof consider Co nilder that be b comes down the toward the warm bearta of t the home bottle that Is a lesson to the children curlit maa was gift gifts bower OB oil the war warm in he hearted arteil anil od loving father I 1 bar only to add that I 1 am 1 warm I hearted and toying you wll ardon DI if it I 1 cow now go so into late the library a and ad writ write a chapter of aj my book ou on tha the troth of mythology |