IS'POSK there is a Santa Claus
1 hat brings them pretty toys
An' candy an' mince pics an' things 1
To lots o' little boys.
But whire we live down here, 1 guess,
Is sort o' oil his beat.
I'm prelty certain, anyway,
He never iound our street.
He goes around to all the stores
An' fills 'em full o' things
Like sleds an' skates an' railroad cars,
The kind he always brings,
An' then he seems to lose the way
To our house. Ain't it queer
That all the times he's come to town
He's never been down here ?
HE GOES AKOUNK TO ALL THE STOKES AN
FILLS 'EM FULL ()' THINGS.
I asked my mother if I might
Go wait for him uptown
An' tell him that the boys I know
Invites him to come down,
But she just sort o' chokes an' coughs,
An' then she looks away
An' says, "He'll find us out, I guess.
An' visit us some day."
An' yet I've been here
So long that I don't b'lievc
I'll ever sec him come at all
On any Christmas eve.
I'm goin' to ask a p'liceman if
Santa lie should meet
He'll just go up an' speak to him
An' point him out our street.
New York American.
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Little cakes itiai will lie tin.- c
drew either ;»t the table or on the
Christinas tree are made as follows:
Bake the cakes iu little patty or muliin
pans ami frost the tops with a white
icing. Dip a small now paint brush in
melted chocolate and draw a face on
each. Make some crying and others
laughing, the different expressions be
ing made by the curve of the mouth
line. The merest outline will be sufli
cieut. Cut a circle of tissue paper of
white or any other color liked two
inches larger than the cake, pink the
edge with scissors anil run a thread
round one inch from the edge. Put a
cake iu the paper, draw up the thread,
and a cunning little cap is formed.
The pleasure of small children will
well repay the trouble of making these
little cake babies.—Pittsburg Press.
Firm Aid to Suntn Claim.
A clever idea for a Christmas night
party is to have the gifts come In on a
sled piled high and strapped on and the
sled drawn by two lads dubbed Santa
Clans' assistants. The place cards at
the supper which follows the distribu
tion ot' the gilts should be tiny sleds
made from cardboard and dipped in
mucilage, then in diamond dust, the
rope to be of silver cord and each sled
drawn by a miniature Santa Clans
about three inches high.
Tin- Children's Ffmtivul.
"Ami a little child shall lead them."
The entire meaning or' the festival of
Christinas is contained in these words.
It is the festival of the children be
cause on this day Cod, the Son, the
Second Person of the Blessed Trinity,
took upon him human nature in Hie
shape of a helpless and beautiful child.
—ltev. John Talbott Smith, LL. !>..
President Catholic Summer School of
America.
'lore Wanted.
"Merry Christmas, old man! Ami
many more like it."
The man addressed turns a baleful,
sleepless eye upon the speaker and
replies:
"Many more like it! Say, you hadn't
heard that twins came to our house
last night, had you?"— Judge.
"JesNle ClirlntmuN!"
Little Jessie woke up on Christmas
morning and called to her four-year
old sister Mary:
"Merry Christmas!"
"Jessie Christmas!" promptly answer
ed the baby.
Arc There Othem!
Christmas is coming
And Santa Clans, too,
Anil, bein« dead brolse,
Lord, what shall I do?
The children will cry.
Their mother will pout—
I'll have to bo try
I Put my watch up the spout.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1907.
Babes as Bait.
"Wot do ye think, - ' said the Bailor 1
"of usin' live babies for bait? Wf j
done it in Ceylon."
"Babies for bait? Fishing for shark?' '
"No. Crocodile. Baby-bait is the j
only tiling for crocodile, and every- j
body uses it. Ye rent a baby down <
there for half a dollar a day. Of
course," the sailor went on,"the tiling
ain't as cruel as it sounds. No barn
ever comes to the babies, or else, o'
course, their mothers wouldn't rent
'em. The kid is simply sot 011 the soft
mud bank of a crocodile stream and
the hunter lays hid near him, a sure
perfection. The crocodile is lazy. lit
basks in the sun in midstream. Noth
in' will draw him into shore where ye
can pot him. But set a little fat naked
baby 011 the bank and the crocodile
soon rouses up. In he comes, a greedy
look in his dull eyes, and then ye open
fire. I have got as many as four croco
diles with one baby in a morning's
flshin". fjotne Cingalese women wot
lives near good crocodile streams make
as much as .$2 a week reg'lar out o'
rentin' their babies for crocodile bait."
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Has a Job Waiting.
"I hear you're getting to be a real
sport." a veteran in that line remarked |
to a youthful acquaintance of the con
servative orl r cently married.
The young man repudiated any such
intention.
".Inst placed a little bet among the i
boy in the olliee, you know,"he add- j
ed. "I'ut in sl.. r >o and won ,f-K) in a
trilling pool."
"Well, that's a wood beginning, any
how.' aid the veteran. "You'll grow
up after awhile. What did yon do
with the *lO -put it on the races or j
open wine?"
"Bought a ton of coal and a set of I
false teeth for my wife." was there- j
Ply-
When the veteran revived his younv i
friend had disappeared.
"Gee," he soliloquized, "that's a new
one in sport! If I win tomorrow g:ess
I'll buy my mother-in-law a new cork '
leg and some darning cotton."—New 1
York Globe.
Soft and Light.
A lady famed for her skill in cook
ing was entertaining a number of her J
friends at tea. Everything on the la-j
ble was mti- !i admired, but the excel j
lence of the sponge cake was especial
ly the subject of remark.
"Oh," exclaimed one of the guests, "It j
Is so beautifully soft and light! I>o tell j
rne where you got the recipe!"
"I am very glad," replied the hostess,
"that you Ibid it so soft and light. 1
made it out of my own head."—llius
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