Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 17, 1920, Page 13

anta Claus: Dancer and Prancer?” OODNESS sakes alive, what a time good old Santa Claus s having these days!” Mrs. Santa Claus was! busy packing up dolls, and wondarful -teddy bears, and trains: of brightly painted | cars, and bags of candy, and skates, and littla carts, | and sleds, and picture books, and all’ the hundreds of other things that' every youngster in the world is wait- ing for. She paused in her work for a mo-| ment and looked ovel her glasses, “So | you want to seg him. Humm, humm. | “Do You Suppose I'd Better Try Any o' Them New-Fangled Stunts? Or Had I Just Better Stick to Old He doesn’t like much to talk or be terviewed, just about this time, you! now. What do you want to see him about?” } - oA o N . Of Course He Will Use the Reindeer if There Is Snow Enough; but He Is Busy Practicing With an Airplane -« ~ From cleared his throat Jjust merely wanted to ask him how he is going to get around, in case there The Man “Oh,” s is not enough snow on the lifs sleigh.” Not Behind the Times. & “Well, I never; that's jus past two weeks. But the t settled now. yard now prdcticing with plane.” “Airplane!™ cried the startled Man From the Newspaper. “Yes,. airplane. He is.going to try out an air| l year.”. Mrs. Santa reached the Newspaper | aid he, “I Everything straightened out. Why, he is out there in the bac That’s what I.said. roofs for always, t- what he hing is all | - we are up at his Tair g o conre storm that I ‘plane this over. and alway From the Ne recovered from th “0f course he has, silly,” ; replicd has been fussing about himself for the | Mrs, Santa Claus. “But, my dear young | man, do you suppo: the from ....eee0n- 7 We have Harvester’s, cases at canes for Xmas. Toy Books Girl Books XMAS CARDS colors that we are closing ou v i CIGARS AND TOBACCO i i 50; all the popular br: ds, such Cigars ifi boxes of 10, 25 or a pop o Fi?rnnas, uch o Large Humidors of Edge- Noth\ing Royal Banner: stone, San Reys and Sight Drafts. worth, Prince Albert, nicer than one of these asa ‘We have a large assortme Other Pipes from i POPCORN BALLS Boy Books .... Why not subscribe { R 7 ¢ What is a nicer gift for a man, woman é “than a' Fountain Pen. STA PIPES - CANDY iSchrafi'ts and Rainers Chocolates in' 1 1b., 2 1b. a ‘Ranging in prices-from ..........- s 0ld fashioned hard mixed candy—We wi NUTS BOOKS dopyright Books of all the‘best authors, SEALS Christmas gift. MRS. 0. E. ERWIG < 315 3elhnmi Ave. . F 4 FOUNTAIN PENS | or high sc We have the TIONERY a large and complete line of Stationery in white a; t at, per box ...t s, Paramounts, Velvet and Tuxedo Tobacco. gift for a man. hool student m in prices ranging ......$2.00 to '$4.00 @ nd S0c as nt of Pipes for the men. Pipes in” 00—$3.75—$5.00 ..... 35c to $2.00 nd 3 1b. boxes.ci | $1.75 to $5.0 ;. 11 also have the candy j . /FRUITS g | , our price ........ 85c | e ..15¢c to 35¢c | .....50c i ........... 50c | SHEET MUSIC | Phone 53 pe or a magazine for some friends as a ! I picked up A beautitul, dark-haired, rosy-cheeked doll nearly two feet I “I wonder what I shall do to get tha in,” she mused aloud. i “But he has always used reindeer, | SOme cases, ventured the Man r, when he had hock. hat just becaus orth Pole here ure beflind the times? Not a bit of he may use the reindeer | oxszion back to as usua! and yhe sleigh, if the snow- | qejgh question. has ordered from the | North Wind turns “up on time. -But | - we've decided that if the storm doesiet | arrive, it will be the airplane.” ! Tt MNOW they do, “You see it * * "-She suddenly A “Why don’t 1’0q;g0}>ut inte ard ‘and talk'té hfim your- I 'self? Iithink I hearcthe motor now. 1 guess that he willtell you about the troubles that come when thére is not enough, snow .on the roofs. Mind you don't ask him any curious questions though. IHe hates curious questions, you know, questions such as we have been listening to this past week, Jike: ~“What am 1 going to get for Christ- mas? People_don't know, Heavens on earth, what a chorus of that'kind of questions there is now! Folks ought to __know,that they must just wait. Run along now; T'm busy.” . The Man From_the Newspaper went out into the back a. . “Brrierrerr erereree feeer *¢ 80 he heapd abgve his b He looked up. Thére sure enough an airplane, It was tearing around in a mad circle, with Santa Claus sitting on the top of one wing and’holding o for dear life. There was a’row of chimneys set up on the ground, and, as the fizing ma- chine roared overy them, Sunta (aus would’ lean' forward and kick a lever, and down would drop a doll, ker-plop, in a parachute, or boy's book; or pair of furlined s, or somethin clse. And every sing ne of the pura- | chutes would go Fizht straight doivn ! o chimneys~ Parachute Mijstakes. 1 After a few minutes the machine to the ground and Santal hed out. “\Wheunu, That was | hands. I *“Do -they down “the ¢ | Urom the News ways o right straight :«d the Man replied the white- haired, fur-coated old Saint. “You should have been atround when I tried it first, though. THEN they NEVER would go right, It has taken me 2 L whole week to get them to go where 1 want them to. 5 “You sce, *it was rather hard at i , and rather had, too. If I"sent a 1 sled to -Willie Jefferson, and it went flop right down the chimney of the clder Miss Jones, now, well * * * h:*: ha-ha * * * what on carth would the elder Miss Jones do with a new, shiny, steel-framed flyer? “But I got them' to go right after a while. I shall use the parachutes in but mostly 1 believe that T shall go right down the chimney as | usual, with the pack. It only takes-a | minute. And if somcthing SITOULD go wrong with the parachute, vyou | know * * * well, I'd rather not think | what might happen.” “Doesn’t look as if a storm wee ! coming, eitliey,” suzrested the N From the Newspaper, to get the dis? the reindeer and No Room Except on Top. “No. it doesn’t)” admitted Santa -Claus. “That’s’ just what started me: practicing. . You've nb_idea what 'a ! terrible jobYt'is for those poor refn- deer to haul ‘a heivy load of lo.vu‘v ss 2 roof when there Is no snow. nply tires them to death. So, if the North Wind gets up to any pranks | with me, Il just use the-pfane.” | “Is it much faste asked the Man i v it 15" saitkSt. | “It's a pretty big oldd Nicholas, world, you know, even if some of these | sclentists do deny It. Mayhe they | wenlin't be quite so sure if they had | to make a trip allover it every Christ- ! miiss as 1'do. 'have to be in Frapce and Ameriéa and England all at thes same time, almest. voir. know. 3Only, | ubout ‘five Hours difference | Y [@ “Why do yon ride on the top of the | plane?” demanded the Man. | “No room Inside, that's why. Just! take a lonic at that plane, young man,” said Santa. Claus;-The, Man walked | “The’ plana was Just jammed, | crammed, packed” with hoxps%@"fi,fl\.i Ales apd packages. “Tt's only™ first | load, all that,” explained §t. Nieholas, | T have to make 24 loads in all. s?| surely. There they are. hudg np over | on the wall of the house. My 6'd | ) hells, of course, One has to fe ! nomieal, thouzh, these days of high | wices and everything.” Joke on the Children. “I am shnply going to tie theibells over the plane and l¢t the wind ring them. Of course you understand about the reindeer. . If it réally DOES snow * * % they're trim as ever, There's Prancer and Dancer there now, over' by the fence eating moss. T“Won't it Lie a Joke on thy chiliree, though! No one will dréam, when they hear the drone of an airplane mator above the house, that it's me, will they? I can sce them all waiting, tucked iIn their beds, listening for the sound of the rveindeer on the roof. And there won't be any reindeer at all, £ it doosn't snow. Ia, ha, a good joke.” “But tell me, what am I going to get for * * ** The Man From the Newse paper got no further. Santa Claus, and the house and the airplane and the reindecr vanished like smoke. It doesn't pay to be too curious, | after all! Mr. Santa was right.—By | James II. Powers, In the Boston Globe, Hand Kissing Observed. The young Armenians, on Christmas day, pay “hand-kissing” visits to their eldcrs, i Would Maintain His Principle, | “Look here, m* friends.” gaid the soap box orator, “I am standing here to malntain tiie great principle of free speech, and If any man interrupts me I'll give him one on the nose."—Bos- ton Transcript. ) ONE CAN'T BE T00 CAREFUL His “Friend's Deafness Came Very i+ Near Getting Innocent Man ‘Into Quite Serious Trouble. Capt. Sutton Rutherford, the mew polo star, said at Chevy Chase last ‘month: “I wonder what the maximum price of whisky will be under prohibition? It soars and soars and, really, to be offered a drink today is a high com- pliment.” Captain Rutherford smiled, ““Che questlon’ of treating,” he con- ,tinueq, “has a humorous side, too. “A friend of mine whispered anx- | klm.tly to me ‘the other{day nt a club: T “‘There goes; Rogers! . I try to avold him nowadays, for he is becom- ing deafer than ever, and it is dan- gerons to accost him, .Recently I Dafled him with: 5 ,"‘Fine day. Rogers,’ and he smiled and answered : . “ ‘Wil I licker? Sure, Mike!l Lead me to:it!' Gl “‘And blest If a passing prohibi- tion-enforcement officer 'didn't arrest us both on suspicion.’ " When Coal Was Not Burned. Queen Elizabeth, broud-minded In| ed as a trickle to the bran believed conl burning a brisk fountain to “the boughs. many things, _ “her home from Little Jexxx ki xwnnx « - -HORNET 08 0 A Miss Olga Stein is ‘wi Markham hotel: in: Bemidji. Edward Carrigan has had a tele- phone put into his house. { . The Ladies’ Aid society met at the {home of Mrs. Nelson Overly last Sat- 'urday afternoon. { Ole Ness, who has been ill, is rable t& be aroynd again. Miss Evelyn Moon ‘has yeturned to ork, where she has been working. ey Among those who were in Rlack- duck on Thursday were Mesdames Mocon and Ness, J. E. and J. D. Bo- gart. | Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bateman. of St. i Charles, who.have been spending the i hunting season here and visiting at ‘lthe home of B. F. Winans, left on \,Thursday evening for their home. | Mrs. Bateman is a daughter of Mrs. LWinans. P The O!d Beech. R i ‘The old beech kept me dry emough | while the rain besi stendily on his ! head, but he knew how to preserve | the downpour for his own needs, From ! the mass of the leaves it passed to the ramage of the twigs that hore . ‘ them and gaining in volume, descend- and Then was bad for health, nnd’ whenever the the many channels met at the fork, country gentlemen came to London to run down the bole in a torrent to parllament, no one in tive city was, ‘permitted to light a coal fire. Healths I One Thing You Ca;u’t and vanish uhder the moss-covered earth.—Eden Phillpotts. Afford to “Experiment” With e N You can buy anything on earth if yi)u AY have the money—except health. 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