The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1949 Page: 3 of 12
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ever the home on Christmas eve. This season
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THE BOGATA NEWS, BOGATA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1949
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Urn, y<d Claim,
S*anta Claus to Be
Sts private Property
While the claim may cause the
rest of America to bristle. New
Yorkers insist that Santa Claus is
peculiarly New York’s own. Not
only did he land in Manhattan with
the Dutch settlers, they point out,
but for almost two hundred years
he never took his activities or pres-
ents out of New York state.
The New Yorkers advance some
interesting points to bolster their
contentions. They declare that in
the genial company of Washington
Irving, James Kirke Paulding and
Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus
gradually lost the grim, stern as-
pect he wore when he arrived with
the Dutch settlers to the bulging,
benevolent mien he now offers.
It was in New York, too, they
assert, that Santa acquired hie
reindeer sleigh and his habit of
arriving on Christmas instead
of on the Dutch St. Nicholas
eve (December 5). And thus. In
his New York panoply, he fin-
ally found his way to all parts
of the United States, England
and even Australia and India.
Indeed, as the New Yorkers will
tell you. New York, as New Ams-
terdam in the beginning, was dedi-
cated to Santa Claus, or St. Nich-
olas, by its Dutch founders. For
Santa Claus—or Sinterklaas, as it
is sometimes written in Holland—
Is of course only the centuries-old
pet name which Dutch children
gave to their patron and gift bring-
er, the good Bishop St. Nicholas.
And it is said that the ship which
brought the first Dutch children to
Manhattan island bore his face as
figurehead.
From the first, too, his special
day of December 6, was set aside
with Christmas, New Year’s,
Easter and Whitsuntide, as one of
the five chief holidays of the new
colony. Just as it had been in Hol-
land.
So, year after year, as regularly
as St. Nicholas eve came around in
New Amsterdam, In Breuckelen
(Brooklyn), In Fort Orange (Al-
bany) and many other hamlets
above the icy Hudson, the children
In every good Dutch family gath-
ered In expectant circle. For weeks
beforehand they had learned their
lessons and helped with the milking
and churning in an agony of good
behavior. And now, all ready, they
sang their song to Santa Claus.
In the midst of the song would
come a knocking at the door
and In would stride Santa Claus,
himself—not round and Jolly,
but solemn and majestic in
trailing robes. In one hand he
might have a hpsket of presents
or a purse, but In the other was
sure to be a birch rod—an awful
warning to a naughty boy.
Santa questioned each child in
turn about his behavior in the year
Just past and gave him a pat of
approval or a warning shake of the
head, as the record indicated. Then,
bidding them all look for presents
in the morning, the good saint sud-
denly flung a handful of lollipops
into the room and. in the ensuing
scramble, vanished into the night.
Then the children set out their
sabots, or later the great blue yam
stockngs made for the purpose.
However he did iL-and the tale
varies in many lands—Santa Claus
got about, for In the morning over
the hearth steaming with waffles
and sausages and other good Dutch
fare, were the blue stockings bulg-
ing with apples, balls, dolls and
tops.
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HOPE THAT 8U8TAINS THE WOULD ...If there Is anything more
touching and inspiring than the sight of a little boy or girl waiting
patiently for the arrival of his beloved Santa Claus, the world has yet
to produce It. With boundless hope, after hanging up his stocking, he
finally goes to bed, knowing as surely as he knows his own mother and
father, that the Glftbringer will have been there when he awakena
Home Town Paper
Ideal Xmas Gift
The most appropiate and most
welcome Christmas gift you can
send to anyone would be a year’s
subscription to the old home-town
newspaper. Solve your Christmas
shopping problems in a few min-
utes by ordering us to send this
newspaper to relatives or friends.
Your thoughtfulness will be rem-
mebered fifty-two times during
the year. All gift subscriptions
will be acknowledged in our news
columns.
It’s funny how a tree will stand
in one place for years and then
suddenly jump in front of a lady
driver.
THAT SETTLED THAT
“I’ll take this suit, George,” the
fortyish businessmen told the tail-
or, “but you’d better let the waist
cut on the pants—coupla inches
maybe.”
“No, you don’t, George,” bark-
ed the businessman’s wife from
a few paces down the counter.
“Just leave them as they are. Let
him take off a few pounds.”
NIGHT GOLF
“Well, what excuse have you
got for coming home at tnis hour
of the night?”
“Well, my dear, I was just play-
ing golf with some friends and...
“What? At 2 a. m.?”
“Sure. We were using* night
clubs.”
THE ANSWER
He always wondered where so
many Smiths came from until he
saw this sign: “Smith Manufac-
turing Co.”
SHORT MEMORY
Mother (entering room unex-
pectedly): “Well, I never.”
Daughter: “But, Mother, you
must have!”
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That jolly, portly gent with the
snowy beard;
Red suit and cap, and twinkling
blue eyes—
Is swishing through the sky on
his way to you;
His sleigh a-bulging with its
store of surprise.
MERRY
HAPPY
CHRISTMAS
and
NEW YEAR
“Well, Mary, now that we’ve
struck oil I want you to have
some decent clothes,” said Farm-
er Jones, handing his wife a big
roll of bills.
“Bill Jones, I’ll have you know
that I’ve worn decent clothes all
my life,” Mrs. Jones replied.
“Now I’m going to dress like
other women.”
Wishing You
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
Maif Cietif bat/ f
Be a Htlidatf •*
Given our choice of good wishes for our
friends, we’d like to see the Christmas Spirit
manifest every day of the year. It is that time
when the whole world is kin, when petty dif-
ferences are forgotten and friendships are
bound together in a closer relationship, when
worries are left behind and the future looks
more cheerful than ever before. ,
This institution plans to maintain this policy
throughout ihe coming year; it is our pledge
to show you we appreciate every courtesy and
favor that has been ours. So we say again
Sincere
(jce4 Withe*
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L. B. CAMPBELL, Manager
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The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1949, newspaper, December 23, 1949; Bogata, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth911326/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.