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SANTA CLAUS VISITS THE YOUNGSTERS

CHRISTMAS is primarily a day for the youngsters. All children are excited for weeks before the night on which Santa Claus finally arrives. It would be a pity if the kiddies who are here at Warm Springs as patients shouldn’t have just as happy a day as they would at home. This year the day was planned so that every child had his share of Christmas joy.

In order to firmly impress on their young minds the fact that Christmas is a day for giving as well as receiving, they had for many weeks been making gifts at the craft classes to be sent home. Some of these articles showed amazingly fine workmanship.

On Christmas eve stockings were hung on the mantel in the living room at the “Rec.” Also nearby was placed some bread and a thermos jug filled with coffee for Santa Claus, whom the children feared might be hungry after traveling so far. They also left a note for the Saint, asking him to please place their stockings near their respective beds so they could see them first thing in the morning.

Next morning a crowd of delighted youngsters discovered their well-filled stockings placed as directed, a wonderful tree in the living room piled high with gifts, the coffee jug empty and even some crumbs left on the mantel! Then there was a mad rush for the Christmas tree and, after that, breakfast for each in bed surrounded new toys! Who can blame them if some of the breakfasts went untouched?

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