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"*V *• V" ryi ,,, uHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HRISTMA8 EVE the students of the General Theological seminary in New York City, the largest training school for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, will gather in their dining hall and with appropriate ceremonies will wreathe holly about an old portrait that hangs on. th« wall. jj-;The portrait Is that of Clement Clarlt Moore (1781-1803), a founder of thfc ^^^semlnary who gave It the whole blocl - -.i $'*•> '•:* ^nown as Chelsea square. Moreovei^ . from 1821 to 1850 he was the professof;' of Biblical learning and was professof* k"-emeritus from then until his deatl^, ; -,;-%r|lAnd in addition lie compiled a "He» and English Lexicon" (1809), th# - ^flrst to be published In this countrjj; $^^-::rrijThls notable scholar and dignified th«^ I'^f^fej^/'rtogical professor was born in Nevr=^ I^ • , JYork City, the grandson of MaJ. *"r " ** V'-'Thnmas Clark, a retired officer of th|;, * s - - - Y ^ ^British army, and son of the Rt. ReuS^-, fMBenJamin Moore, third president o#" "Columbia university and second blkhop jof New York. He studied for the mlapalstry, but was not ordained. ,v ,f; Christmas morning, at 9:80 o'<§ock* ^ • tseveral hundred Sunday school chifc." dren--maybe as many as a thousand *. -will march from the new Chapel of Ithe Intercession In New York City wltljiV ^trumpeters and banners, singing' iristraas carols as they go, end laj* great wreath on a tomb in famoul yj '">|^.':^old ITTlnlty cemetery. This tomb 1# ^ . 'that of this same grave and reveren<J.- ' l £ ^.professor of Biblical learning and con* , v , !^ller of a Hebrew lexicon. Ai^d thl|>t V tinemorlal celebration is now a featur* »••• • •>f Christmas day. , V It is likely that this Christmas thipT "j logical students and the Sunday * i'^jschool children will add special fea* , ires to their memorial celebration. FojU^J ' lement Clark Moore Is, as everybody ^ si \ i1-;^shonld know, the man who wrot# | p. . ~\j ^"Twas the Night Before Christmas'! ' ^ l this Christmas season is the cen^: f|Sf-^?jtennlal of the writing of the poem thaf ^.ihas gone around the world and is th^K sidelight1 of children wherever' Santtfc* ^^V^laus Is known. Of course there ar#v' 'Jots of people who do not know who j»|ii'jwrote it. And that's because It has •*.';:->l;|lbecoine so much a part of our Christ* / - ' .'Was tradition and literature that It' ^-;.v->^fiever occurs to them that It had ai| , " / " Author. It's like Mother G^aose, yotf mow. December 28, 1828, the Troy (N. Y.> , -' -Sentinel printed the now famous poent /ji I, yith the title, "A Visit From St. Nlch* '.'^iolas." The name of ttia author wa4 Ar -. ?>»ot given. ± i « , joijy jingle met with instant , _ kppreclatIon. Other newspapers pub* tlshed it. City after city all over the S-f'-.'i' V- ico«#try copied it. It was published !^r :!\%^-^n ioMlgazines. Next it went into the b. i ' {mblic scliool readers. Then cnm<* L<. Ifi 4 *" editions of the poem, Illustrated f ' P7 art'sts who h&d made a name by their pictures for children. Finally r ^ |t was translated Into many languages. <* *;« S t^ow it may bekheard almost all ov«r » -^the world. K '-> i„ And all this time the name of the If • t *luthor w» unknown. The fact Is that i.:'^-jS^';^§*rofe8sor Moore wss not exactly t'i - "".V "'Hbl®ased over the publication of the B i |>oem tfnd its world-wide popularity ^$.."^..-i%i|?au8ed him to shrink from claiming jv1>s authorship. Tou *»e bad nothing to do with ;*-v£ts original publication. The poem • *»vas written for his children and was %trictly for family use. But in the winter of 1822, shortly after the poem , w ritten, the family had as a vlsitoi** -- the eldest daughter of Rev. Dr. Davidf Butler, rector of St. Paul's church, iTroy. To her one of Clement Moore's p.<^v|§»v»',;'ilttle daughters read the poem. Thet* T wi< wji <ii<unaj ffrffT'nrfff rrtHLWftTcXffirwjffirfff^ A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS j • By CLEMENT C. MOORE J r m t WAS the night before Christmas, whin *B I through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a m9us«^r i<! f f *** % K. The stockings were hung by the chimney with ears In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all mug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heu$9. A nd mama in her kerchief, and I in m$f cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nqp-; • When out on the lawn there arose such a dait«t%' 1 sprang from my bed to see what was the mattffe:*; Away to the window 1 flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. . V The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow *•"*] Gave a luster of midday to objects below; v ' When what to my wotqfering eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, ?1" , K With a little old driver, so lively and I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they cant. And he whistled and shouted, and called them by natiji j •>-'I "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer ami Vixent » On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and MittenV | To the top of the porch to the top of the wall! Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!" ^ -r, | As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane '-i When they meet an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the housetop the coursers, they flew, With the sleigh full of toys--and St. Nicholas, : And then in a twinkling 1 htard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. '?vC As I drew in my head, and was turning around^J^^ Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot. And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys It# had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his jHtck. His eyes, how they twinkled! his dimples, how merryt ' His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, '£{ And the heard on his chin was as white as the snow* % The stump of a pipe he held tight tn his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath* * ^ He hfld a broad face and a little round belly That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full offeBy. '0 He was chubby and plump--a right jolly old elf; ^ And I laughed, when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head g ;, #5 Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. > *0* He spoke not a word, but went straight to his wotto,' I?:' And filled all the stockings; then turned «?<&' a And laying his finger aside of his nose, " ; And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose* He sprang Id his sleigh, to his team gave a whistlef^^CxL' And away they all flew like the down of a thistle; . ^ But 1 heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight: "ffappy Christmds to all, and to all a good-nightf !. -Wt? ' :r.^' A MODERN KRISS KRINGLtt; CM0?' I; By HAROLD BARNES Kriss Ktingle laughs*with a merry glee; "I'll fool the children this year," says he; *' ^ "They think 1 am coming trith deer and sleigh, -) And jingle of bells, in the same old way. • 11 • • • o "But I'll do it," h» says, with a knowing wink. As he opens his hangar--and what do you thinkt There stands in its shed like a waiting train The. finest brand of an aeroplane. £ Shining and gleaming and new and spitik • •: Just made to order for Old St. Nick. «*-' . >f ' j- ' ^ ' : •> ! ! ! ji f •si • ! or km delighted with the paeat , ti1yiyftfiViViVrtlr>trV»il,Vtitmt1,Yr>tfViVii;wiini>3|)| The Christmas Handkerchief (ft lift WmUt* Nmptptr OaiMi) I a Christmas handkerchief. In fact I have been one now for five ru almost too old to lead silly childish lift as I do--*1- ways being put sway, neither 'to be seen or heard until another Christmas has come. Yet I am losing my prime and my youthful freshness In spite of them. Five fears ago I was sent away as a Christmas gift. And once a year 1 start off on a new journey. "There's a little handkerchief, not very pretty, which I can save to give to some one for next Christmas," is what is said when I appear. Yet I look s bit drab now. Sooner or>ISr. 1 b^ ke^t4 J^oi^|,for t*» past two years there have been dismal sarcasms made about me. "Well, I guess Minnie gave rae a handkerchief which had been given to her. It looks none too'fresh. Well, I'll pot it away and it will do for Jane next year J", So--I cannot tell. Now another Christmas is spproaching. What will be the fate of this poor, weU-traveled |udkerehlef? Ink Spots. For fresh Ink stains apply an abunof soap an£ wwh har<L ^ jjQfe J -Uc-i/fitU;i U * " v.,; and copied It into her album. Th«n, just before Christmas of 1828, she sent a copy to the editor of the Troy Sentinel. And that's how the verses cam** to be printed in the first place. Clement Moore, like many a man with a serious purpose In life, had s hobby which he did not fide In public. His vocation was the teaching of Biblical learning to theological students. His avocation was writing poetry for the edification and pleasure of his children. As for the children, they thought their father's verses were the best fun in all the world. He understood so well their likes and dislikes and sympathised so keenly with their joys and griefs. Sometimes the poems contained a moral that could be applied right at home. But in general the verses were just sheer, clear rollicking fun. Clement Moore, as he related In later years, first heard the story of St Nicholas as told in the poem from a Jolly fat Dutchman who lived near his boyhood home. The Dutchman had heard the story when a boy in Holland. Well, when the Christmas of 1822 drew near Clement Moore thought be would write a Christmas poem as a present for his children. And he picked out the Dutchman's story of St. Nick ss the subject. The Moore* lived in a big house on a hill that sloped to the Hudson. The ground was all covered with snow. There was a great fireplace where the Christmas stockings were hung. The setting was Just right. So one evening Clement Moore sat down in front of a cheerful blaze In the big fireplace and began the verses that will Keep his fame immortal as long as there are children and Christmas is celebrated. Clement Moore was a very modest man and his personal feeling about the verses he wrote for his children was that they had little merit except as verses for children--and for his own children. And for that reason he was reluctant to disclose his authorship. Finally, in 1844, he did publish a "Collection of Poems," which included A Visit From St. Nicholas.* In the records of the General ThecH logical seminary Is the following testlr monlal from Its faculty to the sterling worth of their associate: "We recognize In him one whom God has blessed with selected gifts; warmhearted In friendship, genial In society, kindly and considerate to all; possessed of fine literary tastes, poetic Instincts snd expressiveness, and of cheerful hnmor withal; at the same time well accomplished In severer studies and resolute for more laborious undertakings, as his learned works In Hebrew grammar and lexicography distinctly testify." "A Visit From St Nicholas" Is herewith reprinted in full. And no apology is made for reproducing a poem that millions of children--and grownups, too--know by heart It's not hard work at Christmas time to run over the* old, familiar lines--they're good reading yet for the oldest and crustiest of us. 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