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WE WisH yvOoUuU Aa MERRY CHRISTMAS To Old Friends and New Friends and Friends yet to come, we wish a very Merry Christmas and a Glad New Year. BRUCE LEEK â€"â€" Florist Sincere Wishes to all for a Merry Christmas and Hapâ€" piness throughout the New Year. Frank Klisanich, Proprietor. May Your Christmas be a Happy One And your New Year Full of Good Luck and Happiness. Phone 788 Phone 325 Phone 16 G A dfe â€" k C NP Y OW P "Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you se so!" Please tell me the truth. Is there a Sa) The letter was answered in The New York . P. Churchn, the chief editorial writer, and his a been reprinted more times than any other neyv written. Here is the answer.â€" "Virginia, your litile friends are wrong. T flicted by the skepticism of the skeptical age. except what they can see. They think that nC J o o d i i ied mss Children have often written to editors asking them in regard to Santa Claus and editors ‘:ave made many appropriate replies. But it remains for a New York editor to have made the most efâ€" fective reply to the question â€" a reply that has been printed and reâ€"printed in literally hundreds of newspapers during the past 46 years. Some seven years ago it appeared, (for the second or third time) in The Advance and it is republished here this year again by special request of a south Porcupine friend:â€" There is a Santa Claus! yvears ago little Virginia O‘Hanlan wrote to the editor "PAC â€" UELELE 13°â€" £2.12 : c LE Lk s t Oy is 0B ) 4 10005 that neither children nor men Can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not! But that‘s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive and imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world. «¥ou tear apart the baby‘s rattle to see what makes the noise inside, but there is a vail covering the unseen world which not the strongest iman, nor even ihne united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, romance. can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ohn, Virâ€" ginia! in all the world there is nothing real and abiding. "No Santa Claus? Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever! A thousand vears from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years {rom now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood." is no Santa ClzuSs. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO) spirit of friendliness and thought for others, and with particular thought for the happiness of the children. And all the Porcupine looks with faith and hope to "Christmas yet to Come" â€" to the Christmas when Victory will be won and the world will be back to normal, with liberty and opportunity for all and friendship and goodwill more widely spread throughâ€" out the earth. WELLLCIL._ FIC.C_ J UK LCO ALa AM Y 9)D 20 i+ "Virginia, your litile friends are wrong. They have been afâ€" flicted by the skepticism of the skeptical age. They do not believe except what they can Ssee. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible to their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men‘s or children‘s, are little. In this great un â€" iverse of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of srasping the whole truth and knowâ€" leage. 7 en s d m t P PP W TI A QViQfQ 4 @ Pertainlv as 1Ccay, C "Yes, Virginia, there 18 love and generosity and d abound and give to your a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as evotion exist, and you know that they life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! now dreary would be the world, if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as g@reary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childâ€"like faith then, no poetry, no romance. Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies. Â¥You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Cliaus. ‘IThe most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men Can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not! But that‘s no proof that U nc on oc Phars. Nohnanv can.: conceive and imagine all the Fortyâ€"six years ago of The New York Sun So The Advance SUuDsCLILu Li XL U YR ENA e C ol result:â€" To the Englishâ€"speaking:â€" A Merry Christmas To the Gaelic:â€" Nodhlaig Fe Mhais Agaibh. To the Frenchâ€"speaking:â€" Joyeux Noel. To the Chinese:â€" Kiojuk Singâ€"Tan. To the Finnish:â€" HauskaA@ Joulua. To the Polish:â€" Rzechenia Weselych, Swiet Boz To the Italian:â€" Buon Natale. To the Ukranian:â€" Weselych Swiet Rizda Chr To the Danish:.â€" Glaedelig Jul. To the Swedish:â€" Glad J ul. To the Norwegian:â€" Glaedelig Juel. ‘o the Hollander:â€" Vroolijke Kerstmis. To the Russian:â€" Pozdrawlenie s Rozdestwom Loi.A _A d ETE . EV To the Swedish:â€" Glad J ul. To the Norwegian:â€" Glaedelig Juel. ‘o the Hollander:â€" Vroolijke Kerstmis. To the Russian:â€" Pozdrawlenie s Rozdestwom Christowym. To the Syrian:â€" Aid Mbarck. To the Indian:â€" Mino Nibaâ€"Anamiegijigad. The Advance has some subscribers among people of all the aâ€" bove nationalities, and in addition, there are Swiss, Hungarian, spanish, Croatian, Greek and several other nationalities on the list of readers of The Advance, Timmins and the Porcupine being very cosmopolitan places. Time does not permit the translation of the season‘s greetings into all the languages represented by readers of The Advance, but they all know the English language well and so herewith are given the greeting in a language they ail know and respect:â€" A Merry Christmas! (By Anne Sutherland Brooks) Let us give each other gifts this Christmas more valuable than ever before, gifts of courage, of laughter, of good fellowship, of understanding, most of all, faith â€" faith in God, His plan, His Power, His Providence. So shall the Christmas Star shine out in our lives and the light shall never go out all the year round. "I." said the cow, al!l white and red, "I gave Him my manger for His bed: I gave Him, my hay to pillow His head." (From "Our Dumb Animals") JESUS, our Saviour, strong and good, Was humbly born in a stable rude, ° And the friendly beasts around him stood. "I," said the donkey, shaggy and brown, "I carried His Mother up and down I carried her safely to Bethlehem town." "I," said the sheep with the curly horn, "I gave HMim my woocl for His blanket Warm He wore my coat on Christmas morn "I,‘ said the camel, yellow and black, "Over the desert upon my back, I brought Him a gift in the Wise Men‘s pack." "I," said the dove, "from my rafter high, Cooed Him to sleep that He should not cry. We cooed Him to sieep, my mate and I." CHRISTMAS IN THE PORCUPINE 1E PORXCUPFINE a1jVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIG of The Advance who is always thinking of "There is a Santa Claus" Greetings to Subscribers They Gave Their Gifts The Best Gifts ars old. Some of my friends say says, "If you see it in The Sun, it‘s _ there a Santa Claus?" The New York Sun by Mr. Francis yriter, and his answer probably has n any other newspaper article ever lways thinking of something _nice to express Christmas so that readers of The Adâ€" a their own language. was studied and here is the o 8484844 4 +8 s s s 45 55 4o io io io i i i ib ib in in ib io ib ib ib ib i5 15 45 5 8 w 4444 5445 44 *# * 444 5 5 4 4 4 4# 44444 4 44 <: 44444 44 445 4 â€" 444 * * * ** STAR TRANSFER Phone 427 31 First Avenue, Schumacher Corner Mountjoy and Second Ave. 42 Third Avenue Santa Claus has about the only big moving and delivery job that we are not equipped to handle. We do, however, very sincerely Transfer his message to all. To our customers and friends we exâ€" tend thanks for their patronage and goodwill and to one and all we wish A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BRIGHT NEW YEAR. May Friendship and Goodwill dwell with all this Christmasâ€" tide and throughout the New Year. Albert Mongeon, Proprietor ALBERTS HOTEL To wish you sincerely a Merry Christmas and a Glad New Year. MEN‘S AND BOYS‘ WEAR Timmins, Ont, Phone 1965 Phone 740 Timmins