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Mistress Santa Claus
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Mistress Santa Claus
en Mrs. Claus.
en Harper’s Young People III 1882 New York Harper & Brothers,Publishers; Franklin Square Mistress Santa Claus Margaret Eytinge 119 1 And pretty Mistress Santa Claus, / With sugar sticking to her thumbs / And tiny fingers, laughs aloud / To think of that great eager crowd / Of smiling girls and smiling boys / Awaiting for her husband’s toys. / And oh! and oh! the sugar-plums! / And now, sweethearts, when merry Christmas comes, / And you greet Santa’s gifts with loud applause, / Remember who sent you the sugar-plums, / And give one cheer for Mistress Santa Claus.
en Christmas in Song, Sketch, and Story:Nearly Three Hundred Christmas Songs, Hymns, and Carols with Selections from Beecher, Wallace, Auerbach, Abbott, Warren and Dickens J. P. McCaskey 1890 New York Harper & Brothers,Franklin Square Mistress Santa Claus Alex. Lee; Ada S. Shelton 301 1. Of all the bu - sy people round, This bu - sy Christmas - tide, None works like Mis - tress // San - ta Claus For days and nights be - side;
en Christmas EntertainmentsContaining Fancy Drills, Acrostics, Motion Songs, Tableaux, Short Plays, Recitations in Costume – for Children of Five to Fifteen Years Alice Maude Kellogg 1897 A Christmas Gift Mabel L. Pray Just as he started for his sleigh / One eve, in old December, / He turned to Mistress Santa Claus / And said, “Did you remember / About that fine new Paris doll / for wee Dot in the city? / I must not fail to take that gift, / ’Twould be a dreadful pity.”
en Hints 1906 The first scene shows several little girls with their dollies enjoying a tea party, and in the act of singing “Go To Sleep, My Little Dollie,” after which they decide to journey North in search of Mistress Santa Claus.
en w:Christian Advocate 86 1911 2 2 ¶ Uncle Sam has a great sack of mail for Santa Claus. There is trouble getting it to him on account of the cold and distance, but Jack Frost, with the aid of the Fairies, Mistress Santa Claus and others, after a strenuous struggle succeed in reaching Snow-land, to the delight of Santa, and the joy of all.
en The Methodist, Evangelical, and United Brethren Churches in the Rockies, 1850-1976 J. Alton Templin, Allen duPont Breck, Martin Rist 1977 Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church 270 Telluride held union Thanksgiving services, Montrose had the traditional Christmas program (an innovation was Mistress Santa Claus), Durango held revivals, and Pagosa Springs fought a bitter campaign against “demon rum.”
en Christmas Folklore