Santa Klaus on New Year’s eve.
From an early American print.


The investigating committee—Santa Claus to the Bar. Is he a real person?
By Power O’Malley.
Copyright 1908 by Life Publishing Co.


St. Nicholas unveils.
By Henry Hutt.
Courtesy of the artist.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Bacchus is the Latin name for this God. The Greek name was Dionysos. This festival therefore is more properly the Dionysiac feast, but the habit of calling Greek Gods by their Roman names is so general among us that it is as well to stick to Bacchus and Bacchanalia.