Mistress Santa Claus

[…]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.

1882, Margaret Eytinge, “Mistress Santa Claus”, in Harper’s Young People, volume III, New York: Harper & Brothers, […], page 119, column 1

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.”

1897, Mabel L. Pray, “A Christmas Gift”, in Alice Maude Kellogg, editor, Christmas Entertainments […]

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.

1906, Hints

¶ 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.

1911, Christian Advocate, volume 86, page 2, column 2

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.”

1977, J. Alton Templin, Allen duPont Breck, Martin Rist, editors, The Methodist, Evangelical, and United Brethren Churches in the Rockies, 1850-1976, Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church, page 270