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Show "Christmas Past." It was indeed a gracious time, and as we road of the revels and cere monies and find fooiisn beliefs ol Christmas Past, we migbt regret what we have lost in tbis tamer and lesi-picturesque lesi-picturesque age, it we did not Know that never before in History was Christmas kept so truly and heartily in the spirit of the day as it is no. We have dropped a good many rude and some pretty customs, but we have gained a broadening spirit of almost universal charity, a feeling of real brotherhood, tliat is perhaps none Unless Un-less real that it is held in check a good deal during the rest of the year. Charles Dudley Warner. |