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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1920
Page
3
The piece argues against wrapping quiet gifts and favors boys with items that test strength and endurance. It suggests rawhide lariats, rope toys, stilts, fishing rods, athletic equipment, and even live pets as desirable presents to engage a boy’s energy and training.
A routine of hiding Christmas gifts in local stores and homes emerges as shoppers preempt crowded holidays. Men use favorite corner shops for early buys and store packages at home or nearby resorts to avoid prying eyes and office discovery.
The article describes new walking dolls that seem nearly human. They move their legs via a waist key and voices operate by a wound key. Children watch with excitement as the lifelike dolls sway and imitate real movement in shops.
Christmas week remains England's peak festival, reuniting scattered families and reviving tender memories. From Wednesday until Monday, business halts as the nation embraces goodwill and peace, softening old quarrels and showing the famed English reserve gives way to warm fellowship.
A correspondent explains replacing a Christmas tree with a barrel hidden in a closet. Green cambric covers it, sprigs of evergreen and holly decorate the top, and gifts are arranged inside. The son plays Santa, inspecting the barrel’s mysteries and naming those to receive gifts, promising equal holiday cheer.
The piece extols Christmas as the merriest holiday and the best of all. It asserts Christmas endures beyond nations and beliefs, and hopes time will spare the holiday so mankind is gladdened by its annual return. It expresses wish for each future Christmas to be brighter than the last.
Public Opinion observes that toy making is an ancient craft now treated as a science driven field. It notes toys once mere playthings, dolls and domestic imitations shaping mental growth, with societies from the Middle Ages to modern times relying on them for education and leisure.
In Cumnor Berkshire a centuries old practice sees all tithe payers visit the vicarage after evening Christmas service where the vicar supplies four bushels malt brewed into ale or beer two bushels wheat baked into bread and half a hundredweight of cheese. Leftover portions are given to parish poor after the following morning prayer.
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