A Song of Christmas by James Whitcomb Riley
Readable segments of a poem urging a Christmas song that blends joy with pity. The speaker asks for a lively verse that also honors the voiceless, the deaf, and the sightless, ending with a pathos贯 through the melody.
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By James Whitcomb Riley
Why Christmas Should Be Spent at Home
A nostalgic plea for home Christmas celebrating family gathering. It argues modern trends push spending and travel over staying home, recalling Dickens and Thackeray, and urges planning two months ahead to keep the festive spirit, decorate, cook, and share with relatives.
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Charles Dickens
Thackeray
Christmas Spirit At Home And In Bethlehem
Pictorial Magazine urges gratitude at home regardless of wealth and notes Christmas pilgrimages to Bethlehem. It describes crowds marching from Jerusalem to Bethlehem on Christmas morning and reflects on the global observance of the holiday.
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Jerusalem
Christmas Cards Burden and Personal Visiting Card Note
A reader laments crowded card selections and tasteless designs and favors writing greetings on a visiting card. The simple handwritten gesture is deemed more personal, less laborious, and in better taste for Christmas greetings.
Must Be Married
Dialog fragment presents a confusion over婚 status with a line about Christmas expectations, implying social misunderstanding and a mistaken marriage assumption. The text centers on a misbelief rather than concrete events or identities.
Christmas Eve Ghosts of Nieuw Amsterdam Patrol the City
A verse narrative recalls Petrus Stuyvesant and nine burgher councilors roaming New Amsterdam on Christmas Eve. St. Nicholas guards the houses as their phantom parade moves through streets from Maiden Lane to Corlear’s Hook before dawn. The tale ends with a holiday blessing and a clockwork doll advertisement noting Parisian dolls selling for about $15.
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Nieuw Amsterdam
Old St. Mark’s
Whitehall Point
Maiden Lane
Corlear’s Hook
Petrus
St. Nicholas
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