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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1947
Page
8
In a crowded shop, Mary, a young clerk, endures the Christmas rush as a frail old woman lingers by the dolls. The woman hesitates at Mary's counter and asks the price of a yellow haired doll before fleeing toward the door.
In a late December scene Mary helps a needy elderly woman by saving the last available doll. The woman scrambles to pay, finding coins and four cents short, and Mary offers the doll at twenty five cents. Mr Adams notices but Mary explains she intended to repay the company from her own purse and wishes a Merry Christmas.
The Puritans scorned Christmas celebrating preferring Thanksgiving. In 1659 Massachusetts law fined five shillings for observing Christmas by abstaining from labor or feasting. The piece also notes Holstein beliefs that mistletoe wards off green wounds and strengthens a wrestler in the chase.
Dorothea Waitzmann contrasts the worn Christmas figure under the tree with childhood memories of Tom and Sue. The poem reflects nostalgia for earlier joys, the transition to adulthood, and the ideal of peace on earth through goodwill and love.
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