A Holiday for Two by Luella B Lyons
Paul Boyd spends Christmas in a boardinghouse in Martinville and meets Jean Hathaway as lights fail. He finds solace in a candle and a shared loneliness, the pair swapping stories about escaping holiday bustle and their reasons for staying in. The scene centers on quiet moments and budding connection amid a lonley night.
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The Christmas Carol PS by Helen Waterman
In a grim Christmas Eve tale, Sally Blaine decorates Silas Wentworth’s shop with a Christmas Carol. A robbery unfolds as two men seek medicines, threatening Silas while contemplating a grim underworld celebration by candlelight.
Reading Christmas Carols in a Store Window
A man reads aloud in a store at night and uses tinsel from a wastebasket to decorate the shop while recalling a Christmas carol. He finishes reading and mutters a personal reflection before preparing to close.
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Silas Wentworth
Sally Blaine
Silas
Mr. Wentworth
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Get the Drop On Christmas Hints for Toy Selection
Mary Carter of Hardin-Simmons teaches that development needs should guide toy choices for holidays. She classifies toys by purpose such as sensory Wooly animals and rattles, manipulation with takepart toys, creativity with paints and clay, physical development with balls and wagons, and sociability via parlor games and tea sets.
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Mary Carter
Hardin-Simmons
Miss Carter
Overdue Man Pays Bills Before Dawn Christmas
A man initials his bills as Paid in Full and seals them in envelopes before leaving for his first Christmas dawn in many years, saying Merry Christmas to Silas as he steps into a new holiday.
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Silas
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Slamming the door and wary weekend invitations
The excerpt mocks hypocritical behavior and self serving leaders. It contrasts those who demand pity with those who deny change and prefer routine. It warns against overloading troubles and notes some people endure past, present, and future hardships.
Christmas Toy Guidance Warns Against Harmful Playthings
A parent advises balancing gifts to aid development and avoid overstimulating desires. She urges selecting educational items like chemistry sets and microscopes while avoiding destructive or fragile toys and those that promote poor social or physical outcomes.
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