Posting because it just seems like we should have a thread titled "Merry Christmas" on Christmas Day.
Is anyone having a 'white' Christmas? MB, how is New England looking?
I know Kat and I are looking out the windows at palm trees....not fluffy snow. This is one of the few days of the year that I'd vote snow over palm.
Interesting how our three Fall River newspapers handled Christmas (in 1892). None of the three appear to have published on Christmas Day and the Fall River Daily Herald was very un-holidayish in their December 24th edition.
Below are some random Christmas poems and artwork from our Fall River daily's!
In my computer: A poem about Christmas: Boston Daily Globe, Dec 17, 1921
Ads and the Man
By James J. Montague
1921
My wants, about a month ago,
Were relatively few;
I did not care for style or show,
Like certain parties do.
Enough to wear, enough to eat,
A little money saved,
A house upon a quiet street,
Were all I thought I craved.
Content I roamed the city when
The Yuletide season neared,
Unconscious of desires – and then
The Christmas ads appeared.
And now my peace of mind has fled;
I want a Restwell chair,
A Hammock Spring Sleep-easy bed,
A Zip electric flare,
A Kit-Pact Bag for Motor Trips,
A Find-It letter file,
A set of Grippy Clothing Clips’
That keep your pants in style,
A Last-Forever Limousine,
A Chime-Tone parlor clock,
An Ajax bottle-tip machine,
A Guardwell cellar lock.
Alas, an altered man am I,
My means are very small;
A month ago I would not buy
This kind of thing at all.
But all these ads before my eyes
Parade each day, until
They fairly seem to hypnotize
A weak and yielding will.
And as my shopward way I wend,
When my day’s work is done,
If but my coin holds out to spend,
I’ll get them, every one.
