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But now the English gentlemen of the road feed off the fat of the land: they have arrived at a state of well being almost as ideal as that of the Roman mob in the period of Corn laws and competitions in Praetorian generosity. They are given their regular doles...
At the St. James this week the Boston Stock Company presents a tinkling little three-act comedy, as merry as its name, "Wedding Bells". It has to do with marriage, divorce, red hair, misunderstanding, reconciliation, and the eternal hexagon of farce-comedies. About the middle of the first act a...
This excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on...
But one custom never returned. That was the Christmas box of the English poor. Before the Reformation every poor apprentice, journeyman, pardoner, and begging friar had his Christmas box, and into it the merry Englanders deposited their alms. Then on Christmas Eve, when the box had got full and heavy...
This Merry, Merry Ker-ist-mus!"