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The Christmas Tree
[Illustration to be added]
A happy group is gathered around our Christmas tree. Happy hearts and
happy faces. How beautiful are those Christmas gatherings! How many homes
are made happy on that day! Sons and daughters, who have left the paternal
roof to follow their vocation in busy town or crowded city, now revisit
the scene of their childhood, where gathering round the fire as in days
gone by, they recall pleasant memories of the past, sing old songs well-nigh
forgotten, while the familiar sports, the forfeits, riddles, the country
dance, blindman's buff, or hunt the slipper, which delighted their youthful
years, are once more welcomed and enjoyed with a renewal of youthful feeling.
Aged parents fancy themselves young again, as they witness the happiness
of their children, at times down to the third generation, and few there
are who do not find this quieter pleasures of our time as good for heart
and mind, as our forefathers did their noisy revellings—perhaps
better.
From Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, December,
1861.
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