"The Christmas Tree Every time I see a Christmas tree studded with electric lights, garlands of tinsel gold festooning every branch, and hung with the hundred costly knickknacks the storekeepers invent each year 'to make the trade' until the tree itself disappears entirely under its burden, I have a feeling that fraud has been practiced on the kindly spirit of Yule.
"Wax candles are the only real thing for a Christmas tree, candles of wax that mingle their perfume with that the of the burning fire...What if the boughs catch on fire? They [are] watched, and, too many candles are tawdry, anyhow.

"Also, red apples, oranges and old fashioned cornucopias made of colored paper, and made at home, look a hundred times better and fitter in the green; and so do drums and toy trumpets and waldhorns and a rocking horse reigned up in front that need not have cost $40, or anything like it."

"How would you like to return to the Good Old Days... Before kids learned to write a letter to Santa Claus, asking for wagons, guns, pistols, dolls, doll buggies, doll beds, trains, automobiles, candy, oranges, bananas, nuts, wearing apparel of every description, and acart and live pony?

"When a boy at Christmas time was satisfied with a package of firecrackers and three hog bladders, and a girl was delighted with a china doll and a candy sheep?"