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Let's Have An Old
Fashioned Christmas
*Tis the season to be jolly." But then there are minority opinions on everything. Plentj of folks are complaining that Christmas isn’t what it used to be. They say stacks of Christmas cards, frantic lastminute shopping, "Amahl and the Night Visitors" on TV, and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on the stereo don’t make a Christmas. "We’ve got to get back to the old-fashioned Christmas," they cry. But we'd better not go bad too far. To put it bluntly, the Puritans were against Christmas. They labeled it a "wonton Bacchanalian feast" and spent their first Christmas on these shores pointedly re jecting Joy and doing carpentry. On the second Christmas several "lusty young men" who were found “pitching ye barr, playing at stoole-ball and such like sports" in the public streets caught what-for from Governor Bradford, in person. So the oldest of old-fashioned American Christmases will nardly do for a precedent to be followed in I960.
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