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it was tne Golden Age of Christmas.” The personal exchange of good wishes, visiting homes to toast a friend’s good health, carol-singing, bringing in the Yule log and great family dinners were all in vogue.
A new book was published that year. It told of Christmas goose and plum pudding, of happy family parties. It presented, and made immortal, Ebenexer Scrooge, Bob Cratchlt and Tiny Tim. The book was Charles Dickens’“A Christmas Carol,” and the year was 1843.
Appropriately, during this "Golden Age of Christmas," the now universally -popular custom of sending Christmas greeting cards began, f The very first card, authorities now agree, is the celebrated Cole-Horsley, designed and printed In London In 1843. Only a dozen of the original 1,000 copies are known to*x~ i ' ' *
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