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Where there are children, this holiday season, there s usually a Christmas tree — brightly lighted, gaily decorated, its fragrant branches bending low over a veritable “Toyland" of gifts from Santa's lavish pack.
These days, the variety of toys to enchant, entertain and instruct the youngsters is practically limitless. The toy pack holds, it seems, everything and anything that a lucky child might see in his dreams.
A century or so ago, the picture was very different. Even the Christmas 'tree itself was not as likely to be a part of the holiday scene. Around the middle of the nineteenth century, the Sunday school movement had begun to popularize the idea of family Christmas trees, but a tree at home was still not something a child would take for granted.
As for the toys, under the tree or not, the usual gift might be only one toy, and that one not a toy that modern children would recognize.
This is not to say, however, that nineteenth century children were to be pitied.
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