Christmas Greetings from Gay Page!

from The Workshops and Other Poems

Gay Page (pseud. Florence N. Horner Sherk)

Fort William, ON: Times-Journal, 1919

Verse of Christmas past:

'Christmas in Heaven' by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

Miss Machar's 'The Call of Christmas - 1914'

Arthur Stringer Pines for Christmas
Christmas Verse by Master of All Poets James Gay

Christmas Comes Early

My newest acquisition:

Maria Monk's Daughter: An Autobiography

Mrs. L. St. John Eckel

New York:

Published for the Author by the United States Publishing Company

1874

God bless us, every one!

Related posts:
Maria Monk's Immortal Book
Pornography of the Puritan
Maria Monk and the Kennedy Campaign
Words of Hate for Maria Monk

X is for Xmas Spex (Why Not?)

It's true, every family does buy a present for the Old Folks. Hell, in good times mine'll buy two or three. No one likes to see Old Folks fighting.

I first came across this pamphlet as a student. Until then, I hadn't thought much about what a delightful and useful present a pair of modern spectacles or eyeglasses would make. A quarter-century later, I've still never given glasses at Christmas. Not to say I won't.

Advertisers Jas. Pequegnat & Son didn't date their pamphlet, but I'm going to suggest that it's about a century old. As evidence, I present this ad from the 7 December 1913 Toronto World:

Again, delightful and useful. So, why not?

Remember kids, that's Xmas Spex, not: