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Yuletide entertainments

Chapter 8: TOO MUCH CHRISTMAS.
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The collection assembles recitations, monologues, drills, motion songs, tableaux, exercises, dialogues, and short plays intended for Christmas entertainments, with material adaptable for children and family audiences. Selections vary from playful sketches about gift-giving and holiday excess to wistful reminiscences and pantomime numbers, and include practical staging directions, suggested tunes drawn from familiar airs, and choreography notes emphasizing precise movement. Short musical pieces and grouped drills provide simple, teachable performances suited to schoolrooms, parlor gatherings, and community programs.

TOO MUCH CHRISTMAS.

Christmas every day! Oh, what fun ’twould be.
With all the gifts and all the fun and jolly Christmas tree!
And yet, I’m not quite sure, we might get tired enough
Of fancy things and fol-de-rols and all the Christmas stuff
If it should come so often; and so, perhaps, it’s true
To keep it just the way it is I think is best, don’t you?
Christmas every day! One thing I can see
That all the gifts and all the sports and jolly Christmas tree
Can’t make us glad if we are bad and selfish and unkind.
Perhaps one way to make each day like Christmas we may find
Is just to feel like Christmas toward each one that we may see,
And make it happy, like that day, wherever we may be.