Life — December 1, 1900 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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«LIFE - A MYSTIFIED HUNTER, Christmas and Hard Knocks. _ F Christmas is to spread by dint of hard knocks we may consider that its diffusion has been J considerably promoted this year. The British, the Germans and the Russians are all great ‘¢ Christmas-keepers; the Americans, in spite of doubtful beginnings in New England, have come to a satisfactory state of enthusiasm over it, and all these nations have exerted themselves during the last twelve- month to substitute their notions of how things should be done for contrary notions somewhat obstinately held by sundry other peoples. To be sure, hard knocks and Christmas are not readily associated in the mind, but a good many blessings that have come to earth have come 0: e¢ armis, by no means showing their soft side at their first appearance. However we may question the righteousness of what is proposed, we like to believe, so far as we may, in the righteousness of what is accomplished. We would like, as we look abroad in the earth and consider what has been going on there, to be able to say as to the general direction and import of things done comicbooks.com