‘The Christmas Magazines
And the Inevitable Story of the Snowbound Train
By Dorothy Rothschild
Vanity Fair, December, 1916
Every year I buy them—the Christmas magazines. Every year I say, hopefully, “Perhaps this time.” And every year I say, wearily, “Never again.”
But I’ll go on buying them, and I know it. Hope does die so hard within me. Somewhere, some time, possibly here, perhaps in Heaven, I shall find a Christmas magazine without the story of the snowbound train.’