Time-traveling through old magazines, one truly does experience Einsteinian relativity.  Take, for example, this illustration of "a modern home" from 1893 (Cosmopolitan Magazine).  We also love how old magazines regularly long for the return of traditional holiday celebrations.  Even though the holiday trappings of the 1800s meet our current ideal of olde worlde authenticity, there was a time when all that was newfangled.  We can just hear the older generation back then, granting that the yule logs, holly wreaths, mistletoe, and snow effigies seem pagan enough, but if the kids only knew how things were really done back in the day!  Every olden time had its own olden time, and we're left with nostalgia for nostalgia.