The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-12-27

THE
Commercial Advertiser.
DECEMBER 2.

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we. and day. have sped - alm1-; imperc-pu-
bly,, till ths twilight shadows On The dial O.;
eighteen hundreI and sixty ara nearly faded,
and the dawn " eighteen hundred and s~iz-v-0ne
i already upon u. :. llerrie Christmas with
its gla1sJme cheer, has cyme and gone. and b.
fore another issue Of our paper, New Years
Day vii have followed IN IL train, ushering
IN another year with its changes. Christmas
has, from time immemo-izl, been q festive 50
son and well may it stilI b kept a. such, for
II i the HementO Of tn. most au-pIciOUs event
IN the history Of our earth. Wherever our
common Redeener i Acknowledged throughout
the world, there VIII MS birthday 5e ackngwl-
edged and kept as a day Of festiyity and re-
joieing-
Following close on it, and separated by only a
short week, Is New Years, equally = day Of
festiyity and rejoicing in many countries, and in
none more - than in the United States. where
the custom Of visiting OF making New Years
calls Is extensively in practice. 1t originated
among the New Workers, who received II from
their Dutch ancestors. The custom Is truly a
delightful one, and it i not 70 be wondered at
that It's Observance IS extending throughout the
world. There especially all are participants in
it, from the boy not Yet in MS teens, to his hale
and hearty old g~randsire Of three score and ten
and all seem to enjoy it equally well. II is the
great holiday Of the year all business is sus-
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bratiOn- Every body seems good natured -
general l. the feeling, that any who was not %
would be regarded az a curiosity. The ladies'
APPEAR in their gayest humor, receiving their
friends II matters little whether they BE- then
decked with sparkling diamonds OF costly silks,
for they are no less BEAUTIFUL
Who wear D. bruiaats Ia; their eys,
No J=Eels save the mind
The children, too, are in e~cstacies over the
presents deposited by Santa Claus on the pre-
vious night in their stockings, or less slyly be-
slowed by the visitors. The servant who ushers
in at the door smiles a welcome, and even
the little vagrant boys in the street, with scarce
ly clothing enough 70 shield them from the
wintry winds. seem 10 feel that they, too, have
a share in I" happy new YEAR and are as mer-
~ as crickets. 1t is 4 season for strengthen
ing old friendships and forming new ones, and
for renewing those which have been
broken.
Ii is well for Honolulu that this pleasant Gus
tom has been introduced here, for We need more
Of the ameliorating influences Of free social in
tercourse among Us. There Is TOO much tendency
20 a~scetism, 70 bury in our own napkins the little
and congeniality that may be in US, TO
leave our lamps untrimmed and bedusted with
the cObwebs Of care and ennui, forgetting that
We are but = part of a social organization or
mechanism in which our place and position Is as
necessary to it as any one Of the wheels is to
a watch.
With each incoming year we are apt, in re-
the past, to form resolutions to break off
I'D and vicious habits,-rsOlyes that in too
many instances, however, are never carried out.
Still, it is well to begin the year with good res0-
utiOns, even if the weakness Of the flesh causes
Is to fall short Of the object aimed AZ before the
Tear closes The arrow aimed at the sun, Will
% higher and farther than when pointed only
t the horizon. By trying, something may be
of service u ourselves or others. Firm
less and resolution are as necessary 10 accom-
dish the ordinary purposes of life as the
deeds. The future opens unclouded
.efore us, and well it is 50, for the stoutest
leart would be shaken could he read in advance
he history of the year which he is now entering
n.
In gllncing back on the records of the year
iow closing, we are reminded Of the advance
f Time. Without respect Of persons, this stern
isitor has noiselessly entered the garden Of our
lopes, and plueked here and there the fairest
that were growing. The infant bud
ust blooming on the breast Of its dOting
Mother; the lovely daughter, whose cheeks re-
the sunbeams Of life morning, and who was
he idol of her parents the son ON whom the
opes OF advancing age had begun TO lean TO-
upport the young and beloved wife, whose
are and watchfUlness seemed indispensable to
irect the truant steps of her offspring through
he deceitful mazes Of LIES voyage the
and prosperous man Of business, re-
1icing in the strength Of his years, the pride of
is companions and Of a happy home-each
bowed to the unyielding demands of Time,
nd passed away from the active arena Of life,
,aving hearts burdened with grief. Yet such
life its changes-its joys and its sorrows-
re must all meet, and well it is for US if we can
ay its lessons ut heart. .
All who have seen Coles d. Voyage of Life
remember how beautifully he portrays mans
career. In the first of the pictures, of
-hich there are four. he represents q boat just s
merging from the dark cavern Of the past, and g
oating down the stream Of life, bearing an in
seated on a bed Of flowers, with which he q
sporting, tossing them p~layfully here and a
iere. The boat i guided by the watchful hand :
the mother. The second portrays an ardent i
1uth, himself at the helm, guiding his boat
it'll eager haste down the beautiful stream. and
ointing with exultation to the castle which his !
1pes have built in the sky before him The =
represents manhood guiding his boat =