Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-11
BACHELOR BLUFFS HOLIDAYS.

81 hate holidays, said Bachelor
Bluff to me, with some little irritation,
on Christmas few years ago. Their
he paused an instant, after which he
remarked Il don't mean to say that
] hate to see people enjoying them
selves. But | hate holidays, nevcIthe
less, because they are to me always the
dreariest and saddest days of the year,
! shudder at the name OF holidays. |
dread the approach of one, and thank
heaven when it is over. pass through,
on "A holiday, the most horrible sensa-
hons, the bitterest feelings, the most
on, ,ressiye melancholy; in fact, / am
not ,pyscif Mt holiday times"
Very strange / yentured TO inter
pose. .,.
"A plague on it" said he, almost
with violence. I'm not inhuman.
don't wish anybony harm. I'm glad
people can enjoy themselves. But
hate holidays all the salae You see,
this is the reason; | am bachelor;
| am without kin; am IN a Lard that
did not know me at birth. And so,
when holidays come around, there is
ne place anywhere for me. have
friends, of course; | don't think Eve
been very sulky, shut-in, retlcent fell
low: and there is many a board that
has a place for me--but not at Christ
mas-time At Christmas, the dinner
is family gathering; and I've no fam
ily. There is such gathering OF KIN
dred on that occasion, such n reunion
of family folk, that there is no place
for a friend. even If the friend be liked.
Christmas, with all its kindness and
charity and good viii, is, after all,
deuced selfish. Each little set gathers
within its own circle; and people like
me, with no particular circle, are left
in the lurch. So you see, on the day
of all the days in the year that my
heart pines for good cheer, I'm without
an invitation.
ooh, its because | pine for good
cheer" sud the bachelor, sharply, IN
termpting my attempt 10 speak, that
| hate holidays. II | We're an infer
nalN selfish fellow, | wouldn't hate
HOLIDAYS. ia go of and have some
fun ali to myself, somewhere or some
how. But, YOU see hate to be in the
dark when all the rest OF the world is
IN light. | hate holidays, because |
ought to he merry and happy ON holt
days, and cant.
SDon't tell me, he cried, stopping
the word that was on my lips; II tell
Won. hate holidays. The shops look
merry, Ito they, with their bright toys
and green branches The pantomime
is crowded with merry hearts, is it.
The CIRCUS and the show are brim full
Of fun and laughter, are theyI Wen,
they MI make NE miserable. | haven
any pretty faced girls, or hmght-eyed
boys to take to the circus or the show
and all the nice girls and fine boys OF
my acquaintance have their unclos o.
their Grand-dads or their cousins 4
take them 60 those places and So, u
90, | must go alone. But | don't so
can't bear the chill OF seeing every
body happy, and knowing myself $,
lonely and Gesolate Coutouud it, sir
I've too much heart TO be happy unde
such circumstances I'm too humane
sir And the result is, hate holidays
It's miserable to be out. and vet
can't stay ut home, for | get to think
ing of ChristmaseS past, | can't read
the shwdow of my heart makes IT i'm
possible. Icau't walk for | see moth
ing hut pretty pictures through th
bright windows, and happy groups ,
plcasure-scykcys. The fact L., rs
nothing t. do but tohate holidays Bu
viii Won NOT dime willis me
OF course, 1 had 20 plead pugag,
mont with my own family circle, nud
couldn't lnite invite MI Bluff bou
that day, when Charley and L- wiz
aud sister Susan and krr daughter, an
three Il my wiIcs Kin, had come
from the country, AN 10 make = inert
Christmas with Gs ielt sorry, but