The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-01

ordinary calls he clings TO rnar seat! You might
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excuse. Don't say that we are loo hard upon the
men. We know periec.ly wen VIVA, we are taking
sions. the average male Kew Yorker, on steam
boat and IN street car. acts more like
yielding his seat Is concerned. He win
tell you that he has paid Ave cents for It, Is the
to let woman reap some advantage from iii Did
he pay away all his finer feelings OF man, also,
or did ne nave only ye cents worth Of those feel
luton seems to US peculiarly appropriate to New
NOW that We are on didactics we hope that the
good natured reader will bear with our pressing
least for another year 1t would be easy to add to
the homllies that nave been written against the
custom Of drinking Intoxicating liquors on New
Years Day. We prefer to leave the writing Of
homies to those who believe that they win
accomplish .n o,, any good: practical view
men and wonderland plenty Of men and women
who IN every conventional respect are ladies and
gentlemen-wil to-day and TINS evening drink
more than Is good Tor them ana spend tomorrow
with soda water and sentiment. Expostulation,
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have been tried too often to render 1t likely that
they can now be employed with any commensurate
effect. We would not rate too severely the lndls-
erection into which many young maryland, we
grieve TO say, not few young ladies-will to-day
NC CuITdppcus DuI y DlTu's eye Vi Tue eTtStUt-
ole may suggest a not wholly uninterestng New
Years thought In what respect Is our present
high cultivation Certainly in one respect ony
in the fashion it preserves OF exchanging sentl-
me1ss o. peace and goodwill 1t Is beautiful and
people should devote o the rest rest OF Of t the
rengiously devote the first day 1.-THE new cycle to
invoking; but we suppose this is one Of the con-
and therefore viii not criticise It too Closely Il
may be long ere our festivals snail be celebrated
Wh 1na5 e ns and moral simplicity which
with such gentle and compassionate satire. But
probably the time win come and when it does the
accessories with which the vast majority of civil
lied humanity at present welcome the New Year,
will be regarded as the indces OF an age hardly
when the New Years inebrate will be held in as
strong Reproduction those habitual topers OF half
bic alter dinner and were state .ae
consciousness assisted by their Wallets to bed New
YORK society is not yet prepared Tor sucn mighty
change. In such pure and inartfcial condition
the hues seem to US tame, the light harsh, the
shadows nnmelow and unrich. And so to coming
ages the local spectacle presented by New York on
New Years Day will be q brilliant, bewlldering
and heated phantasmaporia, garing with hot
through the mists Of dissipation, haunted with
q rlotous glamour and reeking with wild music
and vouptuous perfume. It is picture not with.
vivid hues catch something Of their essence from
debauchery. There are many delightful eruptions,
to dwell. There are numbers OF houses
where the receptions never edge into rout,
ebriety. Let us hope that there will be
more receptions OF this kind than ever before. IL
would be sad to reflect that the amount o. head.
aches Young America Will endure tomorrow will
be exactly proportioned to the number OF calls he
makes to-day Strong coffee Is frequently pre-
scrbed to patients VINO are recovering from recent
OverdOses Of more stimulating liquids Now, II
callers could only be pre- vailed upon to take their
coffee to-day, the more stimulating liquids might
safely be left until tomorrow. But we despair OF
STAGE PULPIT AND PLATFORM.
The public is so constantly occupied with politics
during the course of the year that well Afford
at the beginning OF fresh twelvemOnth, TO turn
Tor a little while from that enhancing theme ana
WONDER what new revelations STAGE pulpit and
platform intend to present us with. Each OF
claim a considerable share Of attention at such
q tune as this. IL has been said that
hand IN hand together; but they never have aud
considerable notifications viii have to be made in
each before they ever will The only way in which
they have hitherto preferred to handle each other
Is without gloves. IL is not our object to quarrel
with either, but SIMPLY to inquire what thoughts
year. OF course things cannot 90 on forever, either
on stage or in pulpit, as they have been going on.
sensation in the other. The stage ought to show
US human nature as 1t Is, the pulpit human nature
as It might be- Instead Of this the stage too often
pulpit exhibits it to us as 1t never can be. The one
degrades too low, and the other ex-
ANIMAL and the other throws an ultra re.
tnement over the spiritual The PRACTICAL. the
furnish the substratum to which both should ap.
peal Has the new year any hope to offer US IN
modern stage gradually disappear and be sue
ceeded by q drama whose foundations are laid
among the sterling qualities OF humanity, with
enough OF human repentance and human struggle
to do right brought to light to prove that If
little higher than the apes on one hand we are
only little lower than the angels on the otheri
viii the pulpit instead OF utterng, it too often
does, tlmld commonplace, which SOW no new
thought N fallow minds and plant no saving sting
in scared cOnsciences, wake to o sense OF Its vast
privilege-the privilege, independent OF creed and
dogma. OF speaking to the human soul
raise humanity IRON this nineteenth century slough
which We call civilization, and place it upon level
high and dry, beautiful and clean fertile and pic
turesque, Astounding with those atfuent undua-
tions winch proceed from purer morality, higher
intelligence more EXQUISITE sympathies with each
Will the platform aid pulpit and stage by borrow
Ing some OF the best features OF both, and thus
can expect as easily to influence There are indi-
cations that q change like this may be gradually
accomplished, and this Is one OF the brightest
thoughts that the new year brings
THE LOCAL NEW YEAR.
IT may be remarked that the panic does
passion Of making holiday presents. II Fate
shaves US harshly she sometimes seems to stop and
give US little 'Iet up" One Of these ''let upsh
has occurred just now. The panic cry was no
every one set to work to spend the money his
neighbors accused HIM OF boarding There Is every
prospect that to-day will be as Hospitality cele-
brated as 1t has been in the past. The number
ofnew hats new suits, new dresses and new gloves
that have been purchased exclusively for the Occa-
sion will bear comparison with those OF any pre-
vious year, and an investigation among taiiOrs,
matters, milliners, dressmakers, dry goods stores
and gentlemen's furnishing stores viii ratify this
statement. So far as fashion and society are con-
cerned, therefore, the new year comes gayly IN.
And then stop and marvel ut the spendor OF Young
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stone front upon his list.