, 1876-12-31


take place al the Morguc.
NEW-YEAR'S CALLERS.
WORD OF ADVICE.
TIE TRIBUNE last week devoted some OF its
space to instructing young men in the difficult
but necessary art Of carving = turkey at q
Christmas dinner; it to-day proposes to give
them few hints upon their conduct on New
Years Day while making calls. Il Is not, OF
course, necessary to tell them whercwfthal to
be clothed, but some advice as to what and how
they shall eat and drink may not be anfss.
First, it is an axiom and fundamental rule
that New=Yca1's callers, like fox-hounds and
Grccian bandits, shall hunt IN packs. There is
SO much to commend this practice that it need
hardly he alluded to at any length. Il any n.
Y. c. gets the lobster salad into his head, and
under its baNcful influence wants to yell, and
walk through looking glasses, and throw Hand
springs down flights OF steps, be can be more
easily restrained or rescued from the police,
If needs be, when travelling in crowd;
besides, many passengers make light
hack hire. Besides, the presence Of his fellows
elnboldens man, aud when five or SIX young men
invade together q house where their acquaInt-
ance is very slight they can do it with COM
posurc, and, even If they are looked upon cold
ence among themselves. There Is still another
advantage about making N. 7. Cs in hordes-
the great principle Of cooperation is brought
into play, to the immense benefit OF thcco-opcr-
ators. 1t A knows seven persons. live, G
eight, and D eleven, by 4, B, c. aud . making
their calls together they tan each make thirty
one calls, gain in taeir respective cases of Il,
26, @, and 70, which means great deal Of ex
ira social enjoyment.
It is always well to map your route before you
start. Order is Heavens first law land time Is
money, and few things Sre more disgraceful
than ior 0 young man to fly from Calumet ave-
nue to Lincoln Park, and thence to Ashland
avenue, and there to discover that he has omit
street, near Prairie avenue. Have q list,
and check it off ostentatiousy as each call is ae-
complishcd. It has highly comic effect If you
make the list on paper nine or ten feet long, and
this sxqeiiis a. itt1es RI tel groV0kes much laughter
It is moot point whether or not burg1arious
entry into tic houses Of utter strangers is ad-
vlsable. Authorities differ upon this 1t is, Of
course, great fun to call upon people you never
knew, aRd ask as to their health, and comp]i-
mcut them on their personal appearance. and il
it is early in the day. with il that the word i'm
plies, and your head is cool, you NAV attempt 1t.
But be general. Do not llazard inquiries as to
sisters that may never have existed or say that
sibly she was in Europe; or lapse into the inc1-
cusablc yulearism tsAliss,'' for she NAV be
married. & cordial but vague address and a
course Of action based on tue hypothesis that
yuu are such an old and intimate friend that it
would be Insulting her to say who you are, and
where and when she met YOU, viii impose upon
almost a1,y woman You can eencrally read the
family name on the door-platc: still It is aIwaYs
we'll before entering into action to take all pre-
cautions, such as asccrtaininc which way the
gate opens, in or out II the halI-door shuts with
snrinp or il on the intch and which side Of the
stems II viii he safest to "a down If ron are