The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-01-02
Educational Column.
J. y. LANGENBAUaH.
/" A HannI New Year,

"A Happy New Year."
This expression was uttered yester-
day ION the first day of January
Eighteen.hundred and Seventy nine),
by millions. The simple meaning of
the phrase is-a wish that the person
addressed may be happy during the
year. 1t is large wish, expressed in
few words, and comes like a mes
senger bird of glorious plumage; or
like CLEAN Of sunshine irradiating
palace and cottage with it's genial
glow. We too, join and shout-@A
Happy New Year" to every body and
more especially to the teachers OF
Marshall county and the readers OF
the Educational Column. We can
not take each one Of you by the hand,
look into your eyes and utter the
wish; you are too widely scattered.
But We send you the word by - Uncle
Sans post boy, and trust it will
come safe to hand. warm and earnest
as it leaves US. We wish happiness
to each/and all OF our fellow teachers.
We trust they may be happy at home
with "wife, children and friends
and those who have no wives, or hus-
bands We pity! We wish them hap
piness in their associations, peace
and prosperity in their school-rooms,
aud pleasant intercourse with their
fellow teachers. There is much en-
joyment In the social intercourse of
teachers. il properly cultivated: and
the privilege is one that every teacher
should appreciate. We wish them
happiness in their school-rooms, in
their business; that the present may
be 70 each Of them a prosperous year.
And lastly, We wish those who have
no wife. or husband, success ia secur-
Ing one, for we know that success
will give them happiness. A Happy
New Year my fellow teachers-One
and all.
1878 is dead. is past and gone
that Old Year to which, when it was
young and fair. we made such spc.
cious promises. How firmly We re-
solved that each of its days should
bear worthy recoldl How strong
was our conviction. that it would see
our besetting sin conquered. our spe-
cial weakness curedl And then we
Ioathed the remembrance in June OF
our January resolves. How we well
coined the years close, that we
might turn over new leaf and be-
gin afresh. Alas! not all our wasted
years had taught Us the folly Of New
Years resolutions.
Oh, the dead old year; the thoughts that lie
In thy racrcd trust can never die;
Within the past. hopes bloomed and died,
But the New Year comes like the fricLd un-
tried;
We vanly peer in its face to sec
Whist holds in trust for you and me,
Ane We turn a. ay with fond regret
For the Old Old Year We can nc'er forget
Fellow teachers and readers OF THE
REPUBLICAN,. let us meet the New
Year with gladness, and let Us look
forward and not back, up and not
down" Let US bid the Old Year fare
well without lingriug regret, and
welcome the new, for in it are gar
nered and treasured all our hopes
and ,ys that may be realiz, d.
Then may not hope the New Year is bsgun;
The mild current o. life more smoothly run;
| And the old rock OF darkness which may rise 70
our sight,
| Be changed 10 the brightness of glorious light,
And friends and teachers give you
good cheer,
And wish you a happy happy thrice happy
New Year.
SAFE MAXIM FOR 1879.
The world estimates men by sue