Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-03

I that Christmas Is kept on the nsH
Dickens familiar legends, rathor X, I
LONDON. In the metropolis Ch5'.|
has very "shoppy" existence. Itl,1l
I nuge advertisement OF toys, X.
/ dresses, food, wines and entertainn. ,
It's "waits' are beggars and its 4
puddings are made by machinery, M
iast ten days my house has been be(
by so'called "carol singers" wlio N :,
up a long-winded doggerel dltty &
Mary delight In her sons slco.
with
< o9 9 Diess INC master Of this housa
And ol i'' tbe jtilc 'rr6ild.os
That round Tho table go.
we Wish you a merry Uhristinas
,,oclat Tx XXI q, f' ,,g,n : ear n,
I And cellar fnli Of beer.
/ The London carol, as rule. h NJ.
I fame realistic old ballad, and bhion.s
doubt 10 a very early period of Ma wS,i
history; and there is something eruls,s
10 having it bawled out by haif a.
boys under your window, coreinS
with a rough, noisy demand TO aIeb'
Der the carol singers.n Later Ia tbe 6.s
when you are abed, your sleep Is distaS
by small band Of instrument1lis,s, X
make night hideous with 'The stises
Boughp or "Christnas Awake.u FL
are the London waits proper, who. hs,gl
disturbed your repose every nsAt
a week or two, come around will
subscription book on New Ycers
10 collect your donations. There 4
heart IN all this. Whether there benlI
. r. G
towns aud villages than there /,
London, will not say; but waits
carrots, and holly and misletoe and IN,
mas generally seem more General
hearty in the country than IN die
busy, money making city. Won AZ
"keepn Christmas IN America a II
Your day is "New Years" "a NIX i
follow the French and, oddly euan5E X
Scotch. The pulitanjsn OF the scotoks
remembers not TO forget that Cmlsls
was a great day With the Cavalors
ters are open on Christmas dav h &
land. In England Christmas div s4l
1 like Sunday. with a dash az revs1sr
but all the tbenters are closed nssd
20 to church, and In regard 10 ,berssl
mas dinners, it h your Tla1k Nj,
day, a day when The family dimes togeIi
when old feuds are settled. when NIX
bers oil families make a polnt az c1ts',
together. when the batchat Is bnra n
tho MING of neaca is messed ah.nl INV
J family circle. If Won held vourlFkst!1
giving festival on CbristmAs day Ys
( would be repeating the salient fasliIlTS
the ENGLISH Christmas day. Kew Ysxl
I eve Is pleasantly obseyysd In EpsIsp
and as the old year goes our ldths M
year comes IN friends shake hands N
/ wish each other good fortune. a M,
"Auld Lau9 Syue" togetlleg q
I churches, many Of them, pray theold N
1 out and the new wear in; but .Ianuab.
begins the business of the ncxt III
months. 1t is not dav of visiting. nj
day OF making gifts, as IN Aiotiiea Il
France; it is IL day Of beginnings, 4 al
when new plotting pads and new ENID
prises arc consecrated with work, a "a
for turning over q new leaf,v the ji
after the feast, the day OF new resoutIop
The Christian festival is over cMs
mas eve, Christmas day, Boxing dl
Twelfth night, New Years eye-the ent
holiday is over. Work has begun ag
in downright earnest January |.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
"Going It," a new farce by old Madls
Morton, is a success at Toole's theait
IL has been announced that Mr.. JUST
McCarthy's son IS to marry Miss Tod
the only daughter of the popular con-
dian. The Pictorial World is once Higi
If possible, to he formed into a ioint sci
company: ,elOO.0OO has been sunk in d
paper from first TO last. The new OK
psny will ask for Gao. 900 more. Thai
Journal for Febfuar and March win Ia
tain somewhat per onal articles on \
lrving's production of "Faust,n WiiAV
Illustrations by the Lyceuln artists aud 81
ers. Young Johnston, who wrote
book on tho "RIvor Congo sails
month for the Cammeroons. Mr.. Staplf
is In London. There is a notabls casls
in the journalistic personnel OF "a
present as compared with r
late parliament. Tie latter coutaIr
paper-makers, G publishers, Is neHsF
per proprietors and Z journalists. D'
new parliament Is Strengthened By
| journalists, IL proprietors. and it has
paper-makers and publishers IN Us Hs
cellaneous ranks. Since the pripcef
Wales was installed as grand master
the Free Masons in 1878 as many as
new lodges have been formed in EuglN
and Wales. The prince has cousentedS
be master of the new lodge which Augl'
\ tine Harris is arranging at the nrury IA
/ theater. Already there are as many =
plicetions from would-be Joining me