Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-29
OAKEY HALL Is BUDGET.
Happy New Year---AlSO Leap Year
and New.
Also Presidential Slaughter Year.
A New York New Year Day Love
Story-Results Of Presidential
Ducking.
From Our Regular Correspondent
New York, December q.
NEW YEAR REVERIES.


Business will not only greet a New
Year. but womanhood will greet the
dawn of leap year also; and begin to
puzzle itself as to why four years will
not arrive until 1904. But the puzzle in
practice VII avail to convince the ladies
that if leap years traditional privileges
to them are valuable, then to make the
most Of the Happy New Year coming.
It will doubtless make happy hunting
grounds" for the summer girl, witt her
privilege of the pop; and it will be-
hocve prudent bachelors to bear in mind
not only in summer, but during winter
sleigh rides, May blossoms and autumn
tennis season that the New Year is also
leap year.
In few days we shall be quoting
that lugubrious poet. Young. and say
ing: THE bell strikes one; We take no
note of Time, but by its loss" Or that
equally lugubr:ous poet, James Mont
gomery. who refers to chose graves Of
memory where sleep the joys of other
years" For thousands of New Workers
on New Years day VIII be resurrecting
the joys OF other years when that ami
versary was devoted 10 social calls Of
gentlemen upon ladies; and when it was
fashionable heresy to have a pett!coat
or a bonnet displayed in the street; and
when Il was treason to friendship TO
omit call or card upon any-even cas-
al-acquaintance. But that old GUS
tom is now as Anticipated as is the era
when New Years calls were first insti-
tuted in N:euw Amsterdam for burgh-
ers to visit Dutch lassies, and be regaled
with krollers and schnapps.
EXEUNT MAS CARDS.
Another old custom growing obsolete
was noticeable during the Churistmas
week in the small number of cards
sold or sent. to the relief of the postal
service. its diminution of revenue and
the loss of stationers. But ( speaks
well of the designers Of the few Christ
mas cards in use that, Notwithstanding
Solomon said "there is nothing new un-
der the sun" American invention and
genius framed novel pictures and senti-
ments in face Of thousands already in
| vogue. But the New Year calendars
afloat grow in use. and some Of them are
models Of ingenuity. | have a club
acquaintance who for many years has
been collecting specimens of these year.
" calendars, even pressing Great Brit
ain and the continent of Europe Into
the service. He assures me that the
American notices. quotations and pic
lures exceed in beauty and appropriate
ness of selection all from other parts
OF the world
CALENDAR GOSSIP.
The chronological calendar for 1896
is the newest and perhaps most service
able for thereby. day by day, its ex-
aminers take new interest in the date
bv finding annexed to it the chronology
of important events. BY feason Of the
fecundity Of Shakespearean texts, the
Rard of Avon calendar continues the
most popular. One of the current cal
endars very noticeable n the shops is
a specimen that to any other motto adds
dav by day this injunction:
Think that day lost whose low descend
ing sun
Views from thy hand no noble action
done.
Books of quotations put the couplet
as by an unknown author; but being
in the British Museum one day exploring
its library encountered an album con-
tanning the lines, and at the end the
homely name of Jacob Bobart. AS the
Hebrew tramp pla.ntively said, mo one
now knows this jacob But if he has
ken of mortality he must feel compli-