The Washington times., 1895-01-02
WashingtOn's Good People We're
Just in That Frame of Mind.
THE NEW YEAR HAPPILY BEGUN
1t Was Good Thing and Everybody
Pushed 1t Along.
Hospitable Homes of the Capital City Thrown
0pen-Ths scriptural Declaration contro-
tion That 1t Is Better to Receive Than to
Give-Resolutlons Made ard Broken

Well! here we are again! That is saluta-
tion you became familiar with when. as a
little boy or girl. you attended your first per-
formance OF Punch and Judy We are of
again. as they say at the races, down the
steep incline of 1895. The start was very
pretty one. There was plenty Of sunshine
and blue skies to conjure with for whole
volume of fancies for the sun, who has been
for many days suiking behind the clouds. and
peeping out only occasionally with the
watery, blear eye of a post Christmas Bacch-
anal, tore the cloudy veil assunder at dawn
yesterday and was himself again all the way
from Paradise to the Potomac
The whole town was mobiIized early and
rotated ana gyra;ed and gravitated with CEN
| tripetal force towards the White House.
| There is nothing like that to the whole world
of Washington, but more especially when the
representatives OF royalty and South Ameri-
can, Central American and Mexican Rcpub-
licanism are there with their trappings OF
state. gold eagles, trefoils, hatchiIgs. quar-
terings, golden Reeces. dragons, peacocks.
crosses. horse-tails, yellow jackets, Louis
/ KS. Henri Quatres, chains. lilies, thistles,
roses, corn-dowers, and al IN gold .giittering,
shiny hard-to-get and always-at-a- premium
gold. The way the blue bonnets got over
the border was q circumstantial trifie 10 the
way
FOLKS FORGED THEIR WAY
among the carriages and through the jani-
zaries at the White House into the red royal
Star Spangied Banner presence yesterday
morning in the White House. Every man.
woman, and child seemed to be labeled with
the ''push" or "puil" that you read on the
outside doors of public buildings.
All this was, OF course, the big incident Of
the new year. but public functions did not
monopoliZe the public mind all day. Being
that blessed day on which the scripture text
which says it Is better TO give than receive is
rebuked, reception on a big and less scale was
the order OF the day and night everywhere in
the city. For this reason there was not such
big crowd on the more popular thorough
fares in the morning or early afternoon, as is
usual on the average lestal OCCASION Alter
dinner, however, men and women with good
intentions came out quite numerously, going
TO and coming from the many hospitable
homes where they believed il vas better TO
receive than TO give.
There was also a good deal OF animation in
the picture which was worked in by the pso-
pie on wheels. There were afternoon iaunts
on the avenues in gay equipages and on
horses with banged tails and horses with the
ordinary unimproyed
TAIL OF THE LAST DECADE.
Maybe the most interesting feature OF New
Years Day in Washington and the other half
of the world is the Whereas and "Be it
resolved" contingent. 1t is rather threshing
old straw to refer even to the fact that people
make up their minds on New Years morn, as
Betty makes up the bed, and that on New
Years night the madc-up mind and made-up
bed are quite ID ruins. In the morning men
are sad. contemplative. sadly retrospective,
huslly introspective, and ''eouleur de rose"
prospective.
It is different at night in the gasl1ght or
electric light when Whereas meets Be 1t Re-
solved on the corner near the friendly point
d'appuf OF lamp post. Here We are
again may be then translated there you go
again. as il was in the beginning is now and
and ever will be, etc., to the end of the chap
ter.
Didn't mt you see lot of that kind of thing
last night? Didn't you meet lots of people
who went out in the morning with pocket
full of preambies going home in the dim re-
ligious night three sheets in the wiad and the
breeze slightly freshening as they neared the
doorbelR These are the people who touch
the electric button, and the home folks do
the rest. Not that there were not plenty Of
people who did keep their
HIGH AND MIGHTY RESOLVES.
Scores of them went out to celebrate, and
they did celebrate in genteel sort of way,
and were carried .as unanimously as their
resolutions. This all comes OF mixing the
elixir of life with eggnogg and laying the
Who'll set of resolutions on the table ior
future consideration
However in city which numbers its
people by the hundreds of thousands. great
many p-eamblers and "busted7 resolvers do
not amount to big percentage. New Years
Day on the whole, was quiet in the home
circle. with the usual quantity aud quality
OF merry-making, handshaking kissing, and
courtesies.
There isn't hit of doubt about 1t that all
the sensible and pretty things one imagined
or said yesterday will be fully verified before
time becomes eternity. At least, they all said
so in the glow of the freight last night. an d
what everybody said must be literally true.
ONE DAY MORE.