The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-01-05
THE WEEKS NEWS.
WEDNESDAY. JALUARY 2.

New YEARS day dawned in Chicago
clear and bright, and not too cold for
out-of door sports. reports the Tribune.
On the boulevards the jingle of sleigh
bells kept time with the flying feet of
rapid roadsters, and the park ponds were
crowded with skaters. Wherever the
Chicago boy could find an incline which
by courtesy might be called hill, he
was there with his sled, making the most
of the holiday and the first real snow Of
the winter. Business-there was none.
The wheels of commerce stood still and
the spirit of trade was at rest. Social
enjoyment was the order of the day.
Every aggregation of mankind that
could find an excuse for gathering around
the festival board began the New Year
with a generous dinner. There were
numerous family gatherings custom
that has happily replaced the old-fash-
ion of New Years calls. Dining has
come to be the American method of cell
ebrating winter holiday, and in accord
ance with the unwritten law, there
assembled around loaded tables in many
households groups of relatives and
friends, who while they renewed old
bonds of affection, pledged each other
faith, goodwill, and happiness for the
next twelve months.
Those who could not provide dinners
for themselves had dinners provided for
them. The misguided and unfortunate
who dwells in prisons, hospitals, and
asylums we're reminded that the world
had begun another circuit around the
sun. In the jail, in the poorhouse. in
the insane asylum, in the County Hos
pital, and in all the institutions where
charity seeks to relieve the wretched,
feasts were spread and such other atten-
tions given the inmates as would serve
to tighten their load of sorrow.
I'VE, the people" in Washington, says
a special dispatch, made themselves mas
tiers of the situation at the White House
and after all we're the most interesting
feature of the annual New Year pageant
which marks officially the opening of
the Washington season" To be sure.
there we're diplomats of all ages anu
colors, gay with blazing orders and shiny
gold lace; men notable at home and
abroad, from the big Briton, Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the dean of the corps, to the
Corean Minister, Ye Sung Choo, with
his queer fly trap headdress; from the
Baron de Fava, the little Ambassador
from sunny Italy, to Mr.. Shinichiro Ku-
rino, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the victorious Japan
ese Empire. The Chinese Minister and
Mrs. Yang Yu, the latter deliberately dec
Grated and handpainted, shook hands
with the head of the American people
as quietly and as quickly as did the
Charge d Affaires of the new Hawaiian
Republic, in ordinary walking dress.
The diplomats were received at IL
CLOCK and made brave showing. Chief
Justice Melville w. Fuller, who, if he
lives long enough, may be received as
such by many a President, headed the
the Supreme Court, but was to some
extent overshadowed by such physical
giants as Justices Gray and Harlan, the
former of whom was the most imposing
man in the White House New Years
day. Following the foreigners and the
fixed stars of the legal ornament were
the officers of the army and navy. Gen.
Schofield leading the long line of blaz-
ing uniforms and cooked hats, while his
wife bore herself with true Western dig
nifty in trying position