The San Francisco call., 1896-01-01
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

wEDNEsDAY.....,.....,....J JANUARY l. 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Hail,the New Year!
The girls have the first say now.
There is always luck in leap years.
Don't swear off unless you mean it.
The way to receive IS to be receptive.
Another step toward the millennium.
Journalism should swear off the coupon
habit.
Now, then, for the new era and the COM
ing woman.
The old year left many good thing for
this one to push along.
Mrs. Grundy will please advise the girls
to look before they leap
The first GAIL of the year brings good
wishes and all the news.
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We will go far in this one
Forgetful people will write the date 1895
and then try TO swear it Off
Society girls will take notice who leaps
last doesn't always leap best.
The swear-off is made to-day, but it
doesn't begin until tomorrow.
If you make lottery of your life it will
be an Improbable fake for you.
The New Year will bring you only what
you go after, and not all of that.
The world wishes itself happiness, but it
will continue to work for money.
L is always worth while to make good
resolutions and try to keep them.
Pasadena gives the State reception to-
Iday, and does it in lowery style.
Last year talked of municipal reform
and this year ought to do the business.
There is no mystery story SO interesting
as that which the pages of the new wear
contain.
1t is going to be campaign year, with
music for the masses from now until No.
vember.
The Nicaragua canal is feature of the
Monroe doctrine that should be worked ND
this year.
We may all be happy yet if the coming
b, woman doesn't mix up politics with lean.
year parties.
1t is not so much what you swear off, as
what you swear to do, that will make the
year happy for you.
Start the year with good resolution. a
new diary and silver dollar and see which
you can keep longest.
1t may be called the new era, but there
is the same old European war cloud drift
ing around the horizon.
There are plenty of signs to show this
Will be bad year for political bosses and
"a good year for the people.
A year that opens for US with a snow
festival and rose carnival is liable to go
to extremes in everything.
Ordinary clothing may not advance
much this year, but there is chance that
bloomers Will take Jump.
The year may be a trife cold to begin
with, but there IS enough politics in the
fire to make it red hot before long.
AS the Senate has organized with the
silver side up, there is no cloud on it VS.
ible from our side of the continent.
This is going to be the best year on
record to swear off non-partisan move
ments and stick to straight politics.
While you are wishing happy New
ear for your friends you might as well
resolve to try to make 1t so for them.
Resolutions that do not include good for
others as well as for yourself are too mar
row platform for anybody to stand on.
Start the new year by sending the
WEEKLY CALL to your Eastern friends and
let them see what good State you live in.
Swear off the old, swear on the new,
Swear down the false. swear up the true
And all in all, swear by THE CALI.
Or else you should not swear at all.
To all the world happy year;
Let each its chances well employ
stand forth, o youth, with gladsome cheer,
While maldens leap for Joy.
Among the pictures of the future none
shows up bigger than the Presidential
canvas with what looks like a composite
portrait on it.
Many problems now considered new and
perplexing will in the course of time open
up of themselves, like ripened burrs, and
show nothing but chestnuts inside.
The barbed-wire fence of monopoly, the |
cobblestone tactics of the Solid Eight and |
many a corrupt pool obstruct the way to
prosperity, but the new year has vigor |
enough to overleap them all.
If the year fulflls all its promises Cuba