The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-25
OUR MASTER, TUE CALENDAR.
Some NnSe Reflections Over the Near
Departure Of our Old Friends.
From the Hartford Courant.

From the Hartford Couant
soon we must have new calendars.
The present inCumbents are attcnu-
ated; they have managed to hold their
own through the trying weather of 1891
but they are about ready to give up.
There's a lesson Of cunstancy and
patience in them. when il was rain
ins for weeks at a time and when the
sky was clear; when there We're ru-
mors Of wars ard when we were cele-
hrGting on gavest holidays; when We
We're hailing the third-rails advent and
when We were stumbling through
ploWcd-up streets; while we reiOced
over sewer work done and while We
slapped at tn" pesliy mosquitoes; as we
grew a new pOStofIiCe, az we called
Elizabeth Park our own, as the old
police station vanished and a new one
took shape. as landmark after land
mark gave way to Improvement, as we
welcomed a sacred war relic. as old
friends departed and new ones came
amid all our varying emotions the
calendars kent plodding right along.
They shed a leaf each day. or month,
according to their build, and. for GER
tain special anniversaries, one here and
but never cXageeration. That was all.
It's because calendars are 50 steady
that they're found i'm every home and
office, however puritanical, however
cXactinG.
Not every on" appreciates their cul-
ture and information. Occasionally a
woman, though she be surrounded by
calendars, will ask her husband what
tf hR t.
reading a newspaper, he gets sarcas-
tic; if he We're philosopher, he would
see what compliment had been paid
him. In the presence of her husband,
"A woman ignores all other sources Of
information, even though studiously
provided by him. That ,is one reason
why woman who is much with her
husband never winds her watch.
Eut honesty and reliability are wear
ing a calendar can't hold out more
than a year. And we always find our
selves eager to take cur chances with
a new one. There may be the picture
of pretty girl or Of a CONFEDERATION
on the old one. or. il its one of the
more pretentious home variety, por-
traits of authors ~ generals on ma
dOnna", yet none of these things save
It, The pictures, separated from the
calendar may be sent t. an attic pur-
gatory; the calendar itself goes
straight to destruction, for there's lit
tie so obnoxious, so revoltina, 80 fatal
to peace OF mind as thing that's not
up-tO-datr.
Then, too, there are memories about
the old calendar 1t was always
laughing at your impaticnCe; for the
pruCIastinator, it was intoerant, mer-
ciless. II kept you up 10 such high
pitch Of promptituI" and accuracy
that your" glad to be rid Of 1t. You
recall hCW wear ago you marked GER
tain days way down deep i'm its pages.
when notes we're to fall due or dis
agreeable tasks We're tO ba performed,
and how relentlessly the calendar kept
at it till it brought those hidden days
to the top. An old wound is torn open
as you reflect on the time when you
neglected to keep pace with Il and left
an expired page to incumher it; you
were the sufferer, you got terribly
mixed up; the calendar nCve. changed
countenance.
Cold common sense tells us that next
years calendar will be just as tyran-
nical, but we are ever re8 ly to eX-
change an old master for new. Hope
springs eternal.