Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-31
Some Rambling Thoughts.
by MEMO. .

A Happy New Year to you, Boys.
i If 1t isn't it ought to be. An un-
happy boy is like chicken that lays
no eggs. II You are not happy, just
look within to see what is wrong.
The fault must be there: for you have
no cares, no anxieties, no regrets,
What privileges you have to make
you happy a home with all its
comforts, leisure for sport, holidays
and merry-makings. Even yonr
school is made attractive, and learn
ing easy. Ask your fathers how les
sons were thrashed into them. how
hard and monotonous were their
sehooldays, and then contrast your
own advantages. How grand too is
your health. You can not even
realize the sadness and gloom Of the
sick room, the WEAKNESS of the dys-
peptic, the hopelessness of the invalid.
Your tooth ache and your head ache
come from your own folly or careless
ness, and you have only to deny your
self in candy and pastry for few
days and you will be well as ever.
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A Happy New Year to YOU. Girls
and Maidens. You and the boys
nave equal rights to happiness; but
remember yours are sswoman's
rights" hope you will be STRONG
supporters Of woman's rights. and
the equality of man and woman.
But Go not forget that equality does
not necessarily imply identity. You
have the right to learn all that the
boys learn at school, to exercise your
bodies as they exercise theirs TO
travel, and observe, and work, and
rest as they do. But though you do
all these things, do them as woman.
lest forgetting the distinction Nature
hefsei1 mas made, you gain more than
your rights and lose all your priyi-
leges.
So may this year be happy for Won:
happy because you realize that Won
are women, and that, like the skilfnl
general, you may win full many
light In which you handle neither
sword nor gun.
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A Fruitful New Year TO All
Youths. You are Fortunes favor
ties. On you she showers her choic-
est gifts. You have the heart of
child and the will of man. DAYS
full of innocent happiness are behind
you. Myriad pleasures open around
you. Golden visions lie before YOU.
Hope rests upon your head; love Is
In your eyes; courage in your breast;
the world is at your feet, and for
you there stretches now an opening
century.
30 may this year be happy to you.
Happy because your eyes are clear
to recognize your many gifts; happy
that passion does not weaken your
heaft, nor affection hold you back
from high emprise; happy in your
rich inheritance of life, and in the
wisdom not to waste its glorious
fullness
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a Prosperous New Year to you
Fathers. You have thought your
individuality worth perpetuating,
and have won an attribute whose
name belongs to God himself. You
are an autoerat. Wistful eyes watch
your every look and word, and eager
minds strive to mould themselves on
your character, You have provided
for yourself an earthly immortality,
second self to take up your ambition
and carry on your works of good or
evil.
So, may this year be happy to you,
happy because yon have had cour-
age to undertake responsibility, and
confidence in your worth and in your
good intentions.
A bright New Year to you, Moth
ers. Consciously or unconsciously,
you have made a great sacrifice You
have risked pain, sorrow, anxiety and
death itself, in the sacred hope Of
Hebrew mother, that to you may fall
the honor Of bringing into the world
some prince of peace. That sacrifice
was dedication. You are priestess
| forever.
So, may this year be happy TO you:
| happy in the knowledge of your high
calling; happy in the discharge OF its
holy duties; happy in the hope that
your constant care may furnish to the
world a being worthy to hand on the
torch of lofty deeds; happy in the
thought that you have forged another
link in the chain Of love, whose clasp
is held by God.