The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-01-05
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY s'NEMo.'

A Happy New Year to you, Boys.
Ii 1t isn't it ought to be. An I'M
happy boy is like chicken that lays
no eggs. II you are not happy, just
look within to SEA 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 maklngs. Even your
school is made attractive, and learn
ing easy. Ask your fathers how les
sons were thrashed into them, how
hard and monotonous were their
sch9oldays, and then contrast your
own advantages. How grand too Is
your healthi You can not even
realize the sadness and gloom OF the
sick room, the WEAKNESS Of the dys-
peptlc, 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.
A Happy New Year to you, Girls
and Maidens. Yon and the boys
have equal rights to happiness; but
remember yours are s'woman's
rights" / hope you will be- strong
supporters OF woman's rights, and
the equality of man and woman.
But do not forget that equality does
not necessarily imply identity. You
nave the right 10 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
herself has made, you gain more than
your rights and lose all your priyi-
leges.
So, may this year be happy for you;
happy because you realize that you
are women, and that, like the skilful
general, you may win full many
fight in which you handle neither
sword D.'r gun.
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 a 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,
So, 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
heart, nor affiiction hold you back
from higs emprise; happy in your
rich Inheritance of life, and in the
wisdom not to waste its glorious
fullness.
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 YeH
are an autocrat. Wlstfui eyes watch
your every look ana word, ana eager
minds strive 10 mould themselves 90
your character, You nave provsded
for yourself an earthly Immortality, a
second self to take up your ambition
and carry on your works OF good or
zbannv because Won have I had co,,r'
aoe ~ nndertal,e rasnonsibilltv and
confidence in your worth and in yuur
GOOD infentions
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A HAPPY New Year to you, lnva-
lids. Does happiness seem mockery
and my very wish almost an unkind-
ness? Nay, l know 1T is rot SO; for
the same power that permitted the
demon pain to work his will with you,
chained him to the angel Patience,
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