The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-06

do all these things, do them as women,
lest forgetting the distinction Nature
herself has made, YOU gain more
| than your rights and lose all your
privileges.
SO, may this year be happy for you;
happy because you realize that you
are woman, and that, like the skillful
general, you may win full many a
fight in which you handle neither
sword nor gun.
*x*
A Fruitful New Year to all Youths.
You are fortunate favorites On you
she showers her choicest gifts. You
have the heart of child and the will
of a man. Daysfull of innocent hap
piness are behind you. Myraid plea
sllIss open arornd YOU. Golden vis-
ions lie before you. Hope rests upon
your head; love is in your eyes; cour-
age 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 afiiiction hold you back
from high emprise, happy is your rich
inheritance of life, and in the wisdom
not to waste it's glorious fullness.
*x*
A Prosperous New Year to you,
Fathers. You have thought your in
dividuality worth perpetuating, and
have won an attribute whose name
belongs to God himself. You are an
autocrat. 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, a
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 you have had cour-
age to undertake responsibility, and
confidence in your worth and your
good intentions.
a Bright New Year to you, Mother.
Consciously or unconsciously, you
have made the great sacrifice. You
have risked pain, sorrow, anxiety and
death itself, in the sacred hope of a
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 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
A Happy New Year to you, Invalids.
Does happiness seem a mockery, and
my very almost an unkindness? Nay,
l know it is not so; for the same power
that permitted the demon Pain to
work his will with you, chained him
to the angel Patience, and you will be
happy in her tender councils. For
she whispers to you that all is not in
vain; that souls hungering to do good
deeds love to minister to you, and,
that from your agony are born into
the world pure self-denial and sweet
compassion. May, then, the breath
of sympathy so stir for you, during
this year, the sullen waters of aff1iction
that may break into laughter of
summer stream.
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A Tranquil New Yerr to you, Aged
OhCo' lou IdNC ullCllOTctl III tlle llitT-
Dor and only wait the Masters call to
land. Meanwhile the waters are calm
about you. The anxious captain,
and the busy sailors sleep, the weary
helmsmen stretches his strained limbs.
You can watch the changing, sea be-
yond, smile at its sunny stiffness, send
warnings of storms and counsel the
strict wherein your part is done.
Your fellow veterans are moored be-
side you, and cheer you with their
brave familiar shapes: Together you
again in tender thought the varied
voyage, together hail and new
trimmed craft, that pass outward on
some untarnished quest, rejoicing
that they may gain fresh courage by
seeing you safe sheltered, after storm,
and shoal, and strife.
#x*
And now Success to ALL"
What is 1t to succeed? Is it gain
Applause from men, the vacuous refrain
| From tickle crowds who waste their idle roar
Like ocean waves npon rock bound shore,
Whose finest fervor fades as suddenly
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