The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-11
OUT AND ABOUT.

The artistic calendar is a Christmas
gift that carries it's welcome with it.
A household scan hardly have too many
clocks or too many calendars. What
Christmas cards were in the economy
of Christmas a decade ago, that the
fancy calendar is coming to be. But
the calendar has this advantage over
the card, that it carries its usefulness
around on its face, while the card, once
looked at, was likely to be put away
in a bureau drawer.
This year the calendars are prettier
and more varied than ever, the Taber-
Prang Art Company being the publish
er of some Of the most tasteful Amer
lean in every particular, designing,
lithographing and painting all having
been done in this country, these publ
cations should enlist the interest of the
public for other reasons than their
beauty
The new woman affords material for
a large calendar, fifteen by twelve
inches in dimensions, and tied with
crimson satin ribbon The front page
presents the new woman ia a trig pur-
pie tailor-made suit, driving in a styl-
ish cutter She is next seen as the
sweet girl graduate in cap and gown.
During the summer months she is seen
steering a yacht in a smart yachting
costume OF white flannel braided in
gold. Last Of all, she plays golf
against a background OF autumnal TO-
| lage. Quotations from Shakspere ac-
company the pages.
The Bachelor calendar is smaller,
with more fun in it, A spray of
bachelors buttons and the verse,
| '''The wear, iS vO11nor will rot hurry
| Why should a bachelor want to marry?
Maids are many and maids are fair,
And bargains are promised us every
where"
strike the keynote on the first leaf.
| Subsequent verses and illustrations are
chosen with reference to the supposed
pitiable plight of the bachelor-numer-
Gus buttons that have evidently come
| Off; a pair Of socks with awful holes
at heel and toe; a weeks wash buffet
| ing on the line and sadly in need Of
that stitch which saves nine a pin
cushion without a straight pin in it;
and, last of ALL "a, dream of a girl''
who might have been the bachelors
had he but spoken the word in time.
Flowers which are introduced into
| the decoration of every calendar, con-
4 stitute the chief decoration of many.
!
of children with holly and flowers in
their season; a ribbon of bright tartan
plaid lends distinction. The "early
| bird" and the herald of the new year.
calendars prove to be a series Of pic
lures of the first spring flowers, snow
drops, viOlets, daffodils and the like.
stately lilies" is the name of another.
but in this the decoration takes on a
religious tone, with the crown of thorns
Il, TlI, l., 4,
colOring in this is white and delicate
tints of blue and green, with consider
able gold.
The calendar of peace is more elab-
crate, 1t begins and closes with the
United States represented by a young
girl, while the eagle, wearing his
shield, with the national motto stream
ing from his mouth and the olive
branch and bunch Of arrows held Sc
curely in his claws, screams in the
corner Scotland, England and Ireland
duly labeled by means of the thistle
the rose and the shamrock, hold the
next page. Prussia, India and Japan
each with its seal and national emblem
follow, to be met in closing by the little
American girl again in company with
the quarrelsome old eagle. Patriotic
verses by Rev. Ernest w. Shurtlef ac-
company the prints.
Two semi-patriotic calendars are
built about the columbine, Columbia S
flower" whose red, white and blue
blossoms combine with the shield to in
spire patriotic sentiments in the be-
holder.
The bird calendar will please not only
ornithologists, but the members Of Au-
dubon societies. 1t is large. and the
leaves are fully covered with birds in
natural colors represented in their nat
ural habitat. It is an especially decor
ative, snowy calendar.
of course children play an important
role. They come in all the pretty plays
and poses of childhood, oftenest with
the accompaniment Of flowers.
The Christian Endeavor calendar
will undoubtedly find a ready sale. Il
is really the patriotic calendar de
seribed above but the addition of the
monogram of the society in great, gill
, letters and the prayer-meeting topics
! for the year changes its tone. The pre-
, Vailing colOrs are violet and gold.
Here's to your good health and YOU
/. famiIy's; may they live long and pros
/ per" is the familiar saying which
: strikes the keynote of the Knickerbock
, er calendar. Rip, gun in hand, jus
/ awakened from his sleep. peers acros!
: the first page: Henry Hudson. stand
/ ling on the deck of the Half Moon, will
+ a lovely view Of the Hudson river
! comes next; then, smiling Dutch maid
a ems. in the curious clothes they wore
! around Sleepy Hollow and the Bowling
: Green, and Peter Stuyyesant, with her
I and there bits of the Catskills and thu
: Hudson, with accompanying quotations
\ from Washington Irving.
I And finally, the Taber- Prang Ar
r Company has published Shaksper'