The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
A HAPPY GREETING.
Pleasant New Year Wishes for One
and All-the Young, the Old, the
High, the Low.

The following CHEEKY greeting to his
readers was written by the late genial
and happy-hearted Eugene Field. and
published in the Chicago Daily News
several years ago:
A happy New Year to you, child of
to-day! May you know more of sun
shine than of cloud, and more of glee
than of sorrow; may your tumbles and
bumps be few, your laughter be fire.
quent and long, your play be unre-
strained, your sleep refreshing, your
dreams pleasant.
A happy New Year to you, bright
youth of our city and country-all hap
piness in the ambition, the joy, the
friendships. the competitions and the
rewards of school life. Success to you
in the endeavor whereby the firm, en-
during basis of true manhood and of
noble womanhood are laid; with what
success comes .two-fold. happiness
happiness to others and happiness to
yourselves. Go forth gayly and con-
fidently into the new year, 0, you who
are beautiful in the fresh vigor of your
youth!
A happy New Year to you, young
man! We know your secret! Your
faltering speech, your diverted glances,
your smart attire-these and other tell
tale signs have betrayed you, and there
is uncommon sympathy in our hearts
as we bid you happy New Year. But
to be happy you must be brave. Go.
like a man, and speak your mind to
her; pour out into her willing ear the
full measure of your soul; she has
gentle heart and she will requite you.
1t is not well for you twain to live
apart; but your happiness is within
your comprehension. Fate is propi-
tious. the time is ripe and the girl is
willing
And why do you blush, coy maiden,
as we address to you the compliments
of this happy season? Can it be that
a qualm Expresses your tender con-
science? Have you been playing the
coquette-O! monster of ruthlessness;
have you been reveling in the anguish
which your bright eyes and pretty face
have entailed? We cannot bid you be
happy when we know that you, unde-
serving, should not and cannot be
blessed with happiness until you have
made reparation. Hasten to pluck the
brand from the burning; save the cal
low but honest William ere he alto
gether perish in the delightful tor
ments which your charms inspire.
To uh0ca boI
with the grace of maternity, not one
but many, many years of happiness!
Live long, wives and mothers of this
land TO see the little lives you have
cherished SO tenderly expandin beau
ty and usefulness; live long to know
and feel the sweet rewards of graft
tude, of veneration and of love. Sur
vive those hours of pain, of cruelty, of
watching and of sacrifce-lve through
it all, dear, patient martyrs, to share
the peace, the repose, the contentment,
the compensations of the future that
surely wait for such asyou.
We wish happy New Year to him
whose life is inspired by honorable pur-
pose and whose strength is expended in
IOHO!u Dle eHuedfOE. w ma lSOeVef his
condition, whatsoever his environment,
long life to him, we say, and may this
New Year. if it do not find him already
advanced in the way to success and
happiness, point and conduct him
thereunto.
\ happy New Year, too, to you,
grandmothers and grandfathers every
where! Look out upon all around you
and see how passing fair the evening
is; and all that is to be heard invites
contentment and repose. You hear
voices, too, that we do not hear-they
have never been quite forgotten. and
they speak TO you in the sweetly SOL
emn twilight of the morning that fol-
loweth the evening, and of the waking
that cometh after the folding of the
hands to sleep.
Yes, to all-the young, the old, the
high, the Iowa happy New Year,
happiness arising from and tempered
with wisdom, faith, hope and charity.