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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

in calling on friends and the giving OF
"awabi." a kind of mussel shell, as
emblem of times long ago when their
forefathers were of necessity very fru-
gal. This is also interpreted as
warning against luxury. In China the
people meet in the streets on New
Years day and salute each other
with: "Kung-h! Kung-hi!"-"T hum.
bly, wish you JOY" or "Sin-hi!"-"May
joy be yours" The cities are gay!y
decorated with lanterns and artificial
flowers, with red paper notices on
the houses. Where blue paper Is
seen it is sign that there has been
death during the year.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

caught wearing tall silk hat. The
victim is greeted by the cry, Hut alb,
Hut ab," and ere he is aware his fine
hat Is smashed down over his ears
by a crowd of jokers who surround
him. This custom had its origin in the
riots on Sylvesters day, 1S4S, when
the lower classes resorted to this
method Of displaying their hostility to
the bourgeoisie, most of whom wore
the high hat.
The salutation, "Prosit Neujahr,"
however, is more universal and better
characteristic of the New Year cele-
bration by the Germans. Thus greet.
ed, one is made a captive by custom
and must pay ransom, not, however.
until he has acknowledged his captor's
sovereignty by the answer, "Meister."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
x.Rays and Pearls.

An interesting application of the X
rays is for the detection of the pearl
inside the closed she'll of the mullusk.
In a paper contributed to the Complies
Rendus of the Biological society of
Paris r. Dubois gives an account of
photographs which he has made, show
ing pearl inside species of pearl
bearing mussel. He notes also that
similar radiograph of pearl inside a
shell was made by Auguste Lumiere
and exhibited at the Colonial exhibi-
tion at Marseilles in 1906.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

doused with the peas, while they
shower the wheat upon their friends.
A curious custom also is festooning
the handsomest horse in the village
and leading him to the house Of
nobleman. The pea and wheat shoot
ers follow in droves. Both guests
and horse are admitted to the parlor
of the lord and the guests receive pres
ents of small coins. The origin Of
the custom is not known, but 1t Is
interpreted to mean greeting Of
the peasants TO their lord. While
the horse is being entertained in the
parlor, there comes to the house a
drove of oxen, goats, hogs. ETC., gayly
decorated and led by the children.
These are not admitted, but admired
from the window by the lord. Next
appear old women with barnyard
fowls, decorated with evergreens and
berries. These are given to the lord
as present.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
THE NEW
YEAR WHAT WE
MAKE 1T
By Ada c. Sweet

''The only consistent pessimist Is
dead pessimist," but unfortunately
there are good many of these hap
less brethren of ours alive. Never are
they more active, and happily unhap-
py, than toward New Years day, when
all the rest of the world is looking
hopefully and cheerfully forward, in
expectation of good luck and kind for
tune during the next 365.
The pessimist delights in derision
of the good resolutions which mark
the celebration of New Year in the
minds Of many people. Shame upon
the man or woman who would dull the
bright ambitions and desires for the
better of any human being! But
there is little time to give to habitual
mourners and ausxrs Of evil. The
new year will be what we make it,
so far as our individual lives are con-
cerned, and the man or woman who
resolves to be happy in a healthful,
unselfish way, is taking the first road
toward happiness.
We are all after happiness, in one
way or another. Even the recluse,
even the martyrs of old, were on the
endless search for happiness, though
the joy of heaven rather than that
of earth was the goal fixed upon in
the eyes of those who sacrificed the
present for the future. Eternal hap
piness was what they desired.
Unselfish happiness is always wait
ing. right around the corner, If we will
only take our eyes of the far distance
and look nearer home. The resolve
to make next year a happy one for
those nearest us will bring a good deal
of real joy and satisfaction to the
maker of the resolution, If he holds
out well.
Silent resolve Is good thing, too
Sometimes ones enthusiasm evapo.
rates when 1t is much spoken Of But
don't let us allow the enemies Of the
race Of man to discourage us in max
ing good resolutions; and then don't
let us fail to keep those that we make
to the best of our ability.
There is room for improvement in
all of us, and when we have acknowl-
edged that, and set Ourselves to i'm
prove, why, we are on the nearest
road to success and happiness.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

and this song Is sung:
Wassail! Wassail over the town
Our toast It is white; our ale 1t is brown;
Our bowl 1t is made of the maplin tree,
We be good fellows all: I drink to thee.
In parts Of England the old year is
Swept out" by men and boys who
black their faces to resemble sweeps,
and in other places it is "rung out" by
muffied bells until the midnight hour,
then allowing the clear notes to sound
thereafter. The 'hot pint" of the was
sail drink at the midnight hour is still
quite common. The front and back
doors are opened at 12 o'clock also, to
let the bad spirits out and the good
spirits in. while all peacock feathers
are thrown away before this event lest
Ill luck follow during the year. Also
bundles of bits of money. bread, wood,
coal and salt, are placed on the door
steps and II any one calls whose ini-
tials may be formed by straight lines,
like or F. he is admitted. given q
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
Noticed the omission.

Some dramatic authors seem to re-
gard construction as unnecessary
frills. On the first night of the only
drama that the novelist Miss Bradden,
wrote, a scene was introduced in which
a child was kidnapped from its mother.
At the end, when all were made happy.
SO much had been left to the general
imagination that no pains had been
taken to effect the restoration of the
stolen child. OF course it was an un-
workmanlike lapse on the part of the
dramatist, and 1t seemed to have
passed unnoticed until god leaned
over the gallery rail and solemnly in
quired: Hi! What about that kid?"
The piece was swamped in food Of
inextinguishable laughter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
Eattenlna the Bride.

In Tunis, when man wants to take
another wife. he picks out girl, and
then carries to her father pair of
bracelets and pair of anklets from
one of the other ladies of his house
hold. The bracelets and anklets are
slipped on the young woman. and sew
eral months are allowed for her fatten-
ing. She must fatten until she com
pletely fills the four ornaments. or
otherwise the man has right to re-
fuse her. For In Tunis fat is beauty
and permanently slender girl has no
chance of marriage.-Philadelphia Bull
tetin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

There is, however, striking exception
to this rule in France. New Years is
the chief festival Of the year, and the
"gift" is the chief feature of the festi-
val. 1t is believed that the French OBJ
servance of the day combines the an
cient customs Of the Druids, Romans
and Christians, since 1t involves the
highest homage to womanhood, sa-
turnalian effect in liberties to bonds
men, and the gala day of romping free
dom to children. New Years day is
everybody's day. Each one of these
features has its special history which
would require the space of a special
story to tell.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

caused by your treacherous dart, and 4
was not until the flowers of May began
to bloom that it would heal. But three
shorts months and yet they seemed ike
years, like centuries, to me-,
Dan Cupid-Good sir, the fault was
yours, not mine. Across that page can
you not read the promises you made the
budding yeara How did you keep them3
Not at all. Had you but been the angel
you started out to be, fair Eleanor would
have had no grounds for the curt refusal
she meted out to you.
The Bachelor-Ah. well, Dan, | wa,
but human-that is, to err. She married,
yes. and | suppose believed she had
captured the one real matrimonial prize.
But yesterday twas good to read the
courts had cast asunder the bonds that
bound, and set her free to wound another
heart.
Dan Cupid-But you shall credit me
with other opportunities that made for
you-opportunites more in keeping with
your deserts.
The Bachelor or-Yes. Dan, there was
Jessica, Of the yachting party. The wound
she left was not long in healing, but was
painful at FIRST. Then, later. there was
Isabel. How ] adored her. Your aim
was sure. and the bow was strong that
send that shaft into my heart. Never can
| forget the tender words with which |
wooed her at the seashore, nor the pull
satons Of my heart when she answered
YES" But. Dan, you rascal. you know
her. But once since those summer days
have seen her. She served me coffee
and rolls in quick lunch room in No
vember. did not ask her where might
redeem the ring.
"Yes. Dan, there were Others. But
why review thema And Ill forgive you.
you imp. III lay not up against you a
single pang-or dollar-they have cost
me-on one condiion-that you shall
not. for this next year. point your darts in
my direction. Do you ageea Then
well burn the book. and think no more
Of it," (Casts it into the 6re.)
"And now. then. Dan. the year is dy-
ing. A toast to it and its fond memories;
to your escapades and my escapades; to
the fair girls who caused the heart throbs
Of season; to the broken promises tha.
saved me troubles; to the Old Year.
And another, Dan, to the year just
'boming; to the anticipations which it
brings. The bells are ringing; the Old
Year is dead; the New Year lives. and
now. good night. but please remember
that you have promised not to aim yow
darts in my direction"
exit Dan Cupid and Curtain.)
Wright A. Patterson.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

st. Basils eve. The city is decorated
and the shops TEEN with toys, sweet.
meats and festoons. Women, days be.
fore, squat and joke around a low
table making st. Basils cake, of which
they bake great quantities. On New
Years eve the Rajah boys in droves
go on the rounds Of houses, knocking
at doors, until the master of the
house responds, according to the Gus.
tom:
Let the boys in at once. Give them
money, fruit and all that they can
carry Of st. Basil's cake. Come on,
servants. fill their pockets while they
give us their song. The boys then sing
a customary song, ending by calling
down blessings upon the household.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

Of veneration of the Roman god, Janus,
he of the two faces-the one looking
back in retrospect and the other look
ing forward in hope and anticipation.
Yet the mythology Of the new world OF
Father Time, falling and dying and
newborn personification rising out OF
his decreptitude. is no less pagan in
its essentials. Both are nevertheless
beautiful and expressive and worthy Of
perpetuity.
Watch night" is probably the most
distinctive feature OF the coming Of
the new year. Religious services are
held in almost every church and some
times three or four sermons are
preached. There are also many gath
erings in clubs and homes ito watch
the old year out" and they are occa.
sions of much revelry and the repeat
ing in humorous ways the supersti-
tions believed in in olden times. Much
of the social prestige of the day re-
mains, such as calling and exchanging
gifts, is due to the early Dutch set
tiers, who kept the old customs alive
until the middle of the last century.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

nay" But what this means, no one
seems to know. The application of the
term is in a custom of children to en-
robe themselves in a street and go the
rounds of houses ON New Years eve,
knocking at the doors and crying
"Hogmanay." In response they al
ways get an oat cake, rich with fruit,
and sometimes, in addition, some
cheese and goodies. This is their
"Hogmanay." Housewives are kept
busy days in advance preparing little
cakes for their ghost-like visitors and
it is regarded as something of bad
omen to run short and not be able to
supply the demand. While Hog
manay" is the usual cry 1t is often sup
plemented by "trollolay" and the more
daring will add the privileged rhyme:
Rise up. guide wife. and shake your fea-
theirs,
Dinna think that we are beggars;
We are BARNS come to play
And to seek our Hogmanay.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

T,HE Bachelor-How bright the FIRE.
How CHEEKY the cracking logs.
Outside the Dying Year battles with
che raging Storm.
"What has the Old Year brought to
me that should mourn its passinga
Loves in plenty. But were they loves
or were they passing fantasies bright
spots Of blue peeping through the Stormy
sky. 'Tis many a sorry trick Dan Cupid
has played me during the past twelve
months. Could but have him here Id
eeWew him for his benefit.
"Ah. the bell ringsI What friend or
Zoe has braved the elements and come to
disturb my reveries Of New Years
Evep"
(Enter Butler,)
The Bachelor = A wee, small gentle
man to see me. James. you say. But
jua sweet-faced child. His card -
Dan Cupid = Yes, know him. and you
may show him up. But. James. you're
not Judge of character. He's not a
child. he's old as time, and as full Of
devilsh pranks as that neishbor's brat Of
whom you so complain.
Uames departs and returns ushering in
Dan Cupid)
Dan Cupid-Ha. ha, dear sir. It's not
aove's night Business is dull. and so |
come to beg chat with you and may.
perchance. revile you for the shorcom-
nss Of the year that is passing.
The Bachelor Revile me, you imp
Of Satanl Why, twas but a moment
before your ring that wished for you
that might review for your benefit the
times you've played me false. Now sit
you down and let's turn back the pages
Of the passing year and see the record.
1t surely will show you up in your true
colors.
(Gets volume from the shelly
"Well start with January, and with
Eleanor. Dan, you rogue. you wounded
me for fair with her. should not have
cared had time and eternity been made
up Of Januarys could but have had
Eleanor to sit beside me before the crack
ling fire throughout them all. pleaded
well my case. but she would have none
Of it. and then learned that you had
played me false. Through February.
March and April 1 narscd the wound
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
RUSSIA.

Y T H e country
town of Russia
New Years is the
great feast day for
the children. Boys
fill their pockets
with dried peas
and wheat and go in
bands from house
to house. People
they have ny
grudge against are
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
GERMANY.

N MANY German
cities, and especial
ly in Berlin, New
Years eve, or other
wise known as Syl-
vester's Nacht, is
the occasion of a
rough yet ludicrous
onslaught upon in
nocent and unwary
persons W ho are
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

v GOnoE II IL was
the custom. until
the time of Oliver
Cromwell, Of ex-
changing presents
on New Years day.
But In the western
world generally the
practice has been
absorbed by the
Christmas festival.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
The Happy Man.

Happy is the man who has nothing
to swear off and therefore swears off
nothing He will not have 10 invent
reasons for smashing his pledge few
days hence.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
ENGLAND.

JSTOMS in Eng
land are very simi-
lar and in many
cases Interchange
able with those of
Scotland. Even to
this day the an
cient salutation,
"Wass hael." or
ITO your health"
is jovially given
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
THE FAR EAST.

Y JAPAN the New
Years day of the
Gregorian calendar
is observed. 1t Is
a universal rule
there and in China
that all debts must
be settled at the
end of the year.
But the feature OF
the day in Japan Is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
New Year Day
The World Around. >.
Copyright, 1901, By Wright A. Patterson.
By DANIEL CLEVERToN.

present and passed out the back door.
To admit one having curved initials,
like G or o, means bad luck for a
year.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
The Morning After.

Up to Date Child-Did you and papa
enjoy the party last night, mamma?
Mother-Yes, darling.
Up to Date Child-Which OF you
won the most?-Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
TURKEY.

QUAINT New Year
custom Is observed
in the Turkish ORR
ent, where t b Q
Greek subjects of
the sultan live. It
Is the special event
in Caesarea, where
st. Basil was born.
New Years eve
ic mora oftap roJlad
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
Tbe Turntrg of tbe dlass

TT has come once more to the turning OF ae glass;
The sand is all but spent. and the days of Ae old
year are as chaff in Che wake of the wind. By
Che gray light in ane western shack. at Ae heaped
tables of Ae rich within ae great places Of exchange
and even amongst those who 60 out upon Ae high
seas. men will give pause. For it is Ae time Of
reckoning. and sober thought must 90 to Che balance
asains. mirth and merrymakins. 1t is ae supreme
hour of resolution. May Ae trend Of worship be
not towards Ae god of gold. May men not overlean,
towards ae side Of materialism. May there. be-
reverence for simple .anss, for Che young babe
in Ae cradle and Ae old man nearing ae valley.
May ae milk Of human kindness and the good
hand Of common sympathy go forth to ae natal
feast, Then might Ae New Year dawn bright,
end people he world over could repeat with Che poet5
"Turn again Che wasted glass;
knsly and warriors crest
Are worth Ae blade oi srsss
God fashions Tor he swallows nest
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

EW YEAR is not
the day In the
United States that
It is in foreign
countries. In early
New England days
It received quite q
setback by the Pill
grims, who believed
that its observance
was a recognition
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
SCOTLAND.

5 IN France, so in
S C o t / a n d, N e W
Years is the chief
festival of the year.
The eve of the day
and the day itself
are called Daft
Days." or crazy
days. And the eve
separated from its
daft" associate is
C allie d "Hogma-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27

Oramzas Personae-
a City Bachelor.
Dan Cupid.
2 James, the Butler.
.Scene-The hDfng room of a 1oeaHhy
Bachelors apartments.
zhme-Ne1o Years Ebe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-12-27
FRANCE.

g N EUROPE IT wa.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-02-14
TALK OF THE TOWN.


In the D. M Miles block there Is q
tenement to rent; vacant February !.
Old gold and silver wanted at r.
6ners, prices in exchange for goods At
+. D. Burr's.
I. p. Austin sells stone cutters
glassss, all kinds and prices. From zoe
to $2.0o each.
Stone cutters glasses, zoe per pair.
Lenses, per pair, SC. +. F. Burr & Co.,
So North Main street.
There will be preaching services at the
Methodist church tonight and Thursday
night at 7ao o'clock.
ofice up one flight in i. NJ. Averilps
block; large center room with three
large windows; to rent. r. N. Averill.
! vcteraui ultra cinqnantenari isono
inyitati ad una riunione importantissima
che 81 terra Domeico dopopranzo IL cor
rente in Casa Cardi, Is Central street.
La3anzo netto della fiesta da ballo Pro
yecchi FIJI di $500 depositati ALA Barre
Savings bank,
The annual meeting Of the stock.
holders OF the Inter-city athletic as
sociation viii be held Thursday, Feb
n, at p. m, in Miles hall, Barre, for
the purpose OF electing directors for The
ensuing year, and to do any other pro-
per business. Chas. II. Wishart, sec.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-02-14
AN INTERNATIONAL SIGN.


We speak IN many tongues, We men
WHO do the work that men must do
With sword and spade and plough and
pen
My language may be strange to you
| may not know when YOU complain,
Nor comprehend If YOU reyile;
Your preaching may be an In vain.
But we are brothers when we smile.
The Malay may not understand
When | explain 70 him my crced
The Mongol, all unmoved and bland,
May think that ! am mad. indeed:
To them the words use may be
A iargon fashioned Go beguile.
But they extend their hands to me
And know my meaning when l smile
We speak in many tongues, We men
Who DO .ne work that must be done.
And II, perchance, some morning when
The first beam slanted from the sun
A savage faced you wnere You woke
Upon the farthest South Sea isle
He might not know what words YOU
spoke,
But he would understand your smile.
The spoken word may not convey
The slightest meaning to Our minds.
But from the coolest Lapland bay
To where Alagellan's channel winds.
prom Ganges to the Amazon.
From frozen Yukon TO the Nile
And from La Plata 10 the Don
There Is ono meaning Tor a smile.
Chicago Record. Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-02-14
Fever In Vegetables.

When plants are wounded their res
piratlon increases and their tenpera-
ture perceptlbly rises. In recent exper-
iments a thermo-elecrIc apparatus ca
pable Of registering a change Of one
four-hundredth OF degree was EN-
ployed, When a potato was wounded
the fever manifested itself by an ele-
ration Of temperature which was
greatest at the end of twenty four
hours, when It began slowly to de-
cline. An onion similarly treated ac-
quired an increase OF temperature
many times greater than that shown
by the potato. and the fever instead of
being confined to the neighborhood OF
the wound affected the entire onion.
In fact, the onion proved to he more
readily affected in this way than any
other vegetable experimental with.
The rise Of temperature is caused by
increased absorption Of oxygen.--Port-
land Journal.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-02-14
WHEN HER BACK ACHES
A Woman Finds All Her Energy and
Ambition Slipping Away.


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