The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-26
AHAPPY GREETING.

The foNowing CHEEKY greeting to
readers was written by the late genia!
and happy heated Eugene Field. and
was published N the Chicago Daily
Meas.
A happy New Year to you, child
of to day May yoo know more of
sunshine than of cloua, and more of
glee than of sorrow may your tum-
bles and bumps be few, your laughter
be frequent and long, your play be
unrestrained, your sleep r&reshing,
your dreams pleasant.
A happy New Year to you, bright
youth of our city and country-all
happiness in the ambition, the 10Y,
the friendships, the competitions aud
the rewards of school life. Success
to you in the endeavor whereby the
firm, enduring basis of true manhood
and of noble womanhood are lafa-:'
with what success comes two-fold
appiness-happiness to others and
happiness to yourselves. Go forth
gaily and confidently into the new
year, O, you who are beautiful in the
fresh vigor of your youth
"A happy New Year to you, young
man We know your secret Your
taltering speech, your diverted
glances, your smart attire-these and
other telltale 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. It is not we'll for
you twain to live apart; but your
happiness is within your comprehen
sion. Fate is propitious, the time is
ripe and the girl is willing.
And why doyou blush, coy maiden,
as we address to you the compliments
of this happy season? Can it be
that qualm oppresses your tender
conscience? Have you been playing
the coquette-O monster of ruthless
ness; have you been reveling in the
anguish which your bright eyes and
pretty face have entailed? We can
not bid you be happy when we know
that you, undeserving, should not,
cannot be blessed with happiness un-
til you have made reparation. Has
ten to pluck the brand from the burn
ing save the callow but honest Will
liam ere he altogether perish in the
delightfultorments which your charms
inspire.
To you, whose lives are hallowed
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 expand into
beauty and usefulness live long to
know and feel the sweet rewards of
gratitude, of veneration and of love.
Survive those hours of pain, of cruel
ty, of watching and of sacri6ce-live
through it all. dear, patient martyrs,
to share the peace, the repose, the
contentment, the compensations of the
future that surely wait for such as you.
We wish happy New Year to him
whose life is inspired by honorable
purpose and whose strength is ex-
pended in honorable endeavor.
Whatsoever 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.
A happy New Year, too, to you,
grandmothers and grandfathers every
where Look out upon all around
you and how passing fair the even
ing is; and all that is to be heard in
vites contentment and repose. You
hear voices, too, that we do not hear
that have never been quite forgot
ten, and they speak to you in the
sweetly solemn twilight of the morn
ing that followeth 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,
a happiness arising from and temper
ed with wisdom, faith, hope and
charity.