Evening journal., 1911-01-19

New Years day, or the custom Of
making calls, was brought from Hol-
lau1 Calling on that day was dis |
continued a generation ago, and II old |
Father Knickerbocker should come
back on Jan. he wouldn't know what
to think
The housewife was accustomed
once a week to open her parlor, scrub
it. sweep it, dust Il and. having re-
moved every speck Of dirt, shut it up.
lock It. put away the key and leave
It till the next cleaning day, when the
process was renewed
Now. there lived in New Amsterdam
a Dutchman Of the name OF Helnrichl
Van Olden. whose daughter. Annake.
was the pride Of his heart. She was a
plump maiden of some eighteen sum-
mers. looking for all the world in her
dozen petticoats like tea bell, her bust
forming the handle and all below the
waist the ringing part. Her mother
was a frugal woman who, having mar
ried a poor man. found herself obliged
TO seek a home In a new country In
stead of living in luxury in an old
one. Consequently she arranged a
match between her daughter and Pes.
ter Van Vrankin. who was thirty-six,
II he was day, and far too old for a
maiden only halt his age. For" the
girl reasoned, when ! am as old as
he is now he will twice my age,
or seventy-two, and when l am sew
enty-two he viii, be a hundred and
forty-four."
Frau Van Olden was not sufficient
ly bright to contravert this mathemat-
ical demonstration. but she insisted on
b the match all the same, declaring that
nit would be an advantage, since Van
b Vrankin would likely die long before
his wife, leaving her his property and
e years Of independence
The last New Years day before the
English relieved the New Amsterdam
Dutchman from governing themselves
3 and changed the name OF the Town to
New York was being celebrated as
usual Every housewives parlor was
open to the friends OF the family. and
, many bottles Of Scheidam schnapps
were set up for callers.
Well, that night, after every Dutch
man In New Amsterdam had called on
every Dutchwoman living under the
shadow Of the fort, Frau Ten Bycb
was greatly worried because her SOL
~ Heilegar didn't come home. Though
at o'clock every light in the town
had been put out the young man had
not turned up. His father went ou
to ring the fire bell, and when thosl
> sleepy watchmen who responded came
each with his bucket. Ten Eycl toll
them that his son was missig.--and b
feared the youngster had fa - in th
pond where the Tombs now stand
or been spirited away by some Indian
who had been drinking schnapps dun
, ing the day on the bowling green.
- Every Dutchman said "Jahw an
went back to bed.
For a week the people Of New An
z Eterdam hunted high and low for youn
Ten Eyck. The pond was dragged
The wood beyond that wall which CAV
d, its name to the financial center q
~ America was searched. and the slips oI
DO the East and Hudson rivers wer
i. watched with the expectation that th
4 body might rise. But no Heilegar Te
70 Eyck appeared.
One week from New Years day Fra
n Van Olden unlocked the door Of he
~ parlor and. with broom. brush an
- duster, entered It for the purpose q
giving II the periodical cleaning. Owe
the banister on the floor above he
}. daugter. Annake. was looking dow
upon her anxiously. The housewif
was engaged in raising as large
cyclone of dust as possible. He
Ie daughter listening to the swish Of h,
broom and the rolling Of the furnltl
as it was moved TO uncover the dir
heard her mother give a shrek.
The cry acted as spur on the giI
who ran down the stairs and into Il
parlor. The missing Hellegar Te
m. Eyck was crawling out from under
sofa. while the housewife stood, broo
IN hand, regarding him with indni
surprise.
Id "Are you living or deadT ask'
- Frau Van Olden.
The young man looked piteously
Annake.
> Mother" said the girl, "Heileg
was calling here on New Years eve
ing. Just before Q o'clock ! left hi
- 10 go for something ! wished TO gi
him, and while / was gone you e
~, tered
b, 81 hid behind the sofa" interrupts
IN the young man. you came in, ble
An out the candles and going out, lock-
~. the door. have been here ever since
-, ss why didn't you knockw asked 4
-; frau. How have you lived here
10 week without foodT
Ss Il didn't knock. fearing TO start
scandal, and Annake has let food doy
the chimney from the roof"
"Really, mother" put In the 81
eve didn't know what 10 do, so '
put off doing anything till now"
''Well." said the mother, you t'
must be married at once. Don't s
from here till the dominic comes"
p The dominic came, and the tws