The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-06
COLES FOR JANUARY.


as an arrow from a strong bow,
1910 has flown! Father Time, old
and gray, his beard white from the
Winter SHOWS, stands upon the bat
tlement of the world, bidding adieu
to the Old Year with it's past joys
and sorrows, and ushers in the New
Year with confidence and hope.
"Out from the turret pealed the
sudden New Years bells,
Like the distant songs of Angels in
the fields of Asphodels;
And chubby childhood went spark
ling to his aged fathers side,
And the New Year kissed the Old
Year, and the Old Year gently
died"
Welcome to January. A death
| like stiffness, save an occasional sob
from the wintry winds that now and
then fit mournfully over white, de-
serted fields and frozen stretches of
river feeble tear-born gusts that
expire, almost as suddenly as born,
in the icy fret-work on the hedges
and the gaunt branches of the shiv-
ering trees. Is not this the picture
that instantly springs before the
minds eye at the bare mention of
January; when the poor, naked trees
seem glad to hide their shame in
the snow that weighs down their
dropping branches; when the weak,
wan sun scarce lifts himself at ut
most noon above the horizon, and all
too soon, digusted with the chill
white world that meets his gaze,
passes from us to more genial climes,
leaving behind him long, dark,
cheerless nights. Is not the Wolf
month, of all months in the year,
the most dismal? What, then, could
Numa PompiliuS have been thinking
about when the fiat went forth from
his royal lips that the birth of the
! year was no longer to date from the
beginning of Spring, but from the
depth of Winter.
| The New Year opens up with a
very unusual position, and strong
aspects of the planets. AS the sun
crosses the line into Capricorn, Mer-
curry will be the first planet to form
an aspect; therefore, there will be
many sudden "spurts" of business
caused by the Messenger of the
| Gods" Uranus is separating from
an aspect of Neptune. Earth passes
| between Neptune and the sun before
the middle of the month, and IRA
nus is in conjunction with Old Moth
er Earth and the sun on the 10th.
The close aspect of Jupiter, the FL
nancial planet, and Mars, the Red
| Warrior, shows great inharmony and
| discord between capital and labor in
our own country.
There will be fourteen "low ebb''
days during the month. Business
will be unusually active off and on,
but subject to sudden reverses, al
though these breaks will not last
| long.
The health conditions are favor
able, except to those subject to weak
stomachs and nervousness.
In all probability January will
bring many dangerous disturbances.
See Storms and Signs Calendar. The
storm periods of greatest activity
will be on or about the 3rd, 14th,
21st, and 29th. The indications are
that the storms, especially during
the last half of the month, will be
diversified from tropical rain and
thunder southwark, to intense bliz-
yards of sleet and snow northward.
The strongest and best days for
surgical operations will be Tuesday,
the Bird; Wednesday, the 4th; Thurs
day, the 5th; Saturday, the 2Sth,
and Tuesday, the 31st. Avoid hav-
ing an operation performed in the
sign under which you were born. Do
you know in what sign you were
born?
The best days to transplant and
set trees, shrubs and cuttings will be
Friday, the 18th, and Saturday a. m,
the 14th. Next best days will be
Thursday, the 5th; Monday, the 9th;
Saturday, the 21st, and Tuesday, the
S1st.
U. C. COLES,
Editor Storms and Signs.