Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-12-25

me receiving line and helped to dispense the hos.
i'i"y OF the home. l remember one season
80" we had more than 200 callers The custom
~ ~ Guy rev moments only, chat, drink and
-" anu lhen go on TO the next house One of the
rooms however cleared for dancing and in
~ iate hours the callers would select partners
ana "hir through waltz, polka or a schottlshe
petnaps a set of the quadrille Every house
had band of musicians
The open house function ,vos ,-o !.
uress atair-the women Wed with one anotbar n
peautiful costuming and the month before New
iears was harvest for the dressmakers
rom O'Clock until late in the night the par
1"rs were hled with guests. The lower portion of
'he mousse had been previously beautifully deco
rated with flowers and exotcs and oil who oa1t,d
were made to feel perfectly at home In tbe din
ing room was a table with all sorts of estohlas
ana aainties with rare wines and punches At
oeloeh' "heh the reception opened. the blinds
we're uraWn and the gas lighted. During the dav
favored callers invited to return Mt night for
dance" ~ go
with the gradual abandoning of New Years
calls came In the gradual growth of the eating
drinking and revelry that before the war and pro
hbiton marked New Years eve In the cities
Here Is glimpse of Philadelphia in 1891
After the reserves and the Third district noltca
men had taken their positions the enormous crowd
began to swell in size. In front of Independence
hall, filling the street was jostling mob that he
came noisier the nearer the hands of the clocu
came to the midnight hour. Up Chestnut street
there were two black masses that moved victori
ously toward the statehouse
The gay and comic shooter (mummerl did
not put in appearance to any considerable extent
until about II o'clock. Then he came from all d. |
rectons
THE thousands packed in the roadway san+ IN
an answering cry 10 the first stroke of the bip
bell. and the rattle of pistol shots despite the no
lice orders against using weapons was like tbe
sound Of musketry. The screams of whistles added
TO the din and on every side through the miles that
the eyes could pierce fireworks went BLAZING nm
ward"
And here is glimpse of New York in 1906.
All New York came out TO celebrate the hirtb
of the new year. Nothing like it was ever seen
before for numbers or for enthusiasm From, tba
hour after dinner until long after midnight the
celebration lasted. 1t consisted of noise eatino
and drinking, with noise by far the predominating
element. Men born in New York, who have lived
here all their lives, looked Mt the carnival in vida
eyed establishments
AT least 10000 men and women packed Rrood
way and the side streets Trinity church from,
half past eleven O'Clock until long after midnght
To hear the chimes? Oh, no. To blow horns and
whistles and spring rattles and yell and thus
drown out the very pretty chimes of old Trinity
that welcomed in the New Year. Every tohla IN
every big restaurant taken weeks in advapcon
In 1914 the police in most of the large cities or
dcred sane New Years celebrations In conso
Quence there was a marked dmlnution of IN
revelrr; in many cities midnight closing and com
munity celebrations marked the occasion.
Thus the celebration of New Years day in noisa !
drinking, eating and calling-has grown TO be n / :
climax and become sane" What next? ,