The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-12-26

the receiving line and helped 10 dispense the hos
ptaty of the home remember season
when we had more than 2O0 callers. The custom
was 10 stay few moments only. chat drink and
eat, and then 20 ON 10 the next house. One of the
rooms however, cleared for dancing and in
the lntc hours the callers woul, select partners
ana whiri through n waltz polka or schottishe.
ar perhaps set of The qualrtlle Every house
had II hand of musicians.
The open house function was very elaborate
dress aifair-the We'd with one another In
beautiful costuming and the month before New
Years was n harvest for the lrcssmakers.
From O'Clock until late in the night the par
iors were filled with guests The lower portion of
The house had been previously beautifully deco
rated with flowers aud exotics and all who called
we're made tn feel perfectly NJ home. In the din
ins room was table with all sorts of eatahes
ind daintirs. with rae wines and punches At .
o'clock. when the reception opcred, the blinds
We're drawn and the gas lighted. During the day
favored callers We're invited TO return at night for
u dance"
with the gradual abandoning of New Years
calls came in the gradual growth of the eating.
drinking aud revelry that before the war and pro-
hlhition marked New Years In the cities
Here is glimpse of Philadelphia In 1874:
After the reserves aud The Third district police
men had taken their positions the enormous crowd
began To- swell In size In front of Independence
hall. filling the street. i"stlmg mob that be.
came nosier The nearer the hands Of the clock
came IL The midnight hour. Up Chestnut street
there were Two black masses that moved victori-
ousiy toward the statehouse.
"'rh. gay and comic shooter tmummerl did
NOT put In appearance any considerable extent
until about II o'cloek. Then he came from ai .li.
rections.
"'fhe thousands packed in the roadway sent up
an answering cry the first stroke of the big
il and the rattle of pistol shafts. despite the po-
~,
sound of mussetry The screams OF Whistles added
~ the din and on every side through the miles tina,
thu eyes coad pierce fireworks went blazing up.
ward"
And here Is glimpse OF New York in ino6:
IAN New York cut Ia celebrate the birti,
NJ the new Year. Nothing Hike II WAS ever seen
before for numbers fer enthusiasm From the
hour after ,lsnner until hong after tisniyht the
celebration lasted. II consisted ~ noise eating
and drinking. with noise hy tnr the prc,lu,n mating
elemcnt. Men horn In New York. WIN have lives,
here aIi their iisc~ losea at the carnival in wide,
essst establishment
"A, least aaun men AMI wa,aen packed graaa
Way AMI the s,,ie strrts Trinity church from
half past eleven o'coce until long after midnight
whistles anu spring rattles and yell and tins
drown out the very prstty chimes If old Trinity
that Welcomed IN the New Year. Every table IN
every big restaurant taken weeks IN advance
In 1914 the police In mast nj the large cities or
lsrsd same" New Years ceehrationS In e,,ns,A
quence there n marked diminution of IN,
rvN,tr, : uhany cities midnight chasing and com
munlty celebrations markrl the oc,z,sion
thus the celebration of New Years day in noise
drinking eating and e4,lling-has grown To be ,
climax and become sane What next?