The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-01
- 1921

oDAY WE replace the cipher in the date line with one and by so doing indicate that an other of mans arbitrary divisions oS which he tries to measure the uh- .s.r-able flight of time has been completed Only in the mind. however, does the division exist for the great n,etronome of the universe, recosnlz- ing neither beginning nor enolns' makes no difference between the infinite. or the day. the month or the year. or thousand years' and after all:
 .'The new is but the old
 come true;
 Each sunrise sees new year
 born"
 p,ck bevond the earlies- dawn of tory is the beginning Of the cus'oii oting the commencement or d. r Year." It was common to all kcient nations and peoples ihe ,e Romans, the Egyptians, the and the Mohammedans, all differing as to the time from they reckoned the commence ht of the year. all regarded 1t as d av of special interest. Among them all it was, and to some extent iS' rerarded not only as hollday' put Ik,,so and especially a holy day, a day cr g,ad rejoicing and of reverent Wor- ship.
 A-,,~~a,,,a soc;al observances of the day name in all ages. From the eariteAsS. recorded celebration we find notice of feasting and the interchange of presents. In many countries the night before New Years was celebrated with great festivity which was pro- longed until after midnight when the kNew Year was ushered in with con- ratulations and mutual wishes. While there has been such a uni ersal observance of some day, a. he ending of an old. and the nex' the beginning of a new year, there has been great variance In the day: elaGned at different times and places as Day, Annunciation Day 25),' Easter, and March frs 1I been observed and 1t WAS M late in the sixteenth cen. 1t January nrst was Ill mes
 accepted as the first day o1 HYkar's day has never beer f&fed/in this country as lgener. e& n Europe. The sole record ot lIe 0bsSt-vance of 1t by the Pilgrims In tho New World they Lamed New England was most prosaic and brief aWe want to work betimes."
 f Good Puritan ministers thought the | ce1ebration. or even notice of the day In any way savored too much of i'm proper and unchristian reverence fol tho old Roman God Janus, yet these English settlers came from a coun. try where New Years Eve, and New Years Day were second only in i'm portAnce to Christmas.
 Of late years, in some sections O the United States, especially in thu \ large cities with their cosmopolita1 populations. the observance of Nev Year's has begun to take on many O the European Characteristics.
 It is sfgnificant that all through tn, ages the coming of the new year hal been looked upon as a time of glad ness and joy The fact seems to hav' been lost sight of that as surely a ' the day marked the beginning of pew year it just as surely marked tn (utting of a year from the span 0 lie. Tn the great amount of thing which have been written and sais about the New Year seldom does ; tone of sadness creep in.
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