Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — When New Yeah’s Calk Were Made [ARTICLE]

When New Yeah’s Calk Were Made

i Col. 'Terwilliger Bluegrass LoI quitour. | Folks somehow aren't as sociable 4 As in the good old days, f .’When, sah, a certain grace an' I cha'm f Distinguished social ways; | Fo’ instance, sah, on New Yeah’s J Dey, I 'When chivalry arrayed ? In leatkas fine would gathah, i sah, ? An’ New Yeah’s calls were • made. • i We greeted one anothah, sah, ? With smile an r cotiy bow, i An’ round the brimming punchbowl sah, 4 We gracely mu’mu’ed “How!” 4 And conve-sation sparkled, sah, f With wassail’s kindly aid^ — I But that was in the golden days When New Yeah’s calls were i made. ; Pure nectah was that New Yeah’s ? punch— I How generously it flowed! ? The season’s compliments were | passed; One’s heaht, sah, fai’ly glowed. ; The recent gene’ations, sah, ? Old customs have betrayed— I But, ah those olden, golden days When New Yeah’s calls were J., _ made. ? —Paul T. Gilbert in Cartoons i Magazine.