People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — New Year’s In Ancient Rome. [ARTICLE]

New Year’s In Ancient Rome.

The Romans offered sacrifices to Janus and were very careful how they conducted themselves for the first few days, as upon their behavior depended their good or ill luck for the coming year. The Saxons celebrated the advent of the new year with special ritos, and mistletoe cut in peculiar forms was a favorite gift That man is dying whose life is sot greater to-day than it was yesterday.— —Ram’s Horn.