The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 December 1920 — Page 4

The Old Year ix ’ The winds that from the Northland From regions of eternal snow, At midnight now are chanting Their Miserere \| The while the Old Year, bent and^grayJ W |• W® Goes desolate upon his I ErW' A King without a realm to sway, m/Lg Like sad, discrowned Lear. \\ In silent woods low droops the And seems for summer’s flowers But holly berries gleam and burn, To grace the Old Year bier; And from the blue of heaven’s expahseWv The stars look down with pitying And softened seems the radiang^^C^^p^^-a\ Os moon at midnight^leai. ' The Old Year passes; lo! he stands > And watches Time’s fast falling sands, / Like dying flames from dyingijraw\ ~f M That soon will light; • And now a last flame fitfuTthrows . k * •’ Its flickering light o’er wintry And lights the way the Old Year goes To distant realms of night. / But while we stand, silent, devout, O’er eastern hills, old Time’s redoubt, There comes a gladdening “Hail!” and That brings to us new cheer. For Twenty-One, both lithe and With merry peal from glad bells flung> /Wc mWC Has come with joys as yet unsung—HM A new King now i&here!.^— — \ \fjl in N. Y,

New Year Kissing Customs Saluting the Parish Pump

HERE has always been a close and mystic association of kissing with tlie New Yeas. Every

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lover, If circumstances permit, thus salutes his sweetheart at the dawp of the New Year —and some lovers I are lot particular whose sweetheart she Is that they thus salute on this auspicious occasion. There‘is an ancient kissing custom tssociated with a parish church in Lancashire. The legend is that anyone who at the first stroke of tnidjight kisses the keyhole of the church !oor, and then runs right round the edifice in time to kiss the keyhole before the last Stroke of the hour, IS ceriain of good luck during the whole of the year. It requires a certain amount] of jerve to enter this country churchyard It the dead of night, even for such a purpose, hut rumor hath it thatj no lew year is born without someone es- , saying the race round the church. The listance is such that It is impossible for more thpn one person to thus court ,t year’s Hick. Churchyards have always been favorite places for New Year osculations, in the Wensleydale district, in cjlays tone by, all and sundry could kiss ‘without scandal” on New Year’s eve !n the porch of the church. It was largely availed of, too,) for t is on record that the accommodation fell lamentably short of the\denand, and consequently there yas •r jven more squeezing than” kissing]—if that were possible. A somewhat gruesome kitjd of jhurchyard kissing used to obtain tmong the Basques of the Pyrenees >n New Year's eve. It was the custom lor-the maidens to then repair to the jhurchyard, and on their fingers waft tisses to the four quarters of the universe. ' ' a . | •> A kiss was supposed to brush their ips on returp, and If it was warm it ndlcated that they would marry and )e happy ever, after, On the other land. If the kiss was cold and of t;he larth earthy, 4he inference was tljat tingle “blessedness” would be their lot. The only means by which the omen jould be broken was by repairing to the church and kissing the church bell,

, HAPPINESS J-JAPPINESS comes not so much from what is done for us as from what we do for others. Its prescription is the best service of which we are capable, rendered unselfishly. Let 1921 be a year of service to God, our country and our fellowmen.

GIFTS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY. Upon New Year’s eve, we read in »ld tomes, people were wont to sit »n the roofs of their homes, naked swords in hand, and listen for oracles ivho were supposed to visit man and warn him freely at this mystic time. Others thought that their chances for learning the possibilities of the future tor good Mid evil were improved by lifting on a cow’s hide at a crossjoads, and so listening for messages.

h gravestone and a piece of coffir wood. This remedy was very, fre quently resorted to; and so «supersti tious Were the Basque maidens that but for the consolation afforded soim of them would have lost tlieir reason In these degenerate days tlie lot oi the mayor of Durham is far happiei than that of his predecessors in ancient times. If tradition can be reliec on the chief magistrate was then un tier an obligation to kiss the first cow the first sheep and the first pig brought Jnto the first market of tin New Year. This went on until It occurred to a resourceful oecqprfnt of the mayoral chair to’ Interpret the custom as relating to the first three market women, ;nd henceforward they were the re(iplenls of the New Year kisses until tjie ancient custom vanished alto getlfer. It is much to be feared that the Abuse of kissing customs has beer largely responsible for tlieir falling into disuse, though some of them are certainly more honored In the breach than in the observance. One such, which used to obtain in Oxfordshire, concerned the tenants ot Certain estates which they held on condition that on New Year’s morning they publicly kissed the parish pump or paid a drink fine to the assembled populace. V , As might be supposed, the tenants hilmost invariably preferred to pay th-6 fine, but it is on record that one misguided, close-fisted individual actually kissed the pump in order to keep ths fine in his pocket. The populace were so disgusted at his meanness and infuriated at ths loss of the liquor that they held him under the pump and pumped the water on him until he was almost washed away. At one hostelry in the metropolis it was the custom for the landlord to hand out to every menibter of the opposite sex who called before the houi Os noon on New Year’s dfey a measure of ale in exchange for a kiss. What the landlord’s better half thought of this proceeding report sayeth not. At another London public house it use 4 to be permissible for the,first customer on New Year’s morning to kiss tine barmaid byway of paying for his liquor. But only the first was entitled to this privilege, and any subsequent caller who presumed to pay in this fashion had to forfeit half a crown to the barmaid. One astute Hebe got her sweetheart to call first and mulcted several later callers of the customary half crown In the course of the liiorntag. I

THE NEW With the mysterious passing of the year My heart revives to new and rare delights, My vision leaps to new untraveled heights, And vows renew to all I have held dear. O little new-born Year, love you so, Because you spread fresh highways for my feet, And brim my cup with life, tha still is sweet Whether in joy or sorrowing I go.

YOU CAN’T BLAME HIM. He: I’ve turned over a new leaf for the New Year —will you marry me? She: No. He: Then I*ll turn it back.

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LEAN OR RICHARDSON looked across the festively decorated restaurant table at her husband, who was consuming indifferently his frozen, nut-sprinkled dessert. He certainly was not grow-

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lug any younger, while she—well, only Eleanor herself knew the exact {lumber of gray hairs in her carefully arranged coiffure and realized the unequal battle being waged between the cold cream of her masseuse and the Insidious crows’ wrinkles at the corners of her dark-fringed eyes. •‘Do you know, Fred, this doesn’t Interest me a bit?” she said, with a e casual glance at the gay scene about her. “Other years I have enjoyed It well enough, but tonight, somehow, It seems—-stale.” “I suppose,” returned her -busband, placidly, “that the people who get the most fun out of this sort of thing, after all, are those who come here from the backwoods where they douse the kerosene lamp at 8 p. m. and liglrt it again when the roosters v ?row. The rest of us are used to it.” By making reservations long in advance the Richardsons had been able to feecure a place in the most desirable location in the dining room—not too near the palm-embowered orchestra loudly dispensing jazz, not too far from the tinsel-draped stage, where at the moment were twisting and gesticulating Hawaiian beauties in very tropical costumes, which seemed absurdly inappropriate considering that it was New Year’s eve. Eleanor cupped her chin in white, expensively ringed hands. “Perhaps It is the reaction from the season or perhaps I’m merely bored, but I feel out of sorts. As 1 look back on our fen years of married life they seem happy enough, and yet to look forward in the future to the same sort of ten years doesn’t seem worth while.” Fred Richardson looked at her In surprise. Retrospection had never been one of Eleanor’s habits. “What’s the matter, old girl?” he asked with unusual solicitude. “Shall we leave this joint and go the rounds? There won’t '»e much in the way of excitement anywhere until midnight.” “But I tell you, Fred, I’jn not looking for excitement tonight,” exclaimed Eleanor impatiently; “strange as it may seem. For one thing, I’m worried as to whether I’ve done the right thing by Beth. You know that Jim Goddard has been wild about her for some time, and watfts to marry her offhand on his ridiculously small salary. Os course Beth, after living with me all these years, asked my advice, and 1 emphatically advised against it. Told her to wait until they had laid by enough to put them beyond the chance of worry.” “Well, that was sensible enough advice nowadays, 1 guess,” acquiesced her husband, good-naturedly, flicking the ashes from his cigar. Eleanor looked at him keenly. Time was when he would Have spurned such counsel as savoring of too worldly a wisdom. Ten years of money-making in the big city had wrought their changes in him, too. She sighed. Then: “Oh, well,” she exclaimed, shrugging her shoulders; “I should worry about that now. Jim was to get his answer this evening, and I imagine by now Beth has turned him down quite definitely.” At that moment a shower of confetti and colored streamers shot from the balconies- and mezzanine, turning the interior of the restaurant into a veritable rainbow-tinted blizzard, descending in confusion on the brilliantly dressed women and their companions seated below, Eleanor rose, drawing on her long white gloVes. “Let’s go home, Fred,” she said. Moved by one of the many odd impulses which had been stirring within her, she tucked huge muff the evening favor—a frail papier mache representation of old Father Time bearing in his arms a very pink, very undressed baby, presumably significant of the old year bringing in the new. As Eleanor and her husband approached their car, a moderately priced sedan waiting on a quieter side street. Fred thought with satisfaction of the neat little sum in the bank, now almost sufficient for s the purchase of a very late very com--pletely equipped, high-powered model. Resolving also to acquire a chauffeur, be opened the door for his wife who, skirts held high to avoid the trampled slush, stepped rn. At the same Instant. “Fred!” she cried in

IN THIS NEW YEAR. The wound to feel—the cross to bear In this new year. With many a.jflgh and many a tear. And the red wreath bf thorns to wear In~this new year. But faith is strong and hope is fair In this new year. Back of the clouds the gtars shine clear. The brighter day is hovering near In this new year. No wintry landscapes dim and sere Blight this new year. The lilies of God’s love appear— The bells of Love are ringing clear In this new year! —Frank L. Stanton.

THAT’S WHY, Say Pop, why do so many people make resolutions on New Year’s? They’ve spent so much money on Christmas presents, that they feel like reforming, I guess.

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alarm. Trett, wnat tn heaven’s name la thlsr Fred, equally startled by his wife’s tense tones, peered unseelngly Into the dark depths of the car then unhooked the electric torch from its socket, and flashed it on. There, on the luxurious cushioned seat, lay » a small, . shawl-wrapped bundle, oddly soft to Eleanor’s inquiring touch. As she parted the insufficient, ragged covering the bright light disclosed a very plump and quite new baby, with open eyes under as yet unlashed lids and very - Intriguing dimples In his fat knees. Fred gasped to his wife: “What shall we do with it?” “Why, I suppose drive to the police station. There Is evidently not a clew as to its parents.” While Fred drove with unusual care through the traffic which here and there practically blocked the slippery street, his wife sat holding the unsought package in a lap quite unused to such an occupant. She was thinking that possibly life would not have become so drably monotonous and the bond between herself and Fred so frayed 'at times If -children had come to their home.l As the car stopped in front of the station, the baby stirred. Fred, getting down, held out his arms. “Walt,” she said, a strange note in her voice. “It seems so healthy—you don’t suppose—perhaps a child around the house —” • Fred, who had long ceased to speak bls regret that he had no children, looked at her at first without comprehension, then with a great light in his tired eyes. But it died out as suddenly as It had come. c “Nell, you must be crazy. Why, we’re lucky if we’re allowed to have a lap dog in our flat, much less a baby. Hand it over.” “But, Fred,” Eleanor went on, strangely relieved of the boredom she had complained of, “there’s that money in the bank—this car is good enough for anybody—how much would a little place of our own cost —not too far out, but with grass around it-—and a porch—” “Nell,” he said huskily, “you’re-— you’re wonderful. It would be like getting another chance at life. Let's go home.” A few minutes later than this conversation, a well-set-up young man and a slim, piquantly prettj- girl were gazing at each other with miserably defiant eyes. “No—no —no, Jim,” cried Beth. “I do want to. But Eleanor says I’d be crazy. She tried it and she knows.” “Then it’s good-by for keeps, Beth,” c j° I Carrying Something iri His Arms. returned the other, grimly. “Heaven knows I want you badly enough, but not at the expensp of waiting for years and wasting our young lives, all for the whim of a third party who doesn’t count.” Jim turned to go, and Beth stood twisting and untwisting a damp little ball of handkerchief. Why didn’t she dare follow the dictates of her own heart, not the bidding of a cynical sister, however good that nister had been to her? - V As Jim opened the door, the elevator stopped across the hall. Out stepped Beth’s brother-in-law. carrying something in -his arms., Behind followed a strangely alive-looking woman, whose first words struck most incomprehensibly on the younger girl’s ear. • “Beth, dear, please telephone at once to the nurse's bureau and nsk them to send up tjie best graduate nurse they can get hold of, with the formula for feeding a very young baby, and —how do you do, Jim? I hope Beth’s been nice to you ! Forget what I said about not getting married. It doesn’t pay to wait too long!” She hurried after her husband who had gone into an inner room. Jim held out his arms once more, and Beth went Into them. When she raised her head to meet his lips the bells of the city were breaking forth in joyous peal: “Ring out the old, ring in the new 1” “For us,” murmured Jim, fatuously. “For us,” murmured Eleanor and Fred, their eyes meeting across the wide expanse of white lace spread where Fred had laid the baby. “The old year has gone,” said Eleanor; then added whimsically, “but we brought the new one home with us!” (Copyright by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

SUPERSTITION IN ENGLAND. Many superstitions connected with the coming of another year took root in England at various times. The front and back doors were opened at midnight to send put the bad spirits and to let in the good. It was thought necessary that a man should be the first to enter a house on New Year’s morning. And upon entering his home for the first time after the old year had passed, the head of the family had to bring tn something that he had not taken out, else bad luck would surely follow. OLD ROMISH NEW YEAR. The old Romish New Year occurre In March', but It was transferred t the present date to conform with certain calculations. The Christian date for the New Year Is taken from the Roman and therefore is the more generally observed of any, as it is the standard for all Christian Europe, America, Australia, and, in fact, al) Christendom.

TARIFF HEARINGS TO START SOON HOUSE WAYS ANO MEANS COMMITTEE WILL GET BUSY RIGHT AFTER THE HOLIDAYS. i S TO PREPARE FOR NEW BILL v Legislation for Upward Revision of Customs Duties Will Be Introduced In Session Which Harding Will Call in March. < By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington.—As soon as congress reconvenes after the holiday recess the ways and means committee of the house of representatives will begin hearings for the purpose of laying tire basis for new tariff legislaton. The Republicans have declared that they will “speed the return to a protective basis.” The Republicans in their party platform declared for protection, that Is, for higher rates of customs duties than those that are now prevailing. The hearings will continue until March 4. and it may be that the finance committee of the senate or a subcommittee of it will sit with the ways and means committee of the house for the purpose of joint hearings. It, of course, has been a foregone conclusion that when the Republicans gained control of the executive branch of the government and a larger measure of control of the two houses of congress there would be a new tariff measure enacted. Tlie new bill probably will he called the Fordney-Pen-rose tariff bill. . t Spokesmen for the ways and means committee say it is expected that the tariff hearings will continue for about two months. The chances are that they will continue longer, for the history of tariff legislation proves that it takes a long time for men to get together. After the hearings are closed the bill itself must be prepared, and this takes time. Then it must be reported to the house of representatives, and then will come the long drawnout debate. Must Originate in Lower House. When the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was in the process of framing under the Taft administration, the finance committee of the senate drafted a bill of its own, while the ways and means committee of the house was preparing its measure. Now all tariff measures must originate in the house of representatives, for it is a revenue raising project, and under the Constitution the house of congress that is most directly representative of the people must take the initiative in the matter. It was a little curious, therefore, to see the senate of the United States framing a bill of its own, while the house was carrying out its constitutional duty. Os course the senate bill was not introduced into the senate, but it was used as the basis of amendments to be offered to the house bill when the representatives had passed their measure and had sent it over to the senate. In brief, the. finance committee of the senate knew what kind of tariff bill it desired, and so it was all ready.to offer changes in the house legislation as.proposed When President-elect Harding was in Washington he had a conference with several members of the yvays and means committee of the house led by Joseph W. Fordney of Michigan as chairman. It is said that Mr. Harding sanctioned the plan for tariff hearings in advance of the time of meeting of ~the new congress, which probably will be called together some time between the middle and the last of March. Harding’s Plans Still Unrevealed. Warren G. Harding, President-elect of the United States, is a newspaper man and has been a newspaper man ever since his early days. For this reason probably he was able to carry carefully in his head the notes of his Washington conferences, and doubtless today in Marion he is able to transcribe them faithfully. It may be said that the notes are many, covering as they do some scores of subjects. When Senator Harding was in the capital city after his return from Panama everybody saw him and a grtjat many talked wit,h him. He, howevfer, reserved strict conference rightsjjn'or the senators of his political party, and for others not senators but who were connected closely with his campaign or the presidency. There are several men in Washington today who Lave a fairly definite idea probably as to what Mr. Harding ultimately Intends to do in the 4 way of recommendation concerning our international relations, with special reference to something like a league that is not a league, partaking perhaps of the nature of an association of nations for the preservation of amity in the world, or for a sublimated Hague tribunal which, to borrow one of Mr. Harding’s campaign expressions, “will have teeth in it.” There are champions of the league in Washington who say they hope that these will not be false teeth. The league is still something of a live issue. s Trouble in Picking a Cabinet Probably no one In Washington is any wiser at this date concerning Senator Harding’s, cabinet preferences than he was before thq senator dropped in here on his way back to the parlor and the dining room in

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Marlon which lie back of the famous front porch of campaign history. It is not a difficult thing for one to understand the difficulties which the President-elects having In fixing upon men to invite into his cabinet. The troubles that were certain to beset him were discussed freely enough before the election by men who, convinced that Harding was to win, naturally indulged in cabinet speculations, but only occasionally it must be said, tn cabinet prophecies. These men, win were trained politicians for the mos: part and many of whom had held one office or another in the public service, had a realizing sense of the troubles ' of cabinet selection that were to come. In the senate of the United States there are different groups of men each of which will resent the appointment of this man or that man to the cabinet because this man or that man had something to do with league er antileague activities which were not to the liking of this group or that group. It is known that Senator Harding probably will select for his secretary of state somebody who will be grateful to the extreme anti-leaguers and at the same time not ungrateful to those who believe in reservations and also to those few Republican senators who are willing to take the league virtually as it is rather than to have it abandoned altogether. Campaign Aids Have Claim. The President-elect, like all other successful candidates for the presidency in the past, is indebted for preand post-convention work to some men who are all of cabinet or near cabinet size, but who also are known as exceedingly active politicians. Mr. Harding knows, as every good American knows, that a proper interest In politics makes for good government, but nevertheless It Is said that the Ohioan, like all other past Presidentelects, Democratic and Republican, has a feeling that if he shall put into his cabinet men who have been too active politically in his behalf, even if their qualifications for cabinet jobs are all right, there may be public criticism and perhaps public resentment. / Some of the campaign intimates of Senator Harding say that if he were to follow the bent of his inclination he would pick the ablest of the political lieutenants who stood by him through the thick and the thin of it and would welcome them into his' official family. There are some men to whose advice Mr. Harding has listened fre-, quently, anti whose good will *they desire to keep, who are urging him to stay away from what they call the mere politician and to select for cabinet positions men who have been known more widely for their endeavor in business and professional life than for their interest in the political affairs of the country. It is said here that Mr. Harding intends to balance his cabinet between men of the last type mentioned and able men who are also politicians. Washington in Quadrennial Foment Washington today is in a “foment” of plrtns for the inauguration of Pres-ident-elect Harding. The word “foment’ is used advisedly. Every four years Washington gets into the throes over inauguration plans. This year is no exception. The capital City of the United States is a pretty well-conducted place, but in the Decembers, the Janu furies and the Februaries of evei;j i fourth year it cannot be called, in al) of its innermost circles, business and social, a city of brotherly love. Ambition besets Some Washingtonlans every ’’fourth year. The Presi denVelect is supposed to name a resi dent of Washington who shall act as chairman of the inaugural cere monies, but he is guided Jargely in his choice by the advice and suggestion of prominent residents of thr I capital. These prominent residents generally are divided into two or thres j camps, each with its dwr. choice foi . inaugural chief, and the result Is that there generally is a rather pretty con 1 test for the place of high honor. This i year, it is said, is to be no exceptior ; to the general rule. i Tlie inauguration ceremonies bring ; visitors and business to Washington ■ The bigger the doings the better thf , residents of this city like them, and ’ so it is that every inauguration coin 1 mittee plans at the outset for some | thing which will outdo “in style" and . grandeur” everything of kindred na I ture which has been done before. i The good sense of tlie President 5 elect frequently has intervened to pre vent the carrying out of Inaugural pro grams too grandiose to suit the sup posed democratic simplicity of a greai republic. However, in almost everj case there has been a notewortnj parade and a dignified ceremony sc far as the actual Inaugural proceed Ings are concerned. Washington today wonders whethei the custom of years ago is to bi? re vived and an inaugural ball is to be held. There has not been such a ball for a good many years. looked upon as rather gaudy affairs and as having no particular purpose except to give visitors and the capital city residents a chance to glimpse the new President and his wife as thej led a so-called grand march “up 8 hall and down again,” the whole thin? lasting about one minute and tw’entj seconds by the stop watch. There always is a parade on inaug uratlon day, and it generally is a fine one. It is both military and civil in its composition. The regular troops are brought here from the nearbj posts and nearly all the states have been in the habit of sending theli crack National Guard organizations tc take part in the doings. Then there are political marching clubs from here there and everywhere else to put ir an appearance to march and to cheei for the new head of the party.

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A New Drug. Not long ago one of the doctors at Sunnyside promised a patient that he night walk about the next day. tile .aid that he would put the permission >n his order book. This he did. He vrote “anibulant,”*an°d thought he had •ared for his patient. But the next norning the niyse, who was young ind new, kept the disappointed patient n tied until she could see ®the doctor. To the doctor she said anxiously: “I have not yet given his medicine » Mr. Jones. You did not write how nany drams.” —Indianapolis &ews. ’ It takes Congress to settle a strike, but m unruly stomach is subdued by Garfield lea.—Adv. Transgression. The youthful Softleigh seemed so lepressed. that his friend Moreleigb ,vas moved to ask the reason. “Alice has broken our engagement,” taid he of the downcast look. “Sorry to hear that,” said tlie friend. ‘Why did she break it?” “Because I stole a kiss.” “What! A fiancee object to her felow stealing a kiss from her?” “The trouble was,” Softleigh explained, “I didn’t steal it from e her.” The Htesult. “I told Brown mose were doubtful securities.” “Did he raise anything on them?” “Oh, yes; he raised a smile.”

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