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MORNING ENTERPRISE WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 1913.
THE NEW YEAR'S
DI1ER OF OLD JAPAN
GERM LADEN DUST
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J "FOLLY"
AS Christmas Is the greatest holi
day of the year with us. so is
New Year's the time of great
rejoicing with the Japanese.
And no wonder, for to the folks of
Old Nippon January means rest from
the labor and toil of gathering the harr
vest. For this, reason and because it
is supposed to le the beginning of all
things new the Japanese have made
it their festal month.
At the very end of the old year great
pine branches re placed by all gate
ways and hearths and the numerous
shrines of their gods.
The pine bough signifies constancy
and is hung with a straw circle made
to resemble a gem. having rays of light
coming from it. and stuck with a sar
dine edible seaweed, a leaf of ever
green and many bits of paper.
The straw riiiL's are also placed upon
a great many articles of furniture and
a number of kitchen implements be
cause at one tilne these things were
thought to be endowed with life.
Ncy Year's is a busy time for the
hou: iwife. who has to cook and pre
pare all the dishes which have a spe
cial significance for the great day.
First comes clam soup. The clam,
which opens when cooked, typifies the
opening of good fortune
The Japanese word for health is
"mame," and so beans, which are call
ed by a name which sounds like this,
-must be eaten.
Radishes and fish, salmon and sweets
must be eaten also, for on this marvel
ous night the Japanese believe that a
whole year is added to one's life.
For this evening the children may be
as tronbjesome as they please without
fear or reproof, for no sound of scold
ing or quarreling is ever heard in a
Japanese home at this time.
When the great meal has been made
ready the gods of the household are
first served Many lights- are lit be
fore them. Sake Is offered in little
vases. Before the shelf on which are
'the gods the family hang colored leaf
lets, each possessing a supposed power
; for luck.
Seaweed, which means rejoicing. Is
also offered in bundles.
When the family have duly honored
and worshiped their gods they set
about eating the great meal.
"Once yon have partaken of this
feast." say they, "a whole year Is
added to your life!"
Thus, If a child is born in December,
his family will gravely declare him to
be two years old after this meal.
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One of the best preserved historic
country houses in all England is JohD
Milton's cottage at ehalfont St Giles,
to which the blkid and aging poet fled
when the great plague swooped down
on London. That was in July, 1665,
and Milton had just finished "Paradise
Lost" and received a five pound note
for it, with a promise of three more
five pound notes if the poem sold foui
editions of l.iiuo copies each. The cot
tage stands at the top of the village,
and it is in practically the same con
dition as when Milton left it. Here
the poet received bis distinguished
guests during the latter part of bisj
life.
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"Yes, Jim; we are all well and the
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from home brings joy to the family circle by.
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NEW YEAR'S THOUGHTS.
No minute or hour of solar
time begins this new year. The
sunset of one place is the sun
rise of another. Time's true cal
endar is in the spirit of man.
Then every day should be greet
ed as the dawn of a new and
better life greeted with new
sensibilities, new ideas, new pur
poses sn that life may never
wither. I: t keep eternally young
and rea-i to learn, and as full
of woii : ;ts the eyes of the
Child -its in the Sistine Ma
donna's ;i lis.
God's i.ercy flows over the
past yc;: tiloitiug out its fail
ures an ! ins Let us, then, set
our fa hopefully toward the
new. I1..' s out of the book of
resolution into, the book of acts
and so -.isi rilie upon its fresh,
fair page? a lie: let- record'. May
there be in all the coming year
no bud that shall not burst into
blossom and no blossom that
shall fall without being filled
into fruit.
The old year, with Its lights
and shadows, has drawn to a
close. As we look in review we
cannot but sincerely regret any
stain on its pages, knowing that
they must stand until that great
day "when God shall judge the
secrets of men." Then let us
turn our eyes toward the new
year with resolution and hope,
with faith and love, and the vic
tory is ours. There will be the
same old foes to meet, the, same
old temptations to eucouuter
and the same old battles to
fight But thanks be unto God,
who giveth us the victory, and
going forth in "His name" we
will wear the victor's crown.
home tonight? That's
A Tale of a New Year's
I Eve Ball
T "M to
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tl satin.
go as the New Year," said
isou Thorpe. "Rose colored
you know, to signify the
dawn of the morning and pearls
sewed . on in nil sorts of fantastic
shapes for snow flakes."
"And 1," eagerly added' Celeste, the
second scion of the house of Thorpe,
"am to be Lucy Ashton, the Bride of
Latnmermoor."
"Mr. Hale is coming as Richard
Coeur de I.ion," said Alison.
"And Will I-iscombe is to be Kolly.
with his cap and hells and a costume
of violet velvet." said Celeste.
Tbeolyn listened with big" eyes aud
cheeks glowing with excitement "Oh.
1 think they might let' me go to the
New tear's eve ball." said she. "It's
awfully hard to be left here all alone,
with Dorcas and the dogs."
"Now, Theo, don't compel us to goi
all over the ground again." said Alison
severely. "Do you suppose we want
to go in a regular drove?"
Theo had eateu her cold supper aud
was sitting staring into the lire with
an unperused book in her lap when
there sounded the gay chime of sleigh
bells under the window, and presently
Old Dorcas hobbled in with a counte
nance of dismay.
"It's always the way," said she. "My
missus never goes away from home but !
what something is sure to happen.
Here's a young man fetched in here
with a broken leg or something."
"Don't . believe a word she says,
Theo!" cried a cheerful voice. as Mr.
William Liscombe himself hobbled in.
leaning on the shoulder of the little
red beaded stable boy. "It's only I.
and it's nothing on earth but a sprain.
Don Pedro, the new black horse, hasn't
had quite exercise enough of late, and
he took it into his head to shy at the
old burned stumps by the waterfall
HAPPY NEW TKAR, ME. 1ISCOMBB," BEE
SAID GftTLY.
and flung me out with my leg doubled
awkwardly under me. 1 held desper
ately on to the reins, though, and"
And by way of proving satisfactorily
that there was nothing the matter with
him Mr. Liscombe fainted away.
The red haired stable boy ran for the
doctor. Old Dorcas sent Tbeolyn re
lentlessly up to bed.
Theo obeyed the old woman's injunc
tions to go upstairs at once with omi
nous docility. But she did not go to
bed. She had taken up a certain fiat
pasteboard box which had been un
loaded from Liscombe's sleigh in the
hall and discovered what its contents
were, and she was waiting at the outer
gate when the stable boy guided old
Dolly between its stone posts on his
way to Mandeville manor.
"It's only me. Tom," said Miss Theo.
I'm going to the hall, you know. I've
got such a costume here, but it is to be
a dead secret Quick, let me get in!"
Miss Celeste Thorpe's eye3 brightened
when Folly, with his cap and bells, bis
violet velvet tunic, belted with a cable
of Roman gold, and his violet satin
mask, asked Lucy Ashton to waltz with
him. She leaned languishingly on bis
arm. She whispered fascinating noth
ings to him as they promenaded be
tween the waltzes.
"Go and dance with some one else."
whispered she. "You'll set every one
to gossiping."
"Let them gossip," said Folly. "1
care only for what one person says."
"Do yon really care for me?" giggled
Celeste.
"Really care for yon? I love you.
Will you be mine?" murmured Folly In
flute sweet accents.
"Yes. my darling," sighed Miss Ce
leste, who at seven and twenty bad de
termined that a good match was the
only thing desirable. "But you haven't
deceived me. I know who you are
dear Will."
"Let me bring you an Ice," said the
dear Will, and Celeste sank rapturous
ly on a red plush divan to ponder on
her good fortune and await the return
of her lover.
Meanwhile mischievous Theo, half
frightened at what she had done, was
speeding home through the evergreen
glens.
She was down early the next morn
ing as quiet and dignified as a princess,
with a bunch of mistletoe that Alison
had chanced to overlook in her hands.
Might Have Been Better Put.
A missionary who had served in Chi
na for teu years paid what some of
them probably considered an "objec
tionable" compliment to the female
section of a fashionable London audi
ence in the course of his references to
the Chinese custom of foot binding.
Remarking that there were 400,000,000
of people in China, at least half of
whom were women and girls, be in
quired. "Of that number how many do
you think have nice large feet like the
ladies whom 1 see.before me?"
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Ceremcny of
the Ind ans
HE tiew year of the Iroquois Iu
diaus commences nearly a
month later thau our own.
The first sun of the moou.
Nis-ko-wuk-ni. rises ou the 2uth day of
January, aud to the Indians this symbo
lizes the dawn of another year of the
Iroquois confederacy and that a week
of festivity Is at hand.
With the rising of the sun a com
pany of "buffalo heads" break up into
four pairs and march to their assigned
THE! HEAD FEAST WOMEN DEDICATE THI
MBAlu
district to notify ceremoniously the
people that the old year is gone and
the new is come. With heavy striped
corn pounders they smite the door
posts and sing the buffalo song: "Yey
hey, yey-hey, Gwa-a-won-dey. Gwa-a-won-deyl
Hail, nephews: HallT' With
their asb paddles they sprinkle the
corners of the house as they enter It in
token of Its purification from past evils
and then light the fire of the new year.
The fee for the buffaloes is a hand-
Opportunity To Catch
e Leaders in
"A. happy New Year. Mr. Liscombe.'
said she gayly. "And here is yonr
present."
"English mistletoe;" said he. "And
for nie?"
"The partaker is as bad as the
thief:" cried Tbeolyn gayly. "I stole
it out of AMmiii'm room. It's a part of
her masquerade dress:"
"And I have missed the masquerade
after all." said Liscombe. looking with
bright, appreciative eyes at her dim
pled .voting loveliness. "But I haven't
missed you. Tbeolyn. Do you know,
dear. I dreamed of you all night."
Theo turned her face coquettjshly
away.
"If-.vou were going to dream of any
body." said she. "why didn't yon
dream of Celeste?"
"Because I don't love Celeste be
cause I love yon "
"Me!" Poor Tbeolyn . turned pink
and white like a sweet pea blossom.
"Mr. Liscombe. It isn't right for you
to laugh at me."
"Sweetheart. I am not laughing."
said he. "Come nearer to me. Re
member that I can't come to you and
be merciful. Let me hold your little
hand In mine and answer me. Will
you be my wife?"
And Theolyn.. In great confusion
owned up that she thought she could.
Mrs. Thorpe and her two elder daugh
ters, who bad remained ail night at
Mandeville manor, returned to lunch.
Their amazement at finding an unex
pected guest in possession of the house
was unbounded.
"Were yon not at the ball last
night," demanded Mrs. Thorpe, "as
Folly, In a violet velvet suit?"
"I? No. certainly. I was here with
a sprained ankle, under the care oT
Dorcas and the doctor," declared Lis
combe. -
"Then who was It came as Folly?
Who was It asked our Celeste to
marry him?"
"I'm sure I don't know," said Mr
Liscombe. leaning comfortably back
In his easy chair. "But I asked Theo
this morning to marry me. and she
has consented."
Mrs. Thorpe went back to where her
daughters were unpacking their finery
In their own rooms and related the an
noying tale.
And to the end Celeste Thorpe never
was able to unravel this New Year's
mystery.
if. But there were the facts. At the
identical hour in which the tender
proposal bad been breathed Will Lis
combe lay under the doctor's bands
at the old Thorpe homestead. And he
was now Theolyn's affianced husband.
Celeste knew that she wasn't mistaken,
and she knew that every one else
thought that she was. And the only
person that can unravel the riddle is
Theolyn herself, if she chooses. Shir
ley Browne in Fireside Companion.
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ful of Indian tobacco, the host ex
plaining as he gives it. "It clears :iue
mind and sobers the thoughts."
The next day the whole nation enters
Into the game of peach fit one dice
Each brotherhood of clans gambles
against the other, gambles religiously
and furiously. Their particular brand
of betting, however, is In conformity
to religious custom, and the result ot
the game determines clan precedence
and supremacy for the year.
The third morning tf the new year
is devoted to the burning of the white
dog. The white dog of the Indians is
extinct but the ceremony continues
for. as Chief Crow says: "Our religion
is greater than any of its incidentals
or ceremonies. They are not essentials
the thankful heart Is." In the pres
ent ceremony tobacco is offered to the
Great Spirit as a thank offering and is
thrown in the sacred tire by bandfuls
during the white dog chant. The white
dog ceremony is a recital of man's ob
ligations to the Maker of all things for
the things of his creation. Thanks are
given for every force in nature and
every plant and animal useful to man
kind.
On Thursday morning, the fourth
day of the ceremony, the ha-jast-ta-gy.
or high priest, begins a three day ser
mon that runs up into the one hundred
and thirtythly before it closes. Three
entire mornings are consumed by the
sermon which, although it has been
preached each year for 109 years, has
never varied even a word.
The ceremonies of Friday and Satur
day close the feast of the new year.
For several days the feastmakers have
been pounding corn for the great feast
days. The milling process is primitive
and is done with a wooden mortar and
pestle, the head feast woman striking
a few blows with the pestle to dedicate
the meal. The corn is taken from the
braided strings and prepared in vari
ous ways for the mill. Some Is soaked
in a weak wood ash lye to remove the
bulls, some is parched, and some is
merely soaked a little. Whatever meth
od is used eventually yields a tempting
dish that even palefaces enjoy.
I IMPOSSIBLE NEW YEAR
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Up With
The Years.
They come, thpy pass, with snow soft feet.
And deathless youth illumes their eyes.
Alike to them are chaff and wheat.
Alike the foolish and the wise.
They bring the wound, they bring the
balm.
They light our smiles, they dry our
tears.
Careless of death or life, the calm
Servants of time, the patient years.
The winds that rend and strew the rose.
Dissolve the sweetness through the air.
This wind of time that beats and blows.
Leaves all the past still fragrant fair.
Though hopes,, may fail and hearts may
break
And fruitless all the striving be.
One golden gift Is left to make
Man's bliss consoling memory.
Hall and farewell, farewell and hall.
The going and the coming guest.
Welcome to daybreak's shining sail
As to the night beyond the west.
The years may come, the years may go, "
And bring the sad or merry mood.
Merry or sad. one thing we know
That life is good. ah. life is good!
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