Show aie iff ilia CUSTOM the year 1887 is not tile only thing g that died when the bells in the tower pealed forth the hour of of last been for ciany years received it quietus about the saine time not it is to be hoped be revived again we of new year haills it had got to 10 ni 11 ans of indulging in with the endorsement and suppo of people who called themselves tile best society and thus I 1 ma a law awell entrenched an d defended so bially tharo nias ni as nothing especially wrong in it except that no good came of it and it was a species of nuisance since calling at any rime upon any acquaintance for the incao sake of calling can be done at any reasonable reason able hour of any day in lie year but the p rac fice of going through the eions of a formal 9 invited ladies to insist in the cere men I 1 L 9 of having a dress parade business made of jt with the attendant forced and formal expression of politeness tho alining and lunching tile V and general nonsense altogether fiad become a litt 0 too much for republican simplicity there be those hoi rover and they think that they do not stand low in the social scale either who think the custom should be retainer reta inea pro m nent among theseas gli pt write leading articles in the no york world ile is enabled by a aro cess of reasoning to himself to arrive at the bobu that people who are disposed to clington what lie calls the good old practice z aou d not be deterred from doing so tills year be canso some ious 1 despot has decreed that it Is unfashionable io and adds that it it is to be a general holiday there can be no more acceptable method found of passing away file beginning of the year than of I 1 in eating old acquaintances ive thi it may be safely stated that the espo t he speaks of is not rl I 1 ous but is tolerably familiar in most communities particularly so in this and is recognized as the exercise of common sense and good judgment ind that while concurring in the statement that no better way can be found of passing ta e day than by friends meeting and ba ing sociable tho same thing applies to many if not most other days of the year especially holiday whatever nature the world writer thinks that anything that checks the growing vart our a be fostered and encouraged 1 d we put we would first suggest that a place in alich such tendencies acted upon the linman animal is gregarious mid rather disposed to flock toge ier so much we have to provide ourselves now an d then with lairs to keep the individual elements eie ments of the species some little but not measured distance apart andon the whole there cial necessity for a rule which embar ma c is more than it gives pleasure to and creates more ace than virtue longer having sway among civilized people let it go and return no more |