Show I New Years New Years Day was of course observed as a holiday A great many I indulged in the practice of calling though the liquor part of the entertaining enter-taining was not so much observed as has been customary and if the practice were altogether abolished but few would ever regret it and those few are not of the class that one is particularly anxious to propitiate The custom of drinking liquors on New Years Day has grown into a barbarism aj it is construed into a license for gentlemen to get drunk on that day to indulge in riotous actioneand to an extent countenances the idiotic expressions of a befuddled intellect This practice should be frowned down by ladies and not smiled upon when it would in time be altogether dropped The youth who takes a drink little knows to what extent he will go and little dreams that while he tbkes the wine proffered by the fair hand and bis acceptance of it is insisted upon the owner of the same fair hand despises him for yielding However any person with common sense must appreciate this etate of aflnirs and if he makes a fool of himself he does so wilfully therefore he is inexcusable inex-cusable There was but litle drinking drink-ing and the day pai therefore much more enjoyable In regard to amusement parties were the sources They were many and enjoyable thn firemen masques ade at Jenmngs Hall being especially successul |