Show NEW YORK NOTES some persons claim wonderful discoveries co holidays f special correspondence 1 NEW YORK march in ono way and another our city life is constantly teeming with earnings about eight yeara ago a man named aileon appeared in new york and brooklyn who had made a discovery more valuable than the philosophers stone that could transmute the basest metal and turn it into gold but what of that you could not eat it or drink it it could not give you health it could not keep off the stroke nor avert adv of the thousand and one ills that flesh is heir to but wilson had discovered discover pd wilsonia Wils ouia and wilsonia v as a panacea for every mortal ill neuralgia godt asthma yellow jaundice jun dice rheumatism cholera and tic do loreaux fled from wilsonia in affright t was good for fits and unsurpassed in cases of the rickets it was no bad thins for a broken leg and for swelling behind the ears it was infallible great was wilson greater still wilsonia he had not started business many weeks when hia office was be with patients he advertised and advertised and it brought him i countless dubats ducats but what is wilsonia sav you well it might be a cap or a stocking a coat a vest or a pair of breeches it depended very much upon the part affected but it was good for any ill fion the crown of your head to the abie of your foot the garments gaj ments were electrified and electricity applied directly from the wilsonia garments was never known to fail business fairly rushed at him he took the entire side of one of our great metropolitan dailies and frequently advertised in three br four at a time thousands of dollars were spent for advertising in a day tut thousands kept rolling in and in a little time wilson was wealthy pictures bric a brac fine furniture rare lains and articles of vertu and ornaments filled every nook and corner of his palatial residence but at last lack turned as it did with doctor helmbold and a hundred others and mr wilson was laid out as flat as a flounder he went frum bad to worse till at last he did not know where to turn for a dollar then he shook himself and advertised for a partner with cash and found him and started a new racket wilsonia was pretty well played out thousands of people had all pants and vests jackets shirts and magic belts hung up in their garrets and cel lire serving as a constant reminder that there is no experience peri ence like boughten experience so the new racket was called aetna and I 1 in hundreds of papers appeared the wonderful advertisement aetna cures lumbago aetna is good for pain in the back aetna cures deafness weak sight is cured by aetna mr wilson is now in a law suit for the recovery of borne of his lost property and if he can only succeed in getting some of his wilsonia Wil electric jackets and breeches on the offending parties he would soon bring them to terms the united states has never been famous for holidays whoa I 1 was a boy there were only three aa near aa I 1 can recollect fourth of july general training and thanksgiving foreigners and a few church people kept christmas and new years but the great body of the american people knew them not though new years was sacred to the dutch of new york and with the virginia cavaliere cavaliers Cava liers christmas was more than a boman holiday I 1 am not at all astonished at the accepted pictures of brother jonathan with his lantern JAWS his bell crowned hat his striped pants and his long tai I 1 swing for he embodied a catl jl idea and brought into bold relief the enormity of the offense offence of all work and no play all though new england particularly the necessity of constant work was impressed epou the boy from the moment able to toddle gather a basket of chips with which to prepare the matitu meal to the day that the undertaker foreclosed his mortgage and the man was gathered to his fathers work was a virtue play next to a crime and to put it in its mildest shape it was unquestionably an awful and inexcusable waste and as a natural consequence we were running to brains without muscle and the ideal brother jonathan was a type of the race begot of such training fifty years ago a respectable man of forty would no more be seea swinging a pair of clubs or dumbbells dumb bells than he would be caught at a faro bank or a dog fight bot that day thank providence is past the new england man of today to day has not only brains but and from baseball to bicycles ha stands in the yan satisfied that ahil amma may conceive and work out the problem it requires muscle to move the world it is therefore that I 1 rejoice in the addition to our national holidays which will make the of may memorable for all time to come |