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Show BEAVER PRESS CZ3H Making a Choice cw Year's Day in the Nation's Capital Independence and Loneliness or Dependence With Ties of Affection TO AWif 'meal. - eggs Chris -- f irfTTr . A' j - - V MN 3 id&& V fJ If) (AA MOST persons there comes in their liv.es the opportunity for a choice between independence and loneliness or ties and affection. The wise mature person thinks long before choosing the former above the latter. There are many young people, however, who feel so sure of themselves and their ability to "get along all right" that they are irked by the least restraint. They throw it off, only to discover later in life that affection is worth the curtailing restraint and dependence entailed. Companionship has been their portion up to the time of their decision that dependence is what they must have, at any cost. They have no idea of what loneliness means. Separation. The adult who is separated from his family because of distance, domestic estrangement, er who has outlived the other members, realizes to the full what it means to be alone. It is when estrangement causes the separation that there are times when the alone-nes- s is bearable or agreeable, but these times are interrupted by hours when the feeling of loneliness creeps over him (or her), and companionship, though with but a small degree of affection, is craved. Individuality. ma e.Pical scene days when Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen called at the White Ilouse for the annual New Year's Day reception so great and so unruly during stantly shocked not only menv with his compliments. ;otto M0 SCOTT WATSON bers of the diplomatic eorps but When James Madison became this administration that Tyler WHERE else in the his fellow-Was- h ingtonians as well President his vivacious wife, found it necessary to have an Dolly Madison, did a great deal extra detail of police on hand to Unusual "Refreshments." ingtii:Jnited States is New In fact one of the most un- of entertaining and their New handle the people. However, he e sim day celebrated more in usual New Year's Day recep Year's reception were lavish was luckier in their reaction to rare koce with in Americen history was displays of hospitality. The same this innovation than was one of in the nation's tions oi than was true of the Monroes and his successors. Later a storm of held during his administration 3rnm I Time was when the and it was unusual because of their receptions were especially protest was directed against 935 g virtually every Amer-h- e the "refreshments" served. It happy affairs because this was James Buchanan because of the the "era of good feeling." "gantlet of policemen" who surfrity observed the custom came about in this way: rounded the White House for his When Jefferson was a candiAdams is "Pushed Around." nds aeeping open house" on date for President one of his But the receptions given by reception. There was good reason oseajry 1 and "paying New most ardent supporters was the John Quincy Adams were not for having the officers there, howmodern days Rev. John Leland, a Baptist min such happy affairs at least, not ever, for it is recorded that in ident f the crush at least one pocket ter noesPec'ay the "whoopee ister, long a resident of Virginia for that rather prim New who was much harassed was picked and other disorders i inachanged all that. After a but at that time living in Chesh marred the occasion. lent Ig; New Year's Eve cele- - ire, Mass. He knew what Jeffer son had done for religious liberty The Day of the Proclamation e averaSe celebrant in the Old Dominion and to show fislaan' One of the most important New jgj, feel much like making his appreciation he determined Year's Day receptions ever held to aid Jefferson's election in any t repiunds for formal calls the in House was that of the White he could. One Sunday he lay. So this custom, like way 1, 1863 and it was sigJanuary announced from the pulpit that nificant because of a momentous others of the every person who owned one or event which took place immediold days," gradually more cows was invited to bring ately afterwards. Abraham Linone day's supply of milk to a into the discard, " V had drawn up his Emanci coln (Si" cider mill owned Capt. John vever, in Washington, Brown, a veteran by pation Proclamation, had read it of the Revolu to his cabinet and had won their precedent is a fetish and tion. approval of this document which ion a vital force in every- As a result a great quantity would commit the government 1 'yS V'Xf!jFI fc, this custom has sur- - of milk was brought to the mill irrevocably to the destruction of announced that a ilonger. It has been modi- - and Leland slavery. At noon William H. to was cheese be made VfOmewhat, of course, but huge Seward, secretary of state, from it. When this was done, the brought the proclamation to LinAw J some Washingtonians, minister mounted a block, led coln for his signature. :OP$ ally the "Cliff Dwellers" his people in singing a hymn and "I have been shaking hands then was announced dedi he that esidents) it has been kept 9 o'clock this morning and since this cheese, the greatest cating S E'n much the same form as the my right hand is almost paraworld had ever seen, to Jeffcon past. lyzed" Lincoln told him. "If my erson to whom it was to be prename ever goes into history it haps one reason why it has sented. Then the question arose will be for this act, and my whole so little changed is that as to how this huge cheese was THOMAS JEFFERSON soul is in it. If my hand trembles to 500 New rebe over the Year's nual transported Day at the White House has miles which separated Cheshire by the political situation of the when I sign, all who examine as a model for other and Washington. But Leland was times. "At one of these levees the document hereafter will say " Saying that he K1ieVio1 CIO " Tret's liniicoc qd o equal to that task. He waited Mr. Adams was pushed about 'He hesitated.' V OlUMlllllll. but those who look 1 of the fact that there is until there wa plenty of snow for more than two hours," says signed on the ground. Then he placed a contemporary chronicler. "He upon the signature on that hisig, $drier between the sovereign n baa and their elected leaders, the cheese in a sleigh and drove stood in the center of the center toric document now say that it J of ustom of himself to Washington. Of its room and most pathetically shook was written as boldly, as firmly it the throwing open n hands the whole time. In the and as unfalteringly as any ever p of the Executive Mansion reception there a contemporary ladies' corner it was all chat, signed "A Lincoln." public on New Year's Day newspaper account said: flutter and graceful bowing. In Like Buchanan, Ulysses S. abserved by almost every ' The Mammoth Cheese. the hall a band was planted to Grant was also severely criti, . .lent from Washington down Washington (Federal City), December 30. the great cheese arrived keep the nerves of the company cized by the public in regard to ctioflfver By that time U be" in a Yesterday in wagon drawn by six horses, handthe of the New Year's reception but for proper degree agitation. n disow epparent that, praise-i- somely decorated with ribbons. This There was a different reason. Because of talking, squealing, they though its intent might wonderful piece of curd Is present bowing, drinking the death of Mrs. Belknap, wife t theis reception, which imposed from the Republican ladies of Cheshire, promenading, to Thomas Jefferson, coffee and sipping liquors." of his secretary of war, he canthe President the ordeal of In Massachusetts,President of America It Republican When "Old Hickory" Jackson celled the function. Thereupon 'i areig hands with thousands of the measures 4 feet 6 Inches diameter, Is 1 became President, the riotous Washington gossips declared it comy vithin a few hours, was foot 6 inches thick and weighs 1,250 scenes at his inaugural and the was a bad breach of international "'eat a strain upon the Chief pounds. We understand that the President reception afterwards were indic"itive and when President good manners for the President means, in a few days, to Invite all the ative of what would likely take to slight the foreign diplomats, velt entered the White members of both houses, of both parties, place when the public was in- who desired to pay their respects the custom was regret- - to partake of this American cheese, - vited to the White House on New to the head of the American Jut very wisely abandoned. Year's Day. But "King Mob" nation, simply because of an unIn New York. Began seems to have behaved pretty fortunate tragedy, even though egan in New York when well at those affairs, for there it was in the President's official -ity was the seat of govern- is no record of any unusually family. peorge Washington was disorderly scenes to mar the World War Aftermath. tojned to receive prominent receptions. Perhaps the presence MMhnHent oflicials during the In 1903, during the administraat these January 1 functions of of Theodore Roosevelt, the tion IQjjjHSi Mrs. Washington pre- Jackson's favorite cabinet minis Over a levee in the Martin Van Buren, secretary public was especially eager to ter, custom was continued attend the reception because the of state, who was a "fine gentle White House had been extensiveirBilidelphia with the levees man and formal, extremely a led by both men and women toned them down. Certainly when ly remodelled and the crowds etsjoyed the refreshments Van Buren became President the which turned out to see the new Jed by the President and were among the formality and decorous behaviour decorations in However, there was history. During Presilargest which he insisted gave the upon and at the close deit Wilson's administration the a new dignity. receptions ;,!h affair the President traditional functions on January They Were Well Shaken. 1 were discontinued but they were a short speech ap- But Sgave the occasion. though the resumed in 1922 by President public may have become when Harding. The reception that year 2". i Tirst New Year's recep-TfSd-d they visited the Executive Man- was notable for the fact that it in the White House in sion, these receptions were still was the first public function since Hn$:ton was that of President something of a trial to the Presi the war at which German and Adams and since the Pres-'- s dent and his family, as witness Austrian diplomats were present. House or Palace, as it this plaintive letter written of then called, was still the Harding, Coolidge President John Tyler's daughter- - andDuring ABRAHAM LINCOLN it was held on the r, Hoover regimes the crowds, in the oval room. which lined up on the White with abundance of American The first of January, 1842, Is passed, the public was invited to companied biscuit stnd American porter. This will never to return, and I am nearly to Ilouse grounds on New Year's be indeed "the feast of reason and the going off with it I never felt so tired kfcSair, the same formality, Day for the chance to shake soul." In all my life as I am this evening, standhad characterized the lev- - flow of are hands with the President and the all Federalists w are all "We two for hours and hands ing up shaking ',TeId by George ard Martha Republicans!" First Lady of the Land, often with I don't know how many thousands ,i,ington, prevailed. And "partake of this Amerinumbered as many 83 6,000 perof pcop's. Such big fists as some of the people sons. Because of the fact that b"h;the elevation of Thomas can cheese" they did at the New as they gave ')EC:son to the Presidency the Year's reception, after the Rev. had, and such hard shakes greeting such a large number tool One great, ' nature of the New Year's Leland had presented it in person my poor little hand,gave me a clutch imposed a useless strain upon hearty countryman changed radical--y to Jefferson who made an ap- and a shake that I almost expirci the man who carries the heaviest ,rceptions f'oflMfih a member of the burden in our nation the anpropriate speech in reply. He under. But i couldn't help laughing when p ViWlstocracy, Jefferson then cut off a piece, which he Fletcher Webster whispered to me. nua! reception was again omitted democratic asked the minister to take back "when taken to be well shaken." tttremely by the present administration. ' so much that he con to the good people of Cheshire Wtttem Newspaper Union. Eventually the crowds became he pe long-standi- ng cas" Eng-land- er Human nature is so constituted that people cannot live in the same atmosphere and always see eye to eye. There is wisdom in this plan. Individuality would be quelled if what any person thought (how- - Outdoing Webster on Interpretations ever beloved) could always be accepted without dissent by those around him (or her). Nor can actions of even those dear to us, Invariably meet with our approval, whether expressed or unexp- ressed. It is when we learn to permit personal differences without censure that companionship, in the home or out of it, develops best. Even when children are young, they must be allowed a modicum of such freedom or when older they will long to break away, and if they do then there is loneliness in store for the youth, and sadness left in the home. Divorce. Married couples, when they contemplate divorce, have the choice between independence plus loneliness, or dependence, each on the other with affection restored, or remaining less than could be desired. It may be there is but it should be remembered that no two persons, married or single, can live together under the same roof and always be congenial. However, this does not signify that at heart affection is gone. Separation means loneliness for one or both of them. Families. Within a family there is sure to be some dissension at times-yo-ung folk may quarrel and adults dispute. But when these times are over, the ties of affection, the associations that intertwine, and the fabric of their lives so closely woven together, should prove a firm foundation for continued companionship. The door to loneliness should remain barred. incom-patabilit- y, Bell Syndicate. Blue Sky, a streak, black writing ink. Lettuce leaves, JealGreen ousy, immigrant. Violets, rage, some Purple socks. 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