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Show Page TUESDAY, DECEMBER The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah 10 OHCE Hew Year, 452 B.C. Celebration of New Tear Day on January 1 began in Rome in 452 B.C. and therefore, contrary to logical reasoning, had nothing whatsoever to do with the birth of Christ. The Julian calendar, effective by decree of Caesar in 46 B.C., was adjusted to the Christian era in OVER Prostrate Pines H. I. Phillips HAD T REES us much. NEVER WORRIED The big ones in the yard seemed so re- self-depende- sourceful and free from security programs. But suddenly the big .'winds came, and flat on the lawn for the 10 count were our two finest specimens from the forest primeval. What to do? We never felt so futile. In all our garden tools there was had No birthdays no derrick. There shovel. brought us a steam wasnt a steel cable in the joint. There must be somebody to call in such emergencies . . . City Hall? The local political . . . Nope! . . . How about No dicel leader? . . . Any "Day & the phone book? Night Tree Uprighting Company"? Timber Division of National Red Cross? r. . "Federal Tree Security Adiminstration?" . . . Nothing in the book 516 A. D. by Dionysius who meant to begin the era from the year of Christs birth. However, an error In chronology figured the event four years later than it actually occurred. Therefore, the latter half of the 20th century should have begun four years before 1950, and 1950 should have been 1954, really!' ... Gayest Day In Canada Is the Jour de IAn1 ... ... The famous Jour de lAn New Years day is probably the gayest day In the calendar of the French-CanadiaThat Is the time of fauland of exchanging of tily n. It is a ' religious celebration also, with the city churches conducting midnight mass on New Year's eve, but in the rural areas there are no church services to celebrate the arrival of another year. The "blessing of the patriarch, is the most touching ceremony of the day. When the gets up in the morning on January 1, he gpeaks not a word until after he has been to his fathers house, and asked for his blessing. Each French-Canadia- ri ARISTROCRAtS BOTH . . . Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney made a regal picture as she led an aristocratic canine at the Knickerbocker ball, held in the Waldorf Astoria for the benefit of the Sister Kenny Foundation. Some 1,200 New York society leaders attended the affair. one goes down on his knees and KATHLEEN NORRIS says: "Father, give me your blessing, and the father in reply holds out his hand and says: "May God bless you, my child; I bless you with all my heart. TjOME LIFE would be a differ-- interfere. The result is apt to be The children then turn to their ent thing if our husbands and ' stockings and dig out their gifts that when he does break in he feels would just relax. That is .like an fathers and fun begins. angry interloper, he says what more than 100 women wrote more than he means; Mothers face me, in answer to a question I asked becomes a mask of endurance, and Bit by'Snake, Man Finds about New Years resolutions. Some son or daughter weeps the small 300 women answered this questionWife 1$ a Whiz With Cures and shouts that "Daddys meanl decision of naire, and that was the Sometimes it has given me a real ATLANTA, Ga. Theres one thing one third of them. ' "Dad is too to notice with what cairn A. heartache doctor Londons will Charles that stern, they say, "too absorbed in a wife his did agree with, patients his own thoughts, he doesnt notice superiority a woman will place a rattlesnake the children, he doesnt take any barriers between her husband and lot for London when bit him recently. interest in home affairs, he sleeps his children. Naturally enough, durWhile he recuperated at the hos- at home, eats, hides behind a news- ing the difficult nursery years, she pital, his condition improving, Mrs. paper, sits close to the radio, shouts has been busy caring, hushing, minLondon explained that when he out that theres too much noise, and imizing the incessant difficulties of dragged himself to their farm home, presently goes up to bed without a her job as mother. Later, she carries this on in a sort of instinctive bitten on the leg: goodnight to anyone. some "I first poured rubbing Thats the consensus on Dad. jealousy and possessiveness. Withalcohol on the bite. Jhen I dusted it Mother wants his resolution to be out realizing it, she wants them still with snuff. Then I turned up a bot- toward a more gracious manner, to come to her for favors, pleasures, tle of turpentine and poured that toward kindly interest in his fam- gifts, permissions. They hardly on. Then I gave him a glass' of fresh ily, participation in home affairs. know their father because Mother cream with powdered alum to make Well, my comment on that in- has been so persistent with her him vomit. volves another resolution, this one bright "run along. Daddy, and see I started frying eggs and respecting Mother. Mother can do your movie. Tony and Beverley Then putting them on the wound. As soon more than anyone else to accom- think theyd rather stay with Mumas one egg would get cold. Id pul plish this: to, encourage an affecr my. Dont bother Daddy with your another hot one on. tionate welcome for Dad every homework, dear. Wait until Daddy London credited his wifq with sav- night, confidences from the chil- goes, and well fix it all up; leave ing his life. The doctors were doubt- dren, table games, week-en- d plans. her to me, dear, shetooIsnt naughty. We just awakened soon, didnt ful about that, but they smiled and be assent when said: nodded we, darling? "She sure did a lot for me. Pleasantly excluded In this fashion, Daddy finds his own amusements, and sometimes his own company. Neither he nor his wife real-ize- s that this time when children are leaving nursery. days, when she has more freedom and the children more understanding, is a dangerous time. It is a time that demands real intelligence on the part of husband and wife; they must shift their positions to meet it. The father must win his way into the friendship and interest of his children; the mother must more and more let them go, deliberately sharing her responsibility for them, ", . . dost to tht radio . . " her love and her companionship. So Dads resolution tomorrow, From the letters 1 get from men 1951 comes to this troubled when and they come in about one in and puzzled world, may well be 10 I gather that Dad often needs he will concentrate his care that more, 1 in the family circle, of what some old writer beautifully de- upon this home group; whatever HANDS ON THE TIME . . . scribed as the essentials of a happy imperfections and outrages and wrongs shake the old planet, his Cecilia Bialy 1$ lighting the marriage: "truth and tenderness. loved ones will bq growing nearer "old year out and the New Year Very often Dad doesnt get either toward home happiness. in and making snre the hands at home. Even the small children and nearerhome is For it happiness that will to midclock of the get safely learn to conceal things from Dad, root of world the be Old very Stnrbridge soften stories for his benefit, fool always night at the Village museum and crafts him all along the line. He knows it. peace. And Mother must take to her center in Stnrbridge, Mass. He knows Mother is in a conspiracy those magical words: "truth monto heart more The clock collection at the muthe with children, get seum Is one of the largest in ey fronrhim, to hide school trou- and tenderness." the country. bles, to hush him up if he tries to Released by WNU Features Let Truth and Tenderness Guide A , Released by WNU Feature taste. What-a-proble- m! re-unio- ns gifts. GREETINGS . . . Some people sit around in night . shirts, house slippers, and with their hair np in curlers waiting for This picture the New Year. is submitted as evidence to prove that other persons take a different view of the matter. Well, everyone to his. own T think the phone book lists them as tree surgeons, said the wife. We finally got bold of one. He was very busy. Could see our trees only by Appointment. "How about next Thursday at It was really urgent, 10:45? we argued. "How serious Is the condition of your trees? be asked. "Flat on their backs, we explained. "Not even able to sit up and take nourishment. "Ill see them Wednesday at 8:30. Keep them quiet. No visitors! be snapped. New Year Calls Were All the Rage In U.S. in 1900 The custom of making short calls on New Years Day was in full swing in the United States around the turn of the century. Newspapers carried columns of at home notices specifying the hours during which visitors would be received. Hosts and hostesses, having duly received, closed their open house to become guests at somebody elses. Open House on New Years Day was introduced into America by the Dutch who settled in New Amsterdam. Friends were accus-tometo dropping in to offer the compliments of the -- day and refreshments centered around homethe hosts favmade snacks,-plu- s orite concoction of punch. The custom grew with the country, finally attaining the newspaper announcement stage, with its and scurrying eventual time-tabl- e from one open house to another. It was inevitable that some guests, after a succession of nine or ten punch bowls, sometimes embarrassed their tenth or eleventh hostess; and receptions sometimes were Ultimately Dr. Widgeon, the tree surgeon, showed up. He walked around our fallen Druids, shook his head and said, "This is serious. Its a CBO . . . Completely Blown Over case, he said. An RTAE too. Roots Torn and Exposed. "Can you do anything? we asked. He thought so. The trees had led good lives and were the rugged sort But they would have to go on a waiting i list! "Fifty trees ahead of em. Be over soon as possible with truck, heists and tackle. Meanwhile, stop worrying. Dont convey sense of fear to trees. Then he dashed away. We sat up with trees for a week. They looked pretty sick. After a while we phoned Dr. Widgeon. He didnt recall the case. We refreshed his recollection with difficulty. Oh, crashed by total strangers temptthose! he said. "My staff filed the ed the by possibility of free punch. card wrong. Sorry. Get around to Perhaps It is just as well that them soon as possible. announced New Year "But my trees are in awful the. publicly no is longer a la mode. reception shape, we said. a small percentage of city "Got worse cases, insisted the If only dwellers inserted at home notices tree surgeon. news"Be patient. Suggest aspirin every In their favorite metropolitan editions colossal what four hours, hot water bottle at night papers, would result, what headaches for and maybe a sulfa tablet" everybody, from the swamped "For the trees? we asked. linotype operators to the stagger"No, for YOU! he said. ing newsboys. d YE GOTHAM BUGLE Ima Dodo got so mixed up she asked for tickets to "Ring Around the Sun and "Season In the Moon. . . . Shudda Haddim missed that on double "Dime and "Jobs-town- . daily "I knew that after 1 two bucks Id be down to my last bet dime, he weeps. "And I had already spoke for a part-tim- e job in Coral Gables. Yet I dont get a hunch! . . . Since Gotham redcaps began charging 25 cents a bag ye ed gets off a train and asks for bids . "Hosts of Guards Prptect Truman at Army-Nav- y headGame. line. But none protected Army . . . "Such Love Is Seldom, a new book by Anne Cawley Boardman has a dramatic story far beyond the ones the movies buy. It is a terrific tale of an immigrant girl, Mary Walsh, who soon after landing in New York began devoting her life to the service of the sick poor. Out of it grew a great charitable order. The account of her sacrifices and triumphs is more moving than any Book of the Month Club choice. ... Haddim missed "Trumat six to one. "And I have Shudda peter a fight with a guy in the mutuel line who says Im hornin in on him! he exclaims. "Still I dont get no hunch until after the heatl Tokyo Is Converted Into Green Forest Six Days Every Year For the first six days of every year it has been the custom of the Japanese to convert Tokyo into a green forest And although events have changed in Japan in the last few years, much of the city will be - decorated. On each side of the gate of every household that can afford it will be pine trees and bamboo, while ropes of rice straw and other decorations will grace the lintel. It is a custom that goes back 900 years or so, this planting of a forest in a city for the space of six days. The pine, with its evergreen branches, is emblematic ol eternity, and the straight trunk of the bamboo symbolizes truth and manly courage. The third of this trio, the plum blossom, signifying womanly virtue, is not used in the decorations, but is within the house. A pine tree stands on either side of the door, and with it are three, five or seven bamboos. There are other decorations peculiar to the New Year tide which are to be seen on every hand. out-of-doo- rs Released by WNU Features |