| Show A WEEDED NEEDED REFORM therease there Ther eare are two tiro public holidays holiday which we have permitted to become days of merry merrymaking making mak I 1 ng of pleasure pleasa ie and antoo in too many cases of indulgence when it if we would but stop to td investigate their character commencing with their origin we would at onoe once see how utterly inappropriate if not irreverent it all ii if days are christmas and decoration day they are pro pre from the common calendar and given a separate and dla dis finot stat ibis because became commemorative of sacred and sorrowful than those which incite to sensuous indulgence or frivolous observance 0 ajae is the reminder of an immaculat immaculate birth the other a memento mento more mon keeping before our mental vision the forms that went down in the awful whirl whirlpool pool of war by means of which a nation was bound together more firmly thau than before are these fitting occasions for mirth wassail and roistering roy the late george william curtis who made the aay chair of harpers pers magazine famous throughout two continents closed his career in that department with a note of warning which is appropriate to the occasion the language Is 1 simply a plea for Christ mast which mr curtis believes is ia becoming a sham festival the tendency nowadays nowa daye is to make the holiday 1 a vast and an 1 ostentatious expense a lavish display dle play a toilsome and exhaustive e deavor to give something to all your acquaintance a wearisome anticipation and a painful suspicion that som somebody ebdy has baa been omitted P it is observed that a good many people are of teim way of thinking but have not permitted their tb thoughts to be put into words or actions to tomake make the eltus liutti Won on different to what it Is 1 As AB one writer has it vulgarity vity with some borne construe the customs and traditions of the day la Is only to be measured as a they themselves would have hav it measured by the size ize of the the cost coat of the seal sealskins skins ano it in performing the gorgeous rite 01 A gdud time to begin a reformation in this thie respect would be right now with a Chri christran straw buts but a few weeks ahead of us the manner in which the day IS i to be observed will be as aa it bae been for a longtime long time post past union the reformatory agency benina begins at once and at home it is ia a responsibility wiloh we owe to civilization to mo doci clety ety to the t to itself to check if we 9 cannot at once expunge the vulgar and aad all but barbarous oes which prevail on what should be a day of grae peace and repose let Us u reform as to thi hi snot indifferently but altogether I 1 |
