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Show 1 ; ! cNstv Year Skating i By Mary Graham Bonner J ' 1 .;..t.M- c). 1923, Wtatorn Newipuper Union. 1 ., X THAT crisp, cold, bright New Year's day they went f lu skating. The children home 'l'; for the holidays, the fath-.tlA'i fath-.tlA'i j ers home from business, the mothers who were having hav-ing a glorious afternoon In the out-of-doors all took part In the New Year skating party which wag being given. The Ice was firm, hard and smooth. Never had it seemed so wonderful. The air wns Invigorating. There was no wind. It was an Ideal duy for a skating party. Afterward they would go back for a New Year's supper party and sit around a big fire telling stories. They would all be at the party. It would be for both old and young, for was not j New Year's day a day that was young I and yet so close to the oldest day of the year that had gone before? And In the meantime they skated and laughed and sang songs and fell : down and laughed some more and i played games. All of them joined in. And they looked about them at the frozen lake and at the hills surrounding surround-ing with the glow of the llrat after-noun's after-noun's rosy light upon them. i It was a beautiful world and peoplo ' in It wore so bevutlfiil, too. Had It anything to do with the wishes for a Happy New Year which everyone had been wishing everyone else that day? And not only that hut the wishes In the hearts of each which were silicon' sili-con' wishes for happiness In the gay, 1 good, New Year just commencing? j |