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Show B h Hew llear 1 1 P&iiies g Here's to the old year, drink boys, drink. Herts to the days that have fled, Old friends, old wine, old memories; Drink to the Joys that are dead. Here's to the 'New Year stretching ah ead, To ihi d-xys that are blithesome and gay. May the joys of the old be the joys of the new, Its sorrows fade gently aicay. pFrpNOTHER New Year conies ''SfitJl 10 us with a volume all pure and unspotted, ou which we .8vSjSw will soon begin to write a history that will go on to be bound with the thousands thou-sands of other records ne call years. May 1022 bring us counterparts of the happiest days of the year just closing, and a heart for "any fate," and may we all learn the lesson of bow "to labor and to wait." Now for a jolly New Year's eve parry that you may like to get up. Send out invitations for a "watch uight" party or "remembrance" party, as one girl is going to call the Intimate little affair she is arranging for New Year's eve. If you can sketch, ilnw an hour-glas.s, a "Father Time" or clock face with the hands at midnight mid-night or the last leaf on the calendar with "December 31" done In scarlet. sk each one to tell of their happiest day in the yejir that Is past and in what month it happened. Ycu may play cards, dance or "reminiscences." "rem-iniscences." just as suits you best. Huve a cake with 12 candles surrounded sur-rounded by a wreath of holly and mistletoe mis-tletoe and the favors symbolic of the vear's special days; for Instance, a calendar for January, a Cupid or heart for February, a kite for March, i tiny umbrella for April, a posy or bouquet of artificial flowers for May, or a wee May pole; a doll bride or a hnsket of ro;.ts for June, n firecracker for July, a golf set or picnic basket for August, bunch of grapes or a tiny ! .'-a-Oitub for September, the latter signifying sig-nifying "Labor day." represent Ootolier with a wee jack-y-lnr.tern cut from r.n orange, a pumpkin or football for November, or a turkey, and for December a minla-t minla-t ;ure ("irisi-ias tree. These articles ould be procured in duplicate and be used to find partners, or they mry be p'aced in a Jack Horner pie made to represent the face of a clock, red rlb-hons rlb-hons going to each place. This Is an occasion when the fortune for-tune nuts may be used, taking perfect English walnuts and removing the meats. Inserting a narrow strip of paper bearing a pleasant prophecy for the coming season, and then gluing the shells closely together. These nay be glided and passed at the table. A wise hostess who knows Ser cuesrs well will 3e clever In making Ihese forecasts rlrht. Much merriment ensues when the ,rir:s ask the boys to dance, Invite them to supier, and in general reverse iie usual order of social conventions. |