Show 0 decaying Cui totne I 1 the cb observance servance of old world annl antil ver saries and customs is rapidly be baom ing lese less marked in this country tr end said an old new yorker it scans a little ain singular gular too that the more the gration the quicker and more thorough ly the amalgamation I 1 remember the time when w hen st patricks day was vt aa mide made the occasion of the greatest street d acm L in ever over seen in new Y york 0 rk from one years end to another the entire city participated in a measure and the streets were scenes of turbulence and wild hilarity from early morning till late at night A good many now living remember the big rows that occurred in those days da e of recent years all that tha t sort of thing haa has disappeared the annual st SL patricks day parade has dwindled down hero to inere formalities and lacks the element of enghu eidam in many american cities it I 1 is no longer loner even formally observed by the mass of irishmen in other respects the same thing may bo be eaid said of other nation alitia alit iee A few dozen persons will make a pretext of tho the queens birthday or the bastile day or something of that kind to help out a pleasant evening but there is no 10 ao D L er a any seriousness 0 to it W J 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V t we usually scot le ora holiday among tho the chinene Chi u nete the italians the french or some other nationality mostly con confined tined to their respective neighborhoods neighborhood s tho the fact ta is this country is getting too big and too important for euch ench things mew new york herald |