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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
11
The Kansas City Star reports on Chinese New Year beliefs and rites including debt payments, ancestor blessings, and family greetings. It notes two weeks to a month of celebrations with varied day-specific customs and a focus on self mastery and personal growth as a keynote resolution by readers.
In remote Scottish regions the New Year custom of first footing survives. At midnight families drink hot spiced ale, then carry a kettle and buns into the streets to exchange greetings with friends. The first visitor to a house after 12 earns special favor as the first foot.
The writer commits to a New Year resolution to expand the paper, improve quality, and increase usefulness to the public welfare, aiming for a larger, brighter, and more serviceable publication.
The text describes an old New Year ritual in which wassailers sing around fruit trees and christen a branch with cider, then salt and breadcrumbs are spread on the trunk while the group chants to make the trees productive. It closes with poetic lines about New Year bringing peace and renewal.
A 1916 poem describes a windless gray sky turning white with featherlike snow. The scene unfolds as midnight bells echo through towns while the moon gazes on, everything beneath a pale silver glow. The verse likens snowfall to the New Year’s folded wings and the old year’s sable velvet pall.
A Rev Ralph Welles Keeler meditation recalls a new year dawn turning old passions into renewed purpose. The poem frames New Year’s morning as a chance for gentler faces, happier eyes, and a shared resolve to improve society and aid others.
A historical note recalls an old English New Year custom where people dipped into the Bible at dawn. A randomly opened page was read for foretelling the coming year, with readers interpreting the chapter’s contents to divine future events. Some commentators mention using Leviticus and Numbers for such divinations.
In old New England friends gave New Year gifts such as gloves and pins when scarce. Oranges studded with cloves, apples on tripod-stilt skewers, and gilded nutmegs were common. Christmas gifts were not exchanged, but New Year gifts like money, books, and toys were given.
A brief verse expresses resolve as the speaker meets a new year. Past and future are held by God with mercy. The distant darkness may brighten as the year progresses.
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