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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
3
In a Dec 31 exchange, Mrs A and Mr A discuss starting the new year with restraint. They resolve to curb extravagance and focus on noble goals, noting worn gowns, cigars, and novels as temptations to be avoided for a truer life ahead.
Mrs A chides Mr A for indulgences and urges him to renounce his club and other vices to fund her small pleasure of slippers. The exchange frames a future planning debate as she questions the fairness of a needed sacrifice.
A husband proposes a double good deed by resigning from the bridge club and has his wife consider withdrawing from the group as well. He frames it as a new year turning over a new leaf and savings gained. The wife’s reaction is anticipated but not stated.
A dialogue between Mrs. A and Mr. A on New Year’s Eve leads to resolve to enjoy personal pleasures. The passage then shifts to Scotland and England detailing Hogmanay customs, first footing, songs, gifts, juniper rites, and superstitions about weather, luck, and fortune for the new year.
The article surveys New Year observances in various places, noting limited holidays in the United States but widespread family gatherings and church watch meetings. It highlights Russian fortune telling customs on New Year’s Eve and the tradition of kisses at midnight within households, beginning with the family head.
Norwegians and Swedes host lavish New Year banquets in Stockholm with king mingling among citizens. Danes fire cannon at midnight to greet the year. Cape Town, following Dutch roots, celebrates a full week with visitors, dances, picnics, and later orderly return to business.
The article describes Chinese New Year celebrations in a large city. It details a month of revelry in the homeland and lighter refreshments in diaspora quarters, including peanuts, seeds, sweets, oranges, tea, and cakes. It notes offerings to heaven and earth, worship of deities and ancestors, processions with gods, fireworks, and public entertainments.
A columnist muses on feeling invisible in department stores, noting how clerks ignore a shopper’s cough while others gossip about prices and class. He compares affordable mittens with pricey hosiery, defends comfort over fashion, and recalls reading Herbert Spencer to justify practical attire and frugality.
A parvenu art collector learns a moral via a ghostly visit about valuing American painters over French works. He sees a future where American artists gain fame and wealth without compromising integrity, and he is urged to judge people by character, not money or status.
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