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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
3
The article argues intellectual equality of women but notes biology and ethics shape roles. It praises women excelling in home management and community fields like education and nursing while highlighting lag in technical and leadership domains due to historical training limits and gendered opportunities. It calls for time to prove womens true potential under freedom.
The essay argues love splits humanity into types from sacred passion to platonic affection. It notes men feel love more intensely and swiftly, while women seek understanding of men and resist loss of liberty, shaping unhappy marriages and evolving desires.
The narrator laments the passing year and calls for restraint from greed and materialism. He hopes for compassion and simple joys as the New Year dawns, urging humanity to turn from excess toward benevolence and shared kindness.
The piece surveys New Year observances across cultures noting Watch night services in New England and Dutch gift customs. It describes German Sylvester's Nacht pranks that smash tall hats and the shared greeting Profit Neujahr, with a German ransom custom enacted by answering Meister.
A reflective essay urges cheerful resolve for the new year. It condemns chronic pessimism and encourages happy, unselfish living as the path to personal happiness and success. Silent, steadfast resolutions to improve and help others are emphasized as the right approach.
A drama by Miss Bradden includes a kidnapping scene but clears it with a happy ending. The audience roars when a god asks about the missing child, revealing the lapse in the play's construction as unworkmanlike and unnoticed until that moment.
In Tunis a man selecting a second wife presents a pair of bracelets and anklets to the bride’s father. The woman is then fattened for several months until she fills all four ornaments, otherwise the man may reject her. Fat is equated with beauty in Tunis marriage practice.
The article surveys how many cultures marked New Year on different dates from ancient times to the 18th century. It notes how calendars anchored by solar cycles, agriculture, major events, or arbitrary choices led to varied starts in Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Jewish, Indian, Mexican, and other systems.
Radiographs by R Dubois show a pearl within a pearl bearing mussel. He cites a similar radiograph by Auguste Lumiere shown at the 1906 Colonial Exhibition in Marseilles.
A light exchange at a family gathering turns humorous as a child asks who won the party. The mother answers affirmatively while the child quips the victory goes to the judge, framing a playful domestic moment.
New Year customs vary from ex changing gifts on January 1 in Northern Europe to Christmas dominance in the western world. France remains an exception where New Year is the main festival and gift giving is central. The observance blends Druids Romans and Christian elements with homage to women, libertine gaiety, and childlike romping on a nationwide holiday.
In France and Scotland New Year is the chief festival. Children go door to door on New Year Eve crying Hogmanay, receiving oat cakes and sometimes cheese and goodies. Housewives prepare cakes in advance and fear running short. The chant often includes Trollplay and a bold rhyme urging the gude wife to awaken.
The piece outlines old year customs across England and Scotland, noting wassail songs and celebrations. It mentions practices like sweeping or ringing out the year, midnight wassailing, doors opened to let spirits in, and offerings of money and goods on doorsteps to welcome the new year.
A Russian country town celebrates New Year with peas and wheat tossed at people as a greeting to the lord. Children parade the handsomest horse to the nobleman’s house then receive small coin gifts. A procession of decorated livestock and fowl follows, admired from the window and then gifted to the lord.
The article describes a New Year custom among Greek subjects in Caesarea where St Basil was born. Women prepare St Basil's cake ahead of time while Rajah boys visit houses on New Year's Eve asking for money fruit and cake. Households respond with gifts and the boys sing a blessing song.
In Japan New Year is a time for visiting friends and giving awabi shells as emblems of frugality and warnings against luxury. In China people greet each other in the streets with Kung-h Kung-hi and Sin-hi greetings as lanterns and red decorations brighten cities, with blue paper signaling a death in the year.
A reflective line asserts that a truly happy man has nothing to renounce and thus never must break his pledge. It argues against inventing excuses to abandon vows and suggests simplicity as contentment.
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