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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1911
Page
7
A New Year celebration described with festive imagery from the poem and notes on festivities. Broadway decorations will draw crowds as residents enjoy the night across restaurants hotels and clubs.
New York hotels and restaurants prepare lavish New Year’s Eve dinners with private table service and strict decorum. Attendees will find shellfish courses, oysters, consomme, and fancy desserts on formal menus while champagne flows after 10 pm. The Trinity bell ringer is replaced by a Columbia undergraduate, and clubs like National Arts and Players host open houses.
In southern France on New Year’s Eve a medieval festival unfolds in church. A glowing brazier lights the nave as a procession of biblical figures passes to bewitness the divine. Balaam’s ass leads the display with a concealed child, followed by Judas as the festival’s somber note.
In London New Year’s day is observed with little ceremony while continental capitals mark the occasion with official receptions reflecting formal traditions and state hospitality.
The piece traces New Year gift customs, noting France as a major gift day Le Jour d Etiennes where bonbons flowers and costly tokens flow from men to women. It recalls Romans Britons Queen Elizabeth stockings and Sir Thomas More gloves with gold coins as historic examples of annual giving.
The article traces pin money from glove funds and pins to a broader modern meaning. It explains how the term expanded as girls began using monthly allowances from fathers for various purchases and gifts, shifting from annual gifts to frequent sums.
A verses of ten little resolutions fall away through encounters with poker games, a horse race, payments, a missing keyhole, and a blue mood ending with a single resolution. The verse closes by noting a Chicago Record-Herald item and a joke about a baby grand versus a grand baby.
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