Threads of Grey and Gold
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Reed Myrtle. Threads of Grey and Gold
How the World Watches the New Year Come In
The Two Years
The Courtship of George Washington
The Old and the New
The Love Story of the “Sage of Monticello”
Columbia
The Story of a Daughter’s Love
The Sea-Voice
The Mystery of Randolph’s Courtship
How President Jackson Won His Wife
The Bachelor President’s Loyalty to a Memory
Decoration Day
The Romance of the Life of Lincoln
Silent Thanksgiving
In the Flash of a Jewel
The Coming of My Ship
Romance and the Postman
A Summer Reverie
A Vignette
Meditation
Pointers for the Lords of Creation
Transition
The Superiority of Man
The Year of My Heart
The Average Man
The Book of Love
The Ideal Man
Good-Night, Sweetheart
The Ideal Woman
She Is Not Fair
The Fin-de-Siècle Woman
The Moon Maiden
Her Son’s Wife
A Lullaby
The Dressing-Sack Habit
In the Meadow
One Woman’s Solution of the Servant Problem
To a Violin
The Old Maid
The Spinster’s Rubaiyat
The Rights of Dogs
Twilight
Women’s Clothes in Men’s Books
Maidens of the Sea
The Technique of the Short Story
To Dorothy
Writing a Book
The Man Behind the Gun
Quaint Old Christmas Customs
Consecration
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The proverbial “good resolutions” of the first of January which are usually forgotten the next day, the watch services in the churches, and the tin horns in the city streets, are about the only formalities connected with the American New Year. The Pilgrim fathers took no note of the day, save in this prosaic record: “We went to work betimes”; but one Judge Sewall writes with no small pride of the blast of trumpets which was sounded under his window, on the morning of January 1st, 1697.
He celebrated the opening of the eighteenth century with a very bad poem which he wrote himself, and he hired the bellman to recite the poem loudly through the streets of the town of Boston; but happily for a public, even now too much wearied with minor poets, the custom did not become general.
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The Russians are very fond of fortune-telling, and on New Year’s eve the young ladies send their servants into the street to ask the names of the first person they meet, and many a bashful lover has hastened his suit by taking good care to be the first one who is met by the servant of his lady love. At midnight, each member of the family salutes every other member with a kiss, beginning with the head of the house, and then they retire, after gravely wishing each other a Happy New Year.
Except that picturesque rake, Leopold of Belgium, every monarch of Europe has for many years begun the New Year with a solemn appeal to the Almighty, for strength, guidance, and blessing.
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