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    GOSSIP FROM THE GRIDIRON"
Chicago Trying to Get on Gamo'with One
m .( -rat m
oi id oig iour.
.YALE WILL NOT COME WEST TO PLAY
' with Harvard ikl Prlneetea
. a4 Harvard. Oimn a ad' t a
., wlllla tt Make Aar
.'' - Lob's Joaratye.
It Is reported tbat Chicago, through
Manager Butterworth, la making negoti
ations wuu . lomi team oi me. eastern
big four (or game Beit season. Specu
lation la rife as to which of the atar teams
has been approached far Butterworth, al
though be admitted that he had made a
. .proposition to an eaatern team, refuted to
ay which one of the four It waa. It
eema to be generally thought that Prince
ton la the team which haa been approached,
aar the Tlgera have only one great game,
1 Will A KICI, WUIIO IUV UlURri FICD PIS
- two eevere games. The Princeton season
closes two weeke before the western eon
teet and for thla reaaon It la thought that
Princeton would be much more likely to
-come weat than either Tale, Harvard or
Pennsylvania. The Quakers alio night
be Induced to make a playing contract
with Chicago, but It fa very. doubtful If
either Yale or Harvard would aver come
west for a game.
It Is the general , opinion that the Ma
roons could get a game with any of the
eastern, teams, provided that the western
aggregation waa not oonsldered too strong,
lit, .they wera willing to play on the home
aTOIIrtrifl flf f tie Mtttfrntra mnA nrnhaM
early I ft the season. There la a very atrong
prejudice In the - east against the. long
4r1p west because1 It takes the men from
their studies for auch a time. Coach
Stsgg'e two-year contract stands hope
lessly In the way of any games with Yale
and Harvard and probaMy with the other
two because It stipulates a return game
on the Chicago grounds. Princeton "might
be Induced to look with favor on a Thanks
giving day game In Chicago, but this la
Impossible - for neit season, as the
Maroon tac? alreadv made a data with
Michigan.
"Ia my opinion, Yale will never oome
. west to play foot ball," said Charles Carver,
the Yale strong man. "The sentiment Is
'Strong against having the eleven play gamea
away from borne. The Harvard-Yale game
fffl AMPtthlnv tn Ya1k ItirlAnia mnA all thi
remainder of the contesta, except that with
Princeton, are looked upon as practloe
gamea. Yala might play Chicago at New
Haves if It waa thought that Chicago waa
Hot too powerful to make the contest other
.than a practice match. I think that Stagg
would not have much trouble In getting a
game with any one of the big four on Its
home field, but as for making a two years'
agreement conditioned on a return game,
be would bo pretty sure to fall with Har
vard and Yale. At the present time It
teems to me that Princeton Is the most
likely of any of ths big four to come west
to meet Stagg'e eleven In Chicago."
Probably the last of foot ball In the aeason
of 19(12 will be played at Boulder, Colo.,
Vew'Year'e day between the team of the
North Division High School ot Chicago and
the eleven representing the Boulder prepar
atory team. The Chicago boya have been
eut for 'practice tor a week and hops to
have some coaching by McCornack, the Dew
Northwestern coach. They Will take fifteen
rufln to t7iuraau inn ditv iwv nii invrv
' 'for practice before the game.
.... Tha resolution against foot ball which la
tinder consideration by the . Milwaukee
school board la masting with much oddosI-
. tlon from some , enthusiasts, and, Luclen
,Vorden, one pf them, baa aaked several col
lere nresldenta for ootnlons aa to the SDort.
President Hadley of Yale, after expressing
a disinclination to give an opinion which
would- do In all parte of the country, aays
that the eastern boya need foot ball to atir
them up, while the westerners need golf to
slow them down.
President Eliot of Harvard In part re
piled : "Foot ball, therefore, seems to me
the least desirable ot college sports. I
cannot think, however, that the prohibition
of the sport would be wise, either" for (
schools or for colleges. It ought to be ao
regulated aa to reduce gradually the evils
which now attend it."
... President Angell ot Michigan thinks that
the sport la manly and proper, but should
be carefully guarded by the college authori
tlaa. , ,
Michigan (a well under way with a careful
.preparation for the spring track eventa and
. win strain every nerve te win the cham
pionship thla year, at by to doing It will
secure aa its own the Spauldlng cup. Thla
cud-must bo .won three times consecutively
to become tha property of the winning team
and Mtchlgaa baa twice carried off the
honors. The team, however, loses this year
all ot tha ojd men. These are Fisher, half
mller; Udal and Flshleigh, pole vaultera;
Armstrong, Baraett and Snow, high Jump
ier. Snow was also a shot putter.
Y". HHin. wnn baa Wftn tha 100 varAa tor two
yeara, remains, but no one bat shown up yet
with '120 ability. Raymond Stewart, who
holds" the United States lnterscolastlo rec
ord, will take Nufer'a plaoe at tha hurdles.
There are also Hall, Salmon and Mills In
thia line. Paul Dlokey aeema to be the
best quartef-mller, but there are others
nearly -as good, none of them, however,
atara. Harpham aeema to be far and away
the beat man for tha half mile, and Perry
and Hall of last year 'a team will again
compete and aro expected to land" tha hon-
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ora. Keilorg baa won the two-mile run for
two yeara in tha conference meetings, but
Hall ot Chicago la now attracting consid
erable notice and may make an Interesting
run for him. Walls and Stone will not Im
probably be Kellogg'a mates In the long
run. Dvorak will enter for the pole vault
and Maddock will probably represent the
big university in the shot-put and hammer
throw. Miller, who was last year Ineligible,
will certainly be the high-jumper ot the
quad, having several timet last year
cleared tlx feet. The university has as yet
found no asplranta to the discus-throw and
broad-jump honors. . Kufer, the hurdler,
and one of the team'a best point winners,
baa been retired by the four-year rule.
Interest In all branches of athletics Is
unusually great at Wisconsin university
thla year, and forma of eport heretofore
disregarded hockey, curling and water
polo bave been taken up with interest
and clubs formed to play through the sea
son and matches with other teams ar
ranged. Hand ball la reported to be the
most popular sport of the sesson and the
courts In tha university gymnasium are
crowded. A tournament haa been ar
ranged for tha post-Christmas days. Bat
ket ball la fast coming to the front aa a
university sport. At Wisconsin fully
thirty men had been trying for the team
and the prospect for a successful and vic
torious aeason ia good. The first game,
that against Sheboygan on Thanksgiving
day, waa easily won, and the team haa Im
proved greatly since that time.
Tha Impulse toward winter sporta has
been felt by the women at much at the
men, and they have organised an athletic
association which tontrola the teams In
the same manner that 'varsity aggrega
tions are ruled.. Formerly the only games
played by the co-eds fere tennis and bai
ket ball, but now many other branches are
to bo entered. '. .
BASE BALL IN WINTER TIME
Prospect of Pesee tha Most laterest
fn This; Before the
Masrnatee, . , .
Walt a little.
Next week will witness the most mo
mentous conference of modern times, When
the committees of the two big leagues
get together and light the peace pipe.
Several little matters will have to be more
accurately adjusted than they are before
the fragrant odor ot the kllllklnlck will
ascend over the council, but these may be
attended to with little friction. One of
these concerns the status of the several
players who jumped from the one league
to the other. It has been proposd that
each league retain Its own players, that Is,
the players It haa under contract at the
present time. Thla is agreeable to all the
magnate but Colonel John I. Rogers, who
teems to be Implacable. He has about re
signed blmse,lf to the lots of Lajole, Bern
hardt and Frater, but cornea merrily for
ward .with a claim for big Ed Delehanty,
and declines to be a party to any agreement
which does not give him the services of the
big sens tor. And, furthermore, Mr. Rog
ers says that Philadelphia needs "competi
tion" Thia latter proposition may be the
correct one, but Philadelphia people las'
summer seemed to think that John I. Rog
ers waa not the man to furnish the Com
petition. At any rata the attendance at the
parka on daya when both teams were at
home didn't Indicate it. Then,, too, Al
Reach dlda't endorse the courae of his
partner in base ball by a good deal. When
Rogera let Lajole, Fraser aad Bernhardt
get away from Philadelphia after 'winning
a lawsuit,- just because ha wouldn't' pay
tha money for, them,. he not only. ruined
Phlladelphla'a chances, but ha made Cleve
land. ' Connie Mack waa ctlrinlng enough
to secure Rube Waddell for. the Athletics,'
and tha deed waa did. Some base bail men
are inclined to think that the chatter of
Colonel Rogera just at present arises from
tha fact that ha haa aold out, or la willing
to aell out. It he Isn't ready to quit the
game, he la talking" like a sausage, for the
peace movement haa aet In tor good this
time. - '
Aa a matter of faot the American league
hat whipped the National at every turn in
the road, and la in a better position before
the public today than It ever' was. Ban
Johnson ia aure of hla entry to New York,
whether he can secure a park from, the
National or not. In all the other invaded
towna the American la firmly intrenched
and In Boston and Philadelphia at least
It commands. At Chicago tha break Is
about even. That It will prove popular In
New York is generally admitted. So tbe
rest of it ia merely a matter of detail. All
thia Is well understood by the men who
are to carry on the peace negotlatlona and
will be given due weight by thera In their
deliberations. It has been suggested by a
base ball man who knows tha altaatlon
very thoroughly that a good basis for set
tlement will be found in a division of ter
ritory that contemplates, tha withdrawal
of the competing teama from St. Louis and
Boston and the addition of Louisville and
Baltimore to tha circuits. Ha would make
up tha National circuit out of New York,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Baltime In the
oast, Chloago, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
St. Loula In the weat and tha American
league to hava Boaton, New York, Phila
delphia and Washington la tha east, with
Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Louisville
lb tha west. This glvea two good circuits,
with competing clubt in only three tawna,
and those three plenty big enough to sup
port two good clubs each. Agreement as
to datea would make tha' support certain
and the game would be put on a solid basta
ao far aa tha big leagues are concerned.
Neither aide would lose' by relinquishing
tha positions in Boston and St. Louis, at
suggested, and both would gain by tha ad
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THE OMAHA." 1)AILY HtKi HUN DAY, DECEMltltfl 28, 1002.
dition of Louisville and Baltimore. But
we shall tee. "
Among the minors tbife is nothing doing.
It teems a clmh tbat the Western league
will go through next summer with tbe tame
old circuit, and the Hlckey league Isn't
likely to see any change, either, all the
talk of moving the 8t. Paul franchise to
Chicago to the contrary notwithstanding.
Of course, the outcome In St. Paul depends
on the temper of Mr. Oeorge A. Lennon.
It he wants to keep the team In the Min
nesota capital city, he can do so. Peoria
has secured new grounds, Mgtt In tha heart
of the village, where everybody can get In
and out without loss of time. Better than
that, the new park la located several feet
above the surrounding country, snd thus
Is easy to drain. Players who waded
around In the quagmires and morasses ot
the park In the IIUdoIs river bottoms last
summer will surely appreciate tbe change.
Down at St. Joseph the fans are beginning
to lose flesh over , the thought tbat they
won't win the pennant next teaeon. As If
anyone ever thought the Train Robbers
could win a pennant. Out at; Denver tha
cause tor rejoicing la real, and as soon as
the weather lets up a little the faithful
propose to have some tort of celebration.
It is all because during the week the
Joytfus announcement was made that Parke
Wilson had Jumped his contract and signed
with Seattle for tho summer of 1903. Juat
think! Packard paid Wilson $2,600 to mis
manage the Dwnver team last year. Wil
son's successor bssn't been named yet, but
one thing; Is suro Packard couldn't bo,
wtifse. 'It-has alee' been eald that-"Big
Bill" Wilson Is to manage Peoria next tea.
aon. If Willie will only attend to the busi
ness of baseball and pass up the Interest
he has hitherto shown In the oiitpilt of the
Teorla distilleries, tbe Blackbirds will have
a manager who knows the game and who
can get the youngsters to play It. Other
managers and magnate! are keeping aa
quiet as mice, even Thomas Jefferson Hlckey
having abstained far at' least' two weeks
from writing letters. This Is i hopeful
algn. "
Johnny Gondlng has got along as far as
Kansas City on his way back from tbe coast,
and has been visiting there for several daye.
He la expected soon In Omaha, to resume
his sway as king of all the boyt In Douglas
county." It is doubtful it a ball player ever
had the hold on popularity that Oonding
hat in Omaha, and especially with the kids.
When It was reported that he was coming
back the boys begad to call at Roarke'a
headquarter to know If their hero had
returned. His place Is secure In Omaha,
at least. Oonding has well earned his pop
ularity, for a harder working ball player
Dover donned a uniform, and a better na.
tured man never Jollied hit comrade! when
luck teemed against them.
OCT OF THE OHDHARY,
Bolivia naa tbe world's second' greatest
silver mine.
Frank Mitchell, a negro born in slavery
108 years ago, is atlll living at Akron, O.,
and has a vivid recollection of events that
occurred in the first part of the last cen
tury. He has smoked and chewed tobacco
for over 100 years.
Pre. Greer and Starr of Charleston, 111.,
assisted by Dr. Howard R. Chlslett of Chi
cago, performed an operation on Mr. I
W. Parcell of Westfield. A tumor weighing
120 pounds was removed from the patient.
She survived the trying ordeal and gives
hopes of recovery.
Two young millionaires, Harry Payne
Whitney and TVllllnm K. Vanderhllt. are
vlelng with each other as to which shall
have the finest country place near Great
Neck, I I. Mr. Vanderbtlt baa chosen
site for a private station on the Long Island
road and Mr. Whitney ia expected to ceek
the same privilege.
At a meeting of about forty manufac
turers and dealers, -called at the suggestion
of the flra commissioner of New York City
to consider the possibility of finding a
match that would be safe to use, it was
stated that the safety match Is In reality
no safer than the parlor match, Thla Is a
great opportunity fur an Inventive ohemlst.
That man has been right-handed from
the earliest times Is shown by the greater
slxe of the bones of the- right arm in pre
hlatorlo skeletons.. AH the evidence goes
to show that right-handedness is due to a
transmitted functional pre-eminence or the
left brain, In which the soul Is row said to
reside. Ail manual tots requiring- precision
and skill, except fingering the violin cords,
are done with the right hand. '
William H. James has been a farrier In
the employ .of the pastofttca In- Rochester
since May 7, 18G, and la the only survivor
of the nine original carriers there. A few
years ago he was sent to Kngland to In
vestigate method In the leading, cities of
that country. When he returned he re
ported that the United States had nothing
to learn from them;. Ms own methods were
far in advance ot British postal ways.
An Interesting experiment In night artil
lery work was mad In Germany recently.
A searchlight waa placed at a distance 'in
known to the officers in command of a field
battery, and after It waa turned on the
guns were brought into action against it.
Six 4.7-liich guns were used, the range was
obtained very - rapidly, and within five
minutes the light was broken to pieces. An
other searchlight, at a range of about 1.200
yards, was broken after a few rounds had
been fired.. , -.
There has been within two years an
enormous Increase in the bonda of corpora
tions, while the increase in stocks has been
slight. The New York Slock exchange
listed In iSWl J9a,0l0,100 worth of bonds, or
double the amount of the previous year.
Corporations wanting money now Issue
bond Instead, of Issuing additional stock.
An advantage of thla plan and probably
the one which leads to Its adoption, is that
the bondholder has no voice in the manage
ment of the business at leaat aa long as It
is solvent. ...
One of the most remarkable cities la the
world is Kelburg, near Cracow, Poland, for
besides being situated underground, it is
excavated entirely In rock salt. The In-
imuiinniB, ia me number of over S.OUO. are.
or course workers In the famous salt
mines, and all the streets and hni. o .-
of the purest white Imaginable. One of the
mrai lamous features or the city Is the
cathedral, carved In salt and ltvhtaA hk
electric lights, and when tha late Csar
Alexander visited 1t. -eleven, years ago, he
was so fascinated with the magnificent effect
of the light upon the crystal walls that he
presented the cathedral with a Jeweled
altar cross. Such a thing aa infectious
oiBFa.se is unxnown in tveiourgl In fact,
the majority ot .the Inhabitants die of old
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TURNING OYER NEW LEAVES
Survival of the Bottle Method Among tha
Eot Boyi of Gotham.
spirit of th Day in mixed drinks
Rot Tear's the Tall Tim'i Most III.
lartaas Holiday, Watt) RveVytfilna
bat tha "kyarrnpers Heroine
Klttealsa.
The New Yorker In the mass la not suf
ficiently classical to know much about
tha old Roman Saturnalia, but he pays
punctilious attention to the details ot one
onca a year, or, rather, twice, for it be
gins on the morning of December 31 and
does hot taper off until the morning of
January Z.
Tbe city ot lean buildings moves con
derously through most of Its holidays. It
skips coltlshly through New Tear'a. Some
time an incoming steamship will report
that while atill twenty miles off shore on
New - Tear's day, lit passengers could
smell tha rich odor Of whisky, hot and
cold, wafted from celebrating New Tork.
New Yorkers who are good through tha
ordinary St3 daya of the year, appear In
public In the afternoon and evening ot
December tl with bottles In their arma
and the contents ot other bottles hidden
in their bosoms.
The bottle It the New Tear'a emblem of
the big town. Unhallowed It the name ot
the liquor dealer who falls to give a
Dottle of Whisky, rum, brandy, sherry or
port to each regular customer on the 31st
day of ' December. And It must be a
quart bottle, too. The Unwritten law Is
that the stuff Inside may be" a gift horse
that burns tha mouth, but there must be
a quart of It.
One prominent liquor dealef down town
gave away $10,000 worth of liquor last
year. His best customers got a quart bot
tle of brandy that ' cost 60 cents a drink
over the bar. Froth royal New Year's lar
gesse like that, the gifts go through
varioua grades until they attain the level
of the brown bottle of Mulberry atreet,
wherein there lurks a whisky that would
eat a noticeable hole in a Sioux chief.
Business men appreciate the fact that
the fervid desire to get bottles of sotne
thlng for nothing will seise even the most
sober employe on tha last day of the year,
therefore December 11 In New York has be
come a day ot mingled revelry and work,
with the work decidedly thinned out in
the mingling.
Ilantlngr the Bottle rreseat.
Even the most solemn and staid old per-
tons are telxad With the spirit that makes
them visit tha nearest barroom to see If
they cannot get a bottle. They find other
solemn and staid old persons there on tho
tame errand. Each would rather die than
to confess to the other that he haa come
In the hope of deluding the owner of the
place Into the belief that he Is a rteady
customer deserving of a preaent.
So they He to each other stoutly, and
at last even go to the desperate length of
buying each other drinks. While they are
doing It their souls are torn by the sight
of bottles being handed out. Recklessly
they buy more drinks In ' the hope that
the owner will catch their eye and give
them something.
Every bottle-present hunter lmagtnea
that If he gets one he will stop and go
back to work. But he won't. If he geta
ona he will hurry to the next barroom to
get another. If he doesn't get one he will
hurry to tha- aet barroom in the hope of
better luck. . ..
Tha natural excitement of getting some,
thing for nothing, added to the equally
natural- excitement of taking at least ona
drink In each place, makes the New
Yorker In tha mate a genial and discursive
person by the afternoon of "December 31.
His approach la heralded by a rich alco
holic fragrance, and a halo of whisky and
augar surrounds him.
-..The elevated trains bear him In happy
compressed carfuls. Every time the door
opens at a station tha mighty Icent of
liquor rushes out like the -warm sugary
breath from a bakeshop when, the ovens
aro opened. Tha insldes ot the cart are
Impressionistic pictures of sideboards. Tbe
atstea and aeata bristle 4 With -bottlee
some carried - decorously in their oblong
paper packagea, But battalions of them
carried In primitive honesty, open to tho
gaze of all. .
It is an old New Yofk fashion that New
York haa not outgrown.- It outgrows many,
but it doea not cast them oft entirely.
Alwaya somewhere in the herd of. com
munities that make New York, there are
some that can wear the fashlona that hava
become too small for the city aa a whole.
Callta on the "Table Setters."
New York, at a whole, ' haa outgrown
the good old fashion of the ancient daya
of ten . years ago, when everybody called
on everybody else, quite without tbe mere
detail of knowing anybody personally. But
If ona go eaat or west Into the atreets
where families live In layers seven and
ten deep one may atill find the glad caller.
Wlndowa still sport the evergreen or ar
tificial wreath with red satin ribbons, which
intormt all who psss tbat Inside are host
esses who hava "aet a table" and are walt
fhg tor whoever will to enter to with them
a happy New" Year.
Total atrangexa ara not really expected to
call; If they do, they ara not thrown out.
Total strangers drop In freely, therefore,
and aa the New Year day wanes, they often
drop In with absolute fidelity to the literal
meaning ot tha term.
It la an unwritten law that tha woman
who "sets tha table" and her woman
friends, may be kissed by the. callers. The
kissing- Is net confined to a pent-up
. Vtica ot Intimate acquaiatanees. Tbe total
stranger kissea with aa much enthusiasm
aa It ha had known the klssees all hla life.
Tha visitor finds the table "aet" with
caket and glass plates full of "lady fingers"
and sponge cake abd sandwiches. '
' ' The glass platea are the favorite patterna
that stand on a glass foot like aa old-fashioned
glass lamp Tha table may ba only
a board resting on trestles. But tha table
cloth, with ita glittering decoratlona,
makea It aa worthy aa the finest of old ma
hogany; at leaat It ao aeema to anybody
who doesn't peer underneath, and no gen
tleman would do tbat unless he falla on
tho floor and. cannot get up.
Tha gapply of Ltqald Jay.
More attractive to tha caUer than the
glass platea full ot cakea. are tha glaaa
things that ara not platea. Tha lady who
"sets tha table" baa no narrow, puritani
cal notlona about drink. She exhiblta gen
erous art la wines on New Tear'a day.
Aroma and brand do not bother her. Tha
main point with her la to achieve variety
and - quantity.' Tha callers Judge quality
aolely by tha quantity.
A truly magnificent table provldet every
thing that It liquid, oven lemonade. The
liquors range from whltky and brandy
through the Oner tones of burned sherry
and port and Rhine wlnea down to black
berry brandy. Among tha callers thsra la
alwaya some sport who baa acquired tha
dlatinction of having a tad for blackberry
brandy. Ha la csteemsd by bis companions
accordingly, until the oversupply brings its
Inevitable coasequencea.
A tall, thla bottle of Maderla s another
steady contributor to tha gaiety ot tha oc
casion. It Is not a kind at Maderla that
Oeneral Carroll would pay $100 a bottle
lor. ' i
Happily, tha New Ycar'a caller doea not
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consider a glass of It critically. He la not
looking so much for bouquet as for a' gen
teel sufficiency. Besides that, he has prob
ably swallowed a drink of whisky at tho
previous house, to he It not attuned to the
more dellcato harmonies Of wine blbbllng.
The ladles who set the table are hos
pitable, but not reckless. They give tho
caller hla drink cheerfully, for to get a
drink at each house Is man's privilege.
But they do not hesitate to ask him if ho
expects to take a bath In it, should he
betray a atrong inclination to come again
too aoon.
The caller, who la known In the neigh
borhood where he performs the rite, must
be more careful thnn the stranger. The
latter can overstep the bounds of prudence
and suffer nothing worse than a few verbal
punishments and a few physical ones later
In the evening. But the man who Is
known is criticized keenly, and if he low
ers himself by drinking too much at any
one place ot eating a group of hostesses
out of house and home, he will awake next
day to find himself a aoclal outcaat. One
of the ladiea will, no doubt, explain to him
that he . acted aa it he had been "brung
up like a pig." ' .
Recelvlnsr the Callers.
The ladlet themselves have delicate and
sharply defined aoclal standards to meas
ure one another. Generally, three or four
combine to "set a table." They select the
home of the lady who haa ' the biggest
rooms and whose family combines the two
essentials of presentablllty and amiability.
Tbe lady whose father or, big brothers have
human Weaknesses which might lead them
to do thnga to the bottle decorations, and
the lady whose mother imagines that she
is "good enough for them people" and re
fuses to put on a clean gown, do not aspire
to entertain In their own homes.
Having combined., they subscribe equally
to purchase the cakes and the liquors,
buying generally on the principle that
actuated the farmor who laid in his month's
provisions by buying three gallons of apple
jack and one loaf ot bread. Early on the
morning of the first of January they range
themselves behind the table. Tbey have
not long to wait. Many of their callers
aro accustomed to rise early. Many others
do not happen to have been asleep at all
and And it not, only easy but delightful to
be on the spot.
The first callers are received formally.
The men enter in aingle file, pushing be
fore them tbe boldest, who hides hla con
fusion by being preternaturally Impudent
and witty. When the single file has at
last shoved Its entire ainuous length into
the room the men edge toward the walls
and furniture as men fearing the approach
of deadly enemlea from behind. Each holds
hla hat so aa to guard himself atill more
in tbat direction. .
The women bow majestically and for an
odious while nobody says anything till a
brave spirit begs leave to Introduce "my
friend." Then everybody introduces every
body else as "my friend." All tbe frtenda
are requested to have a little something;
possibly a few friends sometimes decline.
But careful examination of the callers at
night doea not disclose a condition that
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Thnt time existed nlwav. without a bojrinnliiir nrins Impossible tliouifh no
more ao than n lOKlnn!nir without tvon time existing, on which to begin. Kvrry
hour wnsted In this klud of theorizing thought la thnt murh time wasted with
out bt-neflt or result A man can spend hla whole life alone; such lines, only to
find how Iguornnt he waa of his own Ignorance. The proper thing la to "take
time by the forelock" and "make hny while the sun shines." It la as unfair to
condemn all speclnllsta because there are frauds, as to condemn all churchea
Idealise there are hypocrites. Separate tho wheat from the ohnff and act aeu
slbly. - Hidebound Ideas are slaves of opinion, and a man waa never converted
from wrong idens who did not look back and wonder how he could have been
so honestly wrong.
rrecvndent Is not alwaya a correct guide. It mny be unlawful to drive rap
idly through a main thoroughfnre, but If a team la runnulng away '.aw wou't
regulate. Poor health renders the enjoyment of life impossible and destroya
the attractiveness of an otherwise good disposition, but It Is more difficult to
get tho poison of prejudice out of the system thnn to mre disease.
Kor a number of yeara I fought doctors who ndvertlse with all the venom
of an Inherent prejudice, and know ,thnt tny rplnlons and contempt were hon
est. No argument will give courage to a coward, and not often can a man be
convinced against hla prejudices. A well lighted bed room Is more comfort to
a child thnn the strongest assurances when left In a dark room. Over 25 yeara
ago 1 came to a realisation of the fact that a phytlclan could not only be hon
est outside of a medical trust, but much broader rrinded as well. Sectional
ism is held together by the fabrics of selfishness and ptejidlc rather than
Hoars, 8 au sn. to 8 p. m. Sundajs, 10
would lead one to suspect that many of
them are guilty.
Ethles ot Xev Year's Kisses.
Each friend, as he raises hit glass, says
hastily, "Happy New Year," and then peers
around, blushing lest he find It fame.
"Same to you," say the ladiea, and the file
prepares to sidle out. Aa they emerge
their giggle chime with the giggle of the
women. Later In the day, tbe friends be
gin, to bestow more eloquence on their
hostesses and soft scuffles are frequent,
as each friend attempts to exploit hit
prerogative of kissing them. The women
submit with toft patience. But if a man
should dream that their kindness Is an
Invitation to take liberties, he will find
himself undeceived quickly and Impress
ively. The girls draw the line just aa
sharply as It is drawn in Fifth avenue,
The difference Is only a difference In man
ner, not morals.
Carrlaste Calls.
Often the friends combine their means
to hire a cab for the purpose of making
calls in style. The hostesses like it, for
the setters of tables keep minute and
jealous count of the number of carriage
callers that they and their rivals In the
street receive on New Year's day.
The cab hired for tha . occasion has a
capacity limited only by the number of
those .who can get Iq and on It. Often
the cabman is a friend himself and helps to
make the calls. - This makes tbe course ot
the vehicle pleasantly erratic toward the
end of the day . and occasionally It la left
to shift tor itself after the various friends
bave become oblivious. . .
. The real genuine caller expects to make
at least 100 calls and do his duty at each,
and still manage to find his way home
at night without the help of the police.
He performs hla calls as a sacred obliga
tion long after they have ceased to becomo
a keen pleasure. He Is Impelled by two
Influences. One Is that bis lady friends
expect him to call, tor a girl's social
standing is measured by the number cf
their callers, and the other reason Is that
the men keep count ot the number of calla
that they make Just as they would keep
track of any, other sporting event.
Tho caller of the far weet and east
sides haa a mighty stomach and a steady
band. The' most drunken objects to be
seen on New Year's duy In thla territory
are the very young persons who transpar
ently pretend to be much more drunk than
they are, in order to impress the ladies
with their noble wickedness..
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