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The New Year.
THE NEW YEAR .
Usually the commencement of each new epoch is regarded as sucli a natural occurrence as to excite but little , even the most imaginative , in this dull prosaic generation . Amongst our forefathers , the anticipation of Christmas produced an eager joyfulness , as the
thought of shaking off dull care and allowing the heart to heat with other impulses than mere money-getting came upon them . This revival also , this time of refreshment for the affections , at as augmented by the religious tone given to the festivities of the period , and men felt that devotion sanctioned the hilarity which the
disposition towards delight promoted . Now Christmas and the New Tear have become , indeed , oases very circumscribed in their influence over the rest of time . At the railway speed of our present progression in the lust for gold and the toadyism of power , men hardly pause to bait their hearts at these ancient hostelries of
goodwill . It is true , boys and girls make us live our time over again , and renew the saltness of our youth by their own pickledom of mischief ; we , old hypocritical mummies as we are , stretch our wizened jdtos , rugged by thought and pursed up with pecuniary calculation , into a ghastly grin of hollow sympathy with the boisterous
uproar of hearty fun sounded by the youngsters . But we soon return to our knitted brow , and cold calculating gaze , for the Exchange principle must be maintained — " business must be attended to ; " so we vote boys and girls great plagues , very expensive , sigh over our debts , begrudge almost the plums in the pudding , and the brief sunbeam of Christmas festivity , and the auspices of an opening year merge in the gloom of Paterfamilias moodily contesting the odd halfpenny in his butcher ' s bills ! Nevertheless , the journalist must not neglect his prescribed duty of casting up both sides of the account , with a view of meeting the Vol . hi . n
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The New Year.
THE NEW YEAR .
Usually the commencement of each new epoch is regarded as sucli a natural occurrence as to excite but little , even the most imaginative , in this dull prosaic generation . Amongst our forefathers , the anticipation of Christmas produced an eager joyfulness , as the
thought of shaking off dull care and allowing the heart to heat with other impulses than mere money-getting came upon them . This revival also , this time of refreshment for the affections , at as augmented by the religious tone given to the festivities of the period , and men felt that devotion sanctioned the hilarity which the
disposition towards delight promoted . Now Christmas and the New Tear have become , indeed , oases very circumscribed in their influence over the rest of time . At the railway speed of our present progression in the lust for gold and the toadyism of power , men hardly pause to bait their hearts at these ancient hostelries of
goodwill . It is true , boys and girls make us live our time over again , and renew the saltness of our youth by their own pickledom of mischief ; we , old hypocritical mummies as we are , stretch our wizened jdtos , rugged by thought and pursed up with pecuniary calculation , into a ghastly grin of hollow sympathy with the boisterous
uproar of hearty fun sounded by the youngsters . But we soon return to our knitted brow , and cold calculating gaze , for the Exchange principle must be maintained — " business must be attended to ; " so we vote boys and girls great plagues , very expensive , sigh over our debts , begrudge almost the plums in the pudding , and the brief sunbeam of Christmas festivity , and the auspices of an opening year merge in the gloom of Paterfamilias moodily contesting the odd halfpenny in his butcher ' s bills ! Nevertheless , the journalist must not neglect his prescribed duty of casting up both sides of the account , with a view of meeting the Vol . hi . n