Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1913 Page: 4 of 6
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WHAT D0E5 LATHER
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OTHER HAND ?
and the question comes
What of all this to me?"
In a country so new as ours, wh^re one's great
grandfather wan about the earliest on record,
time does not impress us. It seems as if every-
thing began yesterday. In old lands whose his-
tory goes back centuries upon centuries the prog-
ress of time seems very impressive.
But Bay what we will, it is our own life that la
the most imprcssive(#and as the years stretch out
.behind us the memory of our own youth makes a
deeper impression on us this New Year s day than
all the written history of the world, than all the
traditions of all the races, than all the records of
the rocks. The individual souls on days like this
naturally divide Into two classes. On Mew Year's
day youth looks to the future and age to the past
To the young all the paths before the feet look
rose-strewn and smooth, rso vie it. l-et the eye
brighten as it feasts In anticipation on the good
things that must lie everywhere to the end. Y'outh!
Youth! The time when there can be no doubt of
that life's longings and its
EW YEAR'S is the oldest and the
most widely observed of all the
world's festal days. In every coun-
try this day has been celebrated
from the beginning of civilization.
The day does not come simultane-
ously all over the globe, for some
countries have a different calendar
from that of America and Europe.
All countries, however, aim to have
their civil year coincide, In duration,
and as far as practicable, with the
solar year. The nations which hold their fes-
tival in accordance with the Gregorian calendar,
comprising the United States, Great Britain,
France, Germany and most of the other white
countries are those which are leaders In civiliza-
tion, and give the law to the world.
In its universality this day differs from all the
others which have written their names on the
world's calendar. Thanksgiving 1b a strictly
American holiday, which did not extend beyond
the boundaries of New England until about a
generation ago. Nowhere outside the United
States does the Fourth of July make any especial
demand for observance. It had neither a local
habitation nor a name until we furnished them.
Not until aTter Yorktown and the adoption of the
constitution was this aspiration of 177B trans-
mitted into fact. By the Puritans Christmas was
placed under the ban, and not until a time within
the easy recollection of living men was It permit-
ted to cross the boundaries of New England.
Moreover, primarily Christmas Is dedicated to
the children, and In its observance the older
members or the family are merely subsidiary. In
celebrating It the children hold the center of the
stage, with the adults as the properties and acces-
sories which give the spectacle its scenic effects.
But New Year's dedicates itself to the grown-ups,
especially to those who have the capacity and the
Inclination for physical and social activity. Par-
ticularly does it send out its appeal to everybody
who has the freshness of spirits and tl^e enthusi-
asm which give zest to enjoyment of all sorts, who
are capable, when occasion demands, of turning
back the hands on time’s clock and thus who can,
through a child's eyes, look out upon life.
Although this is the oldest of the world’s gala
days, its especial function is to tell us to look for-
ward and not backward. For the moment^the
sponge has drawn Itself across the desires and
the deeds of the year which, a few hours ago. was
thrust back Into the ehadow. A blank tablet,
rises before us, on which the coming days will
write their story. On the world's calendar this
Incoming cycle figures as 1914, but for the present
hour this arbitrary division may be disregarded.
And while the hour remains with us we are all
privileged to set up our own calendar. While the
transition casts its spell upon us everything Is
new. We are at the beginning of an era. This
is day 1 of year 1 In the new dispensation. The
uncertainties and the adversities of the dead cycle
can no longer molest us or make us afraid. Even
where fortune has been kind to us In the recent
past, the days which are before us Btand ready to
hand us choicer prizes. Keeping sunshine In the
heart, we can laugh at any tales which the ther-
mometer or the barometer may tell us. W’hlle
this days lasts hope Is the only deity which claims
any allegiance from any of us All are invited to
build their air castles without any fear of any
dlssilluslonment, “for over the sea lies Spain.”
We can get all the exaltation which came to
Abou Hassan when the amiable deception of
Ilaioun-al ltaschld was played upon him, without
any of the 111 effects whlclt we may presume came
to hint when his dream of power dispelled itself.
The day and the scene Invites us to enjoyment,
and to contribute to the enjoyment of others. For
this one day, at least, of the year the golden age
la no myth. It Is here with us, and we must uti-
lize it while it stays. This is the hour when life's
wireless telegraphy carries greetings of good will
between all the individuals and all the peoples of
of the earth. To every one of us the world
stretches forth the glad hand and salutes us with
"May you live long and prosper."
A NEW YEAR’S THOUGHT.
"Thou shalt love the I.ord thy God with all thy
heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind—
him shalt thou serve and to him shalt thou
cleave."
What, then will be the regard of faithful love
and service be? Or are we working without the
hope of a reward? To be pure and true, love
must be disinterested Granted Yet, Is there not
mi exquisite Joy, a keen incentive to further serv-
ice, in the encouragement which God In his In-
finite goodness grants to use from time to time,
nnd that In spite of all the Imperfections of our
love and service? Why, then, should we not look
forward to our great reward—God's approval?
If wo truly love him, should We not strive with
ell our might for his final "Well done?" Surely It
Is not wrong to look forward to the joy of that
assurance, even while we are fully aware of our
coming short of It, yet, in our best work; for thus
we learn to know more, and to think more, of the
love which, seeing the Intention, gives us credit
for the effort, though the result may not be. Is not,
what we had hoped to oiler him
With such thoughts the New Year begins. As
a child tries to please the father he loves so
dearly,"us a friend who seeks every opportunity
to prove his friendship, so may we loving, thank-
ful children of oyr God. rejoicing In the know ledge
of his love, go on our way, full of trust for the fu-
turo, neglecting no#opportunlty, however small
It may be A'**prove our thankful love, and asking
him to kindle in us an intense desire to please
hlni, an ardent lotiglag for Ills blessed, words of
commendation, "Well done, thou good and falth-
1 servant! ”
HER MISTAKE.
“What Is a young man's maiden epqj>ch. ja?”
"Ills first one, my dear."
“Dear me! I thought It was a proposal."
The old prophets conceived the sublime thought
that the Creator set the heavenly bodies in their
places to mark for man the progress of time. The
early leaders of the human race who watched the
stars in their courses, and from their movements
worked out the division of the days and years,
left a blessing behind them for all time to come.
For if we are to believe the records of the rocks
and clays the first men who lifted their faces to
the skies In profound awe and with germs of
thought stirring In their brains had little if any
more conception of time and of the moving planets
than the brutes that shared with these primitive
savages the caves or the huts which were all
the houses they had. It took long ages to learn
that the Bun Is a fixed body as regards our earth,
to divide the globe into degrees and the day into
24 hours. The seasons came and went and savage
man had no conception of why beyond the sun's
declension below his zenith and the return of the
fiery orb to a place high above his head. Then
from the crude superstitions of astrology Iiyn of
high civilization worked out our year and set the
day that, as this we now live, marks the beginning
of a new circle of the four Reasons.
The crudest Bavage needed no prophet with a
message) from the skies to teach him that if he
desired to prolong his life he must work. He
was the man of all generations who knew best
that "In the sweat of his face" he must “eat
bread" If he ate at all. Stored-up wealth there
was none. Each generation began practically
where the last did, with no Inheritance to profit
by. Nor was there a spark of charity to minister
to the needs of age or sickness. The child born
with low vitality met Its fate early in its career.
The man who met with an accident sufficient to In-
capacitate him for the chase or for war was left
*to perish miserably where he fell. When age
dimmed the eye or made the hand nerveless the
useless one was not permitted to bo a burden on
society. As the wounded deer Is left, as the aged
wolf is abandoned, so was the wounded man or
the toothless woman. Parentage or other relation-
ship counted nothing.
As civilization climbed the path of progress to
higher levels toll became more constant, more
pressing The savage has few needs and there-
fore much leisure. He needs no weekly day of
rest. With Increasing needs to meet man had to
bend his hick more Incessantly and to strain mus-
cle, tendon and ligament. Uife had more enjoy-
ment at the cost of longer hours of toil, that made
rest seem very sweet. Then arose the leader of
men, the reformer, the teacher, philosopher or
prophet who ordained that as there were times
and seasons so there should be days of rest. If we
were to run the world around we would find many
Sabbaths. The follower of Mohammed takes his
rest on Friday, the Hebrew on Saturday, the Chris-
tian on Sunday. And the man of advanced ideas
who gave man his Sabbath was a leader and a
benefactor In very deed.
The man who stands in the Eseorlal in Spain
and looks on the sepulchers of kings reaching
back 390 years, has a span about as long as the
most ancient history of America. When he goes
to Granada he is face to face with the times of
the Moors, whose Invasion of the peninsula ffas
centuries before Columbus was born. As he looks
on some paved road or some aqueduct he Is car-
ried back to the Sciptos, to Hannibal, and back to
his forefathers who moved about here; and so
we go back to Carthage, which was a great city
before Rome was founded, and Carthago takes
us over the sea to Asia where Moses' people and
some Philistines ramot Into combat And we go
back to Egypt and Its pyramids, to the rharaohs
and Jacob and his children, and on back to Abra-
ham and the nomad chiefs'who fed their th^ks in
the fat plains of central Asia as long before tho
Christian era as It Is from the year 1911. In these
lands, among these races of men, grandfathers
und great grandfathers count for little. One meets
fieri whose ancestors took part In the expulsion of
the Moors, with others whose nncostors resisted
them when they first Invaded Spain, nnd still
others whose forbears were in the armies of tho
Sclploa or of Hannibal The mind loves to dwell
on tho memory of these far-away days and to
dream otethe way of life of men und women who
died so long ago, and to whom we owe our being
and our civilization. The oldest title lands in the
Pacific states do not go back far. There are
titles In Spain that date back centuries. Castles
here are owned by families who come downdBl-
rectly or collaterally for ages. To these a gen-
• pratlon Is ,ut Hhort as a year to us 'In our brand
*hew civilization It is all Impressive, hut alter
dreaming of such things the mind Inevitably re-
verts to our own generation, to our own time.
any mystery save
hopes cotjld die.” Let youth dream on of roses
•without thorns, of bright days without a cloud,
of hopes that alw-ays find fulfillment, of ambitions
always fully satisfied. All we need do for youth is
leave it alone with its dreams, its hopes, its am-
bitions. With these It will take care of itself. And
let not age, whatever the years may have brought,
say a word, shake a head or give a dubious look
to dispel the glory of the dream, the brightness
of the hope, the vaulting nature of the ambition.
Time will do enough of this. So let youth have Its
undlmmed joy today.
But age looks back. The fires of ambition are
dimmed. They are all burnt-out ashes now. The
hopes that buoyed us up so safely in youth have
found what there is of fulfillment all too little, of
disappointment all too much. We dream no longer
of joys to come, but of grief that has so strewed
the path aloug which wo have come. The smell
of the woods In early spring when the first violets
bloom, or In the heat of summer when all Is like
' the spice Islands, or in fall when decay is In the
fallen leaves, or In winter when death absorbs
all, no matter to the aged, all call back to days
long gone. Wo walk alone now, and all along the
far road lie mounds where we stood and confided
to the breast of Mother Earth so many that walk-
ed with us in the hey,dey of our life. The mother
whose soft touch banished pain, the father whose
ripe experience taught us where to walk, the
brothers and sisters who were our playmates in
those days when the world was all sunshine.
Then when the wing of love ceased to brood over
us in the paternal nest and we went forth to
create a new family under the banner of love, how
a day like this calls up all the joy and tenderness
of these days of early manhood and womanhood!
So we dream of the long-lost clasp of the hand of
lover or friend; so we dwell in tender memory
on all those days of hope, of joy, of expectancy
and fruition. We feel that all will soon be over.
This may be our last New Year's day on this earth
where we have passed so many eventful years.
When those who are left again "ring out the old,
ring in the new,” we may not be hero to ring
either chime of bells. So we sit and dream and
call up from the treasure-house of memory the
faces, words and deeds of those who walked with
us in the days of our youth and of our prime. But
we would not be gone yet. He Is less than a man
who thus can sit and dream, think of hts de-
parture, and not "cast one longing, lingering look
behind." We must go to the poets to interpret
this life to us. Not to the great ones of the world,
but to those whose verse deals with the common
things of life; to Burns and his "banks and braes
o’ bonnie I)oon," his "Highland Mary;" to the man
who wrote "Home, Sweet Home;" to the poet of
the poor slave in the south and his "Suwanee
River " We can go far back in the ages' and all
the time the common heart of a common humanity
was the same as now. King David would take
the aged Barzillai to the capital, to the court.
But the plain man of the people would be left
alone to dream the last dreams of life In peace.
"Let me go back that I may die in mine own city."
And after death “be burled by the side of my fa-
ther and of my mother." Oh! the tenderness of
old age' There are no fierce passions left. ‘ Am-
bition builds no more castles In Jhe air. Just to
be let dream of the days that are gone, of the
early home and all it contained, and then lie down
with the companions of youth and for centuries
and centuries, throughout the great eternity, let
our ashes mingle with those we loved so well.
/VNE of the full, short coats trimmed
v/ with fur which are unlike those of
any previous season and immensely
successful now, is shown in the pic-
ture. A muff of the fur used for a bor-
der about the bottom of the coat and
appearing in the collar is worn with
coats of this kind.
Costly broadtail fur is used In the
body of this luxurious wrap, and Fitch
fur trims it. Few wraps of broad-
tail are worn, in deference to a senti-
ment which has grown up against It.
The handsomest plushes make up into
wraps quite as beautiful, and are fur-
nished with the same expensive furs
in borders and muffs.
The heavier furs will not answer
for wraps of this kind. Natural and
dyed squirrel and ermine are used,
and sealskin is ideal for ample gar-
ments which must not be too heavy.
Instead of furs, handsome plushes are
used for garments which are to be
within a reasonable cost. These
plushes In the best grades are high
priced fabrics, but at that, much less
costly than fur. There are cheaper
grades that will look well and outlast
the season. For wraps and outside
garments nothing is more fashionable
and more satisfactory than the plush
imitations of fur, which are often so
close in appearance to the original
as to deceive the average eye.
The furs most favored for trimming
coats are martin, skunk, civet cat, fitch
and fox. These are the moderately
long haired furs. Mink and sable and
ermine (all growing higher in price
constantly) are also employed. All
furs are used in wide and narrow band-
ings, and in trimmings for costumes
and millinery.
Sleeves in the new wraps are very
roomy—the kimono and bat-wing
styles prevailing. There is no trou-
ble about crushing the bodice under
fur wraps, because of the light weight
of furs used in the body of the wraps,
and there are ample sleeves and arms-
eyes.
The hat worn with this pretty, coat •
is of black velvet, one of few hav-
ing a blocked crown. The trimming is
a generous, fan-shaped spray of soft
white feathers. There is an attractive
and novel bag carried for the accom-
modation of the various belongings
which vanity fair must needs have near
at all times. The coin purse, handker-
chief, powder puff, etc., placed In
small compartments on the inside, do
not distort the shape of this plain and
elegant accessory. It is of knitted
silk finished with silver rings and
silver filagree monogram, and is car-
ried by a silk cord. »
Good furs, in garments or In trim-
mings, amount to a good investment,
if well cared for. It is not likely that
the cost will grow less; all the
chances are that It will increase for
several years. But furs must be
cared for. The industrious moth will
succeed in finding them when one
thinks he is well shut out. Cold stor-
age Is therefore good for furs, but
they may be protected by placing
them In paper bags with moth balls,
and in cedar chests. They should be
examined occasionally, hung in the
sun and beaten. The sunlight is death
to moths.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
While New Year Is only an Imaginary line drawn
through time to mark its divisions, It possesses
a sentiment which moves us all. It marks a def-
inite starting point in our lives every year and we
take a fresh hold upon our prospects and renew
, our faith in ourselves and look out upon the com-
ing year as upon a new, fair field, with promise
of better thtngs. I do not much believe in formal
resolutions proclaimed loudly from the eminence
of our vanity. The man who, on New Year's,
"Bwears off" his bad habits for a definite period
and notifies hla friends and neighbors, is, from
my observation, only hypnotizing himself. He
may honestly intend to stick to his good resolu-
tions, and perhaps makes his announcement as a
sort of mental and moral prop. But If he Is In
deadly earnest he only needs to promise allegi-
ance to God and himself If he does the things
he means to do Ills friends and neighbors will
give him credit, and If he fails they will not know
of his broken vows Reforms come from within
and deeds, not words, prove « man's sincerity.
The old year has been kindly a one to the farm-
ers of America They have prospered, and they
have made national advancement in social and
moral life, better methods of farming, and a
broader view of the field of endeavor have been
among the achievements of the old year From
the '.ff to come we hope tnat every one of us
may have greater prosperity, larger bloaslnga
and better lives.
HIGH COIFFURE
PROMISES TO BE
LEADING STYLE
|J ATLESS ladies at the horse show
II in New York appeared to be in-
dulging in a go-as-you-please style of
hair dressing. But coiffures were well
taken care of. Waves and small curls
reappeared, and there was a plentiful
showing of high coiffures. Among
AN ABANDONED PROJECT.
"Two hearts that beat as one.” The Museum
manager mused
"Oh. well,” he went on, continuing his solil-
oquy, "I suppose we could get up a freak like
that, but she wouldn’t be In It with the two-
headed girl, anyhow.'—Puck.
The chances are that in the many
new coiffures which have been de-
signed for this season the ears will be
wholly or partly covered. Light fringes
over the forehead, middle and side
parts, hair coiled high or low, but al-
ways waved, and little, Bhort, full
curls are in evidence everywhere. For
popularity the high coiffure promises
to be the winner in the race for favor.
Much depends upon the styles In
millinery which are favored for spring.
For evening wear, and especially
where hats are removed, or not worn
at all, Miladi may wave and curl and
coil and pile up her crowning glory to
her heart's content. Also her coiffure
ornament or evening head dress may
be as elaborate as any of which wo
have a history. Some of those design-
ed for wear In Paris are Bald to be
twenty-eight Inches in height, which
is something over two feet, you know.
But the ^’arisiennes have a certain
grace in* carrying off extremes which
is peculiar to them, their stock-in-trade
for setting styles before the rest of
the world’ They are to be followed at
a conservative distance.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
these were a few extremely high and
really very pretty new ideas.
Changes are coming and, In fact,
have arrived, but no definite style has
established Itself as a universal favor-
ite yet. The liking for covering the
top of the ear remains. But hair which
has been encroaching upon the face,
over tha cheeks, Is no longer good
style.
Fads and Fancies.
Jet Is increasingly used as the sea-
son advances. i*
Last year’s gown may be rejuvenated
by a fichu.
The gown of one color may have
two or three girdles. ^
There Is a slash in almost every
skirt worn by women.
For little girls the Russian blousa
dresses are in the lead.
The smartest tailored costumes einj
phaslze the baited coat.
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