Night, ao we call it here, started it off, with balls that lasted till the sun was up. Every place of justment celebrated madly and many parties were given in private homes. At both a. special effort was made to have the first guest over the threshold after midnight had struck the traditional luck-bringing "dark mani" and in many eases it was the luck'chimney-sweep, a doubly dark man. One of them, the popular sweep whose face appears on so many of the New Year Greeting cards, appeared at the Conegrt House and immediately was surrounded by crowds, all eager to shake his grimy paw for the ood fortune it ensured. No matter how many delicate dresses were Soot-smudged, luck was the thing! As the sweep himself got a shilling handshake, his fortune certain. All the other symbols, pigs for luck, four-leated clover, fed mushrooms and the like figured in dance and song, but the sweep won, As it i necessary to get municipal permits for all public for semi-public fest heavily taxed, it number the entertainments of that evening, which totalled no less than 1,103,
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