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But these people were gayest on New Year's Day; they made it a true festival--something no longer known.The women gathered to "assist" the hostesses who kept "Open House"; and the carefree men, dandifiedand perfumed, went about in sleighs, or in carriages and ponderous "hacks," going from Open House toOpen House, leaving fantastic cards in fancy baskets as they entered each doorway, and emerging a littlelater, more carefree than ever, if the punch had been to their liking. It always was, and, as the afternoonwore on, pedestrians saw great gesturing and waving of skin-tight lemon gloves, while ruinous fragments ofsong were dropped behind as the carriages rolled up and down the streets.

"Keeping Open House" was a merry custom; it has gone, like the all-day picnic in the woods, and like thatprettiest of all vanished customs, the serenade. When a lively girl visited the town she did not long gounserenaded, though a visitor was not indeed needed to excuse a serenade. Of a summer night, youngmen would bring an orchestra under a pretty girl's window--or, it might be, her father's, or that of an ailingmaiden aunt--and flute, harp, fiddle,

'cello, cornet, and bass viol would presently release to the dulcet starssuch melodies as sing through "You'll Remember Me," "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls," "SilverThreads Among the Gold,"

"Kathleen Mavourneen," or "The Soldier's Farewell."

They had other music to offer, too, for these were the happy days of "Olivette" and "The Macotte" and "TheChimes of Normandy" and "Girofle-Girofla" and "Fra Diavola." Better than that, these were the days of"Pinafore" and "The Pirates of Penzance" and of "Patience." This last was needed in the Midland town, aselsewhere, for the "aesthetic movement" had reached thus far from London, and terrible things were beingdone to honest old furniture. Maidens sawed what-nots in two, and gilded the remains. They took therockers from rocking-chairs and gilded the inadequate legs; they gilded the easels that suppor

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