SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1900 - Played pedro at Sackett's tonight. The fiends beat us 9 to 6. Came home about Eleven.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1900 - Went to dinner with Chas- H- and afterward walked down to Park Church where we rehersed Buck's "Triumph of David" for two hours. Spent the evening with Nellie. It was an ideal day; warm and sunshiny.

NO ENTRY: DEC 3

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1900 - Rain the morning turning to snow shortly after noon. Nothing but slush. Good pneumonia weather under-foot.
Went over to the Library to renew a book after supper. Met Nellie there and rode down home with her, staying until ten O'clock.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1900 - Cold and windy. My stomach has bothered me some today but don't believe it is anything serious.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900 - Cold and windy.
Took a long walk between ten and noon. Passed the old school house where I spent so many happy if unprofitable hours, and where I might have learned so much more if I had applied myself as I should . Oh, how prodigal a boy is of time and opportunity! Life is so short. Silent eternity so long.

NO ENTRY: DEC 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1900 - Mild and pleasant.
Sacketts came up tonight and we passed the evening playing pedro. The two Franks beat Nellie and I 8 to 6.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1900 - Clear and cold with a very high north-west wind.

NO ENTRIES: DEC 10 THROUGH DEC 12

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1900 - Snow squals and high wind at night.
Spent the evening with Nellie. It was growing very frigid out when I came home.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1900 - A very sudden fall in temperature during the night. Gerity's thermonmeter at 7 A.M. registered 2º above zero. Mine hung on the back of the house showed 5º above at 7:30 A.M.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1900 - Cold and snowy.
Spent the evening at Sackett's. My partner and I came out victorious at cards 8 games to 7.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1900 - Clear and cold. Spent the best portion of the afternoon rehersing at Park Church for the next Sunday's production of Buck's "Triumph of David".
The evening as usual with Nellie.

NO ENTRIES: DEC 17 AND DEC 18

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1900 - Rehersal tonight. Got home shortly before ten. I shall be glad when it is over, for I want my evenings to myself.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1900 - Mild weather.
Spent the evening with Nellie. Played cards until after nine.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1900 - Rehersal again tonight. walked part of the way home with Nellie on my way to supper. She had been over town all afternoon.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1900 - Clear and moderate. Perfect weather for the XMas shoppers. The streets have been thronged all day, and the Merchants have to all appearances done a thriving business. The railroad stations have presented as busy a scene as is usual on Circus day or at the time of some celebration.
Mr.& Mrs. S- and Nellie were up for the evening. We lost at pedro 8 - 7.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1900 - A lousy day. At two O'clock it has commenced to rain and promises to be very nasty.
"The Triumph of David" went splendidly tonight and called forth much praise.
Spent the balance of the evening with Nellie.

NO ENTRY: DEC 24

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1900 - Christmas morning opened bright and comparatively warm. It clouded up about nine O'clock however and shortly after noon there were numerous snow squals. Mother presented me with a pair of military brushes ebony backs mounted with silver; a book came from Mr. Benjamin. Nellie gave me an umbrella, and I received several others.
Spent a portion of the afternoon and all of the evening with Nellie.

NO ENTRY: DEC 26

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1900 - Clear and moderate.
Nellie and I went to the Basket Ball game tonight - Yale Vs 30th Sep. Co. Score Yale-24 30th-4. About 800 people were in attendance. This was the first game I had ever seen. Enjoyed it very much.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1900 - About two inches of snow during the early morning. Warmer during the day, but much colder at night.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900 - Spent the evening at Sackett's playing pedro. Nellie and I beat the Champions seven games out of thirteen. We are now even on the season's games 56 apiece. Came home about eleven.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1900 - Cloudy and threatening.
Charles Hallock called this afternoon. We took a walk, finally winding up at the Rathbun Cafe where we had a light lunch. Spent the evening with Nellie. My stomach is again giving me some trouble.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1900 - The Nineteenth Century seems disposed to go out in a sloppy undignified manner. It has threatened, snowed and rained by turns all day. Church bells, the Five Bell, whistles and horns of all kinds will be let loose at Midnight to bid the dying Century farewell and the new born one hail. In the past year I have found much to be thankful for, much to make me sadder than I have ever been, or believed I could be. I have missed so much, Oh, so much! And have gained, it seems to me in retrospect, nothing. No former year has brought to me such a poignant sense of my shortcomings and my apparently letter inability to live up to that proud estimate I have been wont to put upon my own abilities. If success in the world or life, as you will, is epitomised in the saying that it is the realization of the estimate which man places upon himself, then, God knows, I have failed. If I have over-estimated my abilities then, God knows, I have suffered the keenest disappointment a man can feel. However it may be, I face the coming year with a little less confidence in myself and others than I have felt in other years, and cannot stifle the fear that it is a feeling that will increase as the years grow over me, be they many or few.

"My faith looks up to thee".
"Though but an atom midst immensity, still am I something fashioned by thy hands".

EDITOR'S NOTE: A year or so later Harry married Nellie and in 1915 Nelly gave birth to my mother, Mary, who married my father, Howard, in 1938.

Also, you may be interested to check out Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900 by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr transcribed from his article entitled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”.