This is a cartoon from a comic called "Ally Sloper's Half Day Holiday" and was published in 1884.

Father Christmas is seen as an old man.

As the New Year is after Christmas, it seems suitable that a beautiful young girl represents it.

• Do you think this is a good way to represent New Year and Christmas?
  How else could you represent the New Year in a drawing?
• How would you draw Easter, Mid Summer's night, Diwali, or Hanukkah, and what festival would introduce them? (Think of a festival that is before it.)

Draw your version of Christmas and New Year or choose a different time in the year and draw that.