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hss fii _| Interesting Thought. \ In the first place, most of our res olutions are not resolutions at all They .@re merély jdie, -- sentimental wishes. And wishing 4s a long. way #rom . willing. 'The man who wishes to be or to do a certain thing looks to fln&;: ~elrcumstance. to help him out. / -u,whow@iuutobeordo « certain thing, getsup and goes to it regardless. 'The man who wishes is seldom lasts begond the first week in . neugt®, : * > g2 2"o _ > &4 -m'mu afirm that. you " _ CC ~Wilt--not do so. But to say that you will not resolve to do an'y-- thing "is 'in < itself 'a~ resolation. It aneans that you are--determined to hold #%o your prosent course. If you have Bbeen a wabbler, then you are going to Keep on wabbling; if you hbave been a fm. you are going to koep on drift-- Jng:; If you have been without a tar-- at which to shoot, then you are to keep right on banging away jwith both~eyes shut. It is a law that a body unsupported falls <to the ; ground. And it is also 'a law that a _' ~ by --a definite pur-- 1 . weakness in New Year's mhmnnunuothqan not batked up by a plan, As a mat-- tet of fact, it would be a great deal um:u the business of making a M for the New Year and Instead make a plan for the New Year. Frame up a regsonable program:that leads toward the thing you want to be of do. 'c'mn«amn' at his goal in one That's the weakness and deception in (#o many . resolntiops, Don't iry to make It from the valley to the top of the mountain in 'one Jump. Look up the slope and fix your M&hr ak you can see, . The higher get g.ho farther you will be able to see and the faster you will beé able to go. --You gain strength in | _ If you tak#® a toumble, keep your cye on the top, f up, and go omn, Hold Qt main plan, and don't dimbing. bite of more of it at a time than you An chew. As long as you keep going you're a winner, no maiter how B takes you to get there. vouk flpbhbflfin'ynn e has invented a 1 U o1 an c ARK h ~:&;f'---" .Tv*i.i';f'x'l't":' e --out and gone lower 's nd use. I'm done eplied, "you have as 10w how'to use it.*. mean?" he asked. > know how to use your ery time you resolved it you put the resolu-- p tense. You m?u T'm And somethin# is the luld I have said?" he (we put it in the past thing behind you-- in-- ad said, 'No, you will said> that "before.'" INVENTORS 1 T aimg, frow Tea, of cairse aniemegon H _ New Year, 'of conrse, 'you Tt yourself have it. -- Funny thought. But stop,.-- Wasn't that exactly what he was doing now, not letting himself have a 'Happy New Year? Bad bus|-- ness that; 'worse than that bad busi-- ;lm his young partner had just falien into, 2. * -- * But the newsboy was not taken aback,. He grinned up into the cloud-- ed face and drawled: "Aw, #Bir, let yourself have a Heppy New Year." 'The anpn walked another block Ae-- : 6 8 (--' 1919 Western. Newspa 'vw : per Union.) pepoetn MAN was walking in »wift, CMvOI angry strides d the «dE! snowy street. He(z&_mkr o 'it . about a big business MEODIMH deat that bad jJust falten / ® through, and biaming his partmer for it. / Indeed, he had anly a minute agzgo parted from his partner th scernful words.. And the part-- it, who was a younger man, had said mnothing. He, too, had felt that the 'binme was all his, and he was ashawed and grieved.. But. harder than hay-- Ing Jost the business for the 'firm, that young man found it to have lost the good will and respect of his senior The angry man was suddenly called from his unpleasant thoughts by a lit-- tle newsboy thrusting a paaunder his nose. -- "All about the murder, the big Riverside murder!" hbe intoned through his little--nose. ----*"Paper,. 8ir?" "The angry man shoved the boy away; "Get out of my path," he growled, absent--mindéed!y, partuer, whom he admired,' eyen*re-- .. Ruddenly he stopped, whirled about und retraced hig.steps. '"I'm not go-- ing'to cut myself out of a Happy New Year just to indulge myself in a little poisonous anger," he cried to himself. "T'll just hurry back to the ofice'and Iinvite: that--young --man to tunch with me. We've always been good pals tili --And he did burry to catch his part-- ner before he, too, left--the office, --But he did act hurry so much tht:;hl'_ not stop at the corner and ' tha, few <remaining papers from the inso-- lent little newsboy there, though it goes without saying he hadn'} thme to, stop» for the change. -- Iql-"fthfl" * We man, thare ain't but two Angers of the stuf left in tha house." Next .z:.r will do the right thing, too? 1. Wall, we abail sea,. what we sbhall feile,) oUXG sm'!;?(.'lufiu me S FXZz1 think of the water beeties t. '¢ 9 that we used to watch as n ABCAl they skated #imlessly about |SmPOR] on the waters of the pond, leaving no track behind them. He has been in business all Oover the place, but has prospered 1# nothing. He takes advice, but h# mever uses it. Else I would give him some New Year recipes fot prosperity, I would toll him that one thing wAi stuck to Js worth a dozen experiment: ed with ; that the scale of our present life will maiter little a few yeats hence, but that the character of it will matter much ; that the neglectful stew-- ard will--fAnd that he was in business for himselt ; that to be good for noth-- Ing is to be bad for a great deal. "I hate, you know, to have you go, ~ _ You've m":m-nzou yen ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER His Happy New Year y en ce ol amnr insy on By Bike Cook Elist * yeat to *Well, It's only this: I'm not go-- ing to bate getting up early to get breakfast anymore,. I'm going to _do It gladly, willingly, It's always been something like a sin on my con-- scienee that I've grudged; yes, for years and years, grudged early rising and poking down Into the kitchen to start the fire and the breakfast. Why; I alrfost imake faces at the pantry shelye«s, . and I haven't even a kind word for the cat. But I've been read-- Ing in a book that all that is wasred 'emotion. I've only to say over and Over to myself a% I drop to sleep at night--'I'll like getting breakfast to-- inorrow, I'll like getting breakfest to-- --Bob put lilis strong, clever hand on Mother's arm as hbe.spoke. He was not teasing now, in spite of his emil-- Ing eyes, . It was all affectionate earn-- est. "Out with it, Mother." morrow'"--and It will come true. Get-- tikg up will come lots easier, and after a few mornings more I will actoally Uke It,**" « 2 Eul oi co . 00 0 e e ie ME Afother, her son, Bob, the provider of the family; Dailsy, the successful sec nmy:anemmnot.hg'eboo!, : girls, were sitting up to watch the old year out, And the girls and Bob were whiling away. the time .by teasing Mother, who was such a darling to tease; her cheeks always got so pink apd her blue eyes n%fi. And now was no exception.. She wak tremu lous'with . se}f--consciousffess . And" awe of her grownup children who were, she thought, so much eleverer than she had ever dreamed of being. Mother--ours," Bob langhed, for the most -oo" of sons may have his blind 'spot. Daisy and Pink and Dot were girin, -umz"fi-uum; They blashed while r «tartied. eyes sought one another's <~But not until the Grand-- _"Well, I have made a resolution just the same." she. said, hesitatingly now. "Only it's not so important and far-- reaching as all yours. It'll be just-- as bard to keep, however, even though it dors seem so small." "Tell us, Mother. When a saint turns' brer a leaf It must be a back-- ward.leaf, musta't it? Don't begin to 'turn b@ckward from perfection, "Wel, 1.Mave Made a Resotution Just . * the Same." "Ne@l"'v & Her cock in the hball had rung 22 in lying back on her phione her syop shot. whispéering she should now,. 'Three great hbusks Hike us 1" _ s> * >: she should get up at six--thirty every to herself over and over--"I shall like getting (breakfast tomorrow,.I shall like getting brea tomorrow.," '.lnd'erynoo(:t::ertdlfilo'epu dream that it was already morning and she was getting up. . AThat night in her dreams she cooked breakfast forty times," For she was forever wak-- Ing up and then dropping off again in-- to the same dream. ~ £* first confusion of ther glances. P "Just to think! Poor And I never: gare R'\i%h my life. -- Simply took for granted she'd did--when we were kiddies, I suppose." That was Daisy. i * that cold kitthen to start the fire while we'three great girls snuggle ',d'ebc into our warm bedg and doze again!" §o the three big girls cried out Against thenigelves-- and added'a P. S. Because Mother had such a restless night of it with her dreams of break-- fast--getting, and because, too, she had stayed up until past midnight the night before, New--Year's dawh did not wake her. When she finally did open her eyes the sunlight on her countep-- pane told her as plain as a clock that it was eight o'clock and that Bob and the girls must have oversiept, too,. "Twas a meércy 'twas a holiday! -- And Pink Was Carrying a Tray, of All a a Thlm 6 3¢ ' n morning we're going to have a jolly time, And you'rse just to luxurlate here in bed 0' mornings now, dress and take vslm day's work at your leisure after your selfish, cluttering chil-- dren are out of the way. Doesn't it make you hung@#@P. . .. . .-- _ "But girls! Why girls! 1 never meant it that way, Oh, what made me evet tell you! This never entered my hoead. Have you wakéd-- HBobY* "Oh, yes. . We waked Bob all sight. He built the Ore, 'rurq'a:n now., We had soch A& jolly Every _ _Mother looked at the tray that was on the bed table now, straddling be knees. There was coffee in the best little siiver coffée pot, cream in the sit ver pitcher, sugar, a peeled orange, and a neat poached egs on toast, They badn't forgotten the sait, elither, But Bob, who had stuck his head is at the door, was laughing. "What wat It you said over and over last night Lommiies. 3 I ask not for bles full e ks e uier lo-lyv-:'!m with ns eanlte td io 1 went Higte be subay, with pleuty . of meney, _ = --_ $ ©-- Mother sighed. ("But it isn't right, thildren, And what's to become of my New 'Year's resolution? It's bad for And you d6 like it, don't you?" *' At that the three girls laughed, ani the mother," lJooking suddenly <like : fourth' girl, with her rested blue eye and sleep--tinted chéeks, laughed witt " _ morning till night; f lhn-c-:'h'bitdckou.vhlu_ ' 1 do not like darknoess, so. pleass character not to keep your *There you are? Well, what's the matter? ° You've got it, haven't you' I do not like weather that's dark and that's gloomy, I care not for sorrow, so never shall ".ll lih::tdolo. hose * heary 8o please keep them of mo--and _ -- don't weigh me down. _ _ And "make every -- paper,. though __seaught\in same caper, -- _ l"o:nc%u'"-hn can see, f s..t:'mh:...a-.b..é-m And give theso fow gifts, if gyou , _ glease, sit ta me,. -- -- .00 0_ w--Aura Torabull, in Kanchs City She--1 suppose . He--Well, 1 hope to marry you, ..' is new care : -- _ give me light, < want to S8o don't send me worries, which make scowls and frowns. My Wants for --the New Year glows and that shines, from all people, ONE AT LEAST like getting breakfast to homage with respact m'?.r 1 shall fall many, that 1 28 Breplace and flled his pipe. Scotty, right beside him, was as close to the fire as he dared get without being singed. Frank Manchette, for that was the Capadian woodsman's name, puffed on his pipe with vigor, sending little euris into the alr until he and Scotty were enveloped in a cloud of smoke. _ "That was quite some blizzard we had for Christmas, Scotty! Hetre it is New Year's eve, and today was the first chance we had 40 dig our way out otthhhaz I would hate to start the New Year by being anowed in." Bcotty looked up with a wise expres im'a snow--covered 'val-- ,.@Iu-aa.um by 4 amountains -- tower Ing to the skies, nestlicd a little log house. < Thé 'snow _ . _---- bad drifted in the ¢alléy, un-- til only--a plece of the roof was visible here, a part of the chimney there, and a corner of the-- porch in another place. _ A pathway had been shoveled from the door about twenty--Ave feet from the bouse through from eight to ten feet of smnow, varying in places. The Inside of this log house consisted of two rooms, a huge fireplace, a man and his collie dog, plus a few plieces of fur-- niture. 'The dog looked to be a cross between a St. Bernard and 'a collie. Just at present his big brown --eyes were pinned upon his master, who was Oxing his sgupper, ~His master, a t=ll, broad--shouldered man, a typical woods-- man, smiled down at the dog: and ~ _"There was a gal I saw in cown--last time, though, and she--smiled at me, too, Scotty--can you imagine a pretty girl like her, an' she smiling at me? Well, I could have plctured her a sit-- ul'hmw'noznfinx.l'!\"ow. Frank, you an@ Scotty go and sit down afore the fireplace while I do the work. It won't take a minute" But, Scotty, I tell you what. we would fool her an' -Jlmm we 'had, too," ¥Frank. Menchette, between puffs of his pipe. "What strikes me so fun-- ny, Scotty, is the fact that we are so any wemmen folks to bother us. They aren't to necessary as they're cracked up to be----Buli, Seotty?"* : > . ; Here Frank was Interrupted in his wanderings by Scotty, who starled 10 Lbark, quietly moving toward the door. Frank Manchette sbut the door after Bcotty, Axing the latch so that he coutd open It himselt when he returned. ~."Funny 'dog," he mused. "Funny; guess he thought this was no, place for him with me going on' about that gol, like I was." He settled back to %fifl puffed at his pipe: '*Home while later «Manchette was awakened. from his reverie by n slight noise outside, He pulled out his _ "Huh 1 Jost.twelive a'dlock." * The shack door opened.. There stood Heotty with something white clutched fArmly betweén his teeth, -- "Mappy Now Year, Seotrty :" s hungry as I was, after shoveling all that snow, this plate will be cleaned up and you will beg for more." _ . :~ The necessary dutles disposed of after the meal, the big woodsman made Beotty showed his approval by ruh bing .his hesd against his master's Scotty Looked Up With a Wise Ex-- say, 'No, sir, little gal, we're just going "Mn" .( * F a § * Beotty .put the wllt:,vndh kt his master's feet, He lcked the hand his master put forth to plck up the parcel, as" though to ask that it be--reccived with fauvor in his sight. = ' *"Where dld you find this, Seotty 1 By this--time the package was no m:er a mysatery.. Frank Manchetta In his arms a baby, apparently rm'h. peacefhily, snug and. warm., ."Why, Beotty, what Bo you think two lone bachelors know about taking cnre of a baby? That surely is a queer prosent to be bringing to me." Then 'QM: "Some poor soul lost Th the der. r':.t::" what1 A . Soon is we der. you As goon ms wo '\can get through to town we will go for 'that Httle gal and start the Now Year jright. ,Y¥on can't object, either,; for ) CB in bringing her . here., ~H W¥ Near, Boitty," Frank satd, Present E. King-- Pritc Present "Beotty, I'll bet that 1t' you are as Aoupproght, i messum Piwspeper ton o auddenly remembering «es ce comeen Ring out, wild belis, to the wild sky, The fAying cloud, the frosty light, .: * The year is Cying in the altht; * nmnt.-gnauu-.:umu-u k This we say because there are twe types of people both having virtues e# their -- kind--and one needs not to judge: the-- ofher--and to one there is no special appeal in what moves the otheér iw"the spell of the passing year. People of the other class: welcome the words which emphasize the moments grouped about the nick of time which points the passing year, and recall again and again with each recurring opportunity, some impressive word plcture, as W io.-- > OW. many confess to in fegle: ing of marked, though some -- elveness in the passinog from the: old to <the new ~year?t . n Arbitrary, in a sense, though the time is, we all know that the ch#uge of date from one yea. to the next gives us a jJog fora few days, If only tw show us how easy it is to open a let-- * ter with last year's date. It may be there 4s a short--lived resolution not to make such a mistake--and then there goes the slip! But how many treasure the mid-- night~hour, when the year is passing and. would not. for any .demand that is ever amade by ', sleep or anytbing W 'A , /let that flj zl-ltctfi-ou-.- BP 1: unconsclously > on kcot their . part. -- | No fl"?' ®. | one ~can ~furnish M U TT il/l us statistics, let Those who care and those who don't. In fact, those who don't may wonder what good there can be in staying out Is brooding }ike a gontle --spirit 0'er The still and pulseless world. <-- --, "Tisn imidnight's holy Hour and silence slow to find a"holy hour" in the xigl of the new year. & The Nineteenth century was mot complete of course, until it hud Its full 1,900 years. TT1"~ The first of Jann ME ; ary, 1900, was the -- JaTA J > beginning of the --* MWMA 1J last=year /of -- the * I 'zl 7' old century, t geat) Stirred by these words written the better part of a century ago, one s#es the white landscape hbheld in tho" vig But such a time i /m Is, of course, so \ exceptional that P y one cannot infer -- [ U 6 -- any ~ widespread |» # G In terest in the passing year, eay-- Ing to allow that * x geodly number § 5. ds in churches share appoally in such Te serv ie es How s far-- Individgals §"a treasure the priv-- MHege of the New Year vig #ie hot well make confident: as#ort'« ments of the mfi your----g@ ° «oul that "'l&ld.f 'oug' not / making vyerse, sletjed a \n&: response to the midnight ap}= she -- aays: ~>"Mys"'AdMser -- 11-- treat __.the} Old @&nd O6~ Year » with 'the f post -- i ; nover know the 8 ty be mense as ° ,((m.& ; ness, we silently afténded the. ol acrogs Ig -- throshatd . night, and my fatlier at lnst r crontly from hils chair to oneh, 1 dow, lfi? whith, at tlr 3 the fArst In d Rout wit prom|ize and 'remébmberap to.!." 1t came to notice recen 'y thirt thérne, as récorded in Je "*f>~. by his daughter, J Hawtho. : iimni? vas gap MnE Ts the o+. Apart ft'" the pjore #on sontim:ental _ !fl()}\:l(fi!' eom>1e!> we know fin! In" the , e «prty i0 ment of the thno, tire past y« be sumnfed ap In rarlous way«, eral or in detail, the Amileat® the year *o come--will be get fo such wisdom as The-- writer 1 mand and each one In his wa Into some touch with a wis*¥ tor t t and Ohe filtsre. Y son's words of long ago: -- © Fting In the vallam man and free The Jarger heart, the kindller han Ring out the darkness of "\;"' Ring in--the Chrikt that in to be .. 1,900 years. «* t. of Janw l % i| 10, was the -- C'}gv s ng of the hA 1J ar "of -- the I 'b W tury. §« uch a time A f course, -- so Y~2, mal that P Jer & 4 nnot infer -- [ U / :'1 widespread e M est in the 4 year, #ay-- o allow that * o B Iy number 1 5: «bj--4 1 ches share e 1 ~ y in such F4 3/ 4 c e x. How ' Indh'ldynla i " w p the priv-- the New Year vigl #ie ++ d4, other regards : v®pmyos _UF pakt yert ® 5 yny«, U¢ * M Amca ow "if _A# B m > 1+ ay on« ty es v ® CP #1