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Hamilton, Ontario, To James Tompkins, Port Perry, Ontario. Dear Jim-- Christmas is over, ind New Year's js gone, time to dig in and get a fresh start. It's the great to forget yesterday, make good use of to-day, and le care of itsclf. Now ther's'a heap of folks who lives is all ye can mind the time when this, that and the other thing Nothing aint right now. with them, and taint no uge tryi Py or good because everything's gone 'to the bad: * Ver help getting tired:of talking to folks likes, this. Jinn. Thi. their day and ceased tt be any good. ' When a fellow begir most all the time about yesterday he should do something new start in life; ? : «is gets old because we ain't got grit enough to da something difierent than we've eve done before." Each day gives us a new start, and you can make up your that the chickens don't quit scratching for feed just because the; their crops full yesterday. No siree. As soon as the sun gets up you can bank on it that the old roosters and hens will be hunting around for more buckwheat and they goes at it like all possest. Don't make any resolutions but just do:things right. Most all of us likes hugging and petting our bad spots like as if they was sore thumbs, when what we had vughter do would be to forget all ahout then like a fellow'll forget the toothache when his house catches on fire; ; ; "When 1 was a youngster I.can thind being awful proud because 1 had more chaps on my hands thar any other kid in the school. Bit 1 had all the wind took out of my sails when the teacher told me that the chaps come because I didn't keep my hands clean. © 1 There's folks as is proud because they has, bad tempers, or can always get the best of a bargain and they're plagued miserable, too. I can tell you when they think anybody has got the best of them. ; * Well along about New Years these foiks takes their annual dose 2.0f mental jollop and resolve a whole lot of resolutions that they knows right well their going to break the first chance they. gets. . The fellow with a bad temper 'il get as mad as a hatter if "some. victim don't show up early in the ganie and give him a chance to break his resolution and the other fellow's head at one and the same time. i A fellow's just got 10 get sweet and wholesome insiae if he wants fresh start right. Hels got tositup and: take notice with bright and his mind clear and his cranky notions' and whims fancies put away and forgot. When & turnip starts to go bad varnish it outside, If the inside air'c sweet, you mething new to keep up your" growing a new crop; or putting. % itll be reading a book or meeting that you keep interested 'and