Show new ne ivr year resolutions ir A the widow discusses them by HELEN ROWLAND with the bachelor it hard said tile tho widow glancing ruefully at the holly wreathed wreathe d clock on the mantelpiece mantel piece to know where to begin reforming yourself great heavens exclaimed the bachelor 11 you are not going to do anything like that are you tho the widow pointed solemnly emaly to tho the hands I 1 of the clock which indicated 11 1130 30 and then to tile the calendar on which hung one out flut bering leaf marked december 31 it 4 la Is time she sighed to bogen mental house cleaning to sweep out our collection 1 ot of last years follies and dust off our petty sins and fling away our old vices and the they trouble trouble broke in the bacht pr a fits ts so hard to krilow know just wah X il tf row irow away away and what to kaep making ne new w years resolutions ls Is like doing the spring housep leaning pr or clearing out a drawer full of old loiters and sentimental rubbish rub biah YOU abu know that there are lots of things you ought to get rid of and that bat art are just in tile the way and that you would bo 0 o hotter better off without but the minute you make inake up your mind to part with wih anything even amuny a insignificant vice it suddenly s so ado adriand attractive th atou F iiii ro repent pentAd and begin to take a new intercept jin ln it tho ant NEW YEARS DAY IN CHINA the breakfast le a j Poet lc and re I 1 1 t 1 1191 oust R 1 te except at the chinese nc new year comes rn february it 14 very har a catch u of children en in bulna 4 little beggars will run be k e side you iu la earn one on cash a eibi iier co coin n nv gitlia aul 1 I 1 in n tho aidale ef f it fsr warth th th the e awl tilleta a cent but who ho have 1 parents to care for them beegi to bo kept all the time thile aj or only t ai low eld to play in walled yards and gar car deus writes bertha runkle in st si we used to say to each others other why where aro tn atai dyan they got any but at New ne W Years wo found out that they had TO Is tho the great holiday of all the year in china when amdy ban han gs gs 1 out flika flags an and d colored 1 lanterns and sets off fl 1616 wo we borrowed our custom ot of firecrackers for rp of julf jul from chinese now new veairl yeara all alid put on their very beat time bover had to be taken homo home in a cabias cab was tho the day after I 1 promised to sign the pledge and the bachelor sighed reminiscently And the only time tefol 1 ever overdrew my bank account declared the tha wid ald ow was the day after I 1 had had resolved to economize I 1 suppose khe added pensively that the best begin would be to pick out the worst vice and discard that and that will leave leavo heaps of room for tho the others and for a lot of now new little sins beside wont it agreed the bachelor cheerfully well lie he added philosophically ill give up murdering what the widow started pant dont you want me nio fo eo asked the bachelor plaintively rubbing his fils bald spot or perhaps I 1 might resolve na not to cornut robbery an any y more or to stop sop forging or all of which la Is so easy broke in tho willow widow sarcastically therod be some glory and some reason in giving up a big vice sighed the bachelor it if a fellow had one hut but the trouble Is that most of us ua men any big criminal tendencies merely a heap of ll 11 little atle follies and weaknesses that there any particular virtue in sa sacrificing or any harm in keeping and which you always do keep in spite 0 of f all your new years vows t remarked the widow ironically clothes and the children the liest beat oi of all jackets prid and trousers of bright blue or W or purple the boys arid dirig so enuch alike that you can only tell telf apart by their hair the boys of bourise co urise Js s braided ii in i a PL pigtail tall ti the girlsie girl sIs as done up iii on her head with kith silver shyer pins or it if she ashes s a very gland giand little girl wibb gold or J jale jade ale thus decked decked aitt out r the children abow owal albing king with their proud papas and na girnas and often go theater which Is a rare treat for them perhaps chinese chan otie children have romping I 1 I 1 plays together but they al ways look as if they were born graw grown up |