Show th jaw new N e T www WHAT TAT 1145 SIGNS OP 01 PROM IiSE 7 awl ARE jy asje owr stuw St UW EW YEARS DAY baa has ever occupied a peculiar N relation three hundred and sixty five day days on which are etched the doings 10 and history of a whole calendar year the romans observed tho the day as az a public holiday and on this day nu all uon don and strife were suspended social visits were ezo banged presents given and received and feasting throughout tho the empire was the order or of the day tha early christians at oret first set themselves against tho the usages of the day as observed by the romans until the fixing of 0 christmas day on the of december and new years day came to be observed as the octave of the th nativity and also as the festival of the circumcision tho the observance and spirit of the day have not changed very greatly in the onrush of the centuries we might go back across the lon loni stretch of bearg between the day co 0 ae IS V 0 elj CX 2 we live in and ther them day when the romans interchanged their social visits and their good wishes and both gave care and received their Bt reune and ad between the then and the now the identity ot of feol feel ing emotion find and sentiment concerning this day Is readily discovered so many senti sentiments menti crowd them ives into new years day and all are ni aly children in the way in the dy appeal to them and in he the simple filings and emotions by which it Is observed the greeting A happy new now yearl pushes up through the hard strata of the acara yc arand nd the simple emotion emotions which make the abel world kin bring friend nearer to friend and ma m 4 life together into a richer affection and goof goo rill be comes the keynote of life on an thia this day grudges are re dropped resentments dissolved and the average man with the average endowment ot of affection for his fellow fellows finds it almost impossible to vitalize any of his hatred hatreds through the caption laden moments of new year years day the personal we life haa has many things to aay may to itself it Is at once a clos 1 ing of accounts and the opening of a new career old things pasa pass away and all things seem seen to bo be come new the whimp 1 th tha t might haap been and have not become am arti forg forsten ten in the new hupee and aspirations and ambitions which spring up in the heart on the first day of the year of course nobody will ever bo be ro at the hopes and felth faith of the tho day project for the individual Inal vidual life the most ardent believer in the better day the tho most sanguine architect of the richer fortune yet td bo be fall trill short of the ideal that controls his imagination but the very fact that the day stirs those noble impulses and floods the prospective days with the glow of hope Is in itself an assur ance that the year hall shall be rich in the gitta gifts and the good will of the gods another tarl ar another yearl the increasing ruah rush of 0 time sweeps ont whelm aa in if its surges surge disappear man mart x hop and fears forever conal oh not forbear that idle balet the hour demanda demands another train strain demands high thou that cannot quail ano ao to conquer and retain tie ITIs midnight from the dark blue sky icy the tars which now look clown down on aarti have een seen ten thousand thou nand centuries fly and given to countless count leaa change changes birth Shine oil shine on nith you I 1 tread the march of ages orba ot of lichtl A laet last eclipse 0 er you may prad spread to me to roe me there comes no nighel ahe that phrases itself in the quite depressing worda words the world Is 1 very evil the times are tire wearing late ie Is hardly in tune alm the modern spirit when life la Is thought of 01 an as a corporate business bu elneas and this modern spirit takes account of lie its own enlarged and enlarging kingdom not the most credulous and believing prophet a generation ago could have forecast tho the world we know and are perfectly at home with today to day bul bill lytton la hib au short book the coining coming race endeavored to tell the etory story and accle achievement ement 0 ot I 1 mankind in the day that was shortly to be but hia his seeming impossible world has been more than re allied in our own day the halt has not been told the great note of the day is the large grasp human life possesses over its own career and destiny the growing confidence that this old yet ever renewing world la Is solving its own problems and under the guiding of that providence which popes well known lines so beautifully express all nature to 1 but art n to thee all chance direct which thou cant not sea se AH all discord tar carmony mony not understood all partial partied evil universal good la Is working for the day of a perfectly ordered and perfectly ly adjusted civilization the greater power man is 1 accumulating and employing over hia his own bodily life bis his mastery of the secrets of life lite which have been hid from the foundation of the world the realization that man himself is bis his own providence in a vastly larger degree than hitherto he has dreamed of and that the A greater things the great eat of all teachers foretold ages ago that he should endowed be with competence to do upon youl remember 1 grandma la Is not so young as she oace mee i was and an the penitential efficiency ot of a bunion ig Is greatly enhanced by the shoving forward ot of the foot as accod by the french heel beet command the old lady to do a cakewalk cake walk once an hour around the dining room table it you will but let lot her do it in corn com for tabia table shoes another item in favor of trying this resolution la Is the fact that you have probably never asked grandma to wear any bind kind of at shoes ahe she like so it should bo be that much easier to keep to your resola tion not to do so go for a mounir man il 1 I resolve from this day never again to smoke a pipe in church this sample la Is highly hight Y recommended the practice against which you issue the edict of banish merit Is reprehensible in the highest degree smoking while of course it might be a solace to you during the sermon could not but annoy your neighbors and fellow worshiper worshipers the tho men envy you leading to countless domestic difficulties for them the preacher Is unable to see whether all tho deacons are awake or not by the haze from A y ur pipe Moreo moreover vcr lust ns no a statesman once of ot deci declaimed alvil that the odor ot of cigarettes him there are those to ahola the emell smell of a pipe la Is a nuisance nul sanco and slid the offertory collector might be one of these besides you would ibl be thrown out or ar rested or something for men rive much in street carea cares henceforth thenceforth I 1 vil U not mind the feather teather s this is one rby tring con alterable eld ald erable care but it if strictly ad herfi to will be bd found of great assistance in your dilly life when depending from a strap and resting your toes on an some neighbors a long stiff quill suddenly jabs you in the nose giving to that tea fem tore lure the rich red thit which another class of have already acquired do not release your temper smile and pretend you like it ft ott oft time times you can make yourself believe it after due practice of course but the principal advantage to bo be cited in tala this resolutions favor Is that you might lust just aa well so 80 long 10 as the fashion remains tho the same you will have your dally daily communion with the tall feathera feathers of an ostrich or ot of a rooster ter and it if you resol e not to mind how much more placid the temper I 1 for any one who does not raise chicken chickens 1 I hereby resolve and determine not to eat any more strictly fresh eggs for several week weeks to tome come this Is in some respects the prize resolution its advantages are many but all the others are over sha shadowed doved by this one you cant get any ally to eat in obile of all the teacher may do the will vill not learn unless be humbolt studies you cannot malie successful use two of these simple wimple remola alons without effort on your part but yol should find one among them which can be kept wilh ther minimum of struggle if you have no choice or you arv skeptical as to your abi ability litT try the th last one Is in this very day with a miraculous confidence and a mighty faith he ile has dischi ered that ble his own commission ovir life over the happiness and health and the fruitage of the life lite hut now is as veil well as of that which la 13 to come Is a vastly larger commis elon slon than the world hitherto has dreamed of lie ile Is finding out that providence Is 1 a and that no roan man may be a sleeping bleeping partner in the business of living without the penalty of losing the very thing that life is 1 a world of potencies converted into achievement this is the note surely as civilization liza Itza tion faces the year 1910 the note of competency the sense of added powers to life lite the feeling that the greater things are coming on the earth and that man Is us ing tug the key to unlock the treasure house of his own life with a sureness and a wisdom that give prom lee ise of a vastly better richer luster juster universe than he has yet known another note of our time ts Is the fact that life mirrors itself in such a wonderful way and the thiner ai 1 forces that make for the bt ter day to be are known and read of all nin tun tu n we live in the open and no mun mim may become champion of any cause and keep the th world in ignorance 1 the character of the cause ud the nature of his chain plon ship N ato roan man today to day may bide hide tits his light andr a bushel it Is in a telltale tell talc world and more than any past the wd today to day has a luster sense of value values ind knows both the things that are saving saying it and the thing things also that threaten and endanger it public service was as nover never nov er so responsible aa as it ft Is today to day because civilization never had the almost power of analyzing and testing the value of public service as in this present year public life la Is an open book and the most impossible of all I 1 am in pl pc Iole things today to day ie to that a any ny national tat lonal cr international movement be misunderstood or by the world a best mind and what is true of public move ments W S true of public men met no public man can deceive his constituents today to day for his constituents are the world and the strong mw n today to day Is the man who frankly rue this |