Show Evening that Chit S BY RUTH EUTH CAMERON j jI with all 1111 m my heart anyone wh who i ican an can keep kepp till the promises he hI makes s to I himself as rigorously as all If It they were wre made to another I went away on a vacation once with a it girl who o ow always alwayn w took a cold coldS S shower e t bath h wl In l the morning i r vj With all tIn the comforts am torts of or home homr omitted as s the they quite frequently fn are when one on goes golS vacationing a shower bath was not a particularly pa easy y process One morning when It it was unusually cold who wn tilt tie water supply was unusually unusually unusually ally scarce and getS getting getting get get- S ting tins up seemed un unusually unS unusually un- un S usually dl distasteful I suggested S. Dont bother to take your bath this morning I must lust I t promised prom prom- i S S I would every even tS morning for tor a year she answered C Promised who I J asked your yourS S. S 5 mother I J dont don't believe he- he S lieve hove shed she'd mind if i. i l t. t S. you rou missed it JUi just t C once Z r. r Oh no I promised promIsed prom prom- e P leed myself she said bald so I 1 must And to my thorough thor thoi- ough admiration she did Most of at us think breaking faith with withOUT OUT ourselves Is III a minor thing but It does not lIe seem m so to me mI Breaking a a. promise to oneself unless hanged changed conditions give one full tull right ht to exonerate oneself seems to me till weaker if jf not as dishonorable as breaking ones one's word to someone else Ise To keep ones one's friends without capitulation lation tI a and to o keep friends with I oneself s t f on tile the e same m h hard terms was p part of 1 Robert Louis louls Stevenson's creed But that Hlat It II Is ha weak to break prom prom- sea to oneself 8 does pot not mean that t it II Is stronger n ro to refuse ru to tot make a arbe arbet them On the tue contrary I 1 do not like the man who h has as gotten to th the point where he says sas at New Years I will not make mako an any resolutions bea be because be- be cause a liSt I know I will break them The man who makes ills his resolutions with ith fresh enthusiasm and fresh hope hopp lt ieh dl year ear even If It he does break most otI of ot I till thin has a far tar better chance of or getting getting- I mew here than the one who makes none But Bitt the tIle man or woman with whom your our I guili Id your secret sect or precious of at all alt our ur heart can fan best be bp trusted is ill the one I ito m Ito can all both hoth make and keep his promises t to himself I It Foi i nf It Is lit 8 as s tru trul now as all It was wall us at ago UJO agoTo r To thine own self be true i thOu hou u I It t will lo follow not tte then as tile the hb top bp night false e et t the to daa day any nan man craz C P |