| Show 4 new w N year el a r arres a L 1 S the widow discusses them by HELEN ROWLAND with the bachelor SN NT T it hard sald eald the widow glancing ruefully at the holly wreathed clock on the mantel piece to know whore where to beon re reforming formin g coursel so ursel r N great bea heaven sl ex claimed tho the bachelor ou are not going 0 to o 10 lo do 7 anything an thing like 11 ko that are ona the widow pointed sol ellitia elli to the he hands of tile the clock which indicated 11 30 and then to the calendar on which abich buna one flut cering leaf marked december 31 it la Is time she sighed to bogin begin mental house clean cleaning ing to sweep out our dur collection of last years year a follies and dust off our petty sins and fling away our old vices and that a the trouble broke in the bachelor it a so hard to know just what to throw away and w hat to keep keel making now new year years a resolutions is like doing the spring housecleaning house cleaning or clearing out a drawer full of old let and sentimental bli you know that there ate aie lots of things you to get rid of and wat tuat are just in the way and that you would be better off without but the minute you make up your mind to part with anything even a tiny liny insignificant vice it suddenly becomes so BO dear and attractive that you repent and begin to take a now new interest la in it the only time I 1 ever had bad to be taken home in a alb was the day after I 1 promised to sign the pledge and the bachelor sighed reminiscently and the only time I 1 ever overdrew my bank account declared the wid ow was the day after I 1 had resolved to economize I 1 suppose she added pensively that the best way to begin would be to pick out the worst vice and discard that and that will leave leaps heaps of room tor for the others and for a lot of new lit tie he sins bins beside wont lt it agreed the bachelor cheerfully well be added philosophically I 1 II 11 give up murder ing 1 tta th a widow started don doitt t you yon want ant me to ashod tho the bachelor plaintively plain plaintively Ively rubbing bla bald spot or perhaps I 1 might t resolve not to commit highway robbery any more inore or to stop forging or all AH of 0 which Is so 0 o basyl broke in the widow sarcastically there d be some glory and some come reason in giving up a big vice sigh ed the ole bachelor I 1 it if a fellow had one but the trouble li Is that most of 0 us wen any big criminal tendencies merely a heap of little follies and weaknesses that there isn t any par nicular virtue in sacrificing or any particular harm in kip keeping elAng and which you alway do di keep in spite of 0 all your new yea a vows I 1 remarked the widow ironically huh hubl the bachelor laughed cani cally it a our now new years year a vows bowa that help us to keep lent cm ahe very fact I 1 that a fellow baa ha a sworn 0 to o forego anything whether KB its a habit babit or a girl makes it more attractive ive thrown away a whole abl box of cigars with the iha finest intentions Intent lona fa h the world and then gotten up in the middle of the to fish the pieces out of the waste bas baa kl and that midnight smoke rooue wa am the sweetest I 1 ener eer had bad it was sweeter than the apples I 1 stole when I 1 was wan a kid and tho the kisses I 1 stole when if son ion came bore to dilate on the soya jos ot of sin mr air tinkers timers began the widow coldly and proceeded the bachelor 1 I ive vo made up my mind to stop fill ellit t ing with a girl because I 1 found out that she was beginning to to I 1 understand interrupted the widow sympathetically and by jove finished the hache bache lor or I 1 lad had to restrain myself mi belt to kt ep from going jark bark and pio proposing posing to her how lucky did commented the widow aldow witheringly but I 1 have explained the bachelor ruefully if tile the gorl had bad restrained herself never li eleb i repeated the N widow I 1 it was luck lacic for the girl alch girl naked asked the bachtler bacht baclic lor the girl I 1 off afe with or tho ikird arl that came afterward I 1 suppose mused the widow IR ig noring the lenity and leaning over to arrange a bunch of violets at her bolt that la Is why it Is so difficult for a man to keep a promise or a vow even a marriage vow I 1 oh I 1 don t know I 1 the bachelor leaned back and regal ded the widows widow a coroff coronet t braid through the smoke of hla his cigar it lan ian t tho the marriage vows that are tio HO difficult to herp its it a the fool vows a man makei before mar arlage and the fool he makes afterward that he stumbles over and falls falig down dowa on the marriage vows are so big and fl nd vague that you can got get all around them without actually breaking them but if they should in ter concrete questions into the service such buch as aa do you william promise not to growl grol at the coffee I 1 or do you mary promise never to put a daub of powder on your none eldre again boke in the widow nor to look twice at your pretty stenographer continued the bache lor nor to lie about your age or your foot or your measure nor to juggle with the truth when et eer er you stay out after halt half past ten nor to listen to things that that anybody except your husband may say bay to you la in the conservatory ob I 1 see nee how it feels finished the wid o ow on N with a sympathetic little shudder and yet reflected the bachelor a woman is ie always exacting vows end and proul promises lAes from the man she loves always putting ur up bars bara for him to jump over when if she bhe would only lea leaie a him alore le he would be b perfectly contented to stay within bounds and graze in lis his own pasture A man hates being pinned down but a worn wom an amat doesn t want anything around that she cant pin down from her belt aud and her theories to her hat bat and her husband well 1 protested the widow studying the t to of her slipper I 1 it la Is a sat to know you coave ve got your bour hua bus band fastened on straight by kits his promila prom iea isett und and hold hid la in place by his own vows an ma that he be loves you rou enough to ta usually interrupted the bachelor Is man loves you in inverse ratio to lie the tha lover who promises all things thing without reserve la Is too often like the follow fellow who question the hotel hotal bin bill nor ask the price of 0 tho the wint wine because he be intend to pay it anyway the tha follow fellow who la Is prodigal with bin abi vows vow and promises aud and poetry Is generally the one to whom such things mean nothing and being of no value can be ba flung about generously to every girl tie he meets the firm with the big gest front office is likely to be tha one with the smallest emal lest deposit in the safe the tha raan man who swears off loud oat eat on now new years year a te Is usually the one thy thoy have to carry home the morning after afler andl and the chap who promises promis cs ft a girl a life of roses robea to Is the one who will let her bar pick all the thorns off for her sel aalt f perhaps sighed the widow thew chew ing ine the stem of a violet thoughtfully tho the best beat way to cure a nian man of a taste for anything after all to la to let him blin have too much of it instead of al making hiro him sweer off if you want him to hate bate tile the binell of a pipe insist on his smoking all the time if you want him to sign the temperance pledge serve him wine with every course it you yon want him to hate bate a woman incite her to meet him every time ho be calls and tell him how bow suitable she bhe would be and t if you want him to love you finished the baclic ba chilor lor don dont t ask aak him to swear lt it but tell him that he a really ought not to the best beat way to manage a dibkey human or otherwise la Is to turn MB his head in the wrong dl di and hell bell back in the right OTIO one then sold said the widow decisively we ought to 16 begin bogan tho the new year by insi king home ir resolutions some what hat vows that we won t stop doing the things we ought not to 0 o do 1 I explained the widow all right agreed the bachelor thoughtfully 11 make an irre tion to go on mailing love lova ta to you as aa much us as I 1 like you mean as much as I 1 like mr Tru vers corr feted the widow severely how much do you like naked asked the iha bRe bachelor belor leaning over to look into tho the widow a ellb the widow kicked the corner of the rug tentatively 1 I like lilie sall all but tile hie proposing she eh sa bald d slowly you really ought to stop that I 1 im going to stop it tonight to night the widow looked up la in alarm oil oh you dont don t have to commence coro menco houi resolutions until to morrow morning she said cald quickly and are you going to stop refusing me to continued the bachelor firmly the widow str studied idled the corner ot of the rug with great concern and went on the bath bachelor elor tak ff lug ing samo thing from his pocket and as toeing with it though thoughtfully t fully you are going to put on this ring he bo leaned over caught the hie widows hand band and slipped the glittering thing on all her third linger finger now he began you are going to say any that you will ilia 1 lie w aldow adow sprang up suddenly oil oh ion dun t ion don t don tl I 1 she ehe cried in a moment moll wo 11 me making prom laps A a don it i ned cd to said I 1 the lie biche lor or leaning back nonchalantly we can call ingin begin b quaking arrangements aou ou to live lu in town or at tuxedo and do ou think europe or iila the alst pla for the bermuda by all meant broko broke in the widow and I 1 wish you d nave have that hideous portico taken oil off your town house kill and put hut the th rest of her words worda were amoth tred la in the bach bacalot lot a coat lapel and something else elac 1 I hen you do mean to m mirry marry irry me inie after nil cried the baclic bachelor lor triumphantly Um antly the widow for bro breath ath and patted her hair anxiously I 1 I 1 meant to marry you all the ha aimel she cried but I 1 never neier thought you were really in and Alet bicks quoted the bachelor happily that ni ri ot of us did protest too much we haven t made adv promises you know I 1 not one rejoined the widow promptly as to my flirting nor or as to my clubs cluba nor as ag to rw my relatives nor rny my cigars algara and we a wont make any vows cried the thal widow except in marriage arriage 1 I vows and new yeats a Ir resolutions added the bachelor Lla listen tent cried the he widow ti with her fingers on her lips A peal of a thousand thoua and silver bells rang out on tho the midnight air the chimes exclaimed the wid 0 ow w they re full of promises 1 1 I thought it sounded like a wed ved ding bell said the bac bachelor belor disappointedly maybe I 1 said the widow it was as only lo 10 love ie hing off los angeles times |
