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Show V Friday, December 24, 1926 THE TIMES-NEW- mmmmmmm mm f PAGE. NINE NEPHI, UTAH S, 0 Happy New Year (JTHE Old Jear is dyinq. Old Hear U7c are grieved for you, it is hard J F By H. LUCIUS COOK ro aic; T IBul you've lived your life, and you ve lived il well. And now. you musl say to your life WAS an uninteresting Kitown or ao It seemed to young Hendell cold, bleak, the most cheerless place on ttle m earth to spend the winter He wa for his firm. Christmas had been a us grand fiasco as far ,as he no 1 was concerned. He had relatives and he knew no one about whom he cared Bui you enough to send even a Christmas card. It was New Year's Eve. Late In the afternoon he left the one hotel that us the town could boast about (and did) and walked down the main street. It us was not that Robert Rendell felt as Bui loneliness one must have known a friend to experience that emotion. He was Just bored. All that the holidays meant to him were Innumerable As you wreaths and strings of holly, one half so " 5 concealing wholly ugly chandeliers, Christil and the Ihe perfunctory "Merry .yours mas" or "Happy New Year" that everybody seemed to feel It necessary to say to him. How could people repeat us you such silly, meaningless phrases, he wondered. possibly They couldn't mean them. Robert never used them lime He wandered into an art shop that attracted him out of curiosity rather is than a desire to huy. There was no ' ' SwC smile. one he wanted to buy anything for. What a bore life was. As he was about to leave the shop the kindly, is W man behind little the counter I I I I I I I ! I I I I I I I exclaimed Murray again as he stepped called cheerily after hint "Happy from the back porch Into the yard, good-by- e. New Year." Robert turned and looked "what a night !" Mi INNETTrt J. ROBINSON In was him. There the at something Sleet blew against his cheeks, pricktwinkling, blue eyes of the old man A tlie skin like needle-pointing that made him wonder and he couldn't off bis him wind took strong nearly TJq KATHER1NE EDELMAN help asking. "What can there possibly feet. The ground was slippery. ring into its little box. and was about be that Is new?" The old man's eyes to mull it back to him when her old "No business," muttered Murray," no all Just twinkled. He didn't seem at To send back to be out a night like tills." good sense returned. business 1 surprised by the question. He merely THIIOUGH all this coming year, the ring would have been to admit deA lighted lantern swung from his all a to hide silence that seemed kept I shall find something every day feat. The only wise thing to do was circles It hand. described wavering In the world. Roh?rt went wisdom the To gladden me and make me know to laugh and beat Bob at tils own on. '.'How can there possibly be any That blessings sweet and true shall of yellow on the snow. to dress determined She up game. flow After' a few moments of slipping happiness for one who is alone In the and vamp another man. Through every hour and every dy and blue The world?" young-olbuffeting against the wind Mureyes on the way. A If we but seek them likely "prospect" appeured In HARRIS WELLS the lot next to the house. FLORENCE reacned more By time this and twinkled ray brightly Sam Teck. Sam hud Just come to called a man's voice, the lips spoke. "One can't be alone Too often, with unseeing eyea. there!" "Ill, New his with and from York, never tries Qulncy when God Is his friend." Now Robert With bitter heart, that this tire on?" "can't you get help and face of manner and handsome To look for things cheer. Joy worldly kept silence. Then he smiled doubtWe go along through all the year. "Why In thunder." boomed Murray, was enough to arouse the Jealousies E WAS an artist and had fully and went out, but not before Nor Bee the hundred pleasures small "are you driving such a night? Don't of Boli Wallins. thought Charlotte, and thought by traveling over the old man's calm voice called mer- - That fill the way for one and all. , you know better?" she started out on her campaign. She the snow-boifliprairies he Unmindful of the things we hold. Do you we know better. had been wearing old dowdy dresses, "Sure, an for could get inspiration More precious far than gleaming gold. think we're out for our health?" saving her new things for her trousi . We fun.e and cry. we chafe and fret me winter luuuscaiit? ne seau, but now she took out the new Murray threw the light from his lanfor something that we cannot get. was was But It Lejll planning. g And spurn without a passing sigh clothes, and In addition bought herself With tern on two kneeling figures. he a l failure, proving Sweet homey pleasures that are nigh. cold, stiff a lipstick and Innumerable Jars of were trying to fingers they tc this us admitted himself, make-up- . fijpS nrst auy oi me isew For hours she sat at her unscrew bolts from the rim of a How many times tn other years leur 1 Evidently she nurtured troubles, doubts and fears. wheel. mirror, "practicing." to a close. was drawing see And would not raise my eyes to became quite skillful, for Samuel Peck "We are In a hurry, aud there Is He had not chosen to The pleasures that awaited me. very easily did what Is known as "fallno time to be lost," they said. 1 could And desti this The His hundred travel day. blessings ing hard." and soon Sam and Char- nation should have lieen reached 24 If sought with open heart and mind. Then Murray glanced at the big, lotte appeared at parties together. Boh hours earlier. black machine. It was the city amhere he was and But I resolve this shall year coming stormed and raged. He threatened to here he was bulance! to be for some I'll seek my share of joy and cheer. break off their engagement, but when lime from the likely All "Who Is It?" he gasped. The share I am entitled to. outlook. present he found how apparently ready CharThat la my own, my honest due; g train had plowed the "Old Mrs. Peck. She flipped down I would be foolish, most unwise lotte was to have the engagement day sncw, now fast bethe heavy through her such To blinded with wealth steps and broke her hip. Doc saya eyes pass He broken, he changed his attitude. a land of ice from the sleety 1(c). 192S. Western Newspaper Union.) we coming must Jump right along and get simply couldn't get over Charlotte rain that was steadily falling. her into the city hospital." acting that way. He became so wor- To make matters worse. It was an It took about two seconds for Murrled about Charlotte that he forgot Why Fate had The Old Man Didn't Seem at All Surimmigrant train. ray to get at those bolts. He worked Helen completely. prised. caused him to pick this train he could furiously. In no One Sunday evening he went over not understand. A great way Indeed time at all the old hlra again "Happy New after rily to Charlotte's to call. She was to begin the year, oA New Tire on tire was off and Year." was as she gay. always lately. with this melange the new one on. had been Invited to a New Robert Boh sank down In a chair, sullenly. of human beings. cNgn Year's "Guess 1 11 ride Year's Eve dance and he returned to "People are beginning to talk," he Instead of at his his hotel to dress. A business actoo," said along, said briefly. nwn fireside. And cnreless-- I him In had the town Murray urged Martha Thomas quaintance or By About whom?" are? Banning whet, "They he had deluded a. Peck "M r he come to for and y. polite accepted "About you." himself with the reasons rather than from any desire used to give me I "About me? How Interesting! thought that he to mingle with local society. It was cookies with caradidn't know that, nnd what do they get InspiraIn 'em at the dance that Robert met Ethel. us way seeds OMETH1NO say about me complimentary things. tion from a trip I was a kid. him at and with Interested She when once, I hope?" men as this, he certainly the mat- Darn business-lik- e Initiative he immediatel unlucky reBob got up and walked hack and sarcastically ter out In the lot New Year's most of the dances of for bookel her for minded house. forth In front of the fireplace. himself. next to the the her!" evening. who be Sieet. rain and ' There was a con"I.lkely. An engiied girl yj t m? v. When Robert returned to New York "But lucky for a fused sound of gins to piny around with another fel ice without New Year's he experiafter the her that you came day low scandalously, ami to use that vut hill gray backa voices. Then enced for the first time In his life the us. out to nitike-ti- p Is liable to be held ground : while sharp tapping on She'll be help to sensation of genuine loneliness. Most' glad woman to the a model as It was within young up metal. Sometimes remarkable of all, he felt strangely know yoo are worse Women's Bible class. I suppose?" In his new sadness, for now lie this came clearly, then again It was with us. 'He never happy "I've always got nlong very well 'milligrams with as the wind the noise carried mtitned, always had the vision of a pair of misses calling on me New Year's Day, with the Women's Bible class, but gutteral voices he didn't like Imdark laughing eyes to cheer his lone- lo or from the farmhouse. was us, and I guess you she numerlike their didn't He what right have you to criticize?" migrants. Murray threw down his book and won't misstelling More than once In the ensuing liness. It this year either!" ous children. "You're engaged to me!" months he found occasion to make pulled up the shade. "Gosh!" he muta prayer of thanksent He had lust come tn this unusual up Murray You on "1 wish New YeHr'a "Yes. but that can be broken. Eve at business trips to the little town which tered, 1 sacrificed a book had he fulness that an were engaged to me. too. when yon conclusion n a rule all childhood could hour free for have sheltered the laughing dnrk eyes and least In time lo help put on a new tire. led to hltn when a grimy little with that Helen McKay." Seems as started going his reading. though had people another before year passed -Vealera Newspaper tTntoa.t ifcl 12 girl crept Into the seat beside film and loneliness had turned Into complete choose this roud particularly, so they Who?" with shining eyes upturned to his. "Helen McKay." Into or themrun can turn fences my joy. for he had married the pretty asked : t "ClmrMie. don't be rldlcti'-ms- . selves upside down on my front lawn." Things to Think About owner of the eyes. ticnii-ii-t- l It not fill, mister?" "Is all at I'd didn't nieiin linn seriously He peered Into the blackness. At first At his own request his firm staas the New Year Come The artist looked where the grh iy tioned him even fnfiiotteii for a minute who In In the little he could only tee his own distorted repermanently ETTER have a New Year and get Inhi and little ringer pointed got the world he was." flection on the polished glass. Then LV rid of the old one. town which a year ago had seemed "You for;et women rather quickly. spiration. nwtt-- t cheerless spot on eurlh. and gradually he was able to make out a Gel off on your right foot or you The heavy clouds, grown fhtn. were the It seems to me " Robert :u:d Ethel settled down to a dark, moving mass near the mnple will find yourself left behind the proand scarlet with dashed m:il;lng pink. "Look here. Charlotte. I m tired of ree at the bridge. cosy, comfortable married life. cession. Ymi've got to make up your the black farm buildings stand out In this wu New Year's Eve again and It "Why will folks be such fools as to Many a mun does not turn over n n silhouetted grnccfulness against mind right now whether you're In was art the little Rf.bert shop drive a stormy night like this?" he new leaf because he has come to the IhM rays of the The heavenly sky. me old New self and tiwrry ld man with the twinkling went on grumbling. "I stay ut home end of the volume. tn be yo:ir where th Year's I'.vp as you promised, or not. setting sun sent a glow over I the blue eye sthl presided behind the ( nnd content my- Thank God you can turn over a new list prairie But remember. I "nut possibly love gleaming counter This time Robert tiiirl co.ue self with a good because you still have a few unleaf, a nnd It r.iilmmer with made sparkle you ns I always yes. alwnys have, with definite Intent. He had ordered book, but other ones left. used mystical radiance. unless you take off fhnt tprrllile-lnok-Ina frame for one of Ethel's r.ew photo Will the New Year be a flyleaf, or musl doll people iravpl-stainearm shout his He th make-up.The conversation took put the beginning of another grand digraphs. "Happy New Year." he mild up and go someShe. too. cordially little Immigrant. a very utisntsfnctory trend after that to the little old m:in. The where! Idiots!" vision of llfe'a volume? Western and Rob. left, swearing he was "off hud the artist's soul. I'.tiy with his blue eyes twinkled knowingly and he All this growl- Advocate. Christian own self centered thoughts, but for snld. "I women for life" thought there was nothing Ing whs merely a Hi tt hiive would he child the m'.sxed this Eve was The New Year's wedding new'' Robert smiled Mur- - LX AfPoor Bug called off Bob Wallins became one greatest Inspiration nnttirp from her It was n very dl!Tretil smile from Ihe preparation. In the growled ray il everset had hltn. before He bountiful store of the worl grouches In town doubtful one thnt had curled his Hps same way a cold f-'The New Year hud brought mti'-- to the year before as he had left the was never seen except at his office or spuuer "1 hadn't found love then." he engine home, while Charlotte came to look him after all. hop before It gets & I5. Weetern N.w.pDr Cnlos.) more and more worried. replied. to wnrmed up Then came the reconciliation, and "But love Isn't new. It Is as old a move. He knew The New Year as the two sat one evening sending as evcryone'a Friend." the old man that he must go out Invitation to the New Year's Eve I wonitfr whet the nt sold softly. out and InvestiA hundred little happy things. dinner that was to culminate In their A little "But It was new to me." laughed , Hill rare. He had don burdn. Robert and ns he left the shop It wa j gate. marriage. Rob said. "Oee. Charlotte. A tittle hope, s tosd t.i har. It often. lie would A 'little love, the fewent trait, I'm gl8d we fot nil our quarreling who called out cheerily "Happy continue he doing It lot of smiles, not msny trar. over before our wedding, aren't yon? AA tot New Year" again, and he really ne7int the whole At y tona. he lived of as aa j.lurK long we It. The old miifi's kindly blue eye In Because certainly are npver going A Uttle ursyer at evennrvn "Did you turn over a new leaf?" this rather lonely farmhouse. There, twinW'ed morn merrily than ever and j to have even the lenf argument A dsT wH spent. 111 Jiyful "No. t couldn't find a new leaf an a no was mite one side for either else u little, wm i. w'itf il smile All ttipir f pruy th nP agsln." to hela a driver In trouble. "(Josh!" where !" I'ric! mi, i (& farewell. bolh honor Jou have brouqhl lo shame. and neilher praise we hold for nor blame. have Jou joy. you have brouqhl woe; brouqhl all Ihe years do Ihe same ihey go. have done, Ihe years before you was Did only Ihinq lo do came lo another year When wenl, Another will come when your spent, The New jear we hail wilh a but siqh For the year that qone. Old Jear holiday there season. on business C 'N 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 tt 1 New I ear UJealth I M ! ! ! l 1-- The Ne w Year's The Artist's New Year Eve Wedding d By 1 1 1 1 MARION R. REAGAN 1 1 1 TEW 1 1 1 1 1 ;"H"H"M"i-n-- YEAR'S EVE was set as the date for the wedding of Boh Wallins and Charlotte Main. Their friends thought, and so did they, that it would mean excellent luck to begin the New Year as man and wife. Rut as the time drew nearer. Bob. at least, began to have fears and . forebodings, not so much about the day as about the event Itself. Mar- And rtnge was a serious thing. after reflecting a long time on the subject perhaps too long, he wasn't so sure that he was taking a wise step after all. It would have made things easier if Bob's mother had agreed with Charlotte was him. but she hadn't. her Idea of the right kind of a girl for any young man to marry She was thrifty, domestic and sensible. SensiShe was too sensible. Bob ble! thought. He would have liked her to be Just a little bit foolish. Girls were supposed to be a little silly. That's what made theiu feminine! Still he had come to rely on her Judgment and It would have been annoying to have found her undependable. She was n good pal and all that, and he liked her; of course he liked her. Rut was that love? Was that romance? Other fellows felt poetic about the girls they were about to marry; couldn't sleep at night for thinking of them; couldn't eat, and the whole state was Jescrlbed as "love." Well. Rob npver . dl'-ma- IP slow-movin- i tanta-llzlngl- Ere w,-- m ' g ap-pe- n For Hours 8h Sat at Har Mirror, "Practicing." Ills felt that way about Charlotte. appetite was as good as ever nnrl he was a long way from Insomnia. Tlii'U he met Helen McKay nl a bouse party, and his digestion Ht once begun to suffer. It somehow took hltn a long time to go to sleep at night and during the day his mind was In a fog. He couldn't concentrate on business nt all. Helen .McKay with her trim figure and stylish clothes, her carmined lips and rouged cheeks.' her artful, vamp-Isways, came tripping Into his There was a thoughts constantly. he thought there was a girl. He wouldn't hove hurt Charlotte' feeling for the world, but he was plainly enamored of Helen, and surely he could go out with her a few time without Charlotte's finding out? He did; I "f Charlotte found out. At .'!! she blindly Jealotia the ; !' .' the diamond engagement g " JJ.jf?J - fCf( er mm t.-t- ng . j rn .r I V |