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Show HUMAN Being a man of some NATURE. little wisdom and experience, I attacked each of my New Year’s resolutions separately. When I reached the thirteenth and last, without having encountered considerable success in my attempts on the others, most forgotten their pledges of goodness. In my thirteenth and last of the I solemnly world’s promisors promised myself had that I would be congenial with the rest of mankind. Congeniality 1s not easily acquired, but after much introspection | concluded that it might come more easily to me than to the more common element of human- ity. Therefore, | arose on the morning that was to be the beginning of my last Marie effort was without not down fear of failure. to breakfast. We have been married five years and Marie does not appear at my breakfast table as regularly as was her old custom, and, strange to say, | do not miss her as much asI would have done four years ago. Sarah brought my waffles, but her shining, black, morning face was not wreathed in its customary smile. Her temper had not affected her cooking, however, and when I remarked upon the excellency of the food, she rolled her eyes in a manner that plainly spoke of great disgust for me and all my kind. “Law, suh,” good ’s usual. was her exclamation, “Them waffles aint half ’s Fact is, they aint fit for ’spectable people t’ eat.” I had hardly expected new resolution. “It seems so immediate an opportunity to try my to me I did notice that,’ I answered and was not a little surprised to see the dusky Ethiopian make a sudden dive for the kitchen. Her exit was followed by a crash of crockery. As I emerged perceived neighbor from our very neat and attractive front door I Brown reposing in the foot of dirty snow at the side of the icy sidewalk. His hat, cane and brown leather beside him and a long, straight, scratched line across cated that Mr. Brown had not sat down from choice. the bag ice lay indi- I went forward to administer first aid. As I gathered up Mr. Brown and his belongings | murmured consoling phrases about the |