Show Stop Complaining Their Resolution n Family Agrees Mothers Mother's Suggestion Suggestion Suggestion Sug Sug- Is I. Best One to toBe toBe toBe Be Followed By FLORENCE HARRIS WELLS 2 ELL folks Iv Ive I've made a n New Years Year s m resolution B Den Ben e eS n S home from college e for the holidays announced as h hr he e r took his place n nt t the brenk breakfast fast table tabi e the morning of th the e very cheerful New Year Mother smiled Bayly gayly at her Iter handsome handsome hand some and beloved only child chillI Grandmother Grand Gron Grandmother 1 mother looked adoringly across the th e table at her idolized grandson Three guesses Father ather laughed laughe d Youre going to get out of bed In la tb the S morning Wrong Ben Den grinned I haven t been doing it this vacation Ill I'll n admit ad nd- d mit but Mot Ive I've been up at seven every ery morning this K semester Guess again I Youre oure going to bed before midnight grandmother grandmother grand grund- mother looked up hopefully Nothing doing gra gru n d m mot o t h It e r. r Your turn ma ran- ter t Youre going to cease having a anew anew anew new girl every new moon andret and get ret down to business business busi busl- ness In school Mother lother look looked e J quizzically at nt her boy who tl hind bad always seemed like a dear younger brother as well as a son soa Youve You the nearest t come como mother Nix on the girl part but Im I'm going to finish my senior year with a bang Ins Instead tend of ot Just Retting getting through as In other years rears though that Isn't exactly as I worded my resolve Now row what are tho the rest of ot my fond family resolvIng resolving Ing before we delve e tiny any deeper Into mine What about you ou dad mind hen Ben beamed at each one not waiting for tor any family verdict In ft regard to Ills hits new v leaf leat Ben nen senior laughed boyishly Id resolved not to resolve any thing but bat as you insist Im I'm going to turn over n R new nelv leaf leot and follow tollow my wife's advice for tor a R whole year lar nn and I see that happens to me Cant Can't do much worse than I have ha done he added add add- added ed laconically Some stunt dad mothers mother's pretty shrewd I think What ore are you rou resolving resolving resolving re re- solving grandma T TIts Its pretty late for an old lady Indy of ot eighty six to be resolving anything Guess Ill I'll Just try to be as good as I can clin Youre not so slow grandma You Yon cant can't break brenk It because no matter what you do youve you've always got an alibi being alibi being Just as good as ns you can be Now Its It's up to you mother Bet Det you ou never er thought of resolving did you ou 1 Bet net I did mother retorted But nut ButI I hadn't expected to broadcast lt It It Youve got to though Its It's only fair All AU right Tin rm going to stop complaining C 0 o 0 m p 1 I a Ining mother Ive I've never heard you complain Have e eNot you dad Not that Td rd recognize Ben senior agreed Yes YeB I d do o. o Weve We've had a hard yea year r. r l Finances have been most stringent Mother Moth Moth- mp er broke her hip and ond we had a nurse for months Fathers Father's partner wasn't s square q qua u a r I e eSome e eSome Some folks didn't do their part etc Ive I've enumerated those things thought though t about them and talked about them But nut mother you never whined You always said things Jokingly That may be so but In my heart I tt was ne rebelling and complaining then last week your father come came e within n a half hour of lIf being ng asphyxiated I sled I thought a good many things thing s in those hours he was fighting hi hiway his s way back Two days later son you were In nn an automobile accident accIdent tho the e same kind of ot an nn accident In is which whit h eh many lose their lives Ive I've done a to lot lotmore t more thinking the last few tew days I ml might ht June hove faced this New Year a Ii widow and childless Ins Instead tend I a am am m blessed with my loved husband hu an and 1 equally loved son lion and mother Is still silt mm n. n us ua resumed resume 1 her ne r usual bantering gayety I complain n no more of ot everyday e trials There dad didn't I tell you roll your you r re resolution was a good one Guess GuellS Ill Il ry word mine that way I meant to sa say lIay y Id I'd work hard to please my ray beloved parents Ill I'll add follow mothers mother's advIce advice advice ad ad- vice as os an on amendment All right son well we'll follow mothers mother's advice this year The whole family will quit complaining flows now's that mother And mother laughed lave Have Bornem some Borne m more re coffee t i ms un Western Newspaper Union |