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Show J What Will He Write? Air M B I j$ In turning over a w. ( new leaf, be sure X I to lay a 1,000- 3 t pound weight on $ it, so it wont fly $ Sback. K O l YEARS MERELY LIFE'S CHAPTERS Offer Opportunity for Each of Us to Write Therein a Record Better Than the Preceding. m iik coning year lies spread g Ilka the whit plain thai J sweeps train the roadside lo " the dlstanl feresl where the gray squirrels arc msiUniu trucks In the. light BMW. On tii!-- white shoot u littles lit-tles record may be written! not a full life story, bnl merely brtel chapter or two, ill-'' the chnptera ot squirrel life timt limy be read i one who I day ventures Into the white torost It Ih ii groat myatory ibl Ilea ahead, a traaanra honaa ot endless possibilities. possibili-ties. The span of n nnill'l Ufa Ii abort! shorter in abaolute neaanre mast than ih" span of a rear. Tot v each .vein-, when Octobsi tads into November, ims wrought completeness. No human life can bring completeness. It cuimut bring completeness of knowl Sajta) or compli hap Ine or completeness of itood works. The I I man can do, In his i i imit ,-ti way, Is to fil " s much Wisdom Hint WU as iiiikIi happiness and do as much good as the number of his da) i per-mils. per-mils. ii ii tho human October fades it nun thus be rh ' and : i eful and without the si . i of rtormj day or the blight of wasted da and a Ithout Undue re,rei thai whal should I bean aoen and ki i and done bai nol in- n known and done, a vi:.v U' I c on la but xV. twelvemonth Our human Incom plctenc twelvem How fortu luelllis a I,, .. leant, i we raaj i the thread -i tho goal ot u , ' God' i i by ., i ar I out naarei I i an apprei lotion of tbem, We can never fa lata tham. for our mlndi ure Unite, and they are ln $ jj ft. The new resold j- . tion will be simply $ ) i the same old re M. $ solve broken with such frequency. Is finite. But each succeediuK year Is a new opportunity. It offers the perfection perfec-tion of completeness, and by even a partial comprehension of Its fullness Wa may movo toward fulfillment of the measure of ot:r lives. "I am not nfrnld." said Thoreau. "that I shall exaKKeiate the value am! significance I fife, hut thai I shall nol he Up to the occasion which It is. I nhall be sorry to rememlier that I was there, but noticed nothing remarkable not so much ;is u prince In disguise: lived In the goHfen aire a hind man; visited Olympus even, and fell asleep' after dinner, and did not hear the conversation con-versation of the K"d8." ONK who loam only artificiality, who does not note the excellence of the world he has 1 u set to rule, proves hlnsaetf nuworthy of his berit-Kga, berit-Kga, and Is punished hy bitter unrest. His life tacka the boon of contentmt at which Includei all boons. There are, or cuwae the tea whnaa mental bmhjm Is too narrow for selfnieasunineni. They do not even know that they are discontented and may enjoy life as the ..v enjoys lift. They are fortnaate. The unf. : i mile mini Is the one who has, even dimly, an underetaiMtheg thai the world Is good and beautiful and that he is (aillagetO reap the rifibliMS that is rightly hi. The coming yea n imbed a greal mystery, lull ot possibilities. Whoever Who-ever has not watched and studied the BOW mnny of us are waiting wait-ing for the opportunities ofthetcomrngyearl With how m&ny of us la It the unuttered hope that tomorrow, next weeK.nextmonth.thenexi yearmaybe us today in Its privileges priv-ileges andooportunittes.only far more abundant. We ere told that the first day oftheNewYeartsanappropriate time to form good resolutions. But the Now Year is tomorrow, and there Is a botier time for such a ie .K. and that time la today, to-day, f or "now us ihe accepted Umo."-- BiiUf) H C. Poller. pnaalug rears may begin today; it is o i late, Wl vei- i: i long i :::. i .' , i the ye will . know thai to bis knowledge, however ripe, much will ba add i. Ha will ad-. ad-. irer to the ".ii ot eon-1 eon-1 tentment, and In so advancing win In-I In-I crease his human usefulness, his heip-, heip-, I illness. ' TMIi: year dawns on nn earth red 1 J. with blood, an aarth torn with strife, it win be for n"si of the i'o- the earth yaar of sorrow and , Bnl for all this it Will ' nol be a bad year, N'oi half of clvii- i all mankind thai has not forgotten the meaning ot i 1 lion i Iflahly, herolt ally ii in the needful work of rid- iiinj, the world of a noxious parl(I : i tnngua oi mill- I those who cave tin in to this i ni i.ii work it will bf . i : all w bo are suffer i.-i tho year - lo c ' i ' I happier and healthier tha year ar. Vebrusry will bring Us . t; af:- W; -:.; -iV ;:: ; r ; -;.:" !;r:- vjjD ,;W." $ ' '" " fi If you leave it to $ ; the schoolboy New Year's day jjj --1 is what comes be- V'! forci he has to go g back to school. 9 .wsastlaa-.-.-- |