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Show IT WAS such a boring thing to have to promise to do something for some one at least one good deed each week. Rita Norris wondered who had ever started the fool resolution business anyway. "Good afternoon and happy New Year to you, Miss Norris," Jeff Sewards called out as she stopped for a couple of magazines at the corner shop. "Thanks, but this happy New Year stuff is the bunk, isn't It? Can you r . j Imagine It, I've ' rfV tramped this town HF 5?!s over thls afternoon L V f ?W trying to find some f"WN .TrS one (or wnom 1 I PMAJLii could do my first vtllxWiWji E00d deed of th9 w Tw 1 aWyV- year a rPSolutlon, vm$fm'I4 yon know- CouId 1 'kvk2j flnd a thIg to do mW'WzA 1 cou,d DOtI" K;TtS3f "That's funny, I 'I ImjkM alway8 thought , HfpfiMLjjlf there were so many XxXw'W such deeds Just waltlng to be done ' i I ' t that there weren't 1 ' i lv f enough folks in the world to do them." "You're wrong, Jeff; that's not the case; I know," she affirmed, but still he looked doubtful. "You come back some evening when I'm not busy and I'll take time to name a few such deeds waiting to be done, Miss Norris," he told her, a smile on his lips, but a frown across his brow. "That's a bargain," she called out and started back to her little apartment apart-ment In the Carol Flats. But just before she reached the big doors of the Flats, she heard a light tapping on the window next to the street Little Janet Merchant waved and then threw a kiss to her. "Come in, Miss Rita ; my daddy had to go to work a couple hours earlier than usual today, so I was hoping you would stop In to see me." Little Janet, a motherless little tot, had to stay alone while her father fa-ther went out to -i-stitry't-q work. M:iV!-$3 Three hours later, SS4,'' -'f '";;' just as Rita finished "32j' ! 'vM melting some butter TiJi;lJ.itj to put over the V'i huge pan of corn f y--VV she had just popped. f l)s'-':'r-S" she told Janet all " about the resolu- . tlonstheyhad8 " fl made. "And to think ''''A t I chased all over ' J V:-thls V:-thls town trying to find some one to do -"J something for and l I '' k here right before X'y'y my very eyes, I i 'fa found all kinds of good deeds just hankering to be done." "And, Miss Rita. I think New Year's resolutions are the grandest things ever, I do. Don't you?" Janet asked happy tears shining In her eyes. "They are just the stuff. I'd sa And I'll toll -leff so when I see him ago in. too!" , Western Newspaper Jolnn. t A |