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Show ! 4 ; 4 i I I Walt Mason hi. 1921. We gref-i thO Now Year with a mlP. , ' and say. "Take off y our things, and eomo i ! right In and stay a v.lille. and feel atj home, by jlngs; fr.;- brand new years nri i nuili in style, and every Joy bell rln-js." Men always arc sustained by hope, as dr.wn the world they tread, and though In darkness they may grope, they Know I there's light ahead; they're strong on on-j llmlstlc dope, n.i aj thi past Is dead. ' This spirit always Is on dork wherever ; men abound; it saves their souls from! gha dly -.'.lock, and makes the world ;oi round, arpl : no ole.ivi. r in Hie neck' ' can silence or confound. Chi Twenty ; wuary course is run. so lei him disap pear; we turn to Nineteen-Tw nl -one. and trlve a ringing i heer; the new :''- bliilie and full of fun. the old ore 's on ; , his bier. The old year s petered oul and, i spent, and now we hall the new, an-1 ' every dame and ever, gent enjoy-, a ros; iew, and every dream that's worth i; cent Is likely to come true. This world , would be s dismal place, a desert drear ; anrl vast, if man should always tihrri his face back to a troublous PSft, if he should ' after sorrow chase, and groan and stand' aghast Hut human beings do not turn I to J-ad things and forlorn; the gnosis of' yesterday thej spurn and laugh av.aN with scorn, the gods have taught tliciii how to yearn for bright days yet unborn. i oo Under Japanese law, u woman upon contracting marriage becomes incompetent, incom-petent, lllco a minor. |