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Show NEW YEAR THOUGHTS It is remarkable what a difference the calendar makes in our life, and what an amount of sentiment It calls forth, liut fur the calendar one Cay would be about Ih earn as another and til first of January would niena no more to u than th first of aity other month. Hut since th calendar calen-dar has decreed on the authority uf governments and scientists that the tlrst day of January Is the first day of the new year, the day Immediately Immediate-ly nssiimes a peculiar Importance. There is no other day quite like it ; none that produces lite same varying vary-ing emotions. When the clock strikes the hour of midnight on December De-cember Hist, It means the death of one year and the birth of another, and aa a consequence our feelings ar both regretful and glad, and our thought are both retrospective and prospective. We cannot avoid a pang that tha old year which meant ao much to ua la, "like a anowflake In th river, gon forever." for-ever." Nevertheless ws greet the new year Joyously and with hope and expectancy, tven thongs the past may with some mak tha hope a cautious on. HUH It exists and with It th truly ambitious ma will do Ida beat to realise th plans he has formed. New Year la also the time of pleasant pleas-ant greetings to othera. The wish for a "Happy New Year" la no empty phrase, hut a genuine rx-presslon rx-presslon of th friendly Interest we take In one another. Of course we do not limit our good wis lies tt Hi opening day of th year but hop that each day In th whole circle of the year may com ladened with blessing. It Is a good thing that we list these special day to rllevt the I monotony of Ufa and free ua from the dull r.iutine of dutlea In which there la a danger of losing ourselves. Were It not for such day as Christmas Christ-mas with II divine nussagu and New Year with It pleasant gtset-Inge, gtset-Inge, oar finer BHneiblllllowouhfr-com BHneiblllllowouhfr-com deadened and we would (row as hard and cold as th yellow gold after which moat of ua seek. |
