Show NEW YE a I 1 47 19 U Q LD il D ERMIE NATI KE UR TE SIP ING 0 ST RING E 5 I 1 BY M I 1 ci R ain tl ae KEE I 1 H B y NY weakling can made resolutions it needs a strong man to keep them that is perhaps why new year resolutions are so often futile the strong do riot not wait tor for high days and holy days to amend their conduct or carry out their resolves they obey goetges Go ethes dictum seize this very minute boldness has genius power and magic in it and so it happens that the large army of 0 people who wait for the new year before effecting a reformation in their lives are seldom success fill in carrying out their intentions they are not mot possessed of the spirit of energy and resolution t necessary to achievement it may be argued th that t it is better to make good resolutions oven though they are not carried out than not to make them at all thir Is open to question however unless one is absolutely determined to do what one has decreed it is perhaps on the whole hole better knOt not to make promises to oneself to weaken the character and to reduce ones faith in oneself just as resolutions put into practice are conducive to strength and self confidence very little tends to overbalance the resolutions othe average person in tact fact many people welcome any excuse to exonerate them from the carrying out of 0 their resolves one individual determines Aeter miries let us say never to lose his temper he comes down on new years morning with a set act smile on face alas it la is short lived the whole world seems in conspiracy to drag wm back bach to his former ormer frame ot of mind the coffee Is cold the letters which look so alluring prove to be chiefly bills and begging epistles he falls over the doorstep as he leaves the house bouse all these minor annoyances which it if rightly met would have helped him to conquer his bis weak chiess serve but to throw him back into his original state and before evening he Is as bad alsever he has been X 1 4 41 V wa F 4 A t 0 C A AV at jbf 44 ex Z 4 1 cr take another very general new Y years ars resolution that of 0 getting up at a certain time in the morning moraine when the day dawns any reason whatever Is grasped at to evade this tle the weather Is too cold the alarm was not loud enough he is sure his watch is fast ast he really feel well enough to risk getting up earlier than usual and after all he asks himself is there any real reason why he should A thousand and one excuses the average individual will make to himself rather than perform what he has hah designed to do the world Is full of wobblers gobblers lers of this kind and the more they wobble the weaker they become another reason perhaps why the average reso lution makere so seldom achieve their purpose is that they attert too much they make two three sometimes ac resolutions at once whereas to carry through one successfully Is quite an admirable teat feat As thomas a kempis says it if every year we could root out one vice we would sooner become perfect men impatience is at the root of 0 many defeats it la Is customary nowadays to sneer at the virtue for or which the name of 0 job Is synonymous but those who say that patience Is the virtue of 0 an ass or a beggars virtue are not so BO wise la the spanish proverb maker who said patience and shuffle th the cards most people shuffle the cards eagerly bough nough but the patience Is lacking seeking to grasp the stars at a bound they tall fall back to the earth and so it if people at he be commence commencement ment of 0 a new year adjusted thel desires in acco accordance with their abilities and instead of sighing for or the unattainable made the ery aery most ot of the opportunities tuni ties vouchsafed to them one would hear bear less of 0 broken resolutions and wasted lives do the duty which lies iles nearest to thee which thou to be a duty said carlyle thy second duty will already have become clearer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |