BROKEN RESOLUTIONS.'
llrB(k Conr to Mk New
mlTM Afttr PomM rllri
; ft HMltkfal mmA Hofl llB.
A New Ter potability, ft whole
new year! It U a fresh beginning
time when all that we failed to Uu
Init year can really be tried agnin.
The itudiea of problems, near, or re
mote, that we thought we should
pursue, the book we meant to read,
the new work we were guing to un
dertake, above all, the faults we in
tended to conquer, the virtues we
meant to cultivate, the growth in
character which we both resolve.l
and failed to acquire, no we can
lake a fresh start aud really accom
plish, some vital thing, fur the new
year is so rich in promise, so full
of hope so alluring in its suggestion
of beautiful possibilities!
Are we sometime tempted to look
a bit cynically at this ever-recurring
tide of hope, of belief in our bettor
endeavor, oiul better performance'.1
Does It sometimes seem a mere mock
cry perhaps hypocrisythat we
should so regard the New Year? Are
we tempted to say 1 will make no
New lenrs resolutions to be again
broken and next year again renewed?
If this is our experience, let us
remember, Buys the Washington
Home Magazine, the very fact thai
we have the hope and courage to
make new resolves, nfUr all our fail
ures, is a healthful and hopeful sign.
Some wise teacher has pointed out
that one of the most diiiieult tiling
in the world it to retain our self
respect sufficiently to retrieve our
selves after a mistake or failure. So
long as we keep a clean record we
can go on, although the way may be
hard. But once having failed, the
effect of a broken record paralyzes",
and renders it far easier to fall out
by the way than to "about face!"
and start again. Vet one of the
greatest of victories is ours whei
realizing and deploring our mistakes
our "manifold sins, negligences nn.l
ignorances," we yet refuse to simply
sit and moan over them, but re
solutely rise up, press on, saying
I failed that time, but I shall nt
always. I can and will learn to be
"more than conqueror through Om
who loved us. One whose, strerg-1
Is in our weakness perfect" leaning
on Ilim, remembering that true re
pentance consists not in mere re
morse but in regret that bears frnt:
in new life; we shall find that om
worst failures may become part ""
that "stepping stoueM on which we
rise to higher things. Washington
Home Magazine.
HEW YEAR'S CALLS.
This Prftotloe of Former Yean Hie tat
Bmoim Once More a Cailow II
Revived fcy Ike Children.
As merry a day a Christmas is for
the children, it is usually ratber ipiit-t
for the grown people, their prir.vi.al
occupation being to watch Ue yminj
folk enjoy themselves.. From (iirii
mas until New Year, tLoiiifh. tlit
grown people make up in g3cty fi.r
their Sunday-like quiet on tiie 2."th.
but the children Lave just as much
fun at the tame time.
There are more parties at Christ m a
time than there are even during the
long summer holidays, nnd they art
jollier, because the chikirt-n lYc; c:r r
energetic and Dright ai:d Iheiy wiii
the cold weather ai.ti the l:cp;y ; ir i
of the teason. There are so many
delightful ways to entertain, tot; .-,
many games and things that are culy
suitable for indoors.
There is one holiday practice which
las almost passed with history, and
jet it is a beautiful one which thechil
tiren might do well to revive. It U 11
old custom of New Year's calls. In
lil a few years ajo it was the uii;,i
thing for everybody to call on every
body else the fi;-i day of the yrvr.
1'euple who had homes opened their,
to their friends, and popular people
had a steady Mream of callers all cv
who paid their respects, were serve'!
refreshment and went on their way
to the next friend's home. It wa
all very pleasant, but it has passed
out, although efforts are being made
to renew the practice.
Why should net the children help
in this revival? They have nothing
to do, as a rule, on New Year'sday.and
they would doubtless find it delight
ful to put on their best bib and tucker
and call onU their young friends. It
would be a splendid opportunity to
display their new Christmas finery,
and at the same time extend to their
friends their cordial good wishes for
a happy year. Should the children be
gin calling, it would be a habit with
them and thus as they grow older
New Year's calls would become an es
tablished custom, as it used to be.
Hot Dying-,
The old year is not dying. It is sim
ply about to go aside into the witness
room of God's court, there to await
the judgment. Chicago Interior.
I)K( KMIlKn 31. K
Best day of all the year, cinee I .
May iee thfe pass ar.r' krow
"That If thou doM r.ot mo &JtfH
Thou has not foun! me lew, -1; j '
r,ij' fringe, as- I beho!3 ih'edle, y '
Thou Kavfrn me ih rtrht io a r
That 1 to-morrow still may vie
With them that keep the upward way.
B?Pt toy of all th year to me,
filr.ee I iry pt.ar.cl at,d gaze
A-ro-s? -he fr:iyUh pfeM aiuitft ,
tki ni.ii, y tr'.okt-l ways
T-at irir:t h-ivt Jc to misery,
Or, U-p.y. erit-d at Dl.-jfraoe
C-.-t day rnci thou dt leave m fr3
To look the future in the face.
Be day of ail flays of the year, "
That wh po klr.d. tu godV ' ' i
Sir f-e thou Cost t-avi: me siUHhe dftAf
Old frith In br(jtr.;rfcood
V(?t day rnre J, eti!i Bf riving here,
May vifw the- past with (-mall regret,
Ai d, -.ir.tHytuifced by tfrubis or fer,
Beek paths that sre ur.irod a yet.
. a Kigtr, Id rhloago Rnortf-Herald.
STARTING RIGHT, $
Tk Cat torn of Maktnc Good FfeW
Tear R no I afloat One of ladvN .
IsUte rortuaatt Trrmetlr.
Unlet thtre hat been a markedl
change in humnn nature during th
past year, as many people will Ifegin
tlie new with a eerie of good, if not
actually new, resohnionj us lit nn lhe ;
preceding year under s-imilnr condi
tio us, ot all of thee will aub
scribe to a complete formulotcd con
tract fur improved behavior- the ma
jority, In fact, will rexdve mbeou
seiously. But the yearly making of
res'hitiont come? sti pat vith tlie be-!
ginning of a fresh calendar on tl-e nrsbi
of each euoeeedlng January tlmt th!
custom has an indefinite and altogeth-:
er fortunate tenacity. , !
It has been often- repeated that
thes good resdutiou are like glass
balls, in that they are made for the
sole purpose of being broken. The!
figure shows an inadequate InuwU-rijfB
of the uses of glaia trails; before
brejiking they are intendtd to serve
a more useful purpose in training the
eye and hand of a markuin. A good
resolution, even when broken, gives
mental training very much in the sure
fashion. The process of making it
and of houetly trying tn carry it out
i a (org und nereJary first ?lep to
ward the mental strength that n p!;e
a human being1 actually master of hia
own actions. A faculty f:r comfort,
for example, is a pleasant thing to
carry on a journey, but iaiineni is a
unless piece of luggage,
Successful resolutionsy all comic
writers to the contrary, are really
made on the first of every January, but
they depend, like genuinely success
ful pclitics, much more on common
sense than on emotional impulse. A
man who has been intemperate in hit
own comfortto keep to the one con
crete example of lainrft. or to ita
even worse form, proerastinfltion i
can hardly leap into activity and hold
the pace very long at a time, lie can, i
however, diwde hi daily existence
into two parts, during one of which
he may busily tie up the loose ends of
his occupations', and during the other
devote himself to doing nothing with
all the- success to be expected of hi
past experience. Kven if he finis in
the, effort the attempt ie something
toward a future success aiong th
same line of endeavor. There is mucb
more reason to respect the man who
makes and breaks a yearly jet of res
olutions than to respect the discour
aged individual who gives up trying
after a few failures'.
If the whole nation should slnrt out
to keep the same resolution the real
value of individual eiu.'-avor would
stand out mere clearly, and the result,
one may be opiimhtic emmifh to be
lieve, might prove a revelation to
those who advance the broken f(!ass
theory. TLere U the subject of gord
citizenship, for instance. We have re
cently seen, writ? H. V. Pergpritri-en.
in the Philautlphia Salnrd-fiv Tv t-n it'if
Post, in one esse, the ri' ult ti.at fol
lows1 when a whole con'imtnity be
coine? vitally interet-ied in its polities,
and in another the remit that pnmti
from a inertly cotivt ntior.al iDterest.
Supp'isv ev-.'ry citien u ti:.-country
should revive for .ne year to i;n
derMunc; p...!iicjl qacatii;ii, to think
fiir hitn!.t.if. end to art up lo -4,n-victi:m.
Kven ctrrtirg th.-e who
fail by the w.iyir'c the re-ult triht
bring back tl:e pn'TaTy informed po
litical ear:ie?i;H-s ( f i nr f"nt tsatii-n-al
ei-ecti'in-; and t h act i: :! pow er felt
by each man, in the r-iitiiirtii of his
own knowledge, might go far to re
affirm that resoh::ion universally on
the first of next Jcruarr.
SOME FOREIGN CUSTOMS.
Ifew Ycfcr'1 the Grea4 limy uf.the Year
la FrDC Bofi Mn.trra of tbc
BltoatloM la HubmIm.
In France New Year's day is the
great duy of ihe year. It is to the
Trench child what CliriMinus is to
the ymir.g people of Anwrii-a tlie
day for the giving and receiving of
present B.
In the gloomy old royal palace of
Madrid, also, the first day of the
yfar ia a h.-ippy nnl merry f.--ntivnl.
The quei'n recent t.'ikea care that all,
even to the huinhlcst servantB, have
a ihrtre in the fiocnlied aguiualdos,
or New Year's hountiea.
Hut it is in Russia that the boys
fnd themselves inoct completely
masters of the situation on New
Year's day, says the Youth's Com
panion, for in that land the opening
day of the year is especially the child,
ren's festival.
The boys rise with the sun, taking
care to fill tlieir pockets with dried
peas and wheat. Then they go from
house to house in a riot of fun. As
doors are never locked it Is easy for
them to effect an entrance. The
dried peas are to be thrown at their
enemies, but the wheat is for their
friends. They sprinkle it upon any
of their friends whom they may be
fortunate enough to find asleep, and
hurl the peas with stinging force at
their enemies.
After breakfast the handsomest
horse in the village is brought out,
its trappings are decorated with
erergreen and berries, and the animal
is led to the house of the nobleman
of the place, followed by the pea and
wheat-shooters of the early morn
ing. The lord admits horse and
guests to his parlor, where all his
family are gathered. This is the
greeting of the peasants, old and
young, to their lord and master. The
origin of the custom is shrouded in
mystery, but it is supposed to date
from very early times. t
Tkt Old, Old Slorr. "
Blinks I suppose yon will swear
off the first of the year.
Jinks )h, yes; off and on, u usual
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