Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-31
NEW LEAVES TO TURN OVER
A New Year Homily.

| hS' ga SOOlACSo W ICil ~ HCASHOOl
an old Trend, or business associate,
who, perhaps, said a sharp, unkind,
or untimely word, who resented ian
injury that was never meant" should
resolve to maze New Years day a
time of reconciliation. Go and call.
Say kind word. Take to yourselves
as much of the responsibility as truth
will allow, and show hearty good will
and determine to be on your guard
against such "unpleasantness" in the
future.
Young gentlemen, who have been
hanging around young persons of the
other sex, taking up their time, occu-
plying their attention, keeping others
out of the way, meaning nothing, but
doing them a great wrong and cruel
ty-chould resolve to discontinue
this meaness and selfshness, and
leave them to themselves or to honest
and practical men. Attach yourself
to dog, young gentleman; or cane
or brestpin, or to an Ulster coat,
wonderful in its elongations, SO as to
do the least possible harm. These
ladies are for something higher than
your amusement.
Ladies who have so distributed
smiles and notices that two or more
"men" are kept in suspense, while
they crafty their feminine vanity,
extend their fame, or prudcntly wait
to see which is the richer In osse or
in posse-rcsolve to take all but one
off the track. Be simple, pure, true,
womanly. A man WHO'S worth even
your slightest smile is one of to much
value to be played with like bauble
at Tltfany's. You may do him seri-
Gus mischief, and the danger is the
greater the more open, honest, and
torclble his nature.
Boys, who have been fighting
nature and trying to like the taste of
tobacco smoke, who hide the thing
from their mothers, and are preparing
for themselves a needless item of ex-
pense and trouble through life re-
solve to drop it at once and forever.
You do not need to smoke. The
good is small at the best. There are
some evils? Why increase artificial
ly the number of your wants? Throw
away that ci cigarette, and kiss your
mother, or any one else whom ii is
proper for you to kiss, with a clean
mouth and a sweet breath.
Men who hold womcn's hands in
yours before the clergymen; who
vowed to love, cherish, and protect
them, to keep them in sickness and
in health; who spend your earnings
and evenings, in good part, in corner
groggeries and clnbs-morp or less
reputable-who come home at late
hours, with grutf words and repellant
looks to wife and children-resolve
to 90 back to the old times of love
and hope and fond endearment, and
never again to leave those dear
hearts hungry for the words of at
lection and of confidence, such as
you used to speak.
Gentlemen whose "debts of honor"
are paid, whose Injuries cost for
tuue, whose entertainments are the
''talk of the town. but whose do
nestle find it hard to get their wages
whose grocers and whose tailors have
to wait, land who are demoralized by
piling on the compensation over
charged. even whose doctors are.stav
ed off like the diseases they combat--
resolve to pay your bills. Because
these doctors cannot dun you is it
fair, or manly, or honorable, to COM
pei them to resort to small shifts &c
keep up their own credit, and hold
their own ground?
Girls, whose precocious talk and
thoughts are of dress, of beaux, Of
impressions" to be made, Of style,
OF friends tlirtations, who are women
in manners while children in under
standing and in years-resolve to
drop the suicidal folly and to substi-
tute for such employments good and
solid books, pure and useful acquire
ments, and the acquisitions that befit
you as young American women, and
fit you for the duties of life. The
manners of a ballet dancer and the
form Of milliner's lay-fgure are a
poor capital with which to begin life
in an honest mans house.
Business men who are trading on
eleven times your real capital, who
in every furry of the market are
trembling on the verge of suspension
who must misrepresent, overstate,
and resort to innumerable shifts to
keep going-rcsolve to drop the
fraud. Get on solid ground. Take
in sail. BE real; and ifyour trade be
less let it be safe honorable, and re-
liable. Blowing commercial bubbles
that vanish in the air is child's play
in everything but harmlessness.
Dear ladies, who are running races
with each other III rivalry as to dress
ornaments, fortune, and show gener-
ally; whose OUTLAWS embarass your
hard worked husbands, often afraid
to tell you the sober facts Of their
positions; whose homes lose in COM
fort what they gain in display; whose
children are trained by the ''help,"
and are like to take unconscious re-
venge some day by breaking your
hearts-resolve to stop all this, to be
helpsmeet to your husbands, to live
at home, to do mothers duties, and
to lessen the temptation to your poor
sisters to sacrifice everything at the
shrine of dress and fashion which
you erect and decorate.
Young men! learning to drink up
to the point Of high excitement,
tradesmen, students, lawyers, doctors
merchants, known already to your
friends as "cnjoying glass; sus-
pected by some, your weakness
treaded Oh by some, despised secret
ly by some who know you, yet show
no signs in their bearing toward you
resolve to drop the glass whether
of plebeian whisky-punch, brandy
and water, or ''dry old port" Away
down at the foot of the slippery de-
cline, on which you are entering, are
the bones of many strong men ''tallen
down slain"