Smyrna times., 1883-12-26

WHAT THE New YEAR BRISGs-Ir
few days the holiday season will b,
over and the more serious work o.
another year will begin. The bust
ness man takes account of stock. The
hayward is supposed to turn over :
new leaf, and the painstaking buys :
diary. What the New Year bring.
has thus been summarized:
1.-The sanguine man believes fully
that ne shall be able to keep all hi;
good resolutions. He thinks tina,
somehow, in some mysterious way hid.
den In the glowing future, he shall do
big things. accomplish magnificent
purposes, quit chewing tobacco. and
refrain from chickering's with his wife.
He has heard the name of the place
mentioned which is popularity supposed
to be paved with good intentions bpt
ne has not the slightest idea of con-
trlbuting anything toward material for
It's sidewalk, or its roadbed. He means
to be good and true; he expect to
Keep sober, to work, to save money.
"He takes that new diary, and shar-
pens out a new pencil, and braces
himself, and writes down his resolves
he IS not going to let his wife see that
book until the end of the year. If he
lost his temper when she wanted him
TO ut stove-pipes or beat carpets, she
might be apt to twit him with his re-
corded good resolves. Woman will
do such things, you know, when thew
are very much tried.
!" The New Year brings a chance of
calendars; and the farmers wife Innst
have a new almanac. No well-organ-
ized farmers wife could keep house
without an almanac. 1t is an institu-
ton OF her forefathers. When her mo-
ther-yes, when her grandmother
was an infant, the almanac hung on
the wall beside the looking-glass and
.-eJ apanned comb-case; and when her
o.Audtather's father wanted to cut the
rye-helds, he looked into the almanac
TO see If It was going to rain: and
when grandmother's mother wanted to
set hen, she looked into the almanac
ito see where the sign was" so as 70
regulate biddy's incubation. and insure
healthy chickens.
"The New Year brings bills. There
IS great deal of sorrow comprebended
IN that sentence; there is no man
living who likes-who really enioys-
the arrival of bills. 1t isn't in human
nature. We all like 10 keep what we
have got.
Bills are always larger than a man
expects they will be- He will look al
them with dismay. Surely be has
never run up all that long list ofitemsI
There must be some mistake. Some
body else's bill has got mixed with his
All that sugar, and all those beans. and
that array of sundries consumed by his
family And nobody to feed but his
wife, and his wife's mother, and the
touf cnndren, and the servant girl and
himself But then, it is hardly worth
while to mention himself, he thinks
ne Is such a small eater. Every man
thinks he doesn't do much toward
swelling the grocery bill.
The man complains to his wife. and
points out the items, and says there
must have been things wasted-yes.
wasted! And ifthere is anything will
ny the patience of good housekeeper
1t IS to be told that things are wasted
" And likely as not, before they set.
Tie the question TO their mutual salts
faction, the good man has broken one
OF the resolves written down in the
new diary, and the woman has got ali
ssarred up, and told him she wished
she had never seen him.
/" Thank fortune this all blows over
without any great storm, and the New
Year y entered upon, and we close
with the same scene over again.