The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-10
REASONABLE SENTIMENTS.
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The day of good resolutions and "turn- ing over new leaves is almost here, the SHH hopes that its multitude of readers have had Merry Christmas and will en- joy Happy New Year. It also has the vanity to believe that many--very many people in this broad land will have been made in some degree more cheer full and happy by having read the paper on those anniversaries and during the days and evenings adjacent thereto, or in close contiguity, as 1t were. Meaning just before, between and after the holl- days.
 Anything that tends to lessen care and worry is desirable, provided it is not evil or has no evil effects; and he must be a straight-laced cynic indeed who will in- weigh against the reading of humorous anecdotes and sketches, and be eternally descanting only on the brevlty of human life and the insignihcance of mundane affairs. We are here in the world, and can't help it; and therefore let us get as much reasonable enjoyment while here as possible, not only by being cheerful and happy ourselves, but by ma ling others happy as we'll as we can.
 A$ AOAhANyS ohC 0C(lCC4iJ OCHGuCLdl in every point of view. To say nothing of the pleasure of giving and receiving presents, and the general feeling of joy and thankfulness pervading all except the poor uniortunates in dire poverty, it is a time when general review of the year just closed takes place, and plans are laid for the coming year. Hence the ex- pression turning over new leaf.'
 Reader, we should all turn over a new leaf, in the full meaning of the phrase Tnere is none so perfect but that an inn pavement may be made in his or her character, from year to year. Of course, many of the good resolutions formed will be broken, but the mere fact of having made them is something in itself-a sort of gauge to notify us when we are carry ing too much steam. And as the years roll along, good resolutions that have been broken time and again will gradu- ally stand by longer and longer, and finally come to stay. Benot discouraged, therefore, O, ye of oft broken resolutions, but don't make too many radical ones at once. Commence with few of the most prominent things desirable to avoid. You will find it hard enough to reform even one bad habit and if you undertake too big job, the failure may dishearten you. Leaving out of the question the evils of intemperance, gamblin,, pro- fanity and host of other blots on the fair pages of life's book, and which are SO often "turned over" to appear again. very good resolution to take is one that Rev. Sidney Smith, it is said, cut from a paper and pasted in his hat, to-wit: When you rise in the morning deter mine that you will make some person happy during the day. It is easily done A left-off garment te some one who badly needs 1t, kind word to the sorrowful. an encouraging expression to the dejected -trif'es in themselves, as light as air will do at least for the twenty-four hours If you are young it will tell when you are old; and if you are old it will help to smooth the road down to the bottom of the hill. By the most simple atithmeticai calculation look at the result. Suppose youAlive forty years after you commence this course of medicine, and you make one person little happier than they would have been, every day, that is 36s in a yeaS. which, multiplied by forty amounts to ~f4Feeo persons which you have made happy-at all events for timen