The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-12-29
TURNING OVER NEW LEAVES.
A Relic of Old Time Sweetness In
Thousands of Characters.

4 Relic of Old Time Sweetness In
Thousands Of Characters.
Think of it! All the rush, the prepara.
tion and the almost childish excitement,
and all the old lessons, too, past for 865
days, and then the whole thing will be
gone through with again, and we will be
as interested as ever, as eager as ever and
AS behindhand and hurried as ever. Just
as the joy Of the time never grows old to
us, so we never learn from the past ex.
perienco to be ready next year.
1t is not CUSTOM l.. LAKE resolutions
on New Hear's, properly speaking. 1t Is
simply human nature We make each
Monday morning sort OF new week stand
from which we drop gracefully by Tues
day afternoon, and Of which we have no
memory by Wednesday. 1t is our natural
impulse to decide how new book or gown
or rug shall escape the fate of It's predeces-
sors. This one shall go as 1t has been
started. 1t shall stay fresh. 1t is not
necessary that the leaves be dog cared, the
little rent torn, the ugly spots trodden in
or the gray spattered. No, 1t is not neces-
sary, but it will happen, and the new b..
comes the old, and so the world wags on.
Why is it? Why can we not make a
not you who speak so loudly lower your
voice, and you who delight to slander,
know it and disapprOve stopY Why cannot
you study when you should, got up at the
right time, refrain from spending money
you should nOtY Why?
There is very popular idea that on
New Years day every one is busy paving
the highway with determination for the
new, clean start, but this is o mistake
There is a most amusing, or ptiful, if you
will, army Of workers all busily absorbed
in paving, but there is also large, amused
and also pitiful crowd of OnloOkers. They
are the Old, experienced hands at the work
They know that the roadbcd is q quick
sand and that the best laid stones will sink
out Of sight In week or at most month
and be lost They are the blase old hands
who make no resolutions on the 1st of
January, and who find their fun in watch
ing those who still struggle.
There Is curious fact about these two
groups. The line of demarcation Is not
that of age. The class to which a man
belongs can be read only in his face and
in his voice The workers are absorbed
and eager. They have faith that with
energy thoy will succeed and they have
faith i'm the worth of their aim. There are
many of them gray haired and feeble
handed but they have retained that sweet
sst of all human qualities, ohildlike
faith in themselves and others, and no
matter what the truth is thcy have be-
lief that they have succeeded in years past.
The onlookers are cynical. They have
logical practical minds. They have re.
viewed the past, read the future and refuse
to roll the stone up the endless hill. Poor
wise ones! There are no people so sincere
ly to be pitied as those who cannot stand
on New Years day and make resolutions.
Do make some7-not "A number, but one
or two-and live up to them Just the
mere effort will sweeten you ana add new
zest to life Do not admit that you have
been thoroughly beaten.
Perhaps IL will be unwise to take pet
fault and resolve against it, but most of
us have such wide election possible that
the choice may fall on something that We
really hate, and II we put our nineteenth
century vigor to work we may kill the
habit before the twentieth dawns. .-Bos,
ton Herald