Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-01-01
SOME RESOLUTIONS.
One Man Says, "ResoIve to Make No
Resolutions"
A Lady Advises Adopting 18th Commandment
Some New Years Views.

What would you advise for New
Years resolutions?" asked the Journal.
Of several people of the city
for the benefit of its readers. The an
swers We're exceedingly varied in their
nature and intent.
Don't make any. It won't do any
good" was the rather startling reply
of man who has studied theology
and who is himself model in consid
GRAFTON for his own and every one elSe's
welfare.
This seemed rather strange and the
man explained: Il am not q believer
in the practice of resolving what
will do, tomorrow. for the conditions
of the morrow are often such that we
cannot do as We would. | am man
who believes we should resolve only
for today and have forever before us
the one resolve to do what is right and
it is possible for us to do.
IF you We're u resolve to plant seed,
tomorrW. what would be the result?
You would not do it. for the ground
would not be in condition and you
would have to postpone. That is a case
where circumstances and nature would
not assist in carrying out the resolu-
tions. We must resolve to do what We
know conditions similar To nature
would allow Is. Resolve only for to-
day unless you make that one resolve
to always az what is right"
III" nest answer was not Of that
same nature. IT was from a lady who
il greatly opposed t. gosaiping.
What Is thu hes; resolve for the
people Of Augusta To make for the
New Year" the journal said.
TO keep the 1ith commandment"
she said seriously enough
But isn't that something additional
to the commandments Moses inscribed
upon the rock? | was always led to
believe there were but 10"
THE 11th commandment is a new and
small one. but il covers a multitude of
sins The commandment to which |
refer is this: Thou shalt not Rubber
and stretch thy neck 1t sounds
slangy. doesn't il? But at the same time
if we would all take that for the full
meaning there is in it, how much suf-
fering we would save others and how
often we ourselves would feel easier.
This 'rubbering' in the sense of the
slang means the looking into every one
else's business and talking about them
when YOU should not. 1t was at one
time known as 'poking ones nose into
every one clse's business but times
have changed. thanks to the slangy
people who coined Il word that suits
the case better.
How often you have heard some one
whom you respect or possibly love
spoken of lightly and in manner that
the speaker had no right. This is in /
cluded in my commandment, for if the
speaker had not rubbered and obtain
ed a wrong impression he would not
have spoken thus lightly. He would
have been attending to his own bust
ness. We all of us rubber into each
Others business and we consider it is !
our privilege TO pry into others bust /!
ness, but when it comes to having |
them pry into ours it is another mat
ter. say resolve to keep the nth COM
mandment."
One young man said he had resolved /
to stop smoking. 1t was only the third |
or fourth year he had resolved to do
this and he had been smoking that
length of time He said. of course. he
had little faith in the resolutions he
could make. but then 'one wishes to
try TO be proper once in a while. and |
mother believes il is not proper to
smoke" Still one more desired to |
swear off gambling and he had deter
mined to stop on New Years day.
Whether he meant that the time of his
total abstinence from gambling was to
extend beyond New Years day or not
he did not say
\ young lady said she was to stop
so much confectionery and
devote her money to something better
and more useful. A man said he had |
determined To pay no more car fares
and if he couldn't get a pass he should !
in the future walk. This same man
bad determined to attend no more plays
in the city until the new opera house
is finished All of these latter will tend |
to elevate the people, 50 that New
Years will not be passed in vain by
them. i
About every person had a different
idea If resolutions and Of the way they,
are kept. Some believed the New
Years resolutions used to be kept much
better than they have Of late years. II
was once. they said. looked upon rs 4
serious matter ana every one. no mat
ter how few or many his faults, tried
to think Of something, that he could |
a. that would show his good intentions. |
In fact. some seemed TO believe the
time had existed VIXEN people looked
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