The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-02
RESOLUTIONS OF MEN YEAR.
Victims Of Swearing of" Habit
u Numerous as Usual,
VICE Will LACK FOLLOWERS.
umokers ana Drinkers Mako New
Ysaxr nay the nssinning rins
7i Of Their Regeneration, ana say
There shall he No More TipplinE
for TAsm2Young wenen Resolve
10 snub Men who Try 70 E1art.


TO snub Men who Try 70 F1irt.
they are all with US again this year. You
Mn meet them today on the street. at the
&llb and IN your home, and tonight at the
xheater they will buttonhole you between
A kha acts and tell all about 1t.
& They are our dear. well-meaning friends.
tho best Of follows most OF them, who an
huA1fy swear off on some or all or their
small Vices and for something generally
leso than fortnight occupy pedestals Of
perfect propriety In daily life. and from
8 standpoint OF exalted virtue call upon
ps to witness IN them exemplincation Of
ME triumph Of the flesh over the devil
Il must be the innate depravity OF man
evitAble day Of their downfall ana smile
malicious smiles when we hear Of their
backsliding. Otherwise would we go out
Of our path to tempt them from their vows
ana lay snares and pitfalls for their unac-
custOzned feet along the ways not Of the
house flower Of New Year resolution be
more generally admired by tho unsenti-
mental public and more carefully shielded
xrom the ssnipping" winds OF winter?
lake the Snowman.
Alas for human frafltyl The average
New Xe4r resolution Is contemporaneous
with the snowman Of boyhood; As cold. as
pure and a nestIng. Today II Is and to-
morrow, even. It may not be. There have
been New Year resolutions that were
never broken. Nearly every man can re-
member : few IN his own experience. but
only few. Such are to the New Year
brand Of resolutions a. the marble statue
~ the nations hero to the rude effigy the
small boy, his fingers blue with cold has
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with his mothers carving knife. They
arc not confined to any season and may
be made and kept a. well on the Fourth Of
July az the time-honored first day of
January.
Tho .sswesring-off'' habit IL not confined
g any particular age Or to either sex. It
b one Of those pleasant recreations that
the great American people, with their
happy sense OF humor, annually INDUCES
In. making the first days Of each new
year kind OF nook Lent, preceded by the
high carnival Of Christmas holidays and
closed with appropriate libations, incense
burning. etc.. at any time the resolver
grows weary OF the sackcloth and ashes.
With the fair sex. however, the habit IL
more generally denominated turning over
. new lear and made to serve q variety
OF purposes not dreamed Of by the aver
aga man.
smoking ana drinking are the two vices
ers 1t his stern duty to swear orr on
New Year. Into the task he throws his
whole soul. 1t he Ia, rich and can boast
e sdeboard, or. better yet. a wine cellar,
he loads his butler or the hired man
down with the choicest products of the
stills Of Kentucky. Pennsylvania and
Maryland. and the vineyards of France
Germany, italy and sunny California, and
sends him with neatly-worded letter of
invitation to some deserving hospital or
charitable institution. If he is poor, he
fishes out Of the top bureau drawer the
long black bottle containing 'inightcaps,"
s'eye- openers or other forms Of creature
comfort hurls 1t from the second-story
Ein1oW and watches It gurgle its life
fui silence. He ties BIT Of gay ribbon
about the sterling silver pocket pistol"
ne received as Christmas present and
i nsngs y On . the wall with an appropriate
no came to swear off.
i Consigned to the Crate.
With his cherished cigar, pipe or cigar
Atte. he takes q similar course The CT
gars ana cigarettes he dutifuIiy consigns
20 the crate or gives away to some unre-
eenerate friend. and the old pipe, which
he has spent the past eleven months in
caring for as only a pipe smoker knows
x how. - relegated to a place of honor
above the mantel shelf. At 1l:59 o'clock
on the night Of December 81 he regretfully
knocked the hot ashes from It's bowl and
since then It has not known the kindly
glow OF the burning weed in its bowl He
goes abroad with the consciousness of a
duty well done, and the congratulations of
his friends and relatives of the opposite
sex on the abolition OF ''that horrid pipe"
cigar or cigarette, as the case may be,
are sweet music to his ears.
B,t the day Of evil Is not long postponed.
With the passing away Of the holiday sea-
memories 1t has aroused. the average man
quickly discovers and mourns the absence
Of his old friends-his bad habits. Sort
Eager pleasure the smoke of even a de-
tested "five-center'' in the mouth Of his
neighbor on the street car in the morn
vanish into thin air and he boldly re-.
suInes his bad habits. II he does not, he
will probably go back to them gradually,
Ian that the sudden cutting off Of ali slim i'm
ulants Is dangerous and to be avoided The
result is the same. The sideboard or cell
LAT Is ha the SaGk bottle
the wall. cigars and ciragettes resume
their sway and the old pipe again gives
forth !, clouds 9',1 Of smoke Ike factory chin
A Favoritc Resolution.
A ''swear-off'' in which even the most
conservative men indulge Is the resolution
to be more economical. There Is the man
who resolves to quit smoking cigars as a
measure of economy and who carries out
the resolution by purchasing $25 pipe.
There is the man who listens to the temp
ter and lays in supply of cheap domestic
cigars that prove stronger and more last
ing than his New Year vows. He has an
imftator In the man who swears off in
dulgence In all alcoholic drinks other than
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