The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-01-05
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= HER POINT OF VIEW ::
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

AMMM M..i!N!!M M!N.N!M&:
kSVXT HAT on earth is the use Of
wv making resolutions?" de-
manded a Scranton woman
Of a friend yesterday. That method is
good only for children under twelve.
They have Illusions, bless them which
may lead them to keep such intentions
as I resolve to mind mamma this
year. I will not ask for two pieces
of pie Il won't tease brother II will
study my lessons one hour every
night But for grown ups, especially |
women. what's the use? In the first |
place we'd never keep 'em in the |
world. Just let me resolve to do any |
thing and that's a sure sign won't |
do il. Just let me say Now I'm going |
to do thus or so next Tuesday and |
you can make UP your mind that some |
member of the family will get pneu- |
monia or we'll have a visitation OF |
out of town relatives or there'll be n |
cyclone all on purpose to interfere |
with my plans.
Dear me-" she continued, 'I heard |
a real good woman say tho other day |
I'll go to Pittston tomorrow IL the !
Lord WILL and 1 noticed that she put |
that proviso in every time. She be- |
longs to a church which makes a spe-
cial fad of that form OF phraseology.
1t does sound very holy and somehow
gives you a take-o f-your-hat feeling,
but I've wondered whether 1t helps
her to carry out her plans with any
| more accuracy, or If she minds being
disappointed any less on account of 1t.
"Of course" she went on, 81 don't
suppose you mind things so much
| when you firmly believe the Lord in
| tervenes on all occasions, but some
| how / don't believe I'll ever get to
| the point where I can really and truly
| feel, down deep in my heart, that an
| overruling Providence sends cold in
| my head to prevent me from going to
| q Wilkes-Barre dance, or arranges to
| have Sarah Ellen, our cook, fall down
| the kitchen steps and sprain her ankle
| in order to make me postpone the
thimble tea I was going to have this
week. I'm more likely to attribute IL
| 10 my carelessness in having on a
thin Eton jacket that cold morning
| and to Sarah Ellen's fixed habit of
wearing a shoe with loosened sole.
"'Then," this frank young woman
| continued. IneTe'S anOIner tnlnS
| about good resolutions. You never
make the ones you should. You say
| TO yourself 4 resolve to get up an
hour earlier every morning in order
| to do thus or So when you know In
your inmost soul that you won't do
| anything of the sort and that what
you really ought to do and should
firmly and unalterably determine
4 he tn 81. t.ti Iat
snappy before breakfast. This reso-
luton business is all farce"
| Doubtless it is solemn thing to
| stand on the threshold or a new cen-
tury and look down the long corridor
out of which hundred closed doors
| lead into unseen rooms, many of which
none of us will ever see. We wonder
what they contain, these fast shut
chambers and instinctively We draw
aside the veil of memory which con-
ceals the shadowy house of the past
| and look into the vacant places out
| of which we have stepped for the last
| time. There is the one which we first
| opened and out of whose windows we
| first saw the world with marveling
baby vision. There is that white one
| with the secret mark on the Intel
which let out love into our life, and
there too is tho ono always in Thought
wearing the insignia of woe which
sorrow into whose nresence we walk.
Oh ono dow when hone was briehtest
How emntv and little seem those
roon,s oIrnaJy grovying dim in our
| vision How trivial seem most OF
those sbadowv lows whose ghosts lin.
oa, S.at o,d ,,anIy smile in tho familiar
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