The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-02-01
zhouebfs for Metz Year.


"Happy New Year! l wish you
Happy New Year!" The words go
ringing through the house, upstairs
and down. like some glorious chime.
And as | wish to be in the general re-
joicing, l, too, wish everyone a Happy
New Year, and especially my House
hold Realm friends.
Why should we not rejoice and be
happy together? The old year was
happy one, but may not the new year
be happier still? Is not this the sea-
son for new beginnings?
When the old page of life is blotted
and soiled with mistakes and erasures,
we are glad to get to the bottom OF the
page and turn a clean, fresh leaf; ana
one of the greatest charms of the new
year is, that it marks time for turn
ing over a new leaf. The old year may
have been one of hope and disappoiht-
ment, but the beginning of the lew
year is full of hope and anticipation.
1t is a chance to commence over again.
No wonder then, that it is season OF
good resolutions as well as happy
wishes; yet these self-same good reso-
lutions are often the very rocks upon
which many bright hopes are ship
wrecked.
Do not "swear off" on too many
faults at once. 1t is dangerous, and l
will tell you why.
In the first flush of a new beginning
our hopes run high and we feel equal
to anything. l doubt whether there
are as many noble thoughts in mind on
any other day in the year as upon New
Years day. Mistakes are to be remem-
bered, faults are to be left in the back
ground, and bad habits cast to the
four winds. There Is no thought or
failure. Is not this a new beginning?
Good resolutions are made by the yard,
and the first days of the new year are
full of energy and noble purposes. We
are treading upon clouds.
But alas! for poor, weak, human ma
ture. Our clouds part In the middle
and we come down with a thump. The
mistakes which we thought could 10
SO quickly remeded, loom up before us
like mountains Faults stubbornly re-
fuse to stay in the background, and
habits cling to us like furrs. Is it any
wonder that rising, weak and disheart-
ened, we decide that there is not much
use in trying again? Our new page Is
spoiled. There is a big blot on the
very first line. And so we slip back
into the same old careless ways of the
past, more weary and discouraged than
ever.
1 do not believe in making new
years resolutions unless due allowance
is given to the exalted state OF mind
at this time, and wide margin is left
for inevitable mistakes and failures. 1t
is not possible to be rid of faults at a
single bound. One cannot be good all
at once. Habits bind like letters OF
steel and it is impossible to throw
them on and off at will. 1t takes time
and patience.
Tho new year, however, is full OF
possibilities to those who are undaunt-
ed by failures. A supreme faith in
ones self and ones undertakings is
nalI the secret OIL SUCCESS, anu oioSo
application and honest purpose Is the
other half. We are indeed-as some
one has said-architects of our own
fortunes. Would it not be well then
to choose the old Latin quotation,
"Possunt quia posse videntur" (You
can because you think you CAM, for
our motto during the coming year?
And as for the happy wishes, let US
all help them to come Hrue by trying
to brighten the world little for
all with whom we may come in con-
tact.-Household Guest.