The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-04

| Cleanliness is next to Goodness.
Some of those who can't attain the
Goodness find comfort in the POSSIBLE
lity of their achieving the cleanliness;
and the New Year Is like fresh white
pages laid out before US, on which
erasions than marred the sheets of the
old years manuscript.
The preface is good resolutions. Most
people make resolutions; even those
who verbally give voice to the very
old joke that the only resolution to
make is the one to make no resolutions
are really, just like other people, re-
solving inwardly to change attitude in
all sorts of ways. Surely If not, they
are dangerously self-satisfied. There
] in powerful place to one he had helped,
New Years Day, o, 1 went to my Of
flee and cleared my desk and sorted
the papers to keep: they were almost
| lost in the debris. / had no good res
olutions to make-there is no deed l
have done in the past year which is too
| i'll to repeat it's like in this And tho
he spoke lightly, he strutted and look
ed with anticipatory Standardization to
| the one he had helped for appreciation.
! But the one he had helped, who real
I lied him, said nothing in reply. and
/ how could he know the thought behind
the silence? THE papers sorted and
| kept are like the deeds worth while
that are wrought, but the rubbish and
litter and refuse are your motives Oft
times which bury the deed deep under.
Go clean your motives in this new
year,"
"Eappy New Year patronized the
society woman to the clerks and sales
women with an air of II always do the
right thing at the right time" after
, she had fused and fumed and fretted
angrily over trifiing inconvenience 10
which she mad been subjected in the
crowded places; but the observer saw
the words fall valueless. High social
position! Then live up to it. Be the
great lady you aim to be. Noblesse
oblige, you know.
A girl swept up IN her carriage and
two young men together at the curb
raised hats with eager smile and holi-
day greeting. The life of the girl was
very full Of just such lavishness. With
her 1t passed for little. At her side
sat one in simple garb who lacked the
social position but whose worth she
knew, whose worth the men before her
might have known but for careless IN
difference and the girl in her carriage
bit her lip when she noted how, when
she tactfully claimed their attention
for her friend, their manner changed
to bored and perfunctory politeness;
and as they drove away she said with
scornful breath, You snobs. Is there
not some manlineSS you might evolve !
in this new year?"
lis 1t not strange that this should be
thus in my lifei How can 1 bear it! 8
What disaster 1 see in the future. How
shall 1 keep up under the strain of this, !
that and the other" worries the wo- !
man of wealth in her beautiful home |
with sons and daughters of whom to be J
proud, with husband whose fondness ,
anticipates every want, to whom life
instead of a fret of discomfort, should
be stretching out fair and full. Find
you appreciation of wonderful favor .
bestowed. and gratitude for what you
have far in excess of others. In this
new year that's come to you with it's
unsoiled page, forget to inscribe the .
whining words. written thickly across
the year that's gone, and fill 1t instead
with gracious impulses carried out,
show that consideration you demand so
readily as your due, take thought, less
of self and more for the happiness of
lives that touch your own.
But there are those of the other
types. Those whose actions bear i'm
press of noble motives only, those
whose unfailing sunny kindness !.
brightens constantly other lives. the !
men and women with gracious courtesy
of manner. the broad. the brave. the
unselfsh; and the battles they fight
toward such attainment mean inspira- =
ton TO others for each happy New
Year.
Miss Ethel Keepers, whose engagement |.
to Mir Louis Abrams was announced this
week. is visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Crane, kewalo street. =
49,
Miss Katherine Dillon and Miss Cos
grove. of San Francisco. came in on last
nights steamer en- route to the Orient.
1888
Mr.. and Mrs. +. w. Macfarlane and !
family of Honolulu were at the Cali f;
fornia Hotel during the week.-Argonaut.
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New Years eve IL was the privilege OF
a few young people to enjoy the hospi-
tally of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. r. Carter in
the form of a charming cotillion, given
in honor OF Miss Gragg, who is visiting
them at present. The beautiful home
for its hospitality since the old
deys when Consul Conrad Glade built
it was most artistically decorated. Great
leaves arched the DOORS and 5
of pink begonias in green Cni-
nese vases placed here and there enhanc-
ed the effect. Each guest was favored
with carnation and MALE leis which
We're festive Grapes for the dainty gowns c
of the ladies and gay relief upon the
black of the geutlemen's evening clothes. 7
Mrs. Geo. Carter. who received her
guests in soft white muslin gown, ard
Miss Gragg, VINO wore q fetching gray
crepe de chene, stood in the large inner :
reception room, the lanai and front room T
being for the musicians and dancing.