Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-28
Betty's Twilight Chat.

Betty's Twilight Chat
New Years resolutions. How many
of Us make them and how few end the
twelve months with fragments hardly
large eneugh for Identification purposes.
Still it is good to make them-it shows
Il proper scnse of our shortcomings and
a desire TO correct them. 4 days i'm
provernont IN grace is something worth
considering, and we all hold out longer
than that.
There aFe. probably. a few cases on
record where lasting reforms have
sprung from New Years resolutions. |
know one, and you could. undoubtedly.
tell me others. This was the ease Of an
unpopular girl who sighed for the atten-
ton bestowed upon other girls who
lacked some of her good points. OBJ
vlously 1ierc were defects which sire
must find and correct, and she decided
that the best way to do was to study
and initiate the popular girls of her cir
Gle. It was "A difficult task she set her
self. hut she possessed the necessary
pluck Ia carry through to the end any
undertaking she began. BY New Years
day she had a collection of valuable
notes, representing the qualities that
made her ciEl friends popular
| believe that she never found more
than one in each person. She deter
mined - combine them and test the re-
suit Three months passed away ana
The entire feminine portion Of the best
part Of jhat city in which the incident
took place, woke up one day to the fact
that they were being pushed into the
background by 81 hitherto unobtrusiye
member OF society, that they were divid-
ing masculine attentions with her and
giving her the lions share at that. Things
continually grew better for her and worse
for them, but | am sure they never
guessed the reason.
It is not every woman who IS willing
10 admit faults or shortcomings-tha is
where mem have an advantage. Most
masculine creatures glory in their faults
ana chughie over their sins. Perhaps
that is why women like even the worst
Of them. Wherever you find a man
frankly confessing his enormous distance
from Sainthood you will find adoring
women in focks, regular focks. Men
make New Years resolutions, yes, but
they have economy as an object or some
thing personal. They announce their li-
tcnti0ns with the bare of trumpets and
tu0t soIae over their failure to keep them.
There is this TO be said. The world is
not as observing as we lmaEiuc and We
are likely TO escape unnOtlced unless we
ua something big or loud enough to at
tract lis attention. | fancy our self
esteem Would receive 4 severe shock did
of how very little interest our small do
ings are 10 the general public. | thought
that today when the pOStman who has
beer delivering for months all kinds Of
queer mail il several names at a house
on his route and never appeared to take
the slightest interest in the affair beyond
getting tba packages to their destination
Today ore name attracted him by lis
familiarity and he ventured to ask a
question and express an admiration for
the articles to which he had often seen
il appended. And all the time the family
had heen picturing him dey0ured with
curiosity and talking them over with his
Cronjes
Wen. II we do not talk nobody pauses
10 listen. and almost anything is better
Than Indifference | would rather be adj
yerScly criticized than ignored and there
are many Ike me. An occasional rap is
wholesome like the bitters we take to
stimulate a failing appetite. CONTINUED
uargi3g is ike 4 wasting sickness thar
~aps the vitality. So you are all at liber-
ny to rap me on the kuuckles when you
feel Chat ycu have cause. and if | cannol
justify myself / will be meek | Ger
lajniy shall not be foolish enough to feel
other thaD interested il whatever impress
sion ] make
II we are going to hold to the time
h0Dpfod custom of making resolutions at
the beginning of the new year-and pray
.rl l.~ keep a bit OF Old-time flavor in our
hlt--}et rs pick out ones worth consider
n-. 1t was nos worth while for nv
friend. vino dotes on chocolates. to for
swear tbela because she never ito
enough to harm her, and cutting them
0as OK her life was cultivating unneces-
>afy III saTy. She might better have re-
solved 70 take more interest in the nm
fortunate and be more f0rbearing with
those whe loved her. There is a deal Of
charity in the world, but not a fraction
al part Of what is needed. Thousands
# men and women are doing tremend-
thousands are doing nothing at ALL You
knew 10 which side you belong and you
also know that you can do a little some
thing il no more than giving away 4
loaf OF bread.
have heard of people who spent so
much time IL trying to be good that
they res1i no time to do good. / don't
cara Ncg much we differ in creed: there
is common ground on which we may
agree with a clear conScience-the sim
pie Chrs.i8 doctrine Of being good and
dC.Ts good. How can beliefs affect that:
Een- good is infinitely harder than do
lue good, and that is why il comes first.
One eogs not have TO wait for the new
year q. nur reforms into working Qrdcr.
bpt there can never be a better time If
fGe ID think OF others. Christmas
fan1-g -1ften mp our natures, tbgg is
II worth much. and iu such
fr77aa mind we are ready 70 promise
So E1a deal. So vuu sec there j. q rea-
his excellent old custom. after
a--l.~ Traveller.
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