Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-12-29

Is 81 1NE@N 1t with you, my
soul: but now we
have little inclination for that medi-
tation is put away with the rest of the
oid-fashioned, un-modern.
An editor friend of mine was asked
IL they turned out much work in her
Office. 20, yes," she said; 1--WE don't
think. we just typewrite."
On the eve of the New Year let us
be old-fashioned once more; look back
into Time, and look forward. What
has been the loss the last twelve
month, what the outlook for the
twelvemonth to come. Let us take
stock. What resolutions should we
venture on?
Weary of present materialism, we
will look to character first of all.
What retrogression here the past year?
lax, unsympathetic? And do We hypo-
critically call our selishness "the
proper looking out for our own inter-
ests?" Do we look with increased
pride on the laxity and term it "tol-
'eranee," an advance in worldly wis
dom? Are we satisfied with the mar
rowing of our sympathies, and do we
speak of this as more philosophy
Quite likely.
And now comes the contemplation.
How far do we want this to go on?
Shall we let self-interest, letting
down of standards, unsocialism go on
60 an old age ruled by mercenary mo-
tiyes, marked by low principles, by in
humanity? Heigho! Just this calling
OF things by their right names has
brought us Up short; we tremble a
little over the careless past; are afraid
of that unsavory old age. Maybe it
would be well on New Years Day to
,old-fashionedly put up some old-fash-
doned notices:
For selfishness is DEATH"
81 had very unpleasant converse
ton with my conscience"
every man takes care that his
neighbor shall not cheat him. But
a day comes when he begins to care
that he do not cheat his peighbor.
Then all goes we'll. He has changed
his market cart into a chariot of the
SUM-"
Let us go on taking stock. How is
Is with the health of the body? Has
that been neglected, has it been over
considered-one evil no less than the
other? Have we jealously guarded the
share of sleep it's due, not stolen there
from in mistaken ambition, mistaken
pleasures? Has the daily generous
gift of air and sunshine and flying
cloud and fair sky been unregarded;
the world too much WITH us?" Have
we been neglectful, with gross care
iessness paid no heed to building III
wasted tissues; expended energy at the
price of health? Or have we been in
temperate of wine and meat?-the one
evil no greater than the other. Have
we thought and talked nothing but
symptoms, been wholly concerned with
the carnal? So many omissions, sc
many over-anXieties we may have beer
guilty Of. Let us put in prominence
on New Years Day:
"a sound mind in a sound body.
Have we been cross, irritable, irritat
ing? "Let man practice tie minol
virtues" Have we been inaccurate
sIntruthful? -"In all the superior peo
pie I have met, notice directness
truth spoken more truly, as if every
thing of obstruction, of malformation
had heen trained away"
Have we been hermit, or frivolous
one extreme or the other? Have W,
shut ourselves away from mankind
lived a life Of selfish seclusion, un
troubled ourselves with civic and so
cial responsibilities, got ourselves int,
a state where any reminder of tn
great seething life outside seems un
pardonably intrusive. unwarrantabl,
-impudent? Look out, look out
"He prayeth best who loveth bes
All things both great and small
And the over-friyolity. What has i
all amounted to; the late hours, tn
night-of-it piled upon night-of-it? NJ
Books, no thoughtfulness, no time TO
charitable deed, for hunting up neg
iected friend, for the kindly homel
duties. True, I'VE must have society
We cannot spare variety" but like
wise true we must have some variet
from Society. Body and soul nee
.Iuiet, repose. an escape from jar an
fret. And what is the New Year guild
for this laundering?
"'Tis the fine souls who serve u.
and not what is called fine society.
Have we been too busy, too hurrie
to be kind. gentle, responsive; have W
exalted business" underrated frient
illness? Let US hang this where tn
light will shine on 1t full and bright
.LAfe is not so short but that there
always time for courtesy" Have W
been unrelenting; unforgiving, reta
gatory? Dare we 80 continue, SO b.
little ourselves? "His heart was 8
great as the world, but there was n
room in 1t for the memory of
wrong"
Heigho! All the walls of all IL