The National tribune., 1908-12-31

vancement If you study to make it SO.
He who does not grow Intellectually
with the increasing years will not stand
abreast of the times in the struggle for
existence, and prosperity and happiness
will be curtailed just that much.
After all, each of us can say with
Henly-
'T am the master of my fate;
am the captain Of my soul,''
and the good things that do not come
to us are largely our own fault. There's
q good deal of human nature in the
best Of us, and it is hard to overcome
selfishness, enviousness and the many
other unpleasant characteristics Of hu-
man nature that overtake us along
life's pathway, but We can do 1t in a
measure, and If we conquer q little
each year the day will come when we
can stand from under and say with
jubilant heart that we have conquered
all. Not conquered all the thinks" of
course, for again I am sure that the
veyy best of US at times have rebellious
thoughts, but IL we do not give them
expression in deed and act, then is when
we can feel that We have not lived in
vain.
1t is a custom that is wholesome to
stop at the beginning of the year, and
think what has been accomplished in
the months that have made up the old
year that can be laid to our credit 1t
is also a wholesome custom to begin
the New Year with high resolves for
greater good during the IL months to
come. say wholesome" because it Is
well to stop in the mad rush Of the
years and take account of ourselves oc-
casionally. The New Year seems to
mark the best time to begin, because 1t
is the beginning of an epoch. OF course,
any other date would do as well, ones
birthday anniversary, for instance, but
the time comes when we do not care to
take account of the birthdays. They
come too fast.
What is your besetting sin?
Is It enviousness? If so, have watch
and guard on that particular trait dur
ing the year just opening. When you
look on one more prosperous than
yourself do not let the canker Of envy
eat into your heart and sour your sunny
disposition. Just turn TO some one less
prosperous than yourself and help him
to climb to your stature, and, 10, when
the year has counted its IL months you
may fnd that because you were helpful
to some one else you have helped your
self
Are yau selfish, loving your own COM
fort and securing 1t at the expense Of
some one else? Now is good time
to begin to overcome a trait of charac-
ter which, If left to fasten itself firmly,
will leave you high and dry, disiiked by
ell your kind There is nothing that
will so soon set you apart from other
people as selfishness. which is become
the sin Of the world. Tho that may
sound a little strong, IL is nevertheless
true. Selfishness is of many kinds, as
sumes many shapes, but all the time
ana everywhere II is a trait of character
that makes its possessor disliked.
This Is a real good time for you to
decide to be Kind to your mother and
father. The reverence of the Chinese
for their parents Is a trait that Occs-
dentaIs might well acqrire. In this day
and age Young America II ornnipres-'
ent. Parents are showed to the back
ground, and children are the be-all and
end-au CT everything. I wish could
make you understand what comfort
It win be to you in after years, dear
young friends. II you can look back on
q home life given up to the considera-
tion and help of your parents. Your
mother and father ought to be more TO
you than all the rest of the world put
together. You ought to give them love,
Tor love, thought for thought, and be
q stay to them in their declining years.
How many of you are? Do you do the
things they ask you to do, or do you
DO the things you want to and that
they have requested you not to Go?
Are you careful in expenditures when
to make both ends meet?" How often
have you kicked In the past year and
1aid, II will have the things / want" ;"
when you knew that to do SO was to
deprive mother Of things necessary to
her comfort, and which she has given
up that you may be happier?
DID her self-denial leave you happy?
Not bit of it. You pretended that 1t
did, but down deep in your heart you
knew that you had been disregardful
of another's welfare, and the thing you
got did not do you half the good you
imagined It would, just because you
se1t. sar 1t at 'n' expense Oh an0'nefs com
Are you kind and considerate of those
who are following the 1engthening shad-
ovs down the western slope of the hill
Youth is SO apt to be In hurry, to
want to sweep the road clean of all
obstacles, that 1t tramples on the feel
ings of those who have forgotten to
hurry and to whom life is but a flick
ering candle, and they ars waiting for
II to go out. They want It to go in
peace and quiet. Could you not be a
little kinder to them, and offer help
when it would be real charity to give
Gus when about them, and show much
greater Difference to age than you do
ut 80 little cost Or effort.
Try few of these things, and see IL
they do not help you to make the year
brighter and happier. 1t is Lot neces-
eary 20 here highly resolve" anything
In particular. Just start out with the
idea that you are going to make the
world brighter for other people--other
people, mind you-and while you are
about that you will find that you are
making the world very much better for
yourself, and probably you have moi
been thinking of self at ALI It is when
We forget self that we really begin to
grow.
This is the New Years thought I
want to leave with you:
'This, above all: to thy own self be
true,
And 1t must follow, as the night the
Thou canst not then be false TO any
man"
Just at the holiday season, when we
ere having SO many more varieties OF
food than usual. 1t is quite necessary
70 know something about left-overs.
Food that Is made over should be ap-
petizing when placed before the family
or your labor and your time will be
thrown away. Presumably turkey has
the call for a brief season. Turkey
soufie Is very nice dish to use up the
turkey scraps. Mix four weil-beaten
eggs and tablespoonful Of cream with
about three ounces of cold turkey
Founded as finely as possible; add lit
tie bruised onion and seasoning OF
pepper, salt, and cayenne. Place the
mixture in a buttered mold, tie II down
with a cloth and steam for an hour.