Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-12-29
70 VIkH u 2
NEWnYEAR'Si
Nc HAIR SPLITTING.
Difference Between Resolutions
and Good Intentions.

the cashier rs the bill clerE
returned from his locker.
k'What 80 you take me for?" asked
the bilLlclerk.N cit may be necessary
for you. but don't quite see what I've
got to make resolutions against"
Il beg your pardon" said I the cash
Ter. AS, usual, / spoke IN haste and
unthinkipglS.,, New Years resolutions
are for imperfect and weak willed per
sons like me. Not for you"
rJ'fe made EN-. all the same"
? "Then originally you had faultsT'
"One or two little blemishes, per-
haps," admitted the bill clerk. Zone
time swore off smoking cigarettes"
"Some people might regard that as
[ q blemish." said the cashier.
/ 81 guess / kept to It for about three
weeks" said the bin clerk, land that
was doing pretty datned well. too.
Most Of them don't last that long. 1t
always makes ,ne little weary to
!. hear a fellow say: No. lain't taking
any. thank you. i've swo p Of, and
I'm not going to begin again. In a
day or two you'll see him lining up In
the same old way at the same old
= place.Sand that's all thereNis to it,
at is only too often the case. fear"
sighed the cashier.
"Bipy EaDctip has sworn OF from
.gussing,"s said the bill clerk, with an
amused smile. Il came fiji through
the alley. and he had three fellows
loading for him, and they were han;
ding The cases az II they We're going
to- sleep when Billy came. out. OK.
pected to hear something rich and
fancy, but except that he kind Of slut,
tered when he came to the places
where the ornamental words, would
have fitted you'd have thought he was
talking to 4 Sunday school class. f. !
said to him, What's the matter, Billy?
Its just fool habit, swearing.
says Billy. I've sworn off,
"Ill give him just about one week.
continued the bill clerk. Say. the
walking in hades, ought to be good by
this time. ! don't think ought to do
anythingto make it better. do youT'
There's a difference between inten
tons and resolutions" said the cashier
"A good intention is all right, but II
needs resolution on top Of 1t to make
1t stick. You may intend to quit going
into debt for things You could do with
out. and you may intend to get around
10 the Office on time and put little
more ginger into your work when you
do get there. You may intend to be o
little more deferentla! In your manne,
toward your elders and superlors, In
the office ana to take good advice when
your elders and supcrlors give 1t to
you. but nothing's likely to come OF
intending When you resolve-whe
you say to yourself, 4 am going to dc
this. or, From this time on I'm n0
going to do that then there's some
hope for you" -
"You think it's all right, then?" que
ried the bill clerk.
''lts a good thing to make resolu
ton to do better any time" said the
cashier. ITS bad to break 1t, but. It.
better to make 1t and lFeak 1T than moi
to make it at all. II Billy can keep q
clean month for week II will be bet
ter than nothing, and he may last
longer, II you stopped filling your
lungs with cigarette smoke for three
weeks you're that three weeks to, the
good.1 a.ii iiI .4
THANK you for this little lesson
said the bin clerk gratefully. "How
about taking up your employers time
shooting off that everlasting slack jaw
of yours ?"-Chlcago News. ''' -