The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-03

| Il0dTl0Q1y anu p01lSNlnS LndL InlS LlIl0
he would surely keep them forever,
has gotten more out of the coming Of
| the New Year than the man who did
not make any resolutions because he
| knew he'd break them.
If you hitch your wagon to a star
you may not get anywhere near the
star, but you will certainly reach a
higher plane than if you had never
| aimed at ii.
| And then there is another fact that
| those people who are so afraid to
make New Years resolutions-and
| indeed some of those who do make
! them, also-seem not to recognize
and that is that broken resolutions
are not by any means Incapable of
| being mended.
| Most people who break resolution
seem to think that that is the end
| OF the matter, or at least the end of
! it until another January 1.
Now. isn't that absurd?
is there any possible reason why
| the resolutions broken at 10 a. m. on
January 2, 1910, can't be remade at
1901 a. m. January 2, 1910?
! defy you to produce one.
or course when you are making
your resolutions you mustn't think of
such contingency.
| Ii your resolution making is to be
worth anything, you must make them
for eternity.
But if by any chance anything
that mending tissues of new deter
| mination is guaranteed to patch up
any broken New Years resolution.
Just as good as new
Did you ever stop to realize what a
vast pleasure one can get out of sue
cessful contriving?
| IF just once I could go somewhere
without planning and contriving what
should wear, l. seems to me I should
be perfectly happy. This borrowing
sisters wrap and mothers gloves and
saving every cent to get a new hat
takes away half the pleasure I heard
/ a girl say the other day.
And she laughed me to scorn when
ventured to suggest that perhaps the
planning and contriving really gave, In
stead of taking away, pleasure.
And still think I'm right.
The pleasure or possession that you
purchase by careful planning, that you
snatch despite the cautions of your
prudence, that you deny yourself some
thing else for that you wait for AND
long for and work for weeks or months
before you finally obtain it, has sweet
ness that can be gained in no other
way.
If the time ever comes when my lady
of the bewailing does not need to con-
trive, when half dozen gowns, choice
of evening wraps and a dozen gloves
|
will also come when she will look back
upon the excitement of producing 6
successful outfit from the four corners
of the earth, and realize that that con-
| irving was a pleasure and as great q
| che as she can command now despite
her wealth.
l remember q queer little example Of
the joy of contriving.
: When I was a little girl my brother
and 1 had a printing press with which
4 70 lie for al ha obi
dren OF the neighborhood. We had g
rather scanty supply of type and there
was often shortage of 'te's." Brother
however, constructed a method of turn
irg the "a's' upside down SO that they
made quite respectable 'te's,' and witt
this addition to our supply we tool
great pleasure in managing to get by.
Then one Christmas someone gave u:
a large supply of type. At first we wer;
sure that was the one thing on eartl
we had needed to complete our happi
ness, and then. strangely enough-ol
rather naturally enough-we found tina
along with the need of contriving a
least half the fun had gone.
Charles Lamb has an essay nominal
~ on Old China. but really on the 10.
of contriving-that l think every poo
man ought to read.
!, I'd like to uote it bodily, but sine
haven't room I'll just give you tw'
; of the best paragraphs:
gieS for laying out less number o
shillings upon that print which w
: christeEed the Lady Blanche; when yol
sooked at the purchase. and thought o
] | the money-and looked again at tn
I rurchasc-was there no pleasure in be
ing a poor man? Now you have moth
ing to do but to walk into Colnaghi'
1 { nd buy wilderness of prints. Yet yo'
do?
ct wish the good old times would com
{. | again when We were not quite so rich
| I do not mean I want to be poor; Du
l there was a middle state in which an
: sure we were a great deal happier.
, purchase IS but a purchase now cha
= | we have money enough and to spare
Formerly it used to be a triumph
thing was worth buying then when W
felt the money that we paid for.
No, I'm not saying that wouldn
like to be rich.
B Like the rest of the world, in man
Q ways. l wouldn't mind trying what
| would be like to have more money tina
could possibly use
3 But I do believe that l would los
= and that the poor old man possesses
a very great pleasure that the ric
: never know-the joy of contriving.
CheaDer to Buy Coal.
XII Pardoe. Pa. Jan. 3.-Alleging that
. is cheaper to buy coal to fill preser
. contracts than to operate the mine z
z the rate of wages demanded by til
men +he officials of the Enterpris