Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02

a~-~<a-naN HAPPY NEW YEAR, This is
a the greeting one hears at every
~ point.
r 4 Happy New Year! This is
what everyone is saying to
]/ everyone else. II Is the time Of
ringing in the New. 1t II also the time Of
ringing out some of the Old.
1t Is the First Of January, this New
Years Day. And 1t is significant that the
month is named from Janus, the old Ro-
man god, considered the god of light and
heaven, a sun-god. Others considered
Janus the god Of the entrance and door,
and the shrine Of Janus formed an en-
trance to the Forum. This shrine was a
pair of parallel arched gateways, con-
nected with sidewalks and furnished with
gates.
In any case Janus was q god Of the be-
ginnings, and was invoked at the opening
of each prayer.
Janus was represented as having two
faces, looking in opposite directions.
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How appropriate for the New Years day
idea.
The day when one looks back over the
past and finds out what things are to be
runs out, and forward to the future to find
out what things are to be rung In.
What will we ring out?
Thoughtlessness is a thing which we
might endeavor to ring out. So many
times, great injuries are done by being
merely t%houghtless. Friends may be hurt,
and duties may be neglected, and develop
ment along the way of culture and i'm
provement may be set aside, through moth
ing but thoughtlessness. The reason that
many of the masters In music were neg
lected was that people didn't think. The
reason why so many of the most beautiful
things in music are not known, is because
people don't think. The reason why so
many people In Omaha today who are
musical are not developing their musical
talents, is for the little plain reason that
they have not seriously thought about II.
The reason why clerks in the stores rave
to work late at nights, even New eYaTs
eve. is because we purchasers are thought
less of them. and do not buy earlier. Just
thoughtlessness
The reason why people persist in under
lining and marking passages in library
books, against the rules of the llbrary-is
because people are ~thoughtless, The reason
why we have to see a sign in the library
please keep your feet off the books is
because people are thoughtless. Nothing
more. Just thoughtlessness.
The reason why people do not get all the
happiness that they might out of life is
because they do not think. or because they
do not think OF others, or because they do
not think FAR enough"
Let us start a happy New Year. Let US
ring out thoughtlessness:N
.
Worry is another thing tha we might
anHaaVnp IN ring nnf What Ia the ngp nj
worry, An old nan died, and Just before
he passed away he called his sons, all
grown men, TO his bedside. and he said!
My boys, l have lived a very long life,
and ] ave had a great many troubles,
none Of which ever happened" You see
he had worried so much that the worry
was the only trouble he had; for the
troubles did not materlaliEe.
There is a friend OF mine In bed today,
with two friends at his bedside, a Their
mometer and a physician, lie told me the
other day that he was sure he was going
to have the grippe" l tried TO talk him
out OF Il, to laugh him out OF it, as he
looked as well as ! had ever seen him
but he was determined 70 have that grippe
and he got it, He had let il worry him.
You say this 10 Christian Science doc
trine," Is 81 Ask any progressive ana
thinking physician, !. II Is not true that
worry backed up by firm belief will bring
on such condition,
singers worry over their voices, instru-
mentalists over their nerves and their
technique. A young woman who was the
picture of health said to me the other day,
u want 20 tell you something; aud I know
you viii laugh, but am on the verge Of
a nervous breakdown" The inquiry.
What makes you think that you are going
TO have a nervous breakdown" And the
reply was doctor told me vas Doctor