The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-12-31
NEW YEAR RESOLVES
Don't Plunge Hastily, but
Consider Carefully Prom
iSes You Make.

l approaches. 1t is time for you tt
begin to pause in your wild and wool
ly career for the nonce and consider
wisely and well, the particular style oil
good resolutions that it is your firm
purpose to put into immediate and
drastic effect on that date. Do not
plunge hastily into the, matter, and
waste a perfectly good resolution.
From my personal experience / know
that it is human weakness, in a mo
ment of sentimental and saffron-hued
regret, to tie oneself up so tight in an
ironbound and ill-considered New
Years resolution that it takes fire..
quently till January 15 to separate
oneself from it, and it can be done
then only with considerable mental
anguish and badly lacerated con-
science.
/ have on hand now a varied and
general job-lot assortment Of shop
worn, good resolutions adopted unani-
mously by the committee on resolu-
tions at its annual meeting sometime
between the 25th and 31st of Decem-
ber. None of these resolutions has
been used long at time. They are
not frayed on the edges or wabbly in
the bushing from excess of use. They
look awfully good at this gladstone
time of the year when ones bank ac-
count appears delicate and remorsful.
This is the time for good resolution
to make it's strongest appeal to you.
You survey the field with an anxious
and appealing eye, and looking for
comfort and succor. The good reso
luton steps blandly forward with
smile; bright and cheerful looking
with an open, honest face like the in
sidious book agent it slips blank in
to your ready and nerveless hand and
says, "sign here" You are in no
mental or physical condition to refuse.
You can't turn anything down, much
less good resolution. 1t is likely the
night before you could not even turn
the bedclothes down, but probably
rested your weary head on the pillow
and spread your classic form over the
hand-worked, snowwhite counterpane.
You put your hand to your solid ivory,
but throbbing nut, and try to recol-
lect your thoughts. You mentally re-
view the past and see nothing in it to
cheer you DIP, not single bright spot.
On top of this someone sticks a
package of letters under the door. You
open them slowly, and there you find
the gas bill, the coal bill, the rent bill,
the grocery bill and you vainly at
tempt to calculate at what time next
spring by the strictest economy and
by cutting out cigars and highball5,
you can reasonably expect your bank
account to be convalescent. Score,
II to 0 in favor of the good resolu-
tln.
You try to remember if the good
resolution now facing you looking so
strong and vigorous has ever been in
troduced to you before. 1t looks fa-
miliar somehow. Can it by any pos
sibility be the same good resolution
that you fell for last year, which gave |
promise of carrying you through the I
good year 1915 holding you firmly or
a permanent seat on the water cart
and free from the nasty effects Of
King Nicotine? You recall with what
Joy you embraced said good resolution
4 year ago; how you fell upon it's
1eck and clung to it in your hour Of
llSCreSS anu DTuuSlIe TeHloloe. ~"
reflect that it ought 20 be good reso-
ution, because it is "Made in Ameri.
"a" but with more of less distrust you
,emember that something got wrong
With it during the first inning, and it
permitted you to elbow up" with the
,ases full and nobody out. "Away,"
you mutter, "you are no good, you
ailed me once, and you will do so
lgain."
Then you turn your bloodshot eye,
10Th of them being that way, to the
lresser and you behold the necktie
,iven you by the wife of your bosom,
md with a broken sob you snatch the
flank from the outstretched hand of
good resolution" and once more you
re "on."
Listen-if you do it, and you will
hut both eyes and hold on to that
rood resolution till the Fourth of July,
)on't look it over, for if you do you'll
bserve its imperfections. Simply ex-
rcise the tenacity of bull pup and
Iold on. If you last till the Fourth
t will be easier-at least am told so.
Birmingham Age-Herald