The Arvada enterprise., 1915-12-23

''If every year could root out one vice we
would sooner become perfect men" Impatience
is at the root of many defeats 1t is customary
nowadays to at the virtue for which the
name. Of job ID synonymous, but those who say
that patience is the virtue of an ass or a beggars
virtue not wise the Spanish proverb
maker who said:
Patience. and shuttle the cards" Most people
shuttle the cards eagerly -nough. but the patience
is lacking. Seeking to grasp the stars at bound
they fall back to the earth.
And il people at he commencement OF
New Year adjusted thei. desires in accordance
with their abilities and instead OF signing for the
unattainabe made the very most of the oppor.
tunites vouchsafed to them. one would hear less
OF broken resolutions and wasted lives.
DO the duty which lies nearest to thee which
thou knowest to be duty. said Carlyle THY
second duty will already have become clearer"
The Turning of New Leaves.
Good resolutions have almost gone out OF fash
ion. On the last night OF the year We no longer
sit down to review our past lives and resolve to
be better and wiser" than We have been in the
past 1T is OF no use making resolutions. never
can keep them is the plea that is usually prof
fered, This is mistake, however. 1t is com.
mendable to resolve tan alarm clock helping one)
to get up half an hour earlier than usual in the
morning. even though it results-as, alas! it too
often does-hn one getting up half an hour later.
1t is what one aSplrcs 10 be that counts.
If people could live more in the present II
would help them enormously in the keeping OF
good resolutions So many people persist in be.
ing just little ahead all the time
Tomorrow they say. we will reform" but
the tomorrow OF their Imaginings dawns
Ancient and modern philosophers have agreed
as to the dangers OF procrastinatIon Such wide
~ diverse people as Horace, the Latin poet who
tourished in 60 h c.. and pu3hful persons who
flourish exceedingly at the present day. Join
issue in this particular.
who begins. possesses half the decd" says
Horace
Dare to be wise; make a commencement
DO II now" is the curt command OF the mod
crn apostle OF Hustle" Again, Horace says III
you are iguoran how to live Alright. give place
TO those Who have learn the lesson"
Get on or get out says manikin, following
IN more concentrated. Il 'ess courteous languag,
the same line of thought on a somewhat lower
plane. The one concerned with tho things
Of the soul and the spirit. the other with worldly
advancement There ere some who contend thu,
the two cannot 20 together, but II las has been
rontcndcd by many men OF WISDOM what n man
is is Of more Importance than what he has IL Is
well to make spiritual Advancement as the years
go by. II We have not made progress we have
gone back. The soul never stands still Time ha,
no terror for those who have learned wisdom
Pass thou, wild heart,
wild heart OF youth that stlll
Hast half a mind to stay
grow too old a comrade
Let us part,
Pass thou away
Some people drag the folles and immaturi,ie,
OF youth into old age There is wisdom in nd
justing oneself to time, to profit by past expert
cnccs, and to acquire that sense OF proportion
which refuses to magnify trihes into tragedies
and 10 worry over the Inevitable