Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-12-30
A PZzNNL1EN XApy EVE RETL s
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IF every year could root out one vice we
would sooner become perfect men" lmpatienee
is at the root of many defeats. Ii is customary
nowadays to sheer at the virtue for whi~h the
name OF job is synonymous. but those who say
that patience Is the virtue of all ass or heggars
virtue are 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 so. IL people at he commencement OF
New Year ad justed theis 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 making resolutions, never
can keep them" is the plea that Is usually prof.
fered This is mistake, however. 1t is com
mendable to resolve IAN alarm clock helping one,
to get up half an hour earlier than usual in the
morning even though it resuts--as, alas! it too
often does--in getting up half an hour later.
1t Is what aspires to be that counts
IL 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 a little ahead all the time.
Tomorrow" they say, I'VE will reform, but
the tomorrow of their imcginings never dawns
Ancient and modern philosophers have agreed
as to the dangers OF procrastnaton. Such wide
ly diverse people as Horace. the Latin poet who
noarished in IS B. C.. and pushfu persons who
flourish texceedinglyl at the present day, join
issue in this particular.
Who begins possesses half the deed" says
Horace
Dare to be wise; make a commencement"
DO II now is the curt command of the mod
ern apostle of Hustle" Again, Horace says. III
you ignoran> how to live Alright, give place
to those who have learn I'd the lesson"
Get get out. says a mankin. following
in more concentrated Ii less courteous language
the same line OF thought on a somewhat lower
plane. The concerned with the things
of the soul and the spirit: the other with worldly
advancement. There are some who contend that
the two cannot go together, but Ii tas has been
contended by many men of wisdom) what q man
is is of more Importance than what he has il il
well to make spiritual advancement as the years
go by. III we have not made progress, we have
gone back, The soul never stands still. Time ha,
no terror for those who have Learned assSom
4 faSS tnoQ, Wliu heArt,
Wild heart OF youth that stil
Hast half mind to stay.
| grow too old comrade;
Let us part.
Pass thou away
Some people drag the foies and immaturtse.
af youth into old age. There Is wisdom in ad
Jastsng oneself to time, to profit by past expert
ences. and to acquire that sense of prcporto,
which refuses to magnify trifes into tragedies