The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-12-22

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A little editorial talk -
about joys and SOr-
rows, failures and
achievements of the old
year. and hopes and
promises for the nezv ::
Suggestions for a NezV
Years EUe party: Also
a fezV zVOrdS by a doctor
about SzVearing off"
<sxM1S<7, LANDING, are, upon the
NMHST8Sy&S threshold of another year, many of
AZXHSkSsfS us will, in fancy, go back over the
@NSSH& twelve months that have passed
TES1SkAN and smile when recall the New
%E@SEW Year resolutions" we made year
YES" woman will say, 81
made good resolutions last New Years-my In
tentions were of the very best, but l did
not have the will power to live up to them.
Pray, what is the of making new onesT'
Well, forget last years good resolutions and
forget the past year entirely. Turn with hope
and confidence to the great new year about to
dawn and-yes, make new good resolutions, as
many Of them as your brain can conjure up. Per-
haps you did fail to keep the good intentions
that made you happy when you thought them
out, but remember you very human. Indeed,
IL we all were not so very human there would be
absolutely need of our ever making any kind
of good resolutions.
Many of us will see the old year go with few
regrets. 1t brought u.s. perhaps, an extra share
of and disappointments, but are we not all
the better and stronger for them, and will not
the lessons they taught us stand us in good stead
during the coming days? Dear friend. let me
sure you that the difficulties and discouragements
you surmounted during this still present year will
without question make you a better and Drawer
woman
Welcome the new year; and by all means make
new good resolutions Every one of us needs to
make them, because / have said, we are all
woman.
In the hearts of most of us is wonder, curl
osity, as TO what the coming year may bring to
us whether good fortune bad, or joy.
How many Of realize that the shaping of our
fortunes during the year to come is in our hands?
We do not need to depend on some imaginary
fate to deal out good luck or bad, as she will,
if we have the earnestness and the desire TO sue
coed.
All Desire Happiness.
But after ALL we want something more out OF
the year to come than just material success well
come though that may be- Success is not always
attended by happiness, and what we all desire
in reality i'm 1917 Is happiness, matter what its
source To be contented and happy, that is the
most we can wish for anyone, including ourselves.
We can find true happiness by making and keep
ing the proper kind of New Years resolutions.
The annual period for taking stock of our
V,rftu and mat al
most Of us about where were year ago. We
are living about the same. We are thinking about
the same thoughts.
We are animated by about the same expecta-
lions When we are depressed it is because of
the same old fears.
Some have learned something in the dying
year Some have not Some hope to learn during
the coming year.
Most Of us spend the main portions Of our lives
I'm disappointment the failure of that which
we hoped might come to pass, balancing that with
our washed-out pleasure that the worst Of the
things we feared did not happen. Some Of us
lack grip upon ourselves.
This annual stock-taking Of mentality
should light the future Of the coming year with
the experience Of the year just passed If II
doesn't do that are not doing the job right
The extent 10 which we have learned our les
sons in the old year will be the measure in which
we may gauge our expectations for the new year
Turning the New Leaf.
From time immemoral it has been the custom
of the forehanded good old-fashioned neighbor to
square up his accounts, make resolves, start
cutting off certain bad habits, and turn over
new leaf"
This is perfectly reasonable and natural. As the
calendar marks cycle of time, so we in