Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-12-29


y RS1SSSzS9sag us WILL in fancy, go back over the
&SSESX twelve months that have passed
Ay&NE~&%NA and smile when recall the New
EAk6&SEEN Year resolutions we made a year
@~"@IS Eyes" a woman will say, Il
made oood resolutions last New Years-my in
tentions were of the very best, but did
not have the will power to live up TO them.
PRAY. what is the sense Of making new ones!
Wen, forget last years good resolutions and
forget the past year, entirely. s5Turn Win nope
and confidence to the great new year about to
dawn and-yes make good resolutions, as
many Of them as your brain conjure up. Per-
haps you did fail to keep the good lntenIons
that made you so happy when you tnought them
out, but remember you are very human 1ndeed
n we all were not very human there would De
absolutely need of our ever making any klAu
of good resolutions.
MANY Of us will see the old year go with few
regrets It brought us, perhaps an extra share
of cares and disappontments. 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 tho coming days? Dear friend, let me as
sure YOU that the difficulties and discouragements
you surmounted during this still present year will
without question make you 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 I have said, we are all
man or woman.
In the hearts of most of us is a wonder Curl
osity as to what the coming year may bring to
u.s. whether good fortune or bad sorrow or JOY
How many of us 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 us out good luck or bad as she will,
If we have the earnestness and the desire to sue
seed.
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
Ia reality in 1917 is happiness no matter what It's
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
mental spiritual and material resources finds
most of us about where we were year ago. We
ire living about the same. We are thinking about
the same thoughts
We are animated by about the same expecta-
Tons When we are depressed it is because of
the same old fears.
Some have learned something in the dying
rear Some have not. Some hope to learn during
the coming year.
Most of us spend the main portions Of our lives
n disappointment over the failure of that which
We hoped might come to pass, balancing that with
our washed-out pleasure that the worst Of the
hngs feared did not happen. Some OF us
ack grip upon ourselves.
This annual stock-taking of our mentality
should light the future of the coming year with
HE experience of the year just passed. Ii 1t
doesn't do that we are not doing the job right.
The extent to which have learned our les
IONS 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 immemorial it has been the custom
If the forehanded good old-fashioned neighbor to
touare I'D his accounts, make new resolves, start
hitting off certain bad habits, and 'turn over
Jew leaf"
This is perfectly reasonable and natural. AS the
aIendar marks a new cycle Of time, SO we I'M