The Benson signal., 1916-12-23

&ySSS3SX twelve months that have passed
. Mxx@S4%s&SM and smile when we recall the "NeW
lQ&SNEV Year resolutions" made year
Yes" a woman will say II
made good resolutions last New Year's-my in
tentions of the very best, but dld
not have the will power to live up to them.
Pray what is the sense of making new ones"
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 SO happy when you thought them
out, but remember you are very human. Indeed,
if we all were not 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 us, perhaps, extra share
Iof cares and dsappointments, but are we not all
the better and stronger for them, and will not
the lessons they taught stand us in good stead
during the 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 a better and braver
woman.
Welcome the new year; and by all means make
new good resolutions. Every one of us needs to
make them, because as I have said are all
IMAM woman.
losity, as to what the coming year may bring to
JUS, whether good fortune or bad, sorrow or joy.
How many of us realize that the shaping of
fortunes during the year to come is in our hands?
we do not need to depend 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 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 in 1917 is happiness, matter what its
source. To be contented and happy, that is the
most can wish for anyone, including ourselves.
We find true happiness by making and keep
ing the proper kind of New Years resolutions.
The annual period for taking stock of
mental, spiritual and material resources finds
most of us about where were year ago. We
are living about the same. We thinking about
the same thoughts.
We are animated by about the expecta-
tions. 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
In disappointment over the failure of that which
we hoped might come to pass, balancing that with
our washedout pleasure that the worst Of the
things we feared did not happen Some of us
lack grip upon ourselves.
This annual stocktaking Of mentality
should light the future of the coming year with
the experience of the year just passed. If it
doesn't do that not doing the job right.
The extent to which 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 immemOrial it has been the custom
of the forehanded good od-fashioned neighbor to
square up his accounts make new resolves, start
cutting off certain bad habits and "turn a
leW leaf
This is perfectly reasonable and natural AS the
calendar marks new cycle of time, so we in