Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-12-29

~ eyes" woman Will say, Il
made good resolutions last New Years-my In
tentions were of the very best, but l Old
not have the will power to live up to them
Pray, what is the sense of making new onesT'
WE'LL 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. Fer
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 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. It brought us, perhaps, an extra share
of cares 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 as
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 year; and by all means make
new good resolutions. Every one Of us needs to
make them, because as have said, we are all
man woman
In the hearts Of most of us is wonder, curl
osity, to what the coming year may bring to
US, 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
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 in 1917 is happiness no 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
mental, spiritual and material resources finds
most of us about where we 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 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 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 our mentality
should light the future of the coming year with
the experience Of the year just passed. If it
doesn't 90 (ndL we are not UOlllS the JOO
The extent to which we have learned our les
CONS In the old year will be the measure in which
we 1aay gauge our expectations for the new year.
Turning the New Leaf.
From time immemorial 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 new cycle Of time. so we in