Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-12-29

lutions will be dominantly phil
osophical, with religious shades
very much in evidence, says a
writer in the New York World. Long
and waving lines of self expression
will largely supplant the tight effects
of other years, although self control
will still be permissible. Introspec-
tons will be popular, trimmed with
psychoanalysis andnew thought. Econ
omy and anti-nicotine may be worn
during the very early part of the sea-
son. but these will be draped in the
most exclusive circles by tunics Of
simple life or very fine philosophic
netting. In other words, I've been
nosing around asking people what New
Years resolutions they are going to
make, and l found mighty few who
were willing to let the season pass
this year with simply swearing off
some bad habit.
"I'm going to be less vain, less hum
BILE, less contrite and less self right
eous," was the enigmatical statement
a woman who is looked upon by many
as an ideal wife and mother.
Don't you know she explained,
that vanity and humility are just diff
ferent phases of the same disease?
And remorse and self righteousness
are almost identical. The girl whose
mind is filled with thoughts of how
stunning she is is simply crushed when
she fails to stun. The man who ex-
aggerates the Importance Of his W
virtues is always the loudest mourner
on the bench when he is convicted of
sim
"Oh, yes" she added, 81 want my
children to be good, but 1 don't want
them to make a business of it. Be-
cause then, if they were bad, they'd
be sure to make a business of that.
The woman who told her son, Johnny,
don't go out of doors, but If you do go
out put on your overcoat,' was a pref
ty good philosopher. Disobedience is
an issue, but so is catching cold, and
there's no need of tying the two to-
gether. That's why l am so particu-
larly against vanity and self righteous
ness, self depreciation and remorse. IL
you try to tie the whole cosmos into
one knot you're apt to get ~strangled
n the 0
"I'm not going to\make any resoIu-
tion,"' said a serious minded humorist.
My humorist friends are the most
serious people I know.) 81 might make
some If l knew what to make, but I'm
past forty now and haven't the slight
est idea whether l suit myself or not.
My acquaintance seem to like me,
but few of them know me, and I'm
sure 1 don't want to be the kind of
man they think l am. 1 think I'll open
up a little more; make my whole life an
open book, not try to be agreeable or
disagreeable, but just do what I want
to do and say what l want to say, re-
CARELESS of anybody's p~rejudices and
opinions. l might eventually get a
genuine appraisal of myself, something
to base any proposed changes upon.
mo, l couldn't either" he added sad
ly. Everybody would laugh and say
that l was funnier than ever"
I'm going to economic and begin
smoking" was the brilliant decision of
a newspaper man. 81 haven't smoked
for three months" he said, land it is
getting expensive. Where l used to
spend an evening with a pipe and a
book | have to go out now and find a
game of billiards or a musical comedy.
Going without tobacco has its advan-
tages, | admit, but unless l get a raise
in salary I can't afford to continue the
fight against Miss Nicotine"