The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-12-23

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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 " Swearing off
LANDING, as we are. upon the
S5/IEy4$ threshold of another year. many ot
RW9fSZSS us will, in fancy. 90 back over the
N&6S8& twelve months that have passed
M&&&N& and smile when recall the New
NgZISysT Year resolutions" made year
Vs "Yes" woman will say, Il
made good resolutions last New Year S-Hl! III
tentions were of the very best, Out uu
not have the will power To live up 10 iheih'
PRAY. what is the sense of making new ones!
Well. forget last years good resolutions anu
forget the past year entirely. Turn with nope
no npW
dawn and-yes make 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 happy when you thought tneih
out but remember you are very human. lhdeed'
If we all were not so very human there would be
absolutely no need of our ever making any KIM
of good resolutions.
Many of us will see the old year 90 with few
regrets 1t 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 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 sou 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.
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Osity, as to what the coming year may bring 10
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
II we have the earnestness and the desire To sue
coed.
All Desire Happiness.
But. after all. we want something more out of
,rfnlS Nx-Dl
come though that may be. Success is not always
attended by happiness, and what we all desire
I'm 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 our
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
tons 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 washed-out pleasure that the worst of the
things 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 II
doesn't do that we are not doing the job right
The extent to which have learned our les
sous I'm the old year will be the measure in which
we may gnuge our expectations for the new year
Turning the New Leaf.
From time immenorial It has been the custom
Of the forehanded good old-fashlOned nelghbOr Ia
square up his accounts. make new resolves, start
cutting on certain bad habits. md turn over a
new leaf
This IL perfectly reasonable and natural. As the
calendar marks q new cycie ~ time. 20 We In
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