The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-12-22

YES woman Will say, Il
made good resolutions last New Yenrs-my In
tentions of the very best, but l did
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, nnd-yes, make new good resolutions, as
many of them ms 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
II we al were not so very human there would be
absolutely need of ever making any kind
of good resolutions.
Many of us will the old year go with few
regrets. 1t brought us, perhaps an extra share
t0f cares and dlsappOintments but not all
1.-The better and stronger for them and will not
the lessons they taught us stand In good stead
during the coming days? Dear friend, let me
sure you that the difficulties and discoura gements
you surmounted during this still present year will
without question make you a 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 1 have said, we are all
man or woman.
In the hearts of most of us is a wonder n curl
Eosity, to what the coming year may bring to
Jus, whether good fortune 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
If We have the earnestness and the desire to
ceed.
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 all desire
in reality in 1917 is happiness, 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 n year ago. We
are living about the same. We are thinking about
the same thoughts
We animated by about the same expecta-
lions. When we are depressed it is because Of
the same old fears. s
Some have learned something in the dying
year. Some have not Some hope to learn during
the coming year. .--
Most of spend the main portions of 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
lack grip upon ourselves
This annual stock-taking of mentality
should light the future Of the coming year with
the experience Of the year just passed. If it
doesn't do that We are not doing the job right.
The extent to which we have learned our les
sbns 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 1t has been the custom
Of the forehanded good old-fashioned neighbor to
snuare up his accounts. make new resolves start
rrntting or certain bad habits and turn a
hew leaf"
This is perfectly reasonable and natural. As the
calendar marks q new cycle Of time. 30 we In