Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-12-29


made good resolutions last New Yeurs-my In
tentions were 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 onesT'
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 good resolutions as
many of them as your brain can conjure up. Per-
hhps you did fail to keep the good intentions
that made you happy when you thought them
out, but remember you are very human. Indeed
II we all were not so very human there would be
absolutely no need of ever making any kind
of good resolutions.
Many of us will see the old year go with few
regrets. 1t brought u.s. perhaps, an extra share
of cnres and disappolntments, 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 days2 Dear friend, let me as
sure you that the difficulties and discourngements
you surmounted during this still present year will
without question make you better and braver
woman
new good resolutions. Every of needs to
make them. because / have said, we are all
man OF woman
In the hearts Of most Of us is u wonder. curl
oslty, as to what the coming year may bring to
us 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
fate to deal us ont 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 mere out Of
the year to come thnn 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 tnkng 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 expecta-
tions. When we are depressed 1t 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-takng of our mentality
should light tie future of the coming year with
the experience Of the year just passed. If it
doesn't 10 that we are not doing the job right.
The extent to which we 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 immemoral It has been the custom
of the forehanded good old-fashioned neighbor to
square up his accounts, make new resolves, start
cutting Off certain bad habits, and turn over a
lonf."
ThIs'ls perfectly reasonable and natural. AS the
cnlendar marks new cycle of time. so we In