Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-12-22

yes, Il woman VIII say,
made good resolutions last New Year's-my IN.
fentlons were Of the very best, out l uiu
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 10
dawn, and-yes, make new good resolutions, rs
many of them rs your brain can conjnre 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,
III we nll were not so very human there would be
absolutely no need of our ever making any kind
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 disappointmcnts, 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 Encouragement
you snrmounted during this still present year will
without question make you II better and Drawer
woman.
Welcome the new year; and Ivy all means make
new good resolutions, Every one of us needs to
make them, because as | have said, we are all
1nan or woman.
In the hearts of most Of us Is n wonder, n curl
,oSlty. rs 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 yenr to come is in our hands?
We do not need to depend on some imaginary
fate to deal us out good luck or bad, us she will,
IL we have the carnestnesS and the desire TO sue
Ceed.
All Desire Happiness.
But, after all, We want something more out Of
fhe year 10 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
snost we cam wish for anyone, including ourselves.
We cnn 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
fhe same thoughts.
We are animated by about the same cxpecta-
lions. When we are depressed II is because OF
the same old fears.
Some have learned something in the dying
year. Some have not. Some hope to learn during
she coming year.
Most of us spend the main portions " our lives
In disappointment over the failure of that which
we hoped might come to pass, balancing that with
cur washed out pleasure that the worst of the
things we feared did not happen. Some of us
lack grip upon ourselves.
This annual Stock-tnking Of our mentality
should light the future OF the coming year with
N1he experience of the year iust passed. II It
GAesn't do that we are not doing the job right.
1.-THE extent so which we have learned our les
eony In the old year will be the measure in which
we tnay gauge our expectations for the new year.
Turning the New Leaf.
FHO1n time imme1norial 1t 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 n
new leaf"
This Is perfectly reasonable and natural. As the
calendar marks q new cycle Of time, so we In