Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-31
cEORDs ND
DIScORDs
BEGINNING 1918.
SUGGESTED BY II. G.

SUGGESTED BY II. G.
TOMORROW begins a new year.
IT causes me to look back.
/ MAY have done some good.
BUT | have funked in many places.
JUST like the rest of EN-, ! guess.
NONE of us do exactly what we
should.
WE imagine we do at the time
THEN when we check up we discover.
IT'S the old story, The wind blows
fair
ALL'S we'll with you and me.
BUT we sit down by ourselves.
AND we figure things out
WE'VE gummed the cards here and
there.
MET Bill Jones che other day.
WE talked of the coming year.
BILL said he'd had great year of It,
BUT he couldn't tell just how
BUT Bill was not unhappy.
HE said another year was on the way.
HE was going to grab hold of 1t early
HE wasn't going to let it get away
from him.
FINE thought for Bill and for others.
/ SAW Sam Smith and he was in the
dumps
SAM said it had been wretched year
for him.
HE believed the next would be fully
as bad.
SAM was not good company to be in.
He always sees the hole in the dough
nut.
! ADDED myself up after time.
1T had been sunshiny year, true.
FRIENDS were firmer and more nu-
merOus.
HAD not lost any that I knew of.
HOLDING friends is an art, thought I.
THEY'LL slip if you don't watch
them.
IT'S not easy to recover q lost one.
PROSPERITY? Sure it had hit me
NOT very hard, hut l had felt it.
OTHERS may have got more of it.
But it didn't do them any more good
IT may later on. But this is the
present,
1 HEARD of a man who was boarding
gold.
HE was afraid that the banks would
/ fail
! AND he would lose his money on
deposit,
FOOLISH fear Some men dread the
/ night.
THE year slipped quickly for me.
THE new one will go faster.
THIS year bought one suit.
I ALSO two pairs of shoes.
JUST half OF other years buys
( THAT'S the way l beat the profteer.
/ BUT perhaps l didn't after all
/ ! HAD to have coal at double price.
/ FLOOEY went the suit and shoe
savings.
IT'S a gay life, but it's costly.
, THAT is, it is If you make it gay.
1 found my gayety in war helps.
/ THERE is where the satisfaction is.
. OF course / puddled now and then.
/ ONE must step out occasionally.
THAT'S what / was told long ago.
/ BUT there isn't anything in that
THAT is the veriest hoakum.
IHAPPIEST folks are quietest,
YOU can beat the drums and shout
/ BUT they simply watch you pass by
! AND they say it is really too bad
/ YES, I've new resolutions.
NO, / haven't been really bad
I'M just going TO make a few changes
; / KNOW a neighb0r
/ HE passes me without speaking.
NO, we are not enemies. Not at all
HE'S just sad, that is all
/ IN going to help him along his way
1 I THOUGHT he didn't like me, but
I'm wrong.
/ HEARD a man say he admired ms
very much.
/ on New Years day In going to tall
with him
can cheer him up a bit and he'll
like it.
I AM certain that he will.
HE has money, but it worries him.
1 HAVEN'T any, but it doesn't bother
me.
HE sweat until he got his pile.
, NOW it keeps him awake at nights.
I'LL tell him to split it with me.
, THEN his worry viii be only hal
what it is now.
WOULDN'T that be a great little idea.
THEN perhaps | would get some o
his woes with it.
! IF / did l would spend it quick.
/ A FRIEND has just come along.
HE asks about my New Years plans
b. HOLY smoke, here is the mail.
4, THERE are eleven bills.
ONE is a year old.
1T is for d turkey.
CHARGED at this years prices.
IN going to call my wife.
b WE viii accept that invitation.
EATING on somebody else.
E THAT'S my first resolution.