The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-12-30
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MRS. J. L. Dyer

Time never drags Is when one is in prison, or, say While wait
ing for a railroad train o r upon the eve of ones marriage.
All of the pictures of Old Father Time show him having wings,
and very long ones too. He flies faster and faster as age wears
on, so fast, in fact, that toward the decline and down 1t, one may
not be able to count the mHeposts.
The year 1921 has gone forever and to the older ones it seems
but Yesterday since it was here; yet during its little hour how many
of our friends and loved ones have gone to their long, long home;
how many the hopes that were not fulfilled; how many the vows
that were broken; how many the disappointments, can you tell?
Again, how many the pleasures, the gladness, the happiness we
have received, and how much have we given to others?
Sitting down and looking back, it was a very busy year, after
all. Had we begun IN the very first day with a large diary, how
easily we might have filled every page and left many things un-
recorded.
Gone, the old year, atogether-except its memories, which re-
main forever precious to us. Gone, its Spring of unfolding flowers,
tree and grass; its Summer Of developing fields and woods; its
Autumn of harvest and many colored leaves; its Winter OF boar
frost, clear cut ice and snow of beautiful wilderness. Gone it is in
it's glory and pride, its sorrow and weakness, and we welcome the
new year with its reference of good and evil, false and true, temp
est and calm, sunshine and shower, night and day.
Hail the year 1922! Yet many will it cast down and raise up.
Hope will it fulfill in some, and send utter despair to others.
AS in the years that have passed and gone, so 1922 will bring US
cyclones, tornadoes, zephyrs and Gains, hail, rain, snow and diff
fusive heart warming sunshine.
War shall rage here and there, while peace shall be serene in
most places. Birds shall sing their sweetest songs, while beasts
shall utter their terrifying cries as they pursue their prey. There
will be woes, sorrows, pains, joys, floods, droughts, plenty and
famine. Mediate, my dear reader, and think what it will bring to
you. you, you! In the midst of these uncertainties, who is so
wise as to be able to declare his own fate, or that of another? One
having a good memory may dilate Of 1921; but who can predicate
1922? But he may wish himself we'll and in the same breath he
should wish well to all others.
Aye, and it is a time when one may properly make introspection
with a view for reformation. AS a garden, there is need for root
ing out here, planting there, wedding in this place, watering in that
place; so it is with us. Find out the sins that are besetting, the
virtues that are deficient. Be honest. Let your work be thorough.
All that is good, cherish as the apple of your eye; all that is bad,
cast it away as an old garment. Such resolutions faithfully done
and conscentiously kept will have much to do with regulations of
the effects of the year before you.
Alas! how many good resolutions are made at the beginning of
every year, only to be broken in a few days, or weeks at the most;
and so one year is as another with us.
Whatever we do, the days will 60 quietly, and the end of it
will be here all too soon. Let us not forget our good resolutions,
and most especially let us keep them as rgidly as W intended.