The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-04
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

w. C. T. U meant and he answered: Women Control the UniYerse! Countries are squabbling and fight ing and peace conferences are longer winded than ever and s far from the point of settlement as they were when the armistice was signed. and altogether to 'resolute' in these parlous days and times is nothing short of one great big enormous job!
 However many thoughts crowd into my mind today and into yours and yours-and New Years is certainly time when, if we ever reflect soberly- we do so at this time for while the resolution" business may fall down a bit the fact remains that if we have an atom of conscience we can't help going over the things we have left undone" and sternly determine to do better about them in the future.
 Keeping New Year resolutions is something like trying to keep a' diary. We start off bravely. On New Years Day we write quite a long record of that first days doings; state what the weather was, and make a good showing. By the second week we write q little less, and there IS Slll leSS III the lnlTd week DS the end of the first month, if not much sooner, we get down virtually to the weather alone. Then skips be- gin, many pages being left blank.
 I used to post dairy backward, and probably others have done the same thing I would write up the present date, then the day preceding that, and so on, and thus, by back a Yd nf has ri often fill up many empty spaces. Still, a diary kept that way is not of much value, and resolutions kept in the same haphazard fashion amount to but little, although the fact that we think of them at all, and that our consciences do prick us at intervals, is not to be despised.
 There is not much use, however, III making resolutions that require hard work to make them resolve" Bet ter to start with a few simple thoughts, and try to live up to those. rather than to try to make ourselves entirely over.
 Sometimes when start out to write an article like this, my conscience bricks me hard, and I realize some of my own delinquencies; then I am re- minded of a good lady who, having worried. herself into a sanitarium sought to tighten the monotony of her life there by forming a Don't Worry club"
 We all do just such inconsistent things, and don't realize at all how funny we are, and how our actions and words contradict each other. Still, 1 have no doubt that if the lady in the sanitarium got her Don't Worry club" started, 1t made the days pass more happily, and helped her to get cured al the sooner.
 There is one thing we can do t the beginning of the year without making any parade of it, or worry ing ourselves with resolutions in re- gard to it, namely, our own particu- lar work. We all have something to do. Many of us don't like our work, and some of us, when we can, turn our backs upon it, and try to find other and more congenial occupa- tions. It is true that many of us have work which we think others could do just as we'll if no better; think that We are fitted for higher types of service. which we could per- form more happily and successfully than that which confronts us and blocks our way.
 I often wonder why so many of us
  when we should be so mucn more contented doing something else; but that Is one of the many things we cannot understand, and perhaps we have only to look at our Great Exam pie to get at the right explanation. Why did the Lord come to the world in the way He did and engage in very humble work for so many yearsl If His Father considered that that was the earthly work best fitted for Him. should we complain when our tasks seem of too little account for us7
 I read somewhere not long ago that no one else can do the work laid out ] for us; that is to say, not in the way God wishes it to be done. We can't | delegate our responsibilities or our | gifts; they are given to us, ana they | are the talents" for which some time we shall be called upon to account.
 It is only when he put uncongenial | work upon higher plane that 1t be- | comes easier to do. I have often re- peated these old lines, when I have | had something particularly distaste- full to do, and found comfort in them: | "A servant with his clause
 Makes drudgery divine;
 Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws |
 Makes that and tn action fine"
 sOne good resolution which it be- | hooves all of us to make this New | Years is to try to be satisfied with | the task that Is set before us, wheth- CT it be housework suffrage, news paper music, church, club, social work. or what not, and do it with |