The Holbrook news., 1922-04-21
Creatures of Habit

lie alarm clock reluctantly unc0Se one eyetO the cOd u friendly dawn, you are nine times out of ten, merely starting on another cycle of hours where most of your unconscious and many of your deliberate acts already mapped out for you by the force of habit.
 Constant dropping away stone usage makes grammar and little actions unthinkingy repeated cry sallize into habits and form character When after a last delicious Thirty Winks" with which you indulge yourself you do finally sit up the edge of the bed and reach angud hand for shoes and stockings ten to one and you're to oose that you'll put the shoe first seven days out of the week.
 All through the day it is just the same. Watch your self and it isn't true When you go to mount the staircase don't you always start with the same foot and if perchance you raise the other to the first step don't you feel that moving mighty awkwardy. imping 1t were, one foot
 When you sit down at the table do you always read just your plate and silver just tre, you of those who always take sip of water whether they really thirsty not? Then before you start to your meal do you always butter piece of bread and start with it? We know some who do.
 Once back in the ''dear, dead days we knew a man who invariably commenced his meal in this fashion, Pro- curing slice of bread from the pate with sharp knife he carefully cut thin crust from it's entire curcumfer ence Then laying the trimmed slice upon his plate he would meticulously divide 1t into two exactly equal DOT tions These he would butter using extreme in the operation and then and not till then was he ready to eat.
 This is free country and each and everyone is at least entitled to eat suits himself but certain that this would have lost much of his usual zest for his meal had his program of procedure been set in the least degree.
 Do you always clear your throat before speaking, whether you need to not? Do you the ngess words to start every Do you have to have box of candy when settling down to comfort able evenings reading or in your IS 1t succulent wad of gum? Must you light that cigar cigarette be- fore you get on with your work? Why do women when walking muddy street pvoluntarly start to lift skirt, which in line with Fashions dctum, al ready clears the gumbo by good twelveinches? Habit my dear sir, habit!
 Without habits or their resultant customs the world it is true would be in state of chaos But with them it is not infrequently rut If the habits good bene fits ensue, but alas like weeds, the bad grow in greatest profusion, and the hardest to eradicate
 It is easy for town to acquire habits, to sink in to the ronbound ruts of accustomedness it for the individual Straighfrom- -theshouder thinking with de- termination behind lift the most somnolent town from it's Rip Van Wrinkle slumbers.
 Holbrook has been drowsing here beside the Little Colorado for many many years She has developed the habit of mapping, bad one for town. Time and op- portuny slip by the dreaming sleeper. At her very doors the most wonderful scenic advantages needg only good press agentng to make them drawing cards for changing crowd of sight seeing tourists.
 What would the very smallest towns in California dol if they had within easy reach of such wonders the Rain bow Forest the Blue Forest the Cliff Dwellings, the TO- laden puebos of the Hop, the gorgeously werd buttes and squat hogans of the Navaoes the stately est of the Mogoons with it's parike spread of ferns and rushing trout streams to say nothing of the charm of the fantastcay beautiful Painted Desert wrapped at sunrise and sunset in veil of warmly glowing amehy. stine light.
 Habit duls eyes, but the opportunity is there if we but use it. Let Hobrook make the most of its un matchable Tell people of the wonders of this country spread in such bountifu profusion build the roads necessary to reach them mark the roads, and pro- vide adequate maps, and then when the visitors come treat them with courtesy and consideration Every fled tourist is booster and that is advertising money can buy Throw off the old habits of ncertitude and n decision. Get behind the organizations now existing for the betterment of community. They accomplish many things with your assistance It will pay you al thousand fold. If you must be creature of habit bel sure it is the right sort of habit.