Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1911 — The New Year. [ARTICLE]

The New Year.

The late Julia Ward Howe was no believer In New Tear's resolutions. “We should make and keep good resolutions all the year round,’’ the celebrated author once said In Boston. "I am no great believer in New Tear's vows, for, although they are splendid things, they really don’t amount to much more than Oliver Wendell Holmes’ tobacco resolution. “Mr. Holmes, with affected gravity, said to a friend on the first day of the year: “’I really must not smoke so persistently; I must turn over a new leaf —a tobacco leaf—and have a cigar only after each —” here he paused as If, to say "meal,” but he continued—"after each cigar.’"