People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — FIRST OF JANUARY RESOLUTIONS. [ARTICLE]

FIRST OF JANUARY RESOLUTIONS.

Notions That, Carried Out, Will Help to Make 1896 a Pleasant Year. If you wish to avoid ono fruitful cause of discomfort during the coining year, make a resolution not to grumble about the weather. Kicking and fault finding never made a hot day cooler or a cold day warmer; but, on the other hand, they always intensify the curront weather trouble Immensely. If you want to mako your husband good natured, resolvo to help him to have his own way invariably. Ho probably will anyhow, and tho adoption and carrying out of this resolution will save a whole lot of trouble. If your wife has got in the habit of asking you for money every day, resolve to make her a regular allowance and then keep your resolution. You’ll bo as much surprised by the result as she will be by the resolution. If you have become disheartened by the depravity of your fellow men, resolve to stop thinking about it and try to do a favor every day for some one of them. It will amaze you to see how quickly the world at large will improve in your eyes. If the new year finds you clean discouraged because of a lack of progress in 1896, review the 12 months carefully and see if wasted time has not b*een at the bottom of your failures. If it has, resolve to make the minutes count in 1896. A year is made up of minutes, and you cannot well fail to advance between New Year’s days if you make every minute count. If you have had hard work keeping your New Year’s resolutions in tho past, resolve this year to make none and to conduct yourself in such a way that none will be necessary. Good practice is better than good resolves always.