Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — Patent New Year’s Resolves. [ARTICLE]

Patent New Year’s Resolves.

I will get up and dresa-wkon the breakfast bell rings. 1 rl ’xyill not complain when everything goes to spit me. I will treat my wifd as politely as though she was a perfect stranger. I will strive to be more thoughtful for my own comfort, that others, seeing me happy, may also endeavoi - to be contented. I will not spend ,so much money this year on the useless frivolities of life. I will endeavor to impress upon my family the duty of,greeting, with cheerful voices and laughing faces, the father of .a family when he returns home, wearied with the depressing cares and labors of a long business day; I will go out by myself oftener, !n order that my family may enjoy the tranquil and improving pleasure of a long, uninterrupted evening in the quiet sanctity of a happy home. I mijst be more unselfish, and take better care, of my st If that I may long be spared to be the joy and light, of the hprne which it has p!eased-an appreciai tive Providence to bestow upon me. I will pay my pew rent-this year, If I have to deny myself a'new overcoat, and my children have to go without shoe* I feel that we have not heretofore sufficiently denled'ourselves jn little luxuries

for the sake of maintaining a good appearance at church. I will be, in all things, an affectionate husband, a loving father, a good provider; and I will rear up a family that will love and respect me, and render to me prompt and cheerful obedience, with perfect deference to my comfort, or I will break their backs in the in Ladies' Home Journal.