r _ —-- bls who In protestations. The lover souls, In fair on our we are a way to improve. promises all without things reserve <QpPoSO w (&£&" w Jsjg is too often who It is only like 4he fellow when blindly consider we > Hotel doesn't question the ask ourselves bill right in everything that as nor Little & the price of the he wine, because all we are wrong. tif IL doesn't intend It The is only to it when blindly consider pay anyway. we NEW-BOW TOE YEAB. fellow who is prodigal his ourselves with right in everything that vows as Jeffrey’s and promises and all poetry is generally we are wrong. the Slo whom So to if such things look back one shows mistakes mean your •— you nW? cwS nothing and, being of and value, and misbeliefs, be can no errors I - gg? dyings yESTERNIGHT <gg the lay New Year be flung about glad that the generously New Year year to gives every a you 3ft* girl he clean slate meets. The firm the biggest to with try for the right road By couch lowly met. his we front and the office the true is be likely to goal. ®* rpo Bringing ivy-leaves, and trying Be thankful with the deposit the in for smallest the one mental Luck perspective sighing safe. The when Some with loudest with smiles who off it with see clear sight— and some swears you man o& with New Year’s usually the true is new on one eyes. 3 forget * To remember—or sag \ they There have home the morning is to need of making resolutions, carry no - /Awb VxQxv after. chap who right And the promises for seeing right a means . waking. <\sS Now nursling the W-cJ* is year i F""l thinking girl will and life of is the who right thinking is the ITTLE Jeffrey a roses one was an orw " \ Ofc> "* OVq r path right let her all the thorns off for herself.’’ to living. pick phan oLj And oU lad whose father gaze into his we eyes. O \ZIA_ [ Perhaps /O faults killed those in railroad A\ your are was > mean a Heedless of forsaking, _. his sires gnzp little rarnwijr which > accident when Jeffrey “Perhaps,” sighed the would like widow, chewing ones to you oL, In his cradle he taking is exchange in bunch for tiny noble b b bis the of violet thoughtfully, sin, stem a one was a a y a « >&Aa _ M/O but there exchanges mother’s of that And the Gifts skies. “the best sort from and to of are earth and no arms. way a cure a man sea w should all be noble mother had been for sinners. made taste anything, after let or we all, is to ' The petty faults Hl the 'll him have of thorns that dden much instead too of it so are l ® su c>h2n Dawn of gold and gleaming, a$P/- sunset cluster round i death of of the little making him finest Jeffrey’s oft. If want some you roses swear April and Junetide oK* in life’s big father that »THER garden, she eve him has found crowding, jarring, hate the smell of insist to pipe morn year was no a overtopping longer able to i just his the A another in their for smoking all time. If getting Things one care of on as we were eagerness you truth of and seeming, not \&D O LnaaKaJ her to the baby and mfortably get to light. few want him to sign the used the temperance to - a These have glorified his dreaming, months later she father Maybe the went join fid< old to the pledge, him wine with dea that had has been good year serve every summer a AQv and He friend baby Jeffrey the heir, the born really in left all newly If special instances him hate that want to was course. gone. some you a alone in the world. Invite Busy recall. her people have to meet him you can woman, every never oP o)° Then friendly who Perhaps neighbors time he time brought had dwell much it calls, and tell him how ‘suitable’ to back with very you his he SV? In tiny grasp treasures too their'Swn babies of short, sharp A? she be.” the passing the shock from many to find would of too a v on ' seams. a arrogant s%> o\gs Riches be that for this little fatherless may soon ours— happiness room and overconfident “And if you,” him love SO! or an want to success. you So cjj£ z *»' motherless boy had him taken The days full of to ok? 9]o Sunlight gold finished ■■ brimming the “don’t •- an bachelor, ask him are so in measures, orphan up’ asylum and he tai sks Be glad of that with and Father Time is jar; though it even grew to it, but tell him that he really swear fragrances Meadow pleasures. and Jw-* 50 other boys and girls kept who had always catching and stirred for awhile. ought The you no not to. best to up up way manage ojg cSo , ’ ** mother Honeyed floWers. of father. ’ distilled getting ahead Perhaps " of of the or wine in spite his advanced past 12 nionths have donkey—human otherwise us a or — . When Alice Lane healed to the breach brought came is his head the age. to turn direction some in or some wrong home was. she eight It old. always ship home, Her is the the old story! white sails of which years he’ll right Soon and back in the same the child will frolic lightly < mother and; father had died Spring have within been surprises with its blossoms watching wistfully for one.” you us c&. Pg O weejqs his father grass-green grave; er few s of a another and it and its bursting months brooks and then far out at one or years “Then,” sea. the said decisively, widow sa<feyed ' little Day was girl who Be glad of that. a crept shall has be his and before playmate brightly, summer come we gone ought to begin the 'New Year by we about the 'Bt big the home. know Perhaps it. millstone rooms has fallen Sp some making irresolutions.” And his > '■ nightly sleep sweetened some be •• Jeff¥&V Little had big heart from and he Very few of think that and ■ OAgy. stop to stand free a at last you fth/O us you “Some on —what?” ’ / cs2? *■’ By of Affce.* the wind felt < songs and this wave. swiftness the great very of time in passing highway its with long, manacled “Vows that won’t the stop doing we > ”j'hifiT On the , '.'i}ay' 'after her Indicates that reached really living the Arthur L." Salmon. xP out to sky. arms arrival we are things ought do,” explained to not we walkdß he her and planti rather than Be glad! lolling through life. the widow. Srtier '' Tfont Ing himself “in he said! It Or is only when the hang has days settled troubled ca&' peace upon on a cPc> “All right," agreed the bachelor , Latfe, “Alice do why hands that blessed and know how the sunrise cry • greet se our ocean you can we ifto r>osW&> thoughtfully, JPCxQO/i ’Til make irresolu-’ ' pt£y?” ‘iMly so an ytfff much? those with other times when haveto smile and of thankfulness are a we a prayer tion to making love to go on you as was*%uch He effaced make lists of another a the things for day. we many much I like.” as fellow little smiled faint have Maybe to do and get early mornings there is cradle in a up a one corner “You much like, I Mr. t smile? d'fiA mean, as as little It the first since begin to them. was of home this New Year’s your eve Travers,” corrected the widow [ her mother’s severely. death. tears Then 'the Of likely with to complain most important cuddled guest course we a are , again and she sobbed: came that in little down blankets get done, especially and rosd-leaf palms we so “How much like?” the do asked “I want Jeffrey: you I want this kisses. mamma, at time, upturned for when the calendars tell your bachelor, leaning look into too, to and home.' over papa, This is that another 365 No need fell my own days have become to to be glad. us you the widow’s ( big and lonesome and they don’t eyes. love part of Or yesterday’s 7,000 has to a success years. come crown some , like The widow kicked the the and papa.” of you mamma We look effort corner back regretfully and repine at which have toiled rather you New Year Irresolutions From that time Alice tentatively. and Jeffrey that rug wearily, on have little record the hardly daring to in to hope. we so [ the best of friends. were He “I like—all the but proposing,” she of achievement, Or if it beyond has been the "withheld, be glad was way mere . such cheerful little fellow a and often said slowly. “You ought of that really to act living from day day and from have nevertheless to tried. It you droll that so times Alice stop that —” many will all week to week. to day. come you some laughed in spite of herself. The But living in the old has “I’m right spirit, striving, taught going to stop it —to-night.” lessons. year us The Widow Discusses ( But when Them Alice began to talk much Let if always The not accomplishing and profit by them and widow looked enter into in alarm. us up . of her home and her and t4sks mamma completing the the With armed with By the Bachelor. set ourselves, experience rather papa HELRN ROWLAND “Oh, new don’t have we to you commence ! he began regret/ to wish for too. The is nothing than plunge into one, to it though it keeping as resolutions until tomorrow were your wish fo and until grew at last he grew It garden. that simple life a comes near rose morning,” she said quickly. f felt that there nothing in the was that It is sounds grand and inspiring quite full of danger and “And so going to refusing as conflict stop are you ■ world that he wanted except mother when the I had. it is lived in the but and clouds the a sweetest It woods, old friend that SN’T it hard, said the me—to-night,” ever continued the bachelor as was and father and home. a When a which than the is quite is going. sweeter fine when lived apples I stole when in widow, firmly. as a I glancing ruefully ( Christmas time and the chil came big I city. Let kid and the kisses wish it will have I stole the was us at holly-wreathed a even as The widow studied the of corner dren their wishes wrote piece o! There on when much sunshine a —” is doubt that when try and gladness joy. and clock the no mantel-piece, we the on with great rug concern. ( of the house paper one mothers read “If to here set standards of happiness We dilate the and meet it with splendid hope to know up can to where you came to begin on “And,” the bachelor, taking went on in Jeffrey’s: “Pies, I don’t want joys of contentment and and lively faith—for the of sin, Mr. Travers,” the at close those began qualities two reforming peace yourself?” something from his pocket and > nothing but father and a mother that has what a widow had its rifts of make coldly. dreams year a “Great sunshine are heavens!” our come ex- thoughtfully, toying with it “you are and home with flowers in a the window." true. pffAn “And," and its stretches of shade, that proceeded the bachelor. claimed the bachelor, going this ring”—he leaned to put on lL<> it is impossible “I’ve to Let cherish made mind put wealth, flirting fame, few to stop good hopes that “you up us going do my or { not to a are the caught widow’s hand and over, I From time to time children with personal it girl, because popularity, beauty bring I found the were ' anything out or success, things stand ‘ like that, a may us we are slipped the glittering thing her on r taken from the orphans’ home by that she health itself 'nfeed forward in beginning the of—health, to—to—” happiness, ?” or even good peo, was as y° u “Now,” third finger. he began, “you pie who had children mmmmU of their no great, good thing that “I understand,” makes life worth interrupted the own. The widow pointed solemnly that going to will —” are say you ( The house mother hoped living. much widow sympathetically. vision- so to the teach discern hands to the of the clock, us The widow suddenly. sprang up that little Jeffery would be thing chosen The that "which “And, is the false by Jove!” finished the bachelor, counts ability from the indicated true. ll:3f, then and to “Oh, don’t, don’t, don’t!” she cried. . and his wish granted. But the and the desire people “I to feel the had restrain interest in May it leave to myself to keep calendar, beliefs an and which hung fluttering us our on our one “In we’ll making moment a me promises!” who passed by the came things, in little from events and ideals. going persons—in the eager back and proposing to '*-» leaf marked December 31. ( fellow who eyed each of her!” life itself. Teach “It to love newcomer game is time,” and she to hate sighed, “to begin us more “We don’t need to,” said the bachelor, hopefully. All the other blessings “How lucky did!” pall unless commented not all. at ' mental house-cleaning; to out you sweep back nonchalantly, leaning “we . Sc Christmas day passed and that Jeffrey interest the widow witheringly. remains. It is To be closely contenLwith collection the blessings of that last very our year’s follies and begin by making—arrangements. received can sweetmeats and akin health “But for I wouldn’t have,” to it is of explained part warm dust off petty sins fling and a we our away Would prefer to live in town clothing or and iron you engine, but an youth, of not the bachelor ruefully, vitality, of life. To “if the had cultivate old vices gorl sweetness and and—” good our nature at Tuxedo? And do think Europe the father you and mother and home. It has become the restrained herself." general rather than “That’s practice the exclusiveness. trouble!” broke the in th£—” the for Bermuda best place He cried himself or to sleep that night to speed the “Nevertheless,” departure of the To bachelor. repeated the widow. old the world with “It’s meet smile. hard to know just year a so .in "Bermuda, means,” by all broke had to turn comforter for with indication To “It the of rejoicing, what lucky—for girl.” welcoming stifle criticism throw things to of and every and what was keep. to away peo xi “and have the widow, I wish you’d the’n few days. in the “Which girl?” asked the bachelor. with acclaim pie. Making and New Year’s resolutions like new is that hideous portico taken off “Mamma your always said New Year’s “The expressions satisfaction. girl doing the I broke off with the girl of Never to make spring little of housecleaning or our own. or house, Billy, —” Bus the 'the town and lucky day and was maybe you’ll that It is afterward?” natural and wholesome to look clearing out drawer full of old letters came a her smothered in of rest words get them then. were And if THE POOR OLO don’t, YEAR. then you “I suppose,” forward, but those of who wish the widow mused ignoring to and sentimental rubbish. You us the bachelor’s lapel—and coat will other something time, ’cause you Mother' some include the brick the levity leaning of gratitude in the and know to that there lots of things over are else. Burns said she’d try.” building of characters bunch should ought of violets her learn at belt, to get rid of, that and arrange our a you are On New “Then do Year’s to morning Jeffrey you mean marry me, omit “that is why it is to complaints of the luck the just in the difficult for that and would our so a way, you after all!” cried the bachelor triumphantly. awake early, and his first was thought old brought keep has promise be better off without, to “ but the minute year - man a us. or a vow— was: the In truth, marriage vow.” will be make to mind to with a new year part even a you up your “Maybe the mother’ll widow gasped for breath and to-day.” The come “Oh, great extent like the old I don’t know.” The bachelor —what anything, tiny, insignificant we even a A few hours later hair anxiously. her patted pretty a very make it and how take it. vice, it leaned back and regarded the widow’s suddenly becomes dear and we so dressed in velvet woman and furs followed “I —I to all the meant Things will happen coronet braid through the in accordance attractive that smoke of marry you repent and begin you by tall the to home. a man came time!” she cried, “but thought I his cigar. “It isn’t the with the laws that guide this to take interest it. marriage big in The never only same new a vows Little Jeffrey looked hopefully. But up really —” difficult in earnest and that to keep. earth of which time I had It’s the small be taken home part. in you were to are so we are a ever the seemed not to the boys woman see fool makes before So 1908 cab the “Methinks,” the greet in day after I quoted bachelor calm and promised to a man a vows we can a was marriage for her scanning the faces eyes were the fool promises he happy rather and makes happily, “ ‘that neither than with sign the pledge," the of did and bachelor any manner, us protest of the little girls. When she to *at" same sighed afterward that he stumbles and much.’ We manifestations of frenzied joy reminiscently. haven’t too made its over any Alice she started: The falls marriage know.” coming, have “And the only I down promises, and let the good time overdrew on. vows you us ever manners “That’s the Jerome,” she said one, parting bank big that account,” and get speed declared the widow, to guest, 1907, one,” my “Not rejoined the are vague can widow so you our eagerly. “The gentle face and same “was all them without the after had around politely. day I resolved actually promptly, “as flirting.” to my blue and golden hair. We eyes must breaking them, if they economize. suppose,” but should to I she interpolate added With his faults “Nor to clubs.” all know him for as my we have her. It will like having seem our pensively, “thad the concrete questions into the best begin to “Nor relatives.” what he and the to is way as my was new year as little Alice back again!” would be pick the service such ‘Do William, to out vice worst as, you, “Nor cigars.” yet stranger to a us. my When she learned the cf the name the and discard that.” promise growl —’ not to at coffee “And won’t vows,” We hope and believe make that all we any can little girl she had chosen she was “And that will “Or, ‘Do leave Mary, promise heaps of you, never room things will cried the widow, “except marriage good with him, but come still interested. more the others daub of powder for and for lot put of little to a a on your nose new let avoid the hackneyed vows.” congratulation us “You would like home to with go me, again?’ ” the sins, beside, won’t it?” broke in widow. the agreed the of passing twelvemonth Year’s "And New irresolutions,” oq a dear, wouldn’t you?” she asked bachelor cheerfully. “Well," “Nor look twice pretty he added to at your that probably treated better bachelor. the added us Alice. “I’ll philosophically, give stenographer,” continued the bachelor. murdering.” up than deserved. Hit Him Again. He’s Got No Friends we “Listen!” cried the softly, widow “Yes, ma’am,” Alice, answered “but The dawning of another January is with her fingers her lips. 1 couldn’t on without Jeffrey, ’cause go "What!” the widow started. “Nor lie about to age, your or your GOOD-BY, OLD YEAR. invariably the time for what called of thousand silver are A peal bells he’s been friend and he a wants my a “Don’t to?” asked the foot waist measure.” want you or your me “good resolutions,’” which translate the midnight air. father out and mother bad.” rang on a so By Clifford Kane Stout. bachelor bald “Nor juggle with the truth whenever plaintively, rubbing his to themselves rash into promises, usually “Ob, but I don’t chimes!” exclaimed widow. little “The the want boy, Good-by, Old Year, mission a ends your “Or perhaps might not after half-past ten.” spot I resolve stay out you the broken before is well new year dear. under With midnight chimes I just full and all Is dons. want little “They’re of promises.” girl to one “Nor things highway to listen that commit robbery to —that to more any The records writ with joy less, way. or make it though Alice seem as thought it sounded like wedding “I my own a anybody—except husband forging or—” to stop The deeds fulfilled and your guerdons or may won the old-fashioned That of living,” was way answered the lady. were bell,” said the bachelor, disappointedly. Are hung trophies round thy rime, in the “All of which is easy!” broke in conservatory—oh, to as you say so expressing inclination to reform “Then I can’t an come,” said Alice, “unless And thou named with olden time. are it feels!” finished how the the widow sarcastically. I widow see one’s bad habits and people kept they make go.” on me the widow, “it “Maybe,” said sympathetic shudder. “There’d with little was be glory and a some some Forevermore ;oh, fateful past, from youth old making these to For few the age moments and a man off.” —Los Love —ringing Angeles only reflected yet,” the giving bachelor, in vice,” sighed “And That much law big change; reason saw so no up a can resolutions good 31st of December, talked together every and the woman man Beginning and the end of things Times. the always bachelor, is exacting “if fellow had “a woman vows a one. finding themselves each further seemed That be, the to in little Jeffrey to all the year and strange, were new see the the trouble she But is that promises from loves, of and most man us men The old and bloom and and blight. from perfection than worn things that other people had ever. missed. Year’s Calls. —for New haven’t bars him big criminal putting to tendencies, always any up Passed to the dark born light. to or H® the honest blue Good resolutions the not firm saw eyes, are so prevalent, heap she would merely of when if only visiting little follies of and sending and jump The custom a over; ath and the manly walk, at least not noisy they and he mt oh, for happy as And, or so some year; that be perfectly weaknesses there he would isn’t him cards New Year’s alone and day leave presents any particular on Sweet wedding bells joyously; ahead when the used be at this time. little to rang saw years same in virtue bounds and sacrificing within far back history contented stay almost to is recorded or as as any Old friends clasped hands and strangers boy might be his partner in business. become popular They have material harm in particular A keeping.” of his pasture. The practice using visiting in met, man graze own goes. Then he said to Jeffrey: the comic and everybody for papers And sunshine fell glad and free which so “And always do keep, in being pinned down; but traced back for thousands hates be cards you woman a can “We On buoyant youth, and smiles fair, want well daughtetr. joke they know’s what a son, as are. were as a a New Year’s that of all vows,” anything spite doesn’t want around by the Chinese. Their of your years And laughter bantered pain and care. So will take home Nevertheless, the close of ind is we you a year widow ironically. the remarked she oan’t from her belt and pin down, New Year’s visiting cards curiosities. are give happy New Year.” capital time for look back, retrospect you a a a a fall theories her Some must in bachelor her to her hat and husband.” tears "Huh!” The laughed Each forth sets not only the cynically, every ysar; one “New Year’s is the lucky isn’t day, in which the faults Your portion when grief had set we can see came Yetr’s "It’s New that but the titles of its all vows name, owner, our A badge of mourning the hearts it?” answered Jeffrey, beaming the mend with the on into that are on us, or The keep ’em. fact “Well," all Chinamen have help to protested the widow studying and, who very as any us Of whose love could forget, net some the faces his of have persevered and parents. And that new grown ones fellow has to forego position have that the of her social at all about slipper, “it is And hopefully, without dismay, toe satisfaction anything, a sworn a a the smile the lady’s heart and stronger. won They covered friends of yesteiday. whether it’s habit girl, makes the list know you’ve it quite appall to husband dozen, got a a or your him she took gladly she did tendency has Mayoe as as somw new it attractive. thrown makes I’ve fastened cards straight These of by his ing. made silk more are on or Old Year; the New; Good-by, regret we Alice. which does not promise sprung up whole of the box cigars with held backed promises and in his fine with silk place by else of and away a paper When recall gifts and cost your we Jeffrey his So found father and well. the world then double portion show finest intentions in and that then he that they have May and loves large to be rolled a own vows you are so home o’er which lost. mother Thy favors wad and all sister if til events able won was At to get a on the middle of the night gotten in to—” enough be carried are to conveniently. They we up up Good-by! A hand parting; then at New Year's day.—Fanwn' of view characters the a nappy fish the out of pieces waste basket. “Usually,” Interrupted the bachelor, to indeed, valuable as that the/ a our new are, so ais benediction and A amen, 1 Review, searchlight had been thrown that midnight smoke though And “a inverse loves in ratio to their was returned to a man -Cincinnati Enquirer. you owners I I I - - I*