Seiling Messenger. (Seiling, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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KO MISCONSTRUCTION
U 8 Government la Carefully Watch
lng the Expressions of Opinion
Particularly In ths Brit- ’
I iah Press
A little editorial talk
about joys and sor-
rows failures and
achievements of the old
year and hopes and
promises for the new : :
Suggestions for a New
Year's Eve party : : Also
a few words by a doctor
about “swearing off 99
TANPINO as we are upon the
threshold of another year many of
ns will In fancy so back over the
twelve months that have passed
and smile when we recall the "New
Tear resolutions’ wo made a year
ago
“Tea a woman wilt say 1
good resolutions last New Tear’s— my In
- teattoos ’were of the very best bat I did
aot have the will power to live up to them
Pray what Is the sense of making new ones?"
Well forget last year’s good resolutions and
forget the past year entirely Turn with hope
and confidence to the great new year about to
dawn and — yea make new good resolutions as
many of them as your brain can conjure up Per-
haps you did fall to keep the good Intentions
that made you so happy when you thought them
out but remember you are very human Indeed
If we all were not so very human there would be
absolutely no need of our ever making any kind
of good resolutions
Many of ns will see the old year go with few
regrets It brought us perhaps an extra share
of cares and disappointments but are we not all
the better and stronger for them and will not
the lessons they taught ns stand us In good stead
during the coming daysT Dear friend let me as-
sure yon that the difficulties and discouragements
you surmounted during this still present year will
without question make you a better and braver
iwoman
Welcome the new year and by all means make
new good resolutions Every one of us needs to
make them because as I have said we are all
jrnnn or woman
in the hearts of most of us Is a wonder a curi-
oslty as to what the coming year may bring to
us whether good fortune or bad sorrow or Joy
j How many of ns realize that the shaping of our
'fortunes during the year to come Is In our hands?
'jWe do not need to depend on some Imaginary
fate to deal ns out good luck or bad as she will
If we have the earnestness and the desire to sue-jceed-
1 All Desire Happiness
LBut after all we want something more out of
s year to come than Just material success Wel-
lcome though that may be Success la not always
attended by happiness and what we all desire
'la reality la 1917 Is happiness no matter what Its
sosrea To be contented and happy that Is the
most we can wish for anyone Including ourselves
fir can find true happiness by making and keep-
log the proper kind of New Tear’s resolutions
The annual period for taking stock of our
maataL spiritual and material resources finds
most of ns about where we were a year ago Ws
ars living about the same We are thinking about
tbs-same thoughts
We are animated by about the same expecta-
tions When we are depressed It Is because of
tbs same old fears
Borne have learned something In the dying
year Some have not Some hope to learn during
tbs coming year
Most of us spend the main portimis of our lives
In disappointment over the failure of that which
we hoped might come to pass balancing that with
eur washed-out pleasure that the worst of the "
gtings we feared did not happen Some of us
‘lack grip upon ourselves
This annual stock-taking of our mentality
Should light the future of the coming year with
tbs experience of the year Just passed If It
doesn't do that we are not doing the Job right
The extent to which we have learned our les-
sons In the old year will be the measure In which
we may gauge our expectations for the new year
Turning the New Leaf
’ from time Immemorial It has been the custom
if the forehanded good old-fashioned neighbor to
square up bis account make new resolves start
cutting f certain bad habits aad “turn over a
leaf
This ts perfectly reasonable and natural As ths
a new eye's of Urn as we la
etlnctJvely pause and make ready for a fair new
start In life even though we know that neither
life nor time has any pause In Its onward sweep
It is probable that there are many more New
Tear's resolutions broken than nre kept strictly
through the year Even so there Is good value In
the making of them In spite of what somebody -has
said about the downward road being paved
with good Intentions f
Uod new resolves are good for us sny time
and a backward glance will not hinder our for-
ward march We cannot make too many efforts
to prune off bed habits and such other dead wood
as we find In our lives each year All who have no
faults please stand!
However It may be that the best New Tear’s
resolve we can make this first holiday of 1917 will
be to start the good habit of beginning new every
morning
After all the mistakes and disappointments End
business bsttles that leave us tired and sour and '
sick there comes s new day so thst we can begin
over again and do better it we start such a plan
the coming year and those following It will be
happier new years
New Year's Entertaining
New Tear’s eve Is an occasion of big celebra-
tion all over the country every man and woman
having a desire to speed the old year and wel-
come the new with some form of festivity Ia
the cities the hotels and restaurants make a big
feature of this holiday and each and every one
advertises a special supper with dancing etc
This Is all very well for those who do not have
to count the pennies when seeking pleasure for
entertainment on New Tear’s eve comes high
Everyone wants to be amused to greet the Incom-
ing twelve months with Jollity and song
and the consequence Is that the restaurants de-
mand and get high prices for entertainment on
that occasion
There are no end of enjoyable ways of enter-
talnlng In one’s own home on New Tear’s
eve and the woman sbo wishes to give pleasure
to the family and friends on this occasion can
do s at very little expens All she needs Is to
ask a Jolly crowd to think out a clever scheme
of table decoration to arrange some forms of
amnsement and all will be well
Tlr woman who has fairly large rooms In her
house will do well to select dancing as the chief
foirr of entertainment for the evening Dancing
haw lost none of Its fascination for the majority
of folks and If It Is made the big feature of the
party It Is safe to say that most of the guests
will be well pleased A small dance need not be
an expensive affair If you have a phonograph -all
la well If not surely you have some friend
from whom you can borrow an Instrument for
the evening Dancing to a phonograph Is Just aa
good fun as dancing to so orchestra provided
one's partner is skillful at treading the "light
fantastic’
When giving a New Tear’s era party where
dancing Is to be the chief attraction of the eve
nlng It Is a good Idea to ask erne’s guests to come
to the affslr masked This will lend mystery and
excitement to the party and there will bo great
fun when the guests unmask as the hour strikes
twelve and the new year Is ushered In to tbs
tnne of many happy voices wishing each other
"Happy New Tear"
After the usual felicitations are over supper
should be served This may be simple or elab-
orate Just ss the hostess desires
As for table decorations a pretty centerpiece
Is to have a star made from a brilliant red polo-
settla In the middle of the star place a tall
candlestick with a long white candle for the new
year 'Each point of the star should be marked
ly a low candlestick bolding a shorter wrhlte
candle At the left of each piste have a spray of
loinaettla A pretty way to serve Ice cream on
this occasion would be to have It molded In ths
ftrro of a candle and candlestick the candle to
be the vanilla cream and the candlestick to be
of islacliln green A tiny wax taper may be In-
serted al the top of each "candle" and lighted
Just as all are brought In
A simple supper menu for New Tear's eve
m’ghf consist of hot bouillon (a thin soup) served
In ru so thut it Is easy to hand around chicken
snlail sandwiches Ice cream cake and coffee '
The sapper should be of the buffet order tbs r
men vu rata helping the girts to the food they re-
quire On this way the need of extra help Is
dleproard with and no additional sspenss Is In-
curred on this seors -
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For those who do not care for dancing cards
either bridge "rum" fantan or some other popu-
lar gnme will do to pass the hours before twelve
Doctor Smith Talks
Drinks smokes and candy are not the only
things to swear off on New Tear's day There
are plenty of others and for most of us the others
are much more important’ as fortunately the
readers of this department ars not victims of
rum and tobacco
New Tear resolutions however should not con-
sist entirely of "swear offs" Too many “don'ts"
are not advisable "Do" Is much better
"don’t” Positive resolves are better than nega-
tire ones If you "swear on" enough good habits
It will not be necessary to "swear off" any bad
ones In other words positive or constructive
policies ate better than negative or destructive
ones This applies to health Just as much as to
anything else a life So don't think you can "get
by" simply by swearing off on one or two of your
‘ pet vices Not at sIL Tour New Tear resolu-
tions to be of any real value must be construc-
tive Tou must decide not only to quit some
things but to begin some things also
i Good resolves and swear offs may be grouped
In pairs and to advantage It seems to mg Let's
try It that way for a change
I will take good care of my body
I will not abuse it
- Held Up Yeur Right Hand
This first pair of resolves looks pretty simple
but If you think a minute you will see that It In-
dudes a multitude of things It actually Is ths
whole thing In a nutshell If you swear this par-
ticular pair of swears and keep your oath you
' will have health and happiness all the year and
your bill at the doctor's and the drug store will
be so small that you can have an extra new dress
Instead Let’s see what It does Include
I will have "house cleaning" In the house I
live In '
I will not procrastinate In Instituting prepar-
edness against disease
This means that you will have the dentist go
over your teeth with absolute regularity once or
twice a year but It also means that yoa have
sense enough to know that the rest of your body
Is at least as Important as your teeth and that
you will have your doctor examine you from head
to foot and fix up anything that needs It before
any symptoms appear which would simply mean
that the process bad gone on so far that correc-
tion would be much more difficult If not impos-
sible This would Include an examination of the
urine and the blood pressure both of which
should be Investigated once every year In the
case of every person over forty years of ago
I will keep clean Inside and out
I will avoid dirt
This means not ‘only the dally hath but It
means the flushing of the Inside of the body so as
to keep the sewers working It means the drink-
ing of about a gallon of fluid per day It also
means keeping the teeth scrupulously neat
ctnanslng them morning noon snd night so that
they will not Infect every single mouthful of food
yon swallow What Is the use of pure-fond laws
tf you save a choice selection of germs between
your teeth so as to spread them on tbs food which
Uncle Kara certifies Is “pure"
It rlso means sufficient exercise to maintain
bodily activity so that circulation will keep things
clfan Inside and prevent stagnation It also means
plenty of fresh air so that the oxygen will oxi-
date or burn up all the debris and the poisons
and the toxins which are being formed In every
Imdy all ths time as the result of eating and of
living
Keep Smiling s
t will cultivate good cheer
I will avoid anger hate and moroseneoa
It doesn't hurt to smile Remember that It I
Isn’t hard work It doesn't cost anything It
Isn't simply for others that one should smile It
helps one’s self even more than others Ding I
Whistle I Laugh I - These things do not cost any-
thing either and they help a great deal We
diitors know that If ws can get s patient to
laugh and sing It Is pretty sure that he Is on the
mend and on It good and strong We also know
that anger hate sulks pessimism and all such
horrid thing are actually destructive This Is
not Christian Science or any other sectarianism
but Just plain romiqoa sense backed up by the
latest laboratory experiments All these mental
conditions cause the formation of actually poison-
ous chemicals In the body and at the same time
hltdar the activities cf normal health
Washington D C Dec 23 — While
nothing official came rrom Europe to-
day to show when the belligerents will
reply to President Wilson’s note urg-
ing discussion of peace or what the
nature of the responses might be Lon-
don news dispatches Indicating that an
early reply was unlikely because of the
necessity of consultation between the
allies agreed with the view prevail
lng here
Apparently the administration hav
lng discussed the note and in the in
terest of caution having taken steps
to see ’that no misconstruction abroad
was placed on the president’s purpos-A
now Is carefully watching the expres-
sions of opinions particularly In the
British press As the attitude of the
Teutonic allies had been clearly for
shadowed In advance and the presl
dent In the note specifically dis-
claimed any association with that at-
titude the Interest of American offi-
cials centered on the reception of the
note In the ententq countries and
among the European neutrals
It was recalled as the leading dis-
patches most of them hostile arrived
that similar expressions greeted the
original proposals of the central al-
lies but that the views were mod
crated In the British press and among
the entente diplomats here after re-
flection and discussion
To preclude any possibility of mis-
construction of the president's pur
poses from the flurry of yesterday
caught by Secretary Lansing's two
statements both statements were
cabled today to American diplomats
abroad In neutral as well as bellig-
erent countries so they might be pre-
pared to state correctly the presi-
dent’s attitude
Land Values Sure to Advance
Because of Increasing De-
mand for Farm Products -
RE60ENT FORGED INTO LIKE
New York Dec 23— The following
Is the summer? compiled by The As-
sociated Press at New York from the
reports from the various countries at
war:
Except In northern Dobrudja where
the troops of the central powers con-
tinue to drive the Russians and Ruma-
nians towards Bessarabia there has
been little Important activity on the
battle (yonts of Europe
The Russian troops In Dobrudja
Petrograd announces were forced to
retire northward under heavy attacks
from numerically superior hostile
forces Berlin states that the Teuton-
ic army in Dobrudja continues to ad
vance successfully an announces the
capture or 900 Russian soldiers East
of Lake Babadagh a Russian regiment
Petrograd records drove a force of
Blugarians Into Lake Ibotata A great
many Bulgarians were drowned and
115 were tnade prisoners
The artillery bombardment continues
at various points on the western front
Berlin reports Increased activity In
the Bomme sector and on the east bank
of the Meuse In the Verdun region ths
scene of the latest French advanoe
In Galicia near the Ziocboff-Tamo-pol
railroad there has been a spirited
engagement Berlin reports the break-
ing of the advanced Russian line north
east of Zalostse while Petrograd saye
the Austro-Germans were compeleld to
retire after occupying some trenches
FIVE PERISHED IN THE FLAMES
State Heme For Aged Masons Their
Wives and Llttls Folks Entirely
Destroyed by Flames
Wichita Kan Dec 23— Five persons
dead two dangerously ill from inhal-
ing smoke nearly 100 aged persons
end children rendered homeless and a
property loss of approximately 9175000
Is the toll to date of the conflagra-
tion that laid the Kansas Masonic
home In West Wichita In ruins yes-
terday morning To the five dead may
be added Charles Lewis Smucker 7
years old of El Dorado whose lungs
are congested from breathing smoke
and John Morse 3 years old also a
smoke victim Miss Ettels Stewart
boys’ matron of the institution Is In
a serious condition from being ovdi-
come by smoko
KEEP UP COAL PRODUCTION
Governor Capper Sends Latter to Min-
ers and Operators
Topeka Kan Doc 33 — In order to
prevent suffering as the result of a
more serious fuel shortage In the state '
Governor Arthur Capper today sent an
span letter to coal miners and oper-
ators ia Kansas fields urging them not
to reduce the output of coal during the
holiday season as has been customary
The coal shortage in tbs state is so
acute as to be alarming
The cry from countries abroad for-
more of the necessaries of life is acute
today tomorrow It will be still more
Inslatent and there will be no letup?
after the wur This Is the day for
the farmer the day thut he Is coin-
ing' Into his own lie is gradually
becoming ihe dlctutor us It becomes
more appuront that upon hla Indus-
try deKMidH the great problem of
feeding a great world The fanner of
Canada and the L’nlted States hus It
within himself to hold the imsltlon that
stress of circumstance lias lifted hint
Into toduy The conditions abroad are
such thut the utmost dependence will
rest upon the farmers of this continent
fur some time after the wur and- for
this reason there la no hesitation In
muklng the statement that war’s de-
mands are and for a long time will be
Inexhaustible and the claims thut will
be made uKn the soil will with diffi-
culty be met There are today 25000-
000 men In the fighting ranks In tbs
old world The best of authority glves-
75 per cent and over ns having been
drawn from the farms There la there-
fore nearly 75 per qenl of the land for-
merly tilled nftw being unworked
Much of this land Is toduy tu a devas-
tated condition and If the wur should
end tomorrow It will take years to
bring It back to Its former producing
capacity j
Instead of the farmer producer pro-
ducing he hns become a consumer
muklng the strain upon those w ho bavs
been left to do the farming a very dif-
ficult one There may be agitation as
to the high cost of living and doubtless
there Is reason for It In many cases
The midineman may boost the prices
combines may organise to elevate tho
cost but one cannot get away from the
fact that 'the demand regulates the’
supply and the supply rcgulutes the
price The price of wheat — in fact all
grains— ss well as cattle will remain-
high for some time and the low prices
that have prevailed will not com'
again for some time - - -
After the war the demand for cattle
not alone for beef but for stock pur-'
poses to replenish ths exhausted berda-
of Europe will be keen Farm educa-
tors and advisers are telling 'you to’
prepare for this emergency How much
better It can be done on the low-priced
lands of today on lands that cost from
ten to twenty dollars per sere than It
can on two and three hundred-dollar-an-acre
land The lands of Western-
Canada meet all the requirements
They are productive Id every sense ot
the word The best' of grasses can bo
grown with abundant yields and the
grain can be produced from these soils'
that beats the worhL sad the same may
be said of cattle and horses The cli-
mate Is all that Is required
Those who are competent to Judge
claim that land prices will rias In value
from twenty to fifty per cent This Is
looked for In Western Canada where
lund are decidedly cheap today and
those who are fortunate enough to se-
cure now will realise wonderfully by
means of snch an Investment Ths
land that the Dominion Government la
giving sway as free homesteads In the
provinces of Manitoba Saskatchewan
and Alberta ars of a high class they
are abundant In every constituent that
goes to make the most productive
soils The yields of wheat oats and
barley that- have been grown on these
lands gives the best evidence of their
productiveness and when backed up
by the experience of the thousands of
settlers from the United Stales who
bare worked them and become wealthy
Un them little more should be re-
quired to convince those who are seek-
ing a home even with limited means
that now here can they secure anything
that will better equip them to become
one of the army of Industry to assist
In taking cars of the problem of feed-
ing the wogld These lands are free
but to those who desire larger holdings
than 100 acres there are the railroad
companies and land corporations from
whom purchase can be made at res- ’
sonsble prices and Information cm be
secured from the Canadian government
agent whose advertisement appears
elsewhere In this paper— Advertise-
ment
France is taking official notice olf
the American farm tractor In what ts
called the “mechanical culture"
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