Seminole County News (Seminole, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1923 Page: 7 of 8
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OU are going to nuike a Now
Year's resolution. You may
not believe In doing so. You
may not want to do so. You
may stoutly affirm that you
will not do so. But to say
will not resolve to do any-
in itself a resolution. It
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tlmt you
thing is
means tliut you are determined to bold
to your present course. If you liuve
been a walibler, then you nre going to
keep ou wabbling; if you huve been
drifter, you are going to keep on drift-
ing ; If you have been without a tar-
get at which to shoot, then you are
going to keep right on banging away
with both eyes shut. Lt is a law that
a body unsupported falls to the
ground. And lt is
I
/'■'NLD thoughts ire like old habits—they are hard
^'to change. We would not care to change all old
thoughts nor all old habits, but what a stirring of
sap there is in the brain when a fine, brand new
thought blows in!
Perhaps it’s a very simple thought, about a
different way to do something quite ordinary;
but just that tiny jolt is enough to put newj
* energy and interest into the affair. J .
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Don’t be forever thinking along f
I ; monotonous lines; nobody in the
world can prevent you from
having "parties in your
head.” If you have a
crazy but beautiful
notion about
| traveling
somewhere,
keep thinking
cheerily about it;
even if you never get
there, it airs out your
brain and prevents other
discouraging suggestions from
^creeping in.
j Nobody ever got anywhere, made any 1
success, material or otherwise, without dream*
ing about it first.
The engine will grind and pound and be
thoroughly disagreeable unless oiled regularly.
Don t be stiff and rusty! Get into gear right
away . ... oil your cylinders with daring thoughts.
Who owns this old world, anyway? Habit—or YOU?
Happy Tear!
— MARTHA B. THOMAS
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II
also a law that
man unsupported
by a delinite pur-
pose uml resolu
tion Is dragged
down by the
force of clrcum
stances until he
bumps the bot-
tom.
I agree with
you that the av-
erage New Yenr's
resolution does
not amount to
picayune. There
ure three good
reasons why It
seldom lasts beyond the first week in
January.
In the first place, most of our res-
olutions are not resolutions at all
They are merely Idle, sentimental
wishes. And wisldng is a long way
from willing. The man wtio wishes to
be or to do a certain thing looks to
time and circumstance to help him
out. The man who wills to be or do
certain thing, gets up and goes to
It regardless. The man who wishes is
generally long on
who wills puts
a prayer.
prayer. The man
up a fight as well as
i&k.
THE FLIGHT
< OF TIME •
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Time’s Up
Another reason why our resolutions
amount to little Is because they are
in the wrong tense. Some years ago
a man came into ray study and
dropped limp, helpless, and hopeless
Into a chair. “I'm no good," he began.
“I have no power of will left. I have
been fighting a habit for years. I
I have resolved again and again to
cut it out. And after every resolu-
tion I have gone out and gone lower
than before. It's no use. I’m done
for,”
"Oet-out,” I replied, ‘‘you have as
much will ns any man. The trouble
is, you do not know how to use it.’’
“What do you mean?" he asked.
“I mean," I replied, “just what I
say. You don’t know how to use your
will. I'll bet every time you resolved
to quit this habit you put the resolu-
tion in the future tense. You said, 'I’m
going to quit.’ And something in the
hack of your hend said, ‘No, you will
not. You have said that before.’"
"What else could I have said?" he
asked.
“You could have put It in the past
tense—put tlie thing behind you In
By Grit Strutter Dewnm, in Ksnuti City Sur
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|OOD-BY, Old Year, food-by,
I bid you farewell tonight,
And I watch you go with a
bit of a sigh.
But my heart ia strangely
light.
For in my hand* I hold
The treasures you brought to ma.
Gifts more precious than wroughten
gold
Or gems from a tropic sea.
Jtr Economical Trantporlotlo*
Quality Cars at
Quantity Prices
A friendship proven true,
A hard task fairly done,
And a love which lives to bloom anew
With the light of every sun.
And you bear away, Old Year,
In your garments of trailing white.
An old regret and the ghost of a fear
As you vanish from me tonight.
number^iol f °W leadS a11 hish-grade cars in
Our new low prices have been made possible
through doubling our productive capacity.
We are now operating twelve mammoth manu-
tacturing and assembly plants throughout the
United Mates m which thousands of skilled work-
men pre turning out 2500 Chevrolets per day
Good-by, Old Year, good-byt
Smiling I watch you go;
We have been good comrades, you
and 1,
But you cannot stay, I know.
The New Year stands at the door.
Her promises fair I hear,
But still I linger to say once more,
Goodby, goodby, Old Year.
1 See Chevrolet First
Not with. landing our recent big reduction In price, the
quality and equipment of our car. have been steadily in-
a.6/!!*k “."jI tod»V Chevrolet stands beyond comparison
as the best dollar value of any car sold at any price and the
most economical car to maintain.
Chevrolet Motor Co., Detroit, Michigan
Division of General Motors Corporation
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Hears Calls
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All price, /. o. b. Flint, Michigan
Dealers and Service
Stations Everywhere
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HE gracious custom of call-
ing on New Year’s day has
not entirely gone out of J
style. It Is one relic left us [
of a time when the amenities
of life were more carefully
observed than now and hospitality a
grace deemed worthy of Intensive cul
tlvatlon. So yien, lay out your calls
and start 1024 In the spirit of nelgh-
horllness nnd the good old days
“When Knighthood Was In Flower.”
I’ut first on your list your aged
friends nnd acquaintances, since we
forget and neglect the aged with pa-
thetic disregard of their sensitiveness
and their loneliness. The line of
least resistance with many of us is to
avoid contact with querulous old ag»
wherever possible, and this is partio
ularly true during the holiday season,
Few children nre forgotten at Christ-
mas, but muny elderly persons ars
left to reflect bitterly on the thought-
lessness of youth and the fate of the
Nil
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C-jPAlM
Flowery Stuff, You Ninny.
Betty (sentimental) — I suppose
you’ve read “To a Wood Violet?”
Mr. Bohnhedd—Never. What do
you read to 'em?—Boston Transcript.
“CASCARETS” FOR LIVER
AND BOWELS—10c A BOX
People who cast bombs with their
mouths may enjoy the roar, hut they
are often sorry for the wreckage.
INDIGESTION, GASES,
UPSET, ACID STOMACH
“Pape's Diapepsin” Is the quickest,
_ nI.. ~ I surest relief for indigestion, gases,
jcuui ami me raie or un Cures Biliousness, Constipation, Sick flatulence, heartburn sourness or
superannuated through whose veins Headache,Indigestion. Drug stores. Adv. stomach distress caused by acidity A
the blood courses thin and alow r--:-i- J “ “ ‘L'
OR centuries lt has been the
custom,' at least among
northern nations, "to see the
old year out and the new
year in, with the highest
demonstrations of merri-
0000
went and conviviality. To but a few
loes it seem to occur that the day is
i memorandum of the subtraction of
mother year from the little sum of
Jfe.”
This old writer here quoted, goes
>n to soy: “With the multitude, the
top feeling is a desire to express good
ivishes for the next twelve months'
•xperience of their friends, and be
:he subject of similar benevolence on
the part of others, and to see this In-
terchange of cordial «feeling take
place, as far as possible in festive cir-
:u instances.”
The poet Longfellow, in one of his
prose works, has given advice ai to
the attitude to take respecting the
Sight of time of which all are so for-
rlbly reminded by New Year’s day.
3e writes:
“Look not mournfully Into the past.
!t comes not back again. Wise! t im-
>rove tile present. It Is thine. And
pi forth to meet the shadowy future
without fear and with a manly heart.”
HE close of a year makes ui
think of the passing dl
time. The following max
ims, old and new, shoult
make us think of the valui
of time:
Any time means no time most times
A man who does nothing never hai
time to do anything.
He who has most time has none u
lose.
Nothing is more precious than timi
and nothing less valued.
No reward can recover lost time.
Be always in time; too late is i
crime. ,
The time that bears no fruit do
serves no name.
Life is but time; waste the lattei
■Snd you reduce the former.
You may have time again, but new
er the time.
Take time when time is, for tirat
will uway.
Time present is the only thne you
can be sure of.
None can lie provident of time win
is not prudent in the choice of hii
company.
stead of in front
of you. Y’ou could
have said, T have
quit. It’s a tiling
of the past,’ and
gone on about
your business with
the feeling that
s o m e t hi n g had
been settled.”
“Thank you,” he
said, rising. “I
see what you
ntean.sln the^past
I have said, ‘I will
quit.' Now I say
to you, ‘I have
quit. Tlie old life
is behind me.”'
That was years
ago. ue lias stood true. It may be
a psychological trick, hut It is a good
one to put tlie thing you want to over
come behind you rather than in from
of you.
the blood courses thin and slow.
So put on your best bib nnd tuckei
and ‘take your cane if you wear one,
nnd, armed with, say, half a dozen
red roses, make as many calls on the
“shut-ins” and the veterans who sit In
the deepening twilight musing on the
days that are no more. Stay long
enough to crack your best joke, and.
since “one touch of rheumatism makes
tlie whole world kin,” do not forget to
ask after Aunt Mary's sciatica and
Uncle John’s lame arm. Make It a
happy, cheery kind of call—present
your gift and go your way, and our
word for It. you will begin the New
Year with every flag aflying.—Detroit
News.
Wasted Effort.
After one Is old enough he learns
that putting otT until tomorrow
doesn’t do any good.
Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
tlie face with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment in five minutes
with Cutlcuru Soup and hot water. It
is wonderful what, Cuticura will do
for poor complexions, dandruff, Itching
and red, rough hands.—Advertisement.
New Year Surprises
By Mary Graham Bonner
CANDY BONBONS
Intr the white of one egg, beaten
lightly, mix powdered sugar until stiff.
Add very strong black coffee to flavor
ind slightly color. Drop in a few
iRlves or quarters of walnut meats
»ne at a time. Drop from a fork onto
paper. Leave to dry over night.
BEST NEW YEAR V/ISH
The superiority of North American
civilization to that of South Amer-
ica lias been thus accounted for; The
Pilgrim came to America in search ot
God; the Spaniards came in search o!
gold; the difference between spiritual
and material foundations. In the state.
The best New Year wish for our na-
tion is a spiritual wish.—C. G. Hazard,
Another weakness in New Year’s
resolutions Is that as a rule they are
not backed up by a plan. As a mat
ter of fact, it would he a great deal
better to quit the business of making
a resolution for the New Year and
Instead make a plan for the New Year.
Frame up a reasonable program that
lei'ds toward the thing you want to be
of do. No one ever arrives at his goal
ia one leap. That’s the weakness and
deception In so many resolutions.
D m'l try to make It from the valley
ta the top of the mountain In one
Jump. Look up Hie slope and fix your
course as fur as you can see. The
Ilia her you get the further you will he
able to see and the faster you will be
aide to go. You gain strength in
climbing.
ft you take a tumble, keep your eye
on the top, pick yourself up. and go
on. Hold to the main plnn, and don't
bit*, off more of It at a time than you
can chew. As long ns you keep going
; you're a winner, no matter how long
It hikes you to get there.
(©. 1923, Wsstern Newspaper Union.)
N OLD-TIME custom on the
first day of the New Year
was for a group of people to
prepare surprise baskets
filled with fruit and nuts
and candies and ii jar of
jam or a pudding, and fixing the bas-
kets gayly with ribbon, take them
around to less fortunate ones.
Many and many were tlie small
All the world’s a stage, but that
doesn't sound so inspiring to those
who have to be supernumeraries.
few tablets give almost immediate
stomach relief. Correct your stomach
and digestion now for a few cents.
Druggists sell millions of packages of
I’ape’s Diapepsin.—Adv. „
Smile artificially in the right frame
Of mind and presently the smile will
be felt Inside.
Children’s hnndkerchlefs often loofe
hopeless when they come to the laun-
dry. Wash with good soap, rinse la
wuter blued witli Red Cross Ball Blue.
—Advertisement.
Prize rings are the proper place tfl>
strike a man for cash.
were
towns where the people followed this
custom, and as the basket was present-
ed, a happy New Year was wished to
the recipient.
It would be well for many of the
old customs to he preserved!
Our Postman’s Perquisite
By C. C HAZARD
SAY “BAYER” when you buy-^0tume
t roved sfafe by millions and prescribed by physicians for
Colds Headache Neuralgia Lumbago
Pain Toothache Neuritis Rheumatism
WHERE ARE THE INVENTORS?
The time Is herd agnio, and yet no
one has Invented a handy set of un-
breakable resolutions.
'©• 1923. Western Newspaper Union.)
IMPATIENT oomtnuters along
5jj|| the line of (lie I». L. & w. u.
N G. used to call it the “De-
lay, Linger and Wait route,”
and those who for various
reasons were in a hurry to
their mail were tempted to apply
Hie term to our postman. Certainly
they could not call him “Tlie Fast
Mall.” To tlie pace of a tortoise he
added conversational abilities that ar-
rested him with passing acquaintances
and Interestr that detained him upon
slreet corners, so that agonized lovers,
who had not hud letters since yester-
days, would see him heave in sight
down tlie street long before he dellv-
ered the precious messages, fretting
themselves in the meanwhile.
But he was so interested in our
postals, so sympathetic in our disap-
pointments, so willing to take packages
and letters down to the office am >0 (
buy us stamps, and such a bond he- j
tween us and our friends ufar, that
we forgave him even when he was a
missing link and brought us nothing i
and always upon New Year's day we •
were glad to make both hint and our-
selves happy with not unexpected, but
CaU'ly earned bills on our Uncle Sam.
> Accept only “Bayer” packagg
wtuch contains proven ejections.
Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets
A’so bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists,
^aspirin la the trade mark of Barer Manufacture of MouoaceUcaddester of SalicjIIcacttf
Two pleasant ways
to relieve a cough
W
TRADE
Take your choice and suit
your taste. S-B—or Menthol
flavor. A sure relief for coughs,
colds and hoarseness. Put one
in your mouth at bedtime.
Always keep a hoi on hand.
MARS
SMITH BROTHERS
SB. COUCH DROPS
Famous sinca 1847
MENTHOL
(orange colored box)
SICK HEADACHE
_ Take a good dose of Carter’s Little Liver Pills
[rADTCTVCl !l!en take 2 °r !for 3 few ni*hts after- They restore
l#AK I Ln 3 the, organs to their proper functions and Headache
—TITTLE I and the causes of it pass away.
.IVER TUEY REGULATE THE BOWELS and
IPILLSI 0.n„,„th,„ PREVENT CONSTIPATION
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Livingston, W. S. Seminole County News (Seminole, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1923, newspaper, December 27, 1923; Seminole, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc859270/m1/7/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.