"NEXT YEAH I WON'T"

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 29, 11 December 1930, Page 24

"NEXT YEAH I WON'T"

TitOUBLESOME RESOLUTIONS

Then? is jio more intolerable mau at tkis period.jjf the year than the superior being who has made a Xew Year Resolution. He places himself on a pinnacle, and looks down on his fellowmen. He- is n sort of parvenu, who from nothing suddenly bPfloin.es something, and just as suddenly becomes nothing again. New Year Resolutions, like the good, die young, and how often have we been in at the death! Furthermore, wff "live in an ag« when the good have t<v-die young if they would die good (sUys Thomas Jay. in the '' Westminst^ Gazette.")' Of course-4|here are certain resolutions we can make with safety, and most of them are such- that if they were broken we should find the police on our track, which only proves that most of us like to take a peep at the temptations we pray not to bo led into. JE^or instance, I know that if I were so ■wayward I could buy some cigarettes after eight o'clock at night, but ths Hoinc'Secretary would be most annpy'ed about itj.so I refrain. Yet I-Oiice knew a man who in one of those daredevil moments that come to us at times bought some cigarettes after i eight o'clock.;at night, but retribution fell heavily'on'him inter, as I knew it would. He became a member of an Urban District Council. I like to hoar a man giving up golf, for when all is said and done-r—and with golf all is never said and donethere are men who regard the game as a disease, whereas it is merely a : symptom. The difference between golf and a disease is'that the doctors can very often euro a. disease. And many men will this, year decide to; give up smoking, and. there- is much to eomtulei^d in such a resolution, because, after all ,smoking is nowadays {so offojninate. Still, I am convinced | that if. all the men who give up smoking this New Year's Eve were placed end to cud they would reach out for their- pipes or cigars. If. yoif want to lose faith in- your j fello-w-man spend a few minutes with a man who, in a luioiuent of bravado, has given- up smoking. He makes, you «v under why the Fates let you live, and gives all the appearances of a man who has been forcibly fed on barbed wire or,eoi-nigated rbofing. .He!is no!fit companion, and should* be isolated until all tho symptoms have / passed , away and lie once again takes : .a;pipe in his hand, Jt is so easy; to make New Year Resolutions like giving lip smoking and resolving,;ney.ei\.; to ; be f tletained at the office piayingVbiDiards at the club, but it takes real men to make really big resolutions, such as deciding never to get excited when1 you, got the iigli(t number on the - telephone, or when a ta'.vT driver-"aa»Vs.- '/Thank you! *' when . you pay him.1 .;';'.'■ • "