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.•or GEYSER JUDITH BASIN TIMEs CMD NEw YE LW/TM r NATI TE ING 0 WISE BY M SIN 4 TERMI- UR SIP- ARING? PROFIT' TIONS NY weakling can made resolutions. It needs a strong man to keep . them. That is perhaps why New Year resolutions are so often futile. The strong do not wait for high days and holy days to amend their conduct or carry out their re- solves. They obey Goethe's dictum: ''Seize this very minute. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.\ And so it happens that the large army of peo- ple who wait for the New Year before effecting a reformation in their lives are seldom success- ful in carrying out their intentions. They are not possessed of the spirit of energy an resolu- tion necessary to achievement. It may be argued that it is better to make good resolutions. even though they are not carried out, than not to make them at all. Thits is open to question, however. Unless one is absolutely determined to do what One has decreed, it Is perhaps on the whole better not to make promises to oneself. Unfulfilled resolves continually repeated, tend to weaken the character, and to reduce one's faith In oneself, just as resolutions put into practice are conducive to strength and self-confidence. Very little tends to toverbalance the resolutions of the average person. In fact, many people wel- come any excuse to exonerate them from the carrying out of their resolves. One individual determines, let us say, never to lose his temper. He comes down on New Year's morning with a set smile on hie face. Alas! it is short-lived. The whole world seems in conspiracy to drag him back to his former frame of mind. The cof- fee Is cold, the letters which look so alluring prove to be chiefly bills and begging epistles, he falls over the doorstep as he leaves the house. All these minor annoyances, which, if rightly met, would have helped him to conauer his weak- ness, serve but to throw him back into his original state, and before evening he is as bad as ever he has been. rcin4A - 1/21% , I'ZIR.EVE*.12/7/2\ - Z, Or, take another very general New Years resolution, that of getting up at a certain time in the morning. When the day dawns, any rea- son whatever is grasped at to evade this. The weather is too cold, the alarm was not loud enough. he is sure his watch is fast, he doesn't really feel well enough to risk getting up earlier than usual, and, after all, he asks himself, is there any real reason why he should? A thousand -and - one excuses the average individual will make to himself rather than perform what he has designed to do. The world is full of wobblers of this kind, and the more they wobble the weaker they be- come. Another reason perhaps why the average reso- lution -makers so seldom achieve their purpose Is that they attempt too much. They make two. three, sometimes six resolutions at once, whereas to carry through one resolution successfully is quite an admirable feat. As Thomas a Kenipis says: THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION MAUPASSANT, describing an officer, said that Just to look at him made one feel martial. Ile did not say warlike or bellicose; the Idea he wished to convey was much more subtle. In the presence of this officer one assumed the military attitude of mind and body. This is a phenomenon that escapes the attention of most people—women, however, oh - it. Practically every nonmilitary man at the sight of a well set up. fully accoutred soldier instinctively assumes something of a military bearing. And when the drums roll and a marching column of soldiers flashes into view the chilian invsluntarily throws back his shoulders and steps out with a tense, measured tread. And as with civilians, so with soldiers. The ordinary regiment becomes more military in the pres- ence of the crack regiment. The crack regiment itself gains something more when in proximity to a detachment of troops of heroic, almost legendary, fanie, such as the Foreign Legion. The Legionaries handle campaigns of their own, and probably no body of troops has ever done such constant and arduous campaigning. But France over and over again has used them also as leaven among other troops. They stiffen the mass, and men emulate their actions. The Legion was sent out to the Crimea and got no special credit for covering itself with glory, as that had been expected of it. but did reflect great credit on the judgment of those who had sent it out to help to inspire a whole army. The queen of Spain 80 years ago was in a hard fix with a civil war on her hands. The Carlists, whom she was fighting, were just as good soldiers as her own, If not a shade better. Then the Queen's generals had an inspiration of genius. If they coal only get the French Foreign Legion into their army they felt the shade of advantage would move over to their side. So the queen bought the Foreign Legion from the then king of France. and for lour years the Legion belonged to Spain. In the present war, part of the French Legion nas been sent to the trenches of France and Flanders and Alsace and to the Dardanelles. Part or it remains in Africa, its normal habit t, doing some mighty vigorous campaigning in the Mo.-wean part of France's wonderful new African empire. The Americans and other foreigners who are enrolled as volunteers in the French army are put in 'contact with the Legionaries. and this, while giving then) scope for their fighting qualities and assaring them an opportunity for genuine campaigning, is the highest measure of protection for them. It guaran- tees them against fool lab rashness, as well as againNt being led into traps or losing their head in critical moments. Fighting is routine work with the Legionary. just as sailing a yacht is to the expert mariner. The winds may be different on each trip and the craft is never handled twice in the same way. hut the ex- pert knowledge of the technique of his trade makes the Legionary and the skipper each acquit himself of his task in finished fashion. Officially the Foreign Legion is composed of eight thousand men. In reality it is understood it has nearly double that number, and the Legion becomea readily a whole army corps, with the addition of some of France's colonial troops France for hundreds of years had regiments of German. English, Irish, Scotch, Swiss. Italians and other foreigners enrolled in her armies, but the prewnt Foreign Legion may he considered as dating from 1831. One brief rule in its constitution says that the enlisting colonel may accept a man even though he does not present a birth certificate or id intilication papers. Wherefore the names of the English and American Legionaries have been SmitS. Brown and Jones; of Germans Muller. Schwartz and Weiss; of the Italians. Rossi and Groesi, of 0). French. Petolt, Legrand am. Lei:tare, and so on. The recruiting officer reads the candidate a warning lecture. \Don't you know what the Legion is. monsieur? Surely there is something better you can do Severe campaigning in Africa or in Cilium for a sou a nay, or a few sous as you begin to advase, is no bed of roses You had better think it over a day or two. NO You already are aware' Very well, mon cher enfant.\ anti his tone changes AS he new [Teaks as a colonel to his soldier: \There Is a glorious career down there for the right kind. If you are a good and faithful soldier you may go far. Good luck!\ The recruiting eolorwl car reniirally tell at a gance what army the candidate has served In and if he has been a sergeart o ti\'cor In the latt-r case he Is discreetly questioned on the point. and It is s. sled, for his I hat he confidantially inform his colonel when he arrives at the train' , -ters ho has been an oTeer in a European army is usually taken Into the corr sed ' , elfin a colon. of years to he a sergeant of the Legion. \If every year we could root out one vice we would sooner become perfect men.\ Impatience is at the root of many defeats. It is customary nowadays to sneer at the virtue for which the name of Job is synonymous, but those who say that patience is the virtue of an ass or a beggar's virtue are not so wise zs the Spanish proverb' maker, who said: - Patience and shuffle the cards.\ Most people shuffle the cards eagerly - nough, but the patience is lacking. &Acing to grasp the stars at a bound they fall back to the earth. And so, if people at ,he commencement of a New Year adjusted thei: desires in accordance with their abilities. and instead of sighing for the unattainable made the very most of the oppor- tunities vouchsafed to them, one would hear less of broken resolutions and wasted lives. \Do the duty which lies nearest to thee which thou knowest to be a duty,' said Carlyle. \Thy second duty will already have become clearer.\ • • • • • • • • • • The Turning of New Leaves. Good resolutions haveT almost gone out of fash- ion. On the last night of the year we no longer sit down to review our past lives and resolve to be \better and wiser\ than we have been In the past. ''It is of no use making resolutions, I never can keep them.\ Is the plea that is usually prof- fered. This is a mistake, however. It is com- mendable to resolve (an alarm clock helping onel to get up half an hour earlier than usual in the morning, even though it results—as, alas! it too often does—in one getting up half an hour later. It is what one aspires to be that counts. If people could live more in the present it would help them enormously in the keeping of good resolutions. So many people persist in be- ing just a little ahead all the time. \Tomorrow they say, \we will reform.\ but the tomorrow of their imaginings never dawns. Ancient and modern philosophers have agreed as to the dangers of procrastination. Such wide- ly diverse people as Horace. the Latin poet who flourished in 65 13. C., and wishful persons who flourish (exceedingly) at the present day, join issue in this Particular. - Who begins, possesses half the deed:' says Horace. \Dare to be wise: make a commencement.\ \Do it now,\ is the curt command of the mod- ern apostle of \Hustle.\ Again, llorace says. - If you are ignoran' how to live aright, give place to those who have learn d the lesson.\ -Get on or get out,\ says a manikin, following in more concentrated. if 'ess courteous language the same line of thought on a somewhat lower plane The one was concerned with the things of the soul and the spirit: the other with worldly advaneement. There are some who contend that th e I wo cannot go together, but if (as has been contended by many men of wisdom) what a man is is of mare importance than what he has. it is well to make spiritual advancem. , nt as the years go by. If we have not made progress, we have cone back. The soul never stands still. Time has no terror for those who have learned wisdom. Pass thou, wild heart, Wild heart of youth that still Hest half a mind to stay. I grow too old a comrade. Let us part. Pass thou away. Some people drag the follies and immaturities o f y out h i n to old age. There is wisdom In ad- justing oneself to time. te profit by past experi- ences, and to acquire that sense of proportion which refuses to magnify trifles Into tragedies, and to worrY over the inevitable. About Patterns for Kitchen Aprons In January the order of the year brings about the making of new un- dermuslins, house dresees. kitchen aprons, and all the white work re- quired by the household and the house. Anti in the annual January sales, all over the country, of white goods, mer- chants present the stocks of cotton fabrics which they have assembled in anticipation of the demand for them. There is no better season in which to buy cotton products than at the beginning of the year. There has been a steady advance in the standard of quality in many lines of cotton goods. and in the in- troduction of high-class novelties. ti\ mills are making a rapid progress! A kitchen apron that may be made of cotton crepe, as well as of the usual percale or gingham, is shown in the picture, and hardly needs de- scription. It covers the figure and fastens at the back, unlike many of the late patterns, which fasten at one side. Blue is the favorite color for the apron of cotton crepe, and it is finished with white braid bindings. ..11111w The chief claim to attention is based upon the fact that this kind of aprou requires almost no ironing. Although the subject of kitchen aprons is not one to arouse a great amount of enthusiasm, it is not by any means without interest. Many aprons manage to be attractive, while they cleverly fill all that is required of them in the way of usefulness. This means that they most cover the figure, be plain and easily adjusted, good looking and shepely. They must be neatly finished and provided with at least one pocket and made of ma- terial that will stand any amount of it All of the new aprons are made with elbow sleeves except those that are sleeveless. Very shapely and at- tractive models have a large blb at the front of the body fastened by flat bands of the material to the belt at the back. A favorite finish for all edges is a flat band of material in contrasting color. All the fast col- ors are used with white, and striped effects prevail. Seen at the Afternoon Concert If you would see the best of milli- nery look for it at the afternoon con- cert or other afternoon affairs. The box party or club program or lunch- eon, and the cafe dinner, call out the smartest hats, for there they are subjected to close scrutiny by discrim- inating eyes. The fancy of the designer has much to inspire it this season, and millinery is brilliant in two senses, both in color and in design. With gold and silver laces and metalized flowers, with fur end velvet and jet and jewels, heads are splendidly crowned even when such materials are put together sim- ply. The blue and gold turban shown In the picture is an example of this. It is a small, chic, jaunty shape Jraped with turquoise blue satin bro- caded with a gold flower. This covers the frame end forms a large wing ef- fect at (Iv left side. The only orna- ment used is a flat rosette made of gilded leaves that are cut from some light metal. Afternoon hats having crowns of velvet or fur anti brims of gold or sil- ver lace are usually finished with small nosegays of beautifully colored flowers. A very handsome model is made with a crown of light brilliant green satin, brocaded with silver, and a brim of silver lace. A silver cord is tied about the crown, the ends fin- ished with small silver halls. The cord and balls are made of very small beads. There are many fur turbans trimmed with wreaths of small flow- ers which are very rich looking, and the all -feather turban, although rather rarely seen, Is nearly always a hat of much distinction. 4,4<, V • . r
