It is a stimulating prospect have a brand new year to with og we will Nineteen Twenty-one was good enough as years 0, but the unquenchable hope springs up within ins that Nineteen Twenty-two is going to be something far superior in the march of events. Let the cynic remind us that the coming 365 days will be. startlingly similar to their predecessors, we still say with Shakespeare:
"All with one content praise new-born gards Though they are moulded of things past."
True as it is that "Yule's come and Yule's gone And we hae feasted weel Sao Jock maun to his flail again And Jenny to her wheel"
—there yet remains the fact that even familiar events may be looked at in quite a new light, which will give them the effect of novelties.
For instance, my mother had a theory (which could never have withstood the climate of the Orient) that her daughters shoul have some practical acquaintance with house-wifely arts. Tlence we unwillingly progressed from sewing en of buttons to the subtler mysteries of button holes, and from dishwashing to dusting. It seemed to me that I would never graduate from irksome dusting. My younger sister outstripped me and trium-pliantly advanced to flower arrang cement while I was still dragging a moistened. dustcloth through the zigzag intricacies of the ebony cabinet and cursing the day when pric-ae-prac was invented.
Then came the revelation. One morning as I grudgingly dusted a vase which I had always accepted as a superfluous bit of household furniture I realized that it was beautiful. Though I had handled it a hundred times I had never really seen it before- In__ utter astonishment I sat down and gazed it as for the first time. My perception had been "stabbed broad awake."
The same illuminating discovery has come to us all in varying ways, perhaps by awaking to the simple charm of a hitherto unnoticed home landscape realization of the good lines of some taken-for granted piece of furniture. May not in the same way look at, the events of the Now Year with seeing eyes and interpret them with sympathetic hearts and so enter, into the inheritance of the eternal freshness and significance underlying all being?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.