As the last hours of 1932 slip away it is with an eager gaze
h|"A Happy New Year" wi on 1988 that expectation moves, the word of hope to-morrow morning. Retrospects give survey of the doings of this dying year and they are full of the tale of disaster, danger, disappointment and" dismay. Statesmen, men of affairs, the ideas of destiny, come into the picture. Their "achievements, their warnings, their follies, their misdeeds are all canvassed. It would seem as if the whole world were but the stage on which they bathe in the limelight of public attention. In this concentration on the, ways of mightiness or mediocrity garbed in the cloak of magni ficance there is forgetfulness of the real claimants to applause. The humble couple known as the world and find no mention in headlines, attract no learned dissertation from econo-
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