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THE CORRAL, ABILENE, TEXAS
years. For that reason it is a good thing to carefully number
our years, and see to it that each is sufficient unto itself.
Life is in a sense a process of-shall I call it evolution? Each
year we become better equipped for the one to follow. Each
year finds us changed from the last-perhaps not all for the
better. Each year should be better than any that has gone be-
fore. We have a years more experience with its varied cycle of
joys and sorrows; We are a year nearer God and Heaven. We
live for the future, daily encroaching upon its limits, but never
reaching them. Why not think of this future as Eternity? Say
today, at the beginning of the New Year, "I'm living for the next
year, and for the next, and for the next-and so-for Eternity."
Then, as living for Eternity, and realizing that sach New Year
draws us that much nearer; let us seek to make each year that
much better-a year better.
New year's resolutions are good things-to break. They are
lots of trouble to think out though if you draw them up properly
-I think there ought to be blank forms to fill out just like a mar-
riage license or other important paper. Of course no one keeps
a New Year resolution-they're not supposed to-Miss Province
told me so herself.
Last year I resoluted lots of them, with all due solemnity and
aceremony. Those things count a whole lot-if you don't get them
up in god form and proper shape they're not worth much, and
won't iml)ress your friends at all.
Wonder why they call it Leap Year-for you know this is
Leap Year, too. I guess its because so many people get married,
any everyone that has tried it says that it's a leap in the dark. I
can't exactly understand what " a leap in the dark" means
though. A leap is a jump. At all the weddings I have seen, the
brides and grooms were real sedate and dignified, and there was
plenty of light.
This Leap Year business is more than I can understand, any
way. Let me tell you something that happened to me the other
day. You know, of course, that it is perfectly proper and the
correct thing for girls to do the proposing during Leap Year.
Well, I'd always wanted to try it-just to see how the poor boys
feel-so I proposed to Harry New Years day. That was easy
enough, because I knew what they say-some one had told me.
But what do you think the crazy thing did? Refused me-did you
say? Well, I guess not. Why, he accepted me. Now that's what
I can't understand. I wouldn't have accepted him-not right
at once, anyway-I'd have said "It's so sudden"-and a few po-
lite phrases like that-and asked for time. But maybe it was
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Simmons College. The Corral, Volume 1, Number 4, January, 1908, periodical, January 1908; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth109337/m1/5/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.