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Aunt Janet Talks of Good Resolutions 
And Advises Her Nieces to Make the Sort They,Can Keep 
WE PAY $200 MONTHLY SALARY, 
furnish rig and expenses to introduce our guaran 
teed poultry and stock powders, Bigler Company, 
X 507, SpringfMd, Illinois. 
H appy New Year, nieces all! Aunt 
Janet has been hearing from many 
of you and writing to you too, but it’s 
some time since she found a corner in 
these busy Household Pages from 
whifch she could speak to you all at 
once! New Year’s however—a whole 
twelve months lying before us, wait¬ 
ing for us to make or mar—New Year’s 
deserves a special letter. 
I’ve been thinking a lot about it too, 
for just the other day a very dear little 
niece of mine, with a dear little home 
and a sheaf of babies that any one 
would be proud to cuddle, came dragging 
into my door with such a woe-begone 
look that I almost laughed—but _ of 
course that wouldn’t have been polite. 
So I just put my arms around her and 
asked her what terrible calamity had 
happened. 
“Oh Aunt Janet,” she said, “It’s just 
me.” (I’m not responsible for her 
grammar—she was too discouraged to 
care!) 
“Well,” I said, “that’s something off 
my mind, I thought at least that Jim 
had fallen into the well and the house 
had burned down with all the babies in 
it and the brand new airedale you got 
for Christmas!” 
She laughed a little and assured me 
that the family was extremely well, es¬ 
pecially considering the amount of 
Christmas candy that had gone down 
several little red lanes. Then she went 
off—or so it seemed—on a tangent, 
“Aunt Janet,” she said, “Do you be¬ 
lieve in New Year’s resolutions ?”_ 
Aunt Janet just waited and this is 
what she heard: 
“I don’t. You make them, and feel 
all right and happy inside and then you 
forget or break them—and it’s so hu¬ 
miliating that you wish you’d never 
made any. They hurt lots more than 
they help—at least mine do. I feel so 
defeated and worthless when I don’t 
keep one, that I give up in despair and 
don’t even come as near to living up to 
it as I might have if I’d never set my¬ 
self a definite goal.” 
“As for instance?” 
“Oh, it’s just a little one I made about 
housekeeping. You know, untidiness is 
my besetting sin. So I resolved this 
year I’d keep a tidy kitchen—and the 
rest of the house too—no matter what 
happened. Result—I’ve kept it a week; 
the kitchen’s all right, but I’ve snapped 
Jim’s head off twice and he looks so 
grieved and surprised; and I was cross 
with Anne-baby and she is such a lamb, 
and I hustled Jimmie Junior out of the 
front room and he hadn’t really any 
other place to play, and my temper’s 
edgey and—and—oh, I don’t care now 
if the house never is orderly again if 
I can only have my family stop tip-toe¬ 
ing around with that awful scared look 
on their faces! But I can’t break a 
resolution and feel that I’ve any real 
backbone, can I, Aunt Janet?” 
It took a good deal of conforting and 
wheedling and a nip of salt in the shape 
of some good advice—to say nothing of 
two nice hot cups of tea—to send her 
away, her usual sunny self. But she 
finally trotted off quite cheerfully and 
left the impression that a special bit of 
baking was to be undertaken as a sup¬ 
per surprise. Even if she had to over¬ 
look some toys in the corner and even— 
yes—some unwashed dishes in the sink. 
After my distressed littve caller was 
gone, I looked into the fire for quite a 
while thinking about her question—does 
it pay to make good resolutions? We 
know we won’t keep them—isn’t it 
worse to make and break them, than 
never to make them at all? But finally 
I cast my vote in favor of the good 
resolutions. 
What is a “Good” Resolution? 
But there’s one thing; that word 
good. First be sure your resolution is 
good, then go ahead. Not merely virtu¬ 
ous—a virtuous resolution can be very 
trying to others as well as to the per¬ 
son who makes them. By “good” I 
mean sensible, middle-of-the-road, keep- 
able resolutions—^with perhaps just the 
least bit of aspiration to them to stimu¬ 
late without discouraging. 
As I told my little neighbor, resolu¬ 
tions have two objects—one is the keep¬ 
ing of the resolution itself, the other 
is the effect of the discipline upon its 
author. If you make a resolution so 
hard to keep, that it destroys your 
temper and makes those around you 
miserable too, it’s not a very good reso¬ 
lution. If, on the other hand, it’s too 
easy to keep, you gain none of the real 
discipline which you meant to give 
yourself. 
I remember reading about some fa¬ 
mous English author (De Quincy, I 
think, though memories are undepend¬ 
able things) who told how, as a boy, he 
would run down a London street touch¬ 
ing every paling of a fence as he ran. 
If he missed one and went on to the 
next street, he was filled with such a 
mute sense of defeat that he would 
finally have to go back and touch the 
one he had missed before he could ab¬ 
solve himself. 
It is this silent judge within us, who, 
when resolutions are broken, is often 
so severe that, as my little friend said, 
it hurts us worse to make and break 
a resolution than never to make one at 
all. When we skip a paling in the fence 
we must pull up and go back, or hear 
him remind us all the rest of the 
day. 
So in resolution making, don’t set 
yourself the impossible. Don’t say, 
“My house shall always be tidy,” but 
say “I’ll, do my level best to keep my 
house tidy.” Then, if you shirk, that 
inner voice will say “How about your 
‘level best?’ ” While if you honestly 
are too tired to do some extra bit of 
cleaning, or cannot do it and still find 
time to run over to your sick neighbor’s 
with a newly-made custard, you’ll find 
your silent judge willing to'admit that 
in slackening up a bit you may have 
“chosen the better thing.” 
New Year’s resolutions like that can 
be kept from the first day to the last 
and the maker of the resolve will be 
better for having made and kept it. 
How about it, nieces and cousins and 
all the big family? Which resolutions, 
made last year did you keep; which did 
you break? And what one resolution 
has helped you the most of all you have 
ever made? Write Aunt Janet and tell 
her some of your experiences with this 
matter of once-a-year resolving, and 
whether you think it does or doesn’t 
pay. I’ll look forward to hearing your 
opinions. 
Always your 
' (Xw/vJ- 
“Tell Aunt Janet About It!” She is glad 
to be your confidant, to help wherever she can 
and will always regard your questions as en¬ 
tirely confidential. She will answer you per¬ 
sonally, asking only that you send a stamped, 
self-addressed envelop^ if you wish a reply. 
Have tried your patterns and find 
them O K. Also find, the Agriculturist 
so much improved under the new man¬ 
agement. Keep it up!—Mrs. W. H., 
New York. 
JANUARY IS THE MONTH FOR HOME SEWING 
T he five patterns chosen 
this week by the Fashion 
j Editor cover almost all the 
needs of the mid-winter 
sewing season. There is a 
housedress and an after¬ 
noon frock. There is also 
a school dress for the girl, 
and a smart little suit for 
the boy. 
If you want help on any 
of your dressmaking ques¬ 
tions, write the Fashion 
Editor about it, inclosing a 
stamped self-addressed en¬ 
velope. She will be very 
glad to answer you prompt¬ 
ly and may be able to sug¬ 
gest some solution which 
had not occurred to you. 
No. 1295 (above) one-piece 
apron with iptraps buttoning at 
the back. No. 1295 cuts in 
sizes 36, 40, 44 and 48 inches 
bust measure. Size 36 requires 
2 yards 36-inch material. 
(Below) No. 1271. Boy’s 
suspender suit with separate 
waist. No. 1271 cuts in sizes 
2, 4, and 6years. Size 4 re¬ 
quires % yards 36-lnch ma¬ 
terial for trousers and 1 yard 
36-lnch material with 2t4 
yards pleating for waist. 
(Above) No. 1143. Girl’s 
school dress, jumper style 
with guimpe. No. 1143 cuts 
in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10. 12 and 
14 years. Size 8 requires 1% 
yards and Yi yard 36-inch ma¬ 
terial contrasting for dress, 
and IVi yards 36-iiich ma¬ 
terial for guimpe. 
(Below) No. 1546, one-piece 
afternoon frock. No. 1546 cuts 
in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40 
and 42 inches bust, measure. 
Size 36 requires 3 yards 36- 
inch material. 
No. 1351. A serviceable house- 
dress with long or ^hort sleeves. 
No. 1351 cuts in sizes 36, 38, 40, 
42 and 44 inches bust measure. 
Size 36 requires 3% yards 36- 
inch material wfith Vs yard 36- 
inch contrasting. 
To Order: Write name and 
address clearly and inclose 
12 cents for each pattern 
ordered. Mail order to Fash¬ 
ion Editor, American Agri¬ 
culturist, 461-4th Ave., N. Y. 
C. Our Winter Book of Fash¬ 
ions is still available. It 
contains over 300 styles for 
all members of the family. 
10 cents a copy. 
