Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2524, 30 December 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

AS I he time approaches for the passing u .f the old year, the mind wanders in retrospect and speculates on the hidden path of tlie future. Whatever of the deep waters through which we have passed during the now dying year, there has been compensating bleesings. We remember with gladness that the sun of happiness in some form or other did not cease to shine and we look with hope on the dawning year. Ring out tin- false, ring in the true.

Ring out the old. ring in the new. May the good resolutions made at this time bear fruit during the coming year and happness and contentment lie the lot of our readers.

Let us (pioie Professor Rogers’ address to the Dying Year:- — If wo might for a moment personify the dying year in his last days, we should picture him a little shrivelled old man —shrivelled as one of his grandsire’s winter pipe pins—piping in the shrill treble of extreme age, and uttering an experience strongly resembling that of human life. “Listen to me. ve mortals,'' he might say with the same emphasis with which tlie old , wise by experience, say the like to the young, who will never be wise without it : “'Listen to me, ye mortals! for 1 am also of the race of the ephemeras. I had iny sturdy youth when it seemed that my youth would never end: and 1 dug, and ploughed, and planted and enjoyed by jocund prime and my golden summer; and 1 decked myself in garlands of May and reaped the yellow harvest and gathered the purple vintage of autumn; but scarcely had I obtained the object of my desires, and secured the plenty for which 1 laboured. than 1 found the shadows lengtlienug. and the days shortening inul my breath growing shorter with them, and decrepitude coming upon me. and the days at hand of which I said —‘1 have no pleasure in them.’ 1 have laid up riches and know not who shall gather them; have planted trees which must shade far distant years and stored the vintage of which other years niilst drink.