Recipe for a Happy New Year!

Recipe for a Happy New Year!

Anonymous

Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free

from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them

completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of

pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed

from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came

from the great storehouse of Time.

Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one

equal parts. Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time

(so many persons spoil the entire lot this way) but prepare one day

at a time.

Into each day put equal parts of faith,

patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so

spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness,

prayer, meditation, rest (leaving this out is like leaving the oil

out of the salad dressing—don't do it), and one well-selected

resolution.

Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits,

a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a

sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.