Part 1 (1/2)

The Foolish Almanak.

by Anonymous.

HELPFUL HINT FOR JANUARY:

Do not give way to vain regrets because you did not keep the good resolves you made a year ago. It might be worse. You might have kept the resolutions and have had no incentive for leading a better life this year.

ECLIPSES FOR THE COMING YEAR

If there are as many Eclipses as during 1905-6, it will be a hard year on grafters and bosses. The editor is optimistic, however, believing that the sanitary revolution which swept the country has about blown over. Public confidence and laxity have been restored in a large measure and the time is now about ripe for us to get it in the neck again.

[Sidenote: _DRESS HINT_: The first costume on record was a hand-me-down from the fig tree.

[Ill.u.s.tration]

_AN ICE AGE_: Now is the time to cut ice. ”Doc.” Osler won't like it if you wait until after you are 40.]

[Ill.u.s.tration]

SUNDAY

MONDAY Do not swear off anything. Wait 'till tax time.

TUESDAY (1781) Baron Munchausen published his memoirs.

(1901) Andrew Carnegie started writing his autobiography.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY Erroneously spelled Thursday. It should be spelled T-h-i-r-s-t-d-a-y (consult any of the reformed who have been clinging to the water wagon since Tuesday.)

FRIDAY

SAt.u.r.dAY (1906) There was no genius born in Indiana this day.

JANUARY

Reciprocity is the mother of contention.

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