Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-05-01
THE MAN WHO lALAS

Perhaps you have not thought Of It,
but your quarrel with the world Is
only a quarrel with yourself" You
are not looking at the right side OF
the picture-you are not letting tne
sunshine get into your life. You be-
hold what the sunshine does in nature.
but you are unaware that sunshine can
| do the same for the mind. When we
think that the world is awry and that
| everything is going to the dogs. IT
1 isn't-we are simply out Of joint and
are entertaining megrins, and the
megrims fill ones life with grim de-
| spair. Talk about germs-dtsease
! germs-why, these megrims give us
mental horrors and fill the madhouses.
Even if we make ourselves subjects for
| the asylum, the sweet old world bath
1 ed in sunshine is going on just the
same. The world is all right and our
world is just what we make it.
| | pity the man or woman who when
| ever they get a dollar look at 1t and
know that they will not have all that
| they need until they can make 1t do
| the work of three dollars. There are
more of these kind of people in the
world than you and l think, and Easy
street to them is always at the North
| Fnd--it is a long walk and ten looks
ahead. Some of them have been i'm
prudent, but not all Of them-some
have been northumberland want lin
gers about them like q fog over a
swamp. They never quite get there
they only are given to see others on
the green hills of the promised land.
/ tell you it is a hard lot, and consid-
ering it's permanency they are TO be
cheered for the brave fefe they keep
to a hopeless condition. do not won
fhuf fhaNr for hQQWan--fhAir
lot makes them ever hungry for some-
thing better.
81 shall do i'll" exclaimed a boy on
the street of a recent evening. as he
scratched a match to light a cigarette.
I'm so bad now, cannot well be
worse!" and / wondered whose boy
it was who was so giving himself up
to such complete abandonment. That
was an awful speech to me II his COM
panions did make light remarks and
laugh; and l couldn't help wondering
If this wringer of the parental heart
realized what he was saying-if he
was really conscious of being SO bad,
and was making no effort to be better.
Il was indeed frightful condition for
one so young; and where does he ex-
pect to get off? To purposely abandon
the right is to invite the worst for
tune Of life and to prepare the way for
a day when We ourselves may writhe.
"He is not yet 20, and has 5000 in the
bank" was what one man was telling
another about youngster who was
making his own way In the world. This
il a fact worth talking about, for it
is a manifestation OF ability, which
promises well for the future Of that
youth. 1t is better to be an economist
than a spendthrift at that age. To
know the value of bank account then
presages more abundant thrift later
on. That is not a misery spirit which
promotes prudence early in life in
money affairs, for with the ability to
keep money is often the knowledge
how to spend 1t for ones own good
or the good of others-to spend II so
that it will be a blessing to all con-
cerned How to spend money is of as
much consequence as how to earn 1t.
We have all met the pleading little
beggar who stands by the door of the
moving picture show and says: Take
me in, mister" And we realize how
we should like to take him in regard
less OF his dirty face and begrimed
hands IL 1t were not for the fact that
he is always there and might presume
too much upon our generosity. We
should like to be good to him; but we
W IDl care 70 Db IdLHCI To IlHl
every time that he wants to 60 to the
circus. We are all Of us more or less
afraid of establishing presidents which
in cases of this kind soon become a
permanent expense. But he is a win
urr and not a wilmer, aud the fact that
he IS constant at the door is the best
evidence that he sue leeds. although VIC
have not taken him in yet for fear he
may take US in continually.
Baseball wakes up the dulest boys
and prompts them to invent ways to
see baseball games. 1t is game which
seems to stir the genius in boy If he
has spark in him. 1t has been dis
covered that the lad who is unable to
see through a grindstone was never
known to fail to find a. knothole in the
baseball fence if there was one. Base
ball makes the American boy deplore
"the loss of his grandmother and shed
hot tears of grief when he is yearning
to go to baseball instead Of funeral
1t stirs uD ell the "hows to get Lhere'
and by hook or by crook he reaches
reach the bleachers The great Amer
lean game is an inspiration.
Petty thefts are quite annoying, and
they are too common. Those who take
ribbons from grave. or pretty flowers
from border. can never fully enjoy
them because they were stolen. / r.ty
the people who yield to temptation and
sell thcms elves and their peace OF r1jrd
s Cf cap. When I miss the pretty how-
ers that l have bought I think how
much better they would feel had l
given them to them, and how much
better / should feel, too. The con-
Sciousness CT having committed O theft
takes the beauty from the thing stolen
to look upon thing which we have
acquired through dishonesty Is to see
{ UT own misdeed. That which reminds
us of a theft cannot add TO cur pleas
ure: and pity it is that those who are
tempted to steal DO not realize this he
fore the offense Is committed.
like the man who tries to make a
dogs life pleasant, because feel that
he will not be careless of. or inimical
to, the lives Of others when he attunes
himself properly to the life of a dog
The dog is a faithful creature, who
deserves well of Gods masterpiece;
and If his subservience has brought
him into derision, his better attributes
ought to command the respect Of the
self-alleged superior animal How any
man can abuse any creature God has
created and look to Heaven with hope
for mercy I do not know. To abuse
Gods creatures and at the same time
affect to love Him Is absurd. The
devil could not make a worse picture
Of himself. or one more contrary to
good order or truth.
In his last days the late Henry Allen
did some remarkable work with his
pen in making a family scrapbook
which amounted to a complete gen.
ealogy and made his title clear tlJ the
n fe ,R Ill l.