Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18


 is too often mercenary designs in love making--the purse has more to do with it than the heart-scheming for position in the world more than rec ognizing the way of fidelity and hap piness. There has. never yet been a particle of trouble with :he love in which two hearts haV beaten as one and four hands have pulled together as a single pair It is love making by the rank of family by the prospects of the young man, by the ideals held dear, by the clock and by the calen- dar that have bred discontent, paul perism and tragedies. It is no secret that there Is more love in the novels of this world than in the palaces. Dan Cupid scoffs at schemes and plans and repudiates the idea that love matches are made in heaven"--he touches the heartspring and the world knows the rest
 The young man or woman who is resolved to do well whatever comes to hand has got a good start in life. You have not thought that good start depended upon so small a thing as this. but 1t does. It is the little things in life which give force to it. it is the small details of work att tended to which contribute most to success. In such a persons life 1t
 
 comes after another, instead of "one damn thing follows another" Faith fulness in small things marks ability to do even greater things. The signs of efficiency are just as plain as the evidences of inefficiency to an observ- CT. If we were mute our daily life would proclaim our quality or lack of | it. The person who has the manner of a tunblebug is pointed to the in dustry of the ant to correct his sloth. To make ones way nothing is better | than application and industry. Look l ing for a soft snap is making a hole 1 for one's self. These are things that it pays to remember.
 It was one of Dickens characters who said: "If ever I wanted any | thin O my father, I always asked for | 1t in a very spectful and obligin' l manner If he did not give 1t me, I took it, for fear should be led to do anythin' wrong through not havin' it. I saved him a world O trouble | this vay.' As an example of ira | tional reasoning this can hardly be | surpassed; and, yet. there are people | who do not reason any better than | this. and who do not see why those | close to them refuse to put up with them. This is the bedrock of the | grafter-he takes more than his due | for fear he may be led to do some | thing wrong by not having It; and so does the greedy merchant and the l grabbing, grasping speculator. It is a fair expression of the spirit of greed get things fairly if you can-but get 'emi It is amusing to read but perilous to practice. Saying a world l of trouble in this way for others is sure to make a sea of trouble for | ourselves.
 | Scientists tell us that there is a blind spot on the retina of the eye and | a blank corner in the brain; that | makes some men poor spoilers and others poor at arithmetic; but we get marked down at school for what we
 can't help just as if we could help it. There are certain classes of words, | certain figures. which the person with | blank corner in the brain cannot | spell or multiply. It has been noted 1 that some men have no faculty tor | multiplying anything in threes. The
 schools call, these defectives dunccs,
 but they are not. They are not all
 there and never will be. It is pleasant
 to think that we shall know each oth-
 CT better by and by-we really need
 to.
 Do not get in the habit of dreading
 things. Some people dread the com
 ing of winter and some the coming
 of summer. Others dread this, that
 and the other thing. They appear to
 delight in making a horror of life in- | any more to entertain agreeable
 thoughts than it does evil foreooi-
 ings. and make a nightmare of exist
 ence. The worst bug to invade human life is the bugbear and it directs
 the way to the playhouse. It is as fatal
 to human life as the tsetse fly is to
 animal life. The bugbear doesn't car
 " germs, for it is the real germ of
 discomfort and distress, and it Is
 chronic enough to be fatal--to those
 who have it. To always have bug
 bear is equivalent to eternally being
 d nuisance.
 William wants to know what would
 happen If Halley's comet should strike
 the earth. We shall have to postpone
 the answer until the comet has struck
 the earth, and then, if we are able
 we will try to write up the effect upon ] this sphere; but there is no more dan ger of a collision than there is of hav-
 ing a regular line of airships running
 between this earth and Mars. The
 sun and it's system of planets are ir
 the center of a great space, we are
 told; and are as isolated from other systems in space as If it were a lone , island in the center of the Pacific ocean. Halleys comet, William, is not i coming within hailing distance. We
 shall see it next spring making 2 million miles a day, but it will moi
 look as if it was making a hundred It is not coming this way. It is head ed for the sun.
 When the physician is summoned to try his skill at correcting some ? l physical ailment, and after making
 as ones diet or distress and says you
 trouble proceeds from your having drunk new cider-that your system il : overloaded with uric acid and yol must let cider alone, you confess you ] fault and wonder at the science O
 medicine. so accurate and convincinl
 has been the diagnosis. It does seen ] as if cause and effect here were unal i | terable; but when you learn that twl ' famous French medical men have b.
 experiment found that cider is a cor rective of the very trouble it is charge,
 with causing and is so used in tha
 country. you see that cause and effec 1 have been reversed. There is no us 1 of saying this cannot be, for it is. ani q 1 these Frenchmen are prepared to prov $ it. Then you ponder. seeing abstinenc | and indulgence employed to effec
 cures of the same trouble and fee willing to admit that it is Thy faitl ! that makes thee whole"
 Children learn early not to tell thei | real thoughts. No one knows todd [ what juveniles think of Christmas b
 frank confessions. Men and wome s tell late in life what the child though ! mhor,t C.larisfrnaa Az xift shnU ara am