Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS


T EIILy- IUCky IS complishment for everybody to read | the signs. Thin and thick eyebrows, slightly arched and high-arched, all tell l a different tale, and 1 do not feel ike I saying too much about these indi- | cators of character which cannot con- veniently be rubbed out But l VIII | say that when you meet one with | bushy, arching eyebrows which meet l above the nose, men or women, you l see eyebrows that spell sincerity, and | this calls attention to the fact that sincerity is not thus spelled any too often. They are people who mean what
 they say; and yet. like the rest of us,
 some of them may prove on acquaint- ance to- be almost too mean to live.
 Almost all these personal qualities arg | eversible-bright on one side and black on the other.
 The November moth is here. have seen this little white-winged black specked geometer with his yellow,
 fuzzy collar flying at the electric arc lights of recent frosty nights. He of these municipal anniversaries, but
 he doesn't appear until a topcoat is convenient and ones breath becomes visible on the frosty air He looks
 more like a butterfly than the regula- ton moth, and the cocoon he weaves is d loose network on the wild plum bushes which shows he does not know
 how to hang up like a butterfly or to
 roll up in a silSen blanket like a true moth. He seems to be a connecting link between the two, as the Peacock moth, Saturina. To, is between the moths that spin and the moths that burrow He is no Eskimo. doesn't dress for winter weather and soon is frozen, but it's eggs will stand winter cold and its children are the merry lit- tie caterpillars of June.
 ] think, were l an old bachelor, that I would make collection of ladies' hatpins just to inform myself about the variety and character of these adorn- ments which can hold big hat down in the face of Old Boreas, or make a
 big man tremble when in the grasp of fierce little woman. They are made according to the size of the crown of the hat and in length vary from the length of a knitting needle to the length of a short sword and they thicken in proportion to length and some of them are long enough and sharp enough to despatch a bear with. As Pm not a bear l feel in no special danger. In ornamental heads they vary from cut glass to jet, from brilliants to brass and are of every imaginable de- sign. Some of them ought to make a bachelor glad that he never married since he escaped both the expense and the danger of them.
 suppose it is true that no one is really devoid of all commendable traits although with our disgust and preju- dices excited you and I have not at times the ability to find even one ill the erring ones we know. It used to be the custom among the Indians to say something good of the dead, but one dissolute Old Red who had a long rec ord of evil deeds and a short list of good ones died in the gutter and some one must say some good of him before he could be removed. The Indians filed by with grunts of disgust by scores and it looked as if the buzzards would have to move the remains, but char liable old squaw who feared for the worst and hoped for the best stopped and looking at Old Red said: He was good smokerl" That broke the si- lence and solved the problem. A very little good has magic in it sometimes.
 Once in a while, strolling in the woods or looking from the car window, we see twin trees, and We ask our selves how they became twins. You may have seen twin chestnuts or twin birches, but oaks and elms cannot grow close enough to look like twins I sup pose they are called twins because the two suckers started from the parent root at about the same time, received fair share of sustenance and under the same conditions grew to nearly the same size These paired trees look like congenial partners-they almost seem to cuddle together, like playmates, and their dancing leaves in the gentle breezes appear to signal each other of lafV vgfaa and torn limbs and flying leaves in cold storms express to one another their peril and distress. Trees don't talk, say youi Somehow they say al. Kinds of things to me. Why should we call pretty infant trees suckers?
 A friend who enjoys dahIias and nurses seedlings and fancies them as I myself do, called my attention to some of natures creations for him this year; and he had a novelty in a deep maroon single flower with a lake center where other blooms are yellow ranging from buttercup yellow to buff. and l shared his delight, for I had and lost beautiful flower of this type some years ago It was so dwarfed so tiny and so precious that felt that no name but The Jewel would fit it; and it wntered well and I started threa the next summer, but somehow the conditions set up by my corelessness were too much for its weakened condi- ton and all the roots died. I have forgotten hundreds of these bright floral children, but I never could forget that one. am pleased to think a friend has been likewise blessed and I hope that he will have better luck.
 
 The weighing machine that passes out card with your weight printed upon it and then plays you tune is made to fiatter those who like to weigh up or course, no weighing machine would ever become popular that let one appear to be lightweight, and in consequence of competition mo two ever weigh one alike. Of day recent ly I tried three in cities one hundred miles apart, and I weighed 1S3 1S7 and 173. The musical printing marvel gave me my highest weight. and was farthest from the truth. I called the attention of the manipulator of the third machine to the variations, and he shot this at me: Can you tell how this is, If you drink two glasses of water it will raise your weight two pounds, but if you eat a hearty dinner it will not raise 1t an ounce r" couldn't solve that problem, because 1t IS one of those it-is-not-so proposi- tions. Four pounds of food in my stom- ach Is as heavy as four pounds of lead in my pocket.
 It IS interesting to see great city of SO,0O0 inhabitants wake up. It takes short maps. The real rural hush of night never comes upon it, for the cars run all night. it is a. m. before the theater- going population are all carried home and it is before the dissolutes and nrTinkG inc