Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

IL seems queer that Goodness should always get extolled: but that Beauty should get most of the husbands. This Is the chief reason that so many mar ried people have a high old time in lire, and the divorce courts have so much business. A face that has to be fed on praise and chocolate drops is not the face which endures; it takes too much time to touch it up in the morning and most of it washes off. Sloth in silk has cleanliness in calico about the heart qualities and then go over to outside show and corked eye brows. We cannot tell how 1t is-no- body can; but there is no one who is ready to file a denial.
 The collecting fad is all right so long as it is kept within bounds. To a great many people antiuues are old
 nothing else; and when a man or a
 woman gets the collecting fever, and
 then keeps this idea to the front,
 regardless it is disturber of house.
 holds. One of these collectors writes:
 T have filled the house from garret
 to cellar with rare old treasures that
 any historical museum might be glad
 to own; have done without the ne-
 cessItles of life to purchase Revolu-
 tionary bureaus and Mexican War so-
 fas and Dolly Madison samplers for
 my dear ones. but my husband treats
 my efforts with cold disdain, and my
 children spurn the fine old four-poster
 beds that I give them, and sleep on
 the floor instead" It looks as if this
 was reaching the limit. When there is
 such a crush as this and interest and
 sympathy have to be found outside the
 home, conditions inside are too much like a secondhand dealers shop to be defensible.
 Perhaps you have never noticed how many men cherish the conceit that they are superior judges of human na-
 ture when most of them are frequently upset by the freakish nature of their
 own children. Most of them do not know any more about the study of human nature than a COW understands about astronomical science You will
 find that Bill Bumps thinks that Jim Jumps is a derned fool: and that Jim Jumps knows that Bill Bumps is a confounded blockhead; and you see at once that neither estimate Is correct. Some men cannot tell fact from a whirn. or a prejudice from a logical conclusion It is an excellent plan to try to see the good in others and to go blind to everything else
 There are two points in speech where exaggeration is to be expected, and that is when men are busy prais- ing their friends or condemning their enemies Somehow it appears to be friend to admire than any one else can, and for man to see more to hate in an enemy than really seems wise. It is always the part of wisdom to go slow along lines of life where we know there is danger of being biased. It is this weakness that makes 1t possible for friend to injure friend more than an enemy can; or for an enemy to dis credit himself before he gets his en- emy discredited. Silence is good thing when we are surging with ad- miration or with hatred. Man would h rIa6f- to invoke silence.
 It is the get-rich- quick schemes which have disclosed to the world that and the higher the civilization the more the get-rich-quick schemes seem to flourish. When a fellow discloses to you that he has an investment for you that will double your money in a year or two.<he is simply letting you know nine times in ten that he loves your money better than he loves the truth. When money can be had at the banks is no reason why any man should offer you 10 per cent. The real fact is that great inducements for investment fore shadow great peril They mean illegal loss. Men of means who learn to read in this primer of life do not often get buncoed.
 ' to my mind why we should talk any more about the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God than of the of woman and the mother hood of God. Equality simply signifies justice, and inequality subs ervience- The story of the resurrection with Mary Magdalene first at the tomb to discover it empty is a simple one; and ance to Mary. and the last words he l said to her were: "I ascend unto my l father and your father; and to my God | and your God" This is what might | mon for the equality of woman. And ] some Christian men dishonor their mothers by scouting the equality of manhood and womanhood.
 Some people like to tell tales of woe l just as well as anglers like to tell big | fish stories. It does beat all how peo- | pie like to say things which do not have l the esmblance of truth, or if they | have an atmosphere of misery about | them. Joy-talk is wholesome talk, but | 1t is all too rare. A man with a hard | luck story always expects 1t to help 1 him out; but the man with a good luck | story is a little timid about speaking | of it for fear no one will believe him. | The fault finder makes more noise than | the praise carrier, and the person who | enjoys poor health tells of it ten times l where robustness tells of good health | once. Joy to the world' broke forth | In song once. and we should keep it going
 In these twentieth century days the | world is being given lots of new defini- ions which it ought to profit by The | writing the wall in these days | says: '"rhe truly good man is the man | who has lived up to his obituary" How quickly we recognize the merit of | his affirmation. It is well enough to | speak well of the dead if you do not | oy so doing give the world a wrong | impression of their character-for that s lying. This is why the largest per cent of saints appear to repose in the "Reposing in the Lord,"I Ipon a tombstone, has it's purpose when everyone who reads it says in ] lfs mind Doubted" but it is not the purpose for which the inscription was put there. These things are not as so | many think, symbols of love, but just signs of foolishness.
 The man who has the habit of wait ng for som ething to turn up is usual ' fast asleep when it does turn up; while the hustler turns up things and gets a hold on them which cannot be broken. The waiting soul in this world s the one which oftenest gets left Get a move oni" is the decree of nature and the command of God. It