Norwich bulletin., 1910-11-12
The MAN WHO TALKS

Mans most expensive folly is his
innate desire TO get something Tor
nothing He is at it all the
time, and is constantly being
tieeced in the game. ShreWdness spec
ulates upon this human weakness and
makes its thousands of millions. There
is nothing man--wise man-spends SO
much money upon as to get the pest
of the other fellow Trade pays out
thousands and thousa nds of dollars to
tell the credulous that it gives $19
worth of premiums with $25 worth of
goods paid for in cash, and it catches
suckers and makes 20 per cent. profit
Trade tells it's patrons it gives trad
ing stamps free and the inventor or
the scheme has become q millionaire
by just showing the people how they
can get something for nothing. The
money spent for the navy, for educa-
ton and for the support of religious
institutions does not equal the total
put out in res onSe to such bids for
public patronage. Barnum said he
humbusged the public because they
loved to be humbusged. He was not
a discoverer of this truth, but he made
a bold and profitable use of it,
No, Jane, The Man Who Talks does
not always see the silver lining. Just
as long as he looks up not down, and
forward, not backward, things are all
right. Everybody has a bFindled or
SpeCkleu past IHdt II lis not nediLlS
to let the mind dwell upon. This is q
world of woe if you let the woe get
you. Tt doesn't do to mediate upon
disappointments grievances or wrongs.
The only way to Improve the past is
to do right now. Life is one grand,
sweet song to only few people; and
those who proclaim that it is SO to
them are suspected Of lying. Man
bosses until he is married, then woman
bosses, and then thS day daWnS when
the baby reigns. | do not care to talk
about the vfcissitudes of life. I take
any row with borrowed hoe. I do not
care to see the things that have
troubled me but once-tfe other things
I view as often as possible.
| heard young woman Of a recent
evening ask young man to state his
excuse and he may have been quite
confused by the demand, he was SO
young. Later on he will discover that
most men keep a dozen ready made ex-
cuses on hand, and If none of them fit
the case they embroider an excuse out
of them in a moment that does. If
there is anything that keen men become
skilled in it is in making excuses to
the WON en-, a they do to the men. and
they are said to be able to find an
excuse where there is none: and men
are very much surprised sometimes
I
accepted. 1t is not pleasant to have a
lady look at you when you are doing
your best to properly excuse yourself.
as if she thought you esteemed her too
low and falsehood too high. Women
who are too polite or too cautious. to
express their feelings in words. have a
way Of doing so in looks. It is not
pleasant to meet q woman who knows
q. good excuse when she hears it and
then pass out to her something f1imsy.
It will not win her.
The photogra piers habit of saying
to his patrons, look pleasant" is the
one confirmed piece of evidence that
| the worlds faces generally look serious
if not actually cross. It doesn't cost
anything 10 look pleasant. but since
the face reflects the condition of the
mind, the face of man cannot shine
with gladness If the mind does not.
| The first photographer who said this
must have been a genius, for it is more
of a ticker than a command. It
touches ones humor to hear coming
| from a stranger, Look pleasant
please" and in nine cases in ten a
smile goes ripping across the face of
| the party addressed. Tt is only now
| and then some woman says. ''What
! imDertinence!" or q crouch exclafms
| 20, come off, The world generally
| when reminded of it recognizes that ite
! best face is not it's every day face
| but the day is surely coming when
/ the everyday face of man will be the
worlds best face.