Norwich bulletin., 1910-11-05
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The heat of July and the bleakness
of late October are trials to out-of-
door workers. When the frost is on
the pumpkin, "the dervisheS'' are
dancing at night for Aurora, biting
winds coming out of the northwest
and snowf1akes furrying in the wind,
and an occasional meteor flashing into
our atmosphere we know that winter
is nearby, and that out-of- door work
needs to be stuck to if it is to be
completed and things are to look neat
and trim during the cold months.
Cold ears and nose, tingling fingers
and now and then lone bird note are
not cheerful accomplishments to in
dustry, but they accelerate the move
ments of a worker since they ron
lettering of every pleasure.
When | took up the dahIia roots
they differed materially from year to
year. Some have had a lean time
and some a fat time, and some have
spread thems elves, and some have eX-
listed in modest retirement. 1t seems
to me that it must be more in &C
cord with their nature than with their
appetite that they model for them
selves roots. Some dahlias are so pro-
life that they burst the stem and the
family cannot be kept together, and
others commit race suicide by their
Incidence. presenting ffbrous roots
which only a professional can nurse
through from season to season. The
same plants don't always produce
roots in the same number and form,
or the same length and robustness
The Grand Duke and the King of
Siam will make single roots like a
rutabaga turnip, and be so late sprout-
ing in the spring that an inexperienc-
ed person might throw them away as
dead and useless-but they do some
times make clumps of roots like de-
cent, progressive individuals. There is
no accounting for the eceentricities OF
dahliaS.
1t may seem to be little late to be
talking about butterflies, even if No
venber in this latitude does have its
open air moths; but the Painted Lady
butterfly, which was not long ago en-
joying the wind-falls under the pear
trees with the Red Admiral, is wor-
thy of mention just because 1t is still
the only cosmopolitan butterfly
known to naturalists-this little red
and white and black and gray and
pink butterfly has ma de the whole but
terfiy zone of the earth its own. 1t Just
regales itself upon fruit Juices in the
BURBERRY patches of the far north an6
the banana fields of the far south
orchards of New England and the
orchards of Japan; in the vineyards OF
Italy and India; and in the gardens
of Greenland and Thibet. How 1t evel
crossed the seas cannot be imagined
1t may have crossed the Atlantic by
way Of the Sunken Continent of AT
lantis which extended from Mexico tc
Europe. and of which the islands OF
the Atlantic are supposed to be the
mountain peaks. This little fellow has
furnished a problem man cannot solve
While working out the other da,
removing the dead sunf1ower stalks
and getting together all the stray
weeds and rubbish for a bonfire, the
English sparrows few to the peal
trees and uttered a sputtering protes
against the destruction of their seed
stands, for to the dry sunfiower seed:
they had been flying for weeks for re-
freshment and had always found II;
but they will still find on the grount
where the sunfiowers dropped them al
abundant supply of seeds until winter
closes in 1t was on the 18th Of Octo.
Der, and 1t was then the first chick.
a-dee began searching the hop pole!
for spiders and insect eggs and to her
aid with his cheerful song the ap-
proach of snow, in which 1t de
lights to fiutter and to battle itself
The cf1ick-a-dee is as social as tn,
wren or the house sparrow and ap
pears 10 love TO VISIT civilized COM
munities. for it haunts the backdoo
when snowdrifts are piled up in tn
garden with the persistence and assur
ance of hungry tramp.
There is an old saying that eth
woman who sings while She is max
ing bread will cry before it is eaten
guess that depends more upon tn
nature of the woman than 1t doe
upon the quality of the singing or thu
bearing of the incident upon this spe
ctal industry. This maxim may a1av,
been inv ented so as to make the bread
maker keep her mouth shut and he
eyes open while engaged in preparin:
food which would be a very goOs
ruse for worthy purpose, that doe
not need explaining. A merry hear
can sing without vocal dernonstra-
ton Sometimes the mouth sing
when the heart doesn't. There Il
nothing becomes industry like silence
Achievement needs no ,cryer, for
speaks for itself the bread of tn
singer might provoke somthing diff
ferent from song which might caus
the weeping. 1t would be safe enough
to bet that every singer at the breat
board does not cry before it is eaten
The weeds like the birds are Away
with US. The c1liclgweed, that 1ittl
defer of the hoe, is fiourishing AM