Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-10
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 Do not ever be annoyed again if you hear people boosting Of their blue blood because the bright red blood of tho haemogIobip is the best blood there is; and do not look in the djc- tionary 10 see what haefn9gl6b'n means; the chemists bank npon 1t. but the Iexfcogra phers have not sat ID and taken notice of il yet. Only the deep-sea Jobsters and crabs have blue blood. There are eight c0I0rs fin blood. you know--green. violet, pur- pie, madder, mahogany, brown, indigo blue, lilac. to say nothing of the ys- rfetIes of red--red. redder reddestf Let's see--that would make eleven coi- ors wouldn't ity and the scientists have discovered that red and blue blood cannot occur in the same body any more than fog and A. tempest can exist in the same atmospheric area. So it is Impossible for these boasters to have red and blue blood af the same time. These low colored b1oods are found in the lower ani- fnais.
 1t is not expected that any reader of this column should be able 10 tell what vlogyor means. When I say that 1t Is q word fo remember and not to define. perhaps it will be no better understOod. If is q rnnemonic or mem ory- help word, and do not know who invented H or now long IT mas been in use. There is no good reason why any one should try 10 pronounce it. for it has no place in. general conyer- sation. The letters in it are the in- itial letters of the seven colors Of the spectrum which stand side by side Tn this order-violet, indigo. blue. green, yellow. orange, red. These are the coIors wrought from the white light by the prism and scientists find it easier to fix the order of these coiors by q mind word than to attempt to name them in their order without #. how 1t is spelled assures one of the order of the colors of the spectrum. Do not forget it.
 Ii ia so common to hear the van ity of the women spoken of, and 30 rarely that any allusion is made by the politer sex to the vanity of the men, that I am always pleased when one of them breaks silence and calls attention to their gold lace and epaul- cites, their sartorial eccentricities and tho cut of their whiskers or the curl Of their mustaches. Just read this from an essay on vanity from the pen of q schoolgirl: T consider a boy more vain than 9 girl anytime. Just take & view of them when they are doing their hair for dinner. Talk about tittivatingi The dressing table will be in a perfect litter from end to end, with oil bottles, scent bottles. etc, etc" This miss might have added g. few more etceteras without being in peril of being charged with exaggera- ton. It is more than likely she had brothers and got her conclusions from close contact and observation. I knew q gentleman who took two hours in the morning to arrange his toilet and put on the band-box air. This Is not crime, either, but when honors are easy derision should take a back seat
 My good mother saw the pfn-feath- CTS of a reforner in her son early, ! suspect for in his exuberant youth she used to say at the conclusion of some of his remarks: There's no use Remember you cannot reform the world" She knew how and when to pour cold water on conceit about as well as any one I ever chanced to meet I didn't enjoy 1t any better than an infant enjoys cold bath; but since then I have learned the worth of this check upon the spirit. for I have tried to reform myself several times in various ways and my success was not so marked as to be flatterine to my vanity. l know now that is where every one who is bent upon making the world better ought to begin; and that it is a mighty profitable If rather | a discouraging endeavor. Old Mir. Self