Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-07-02
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The man who is full of prejudice
and hate is subject for pity How
much he suffers no one can tell but
| himself and discomfort is written all
! over his face. You look at such man
/ and he looks as if all the world was
/ awry. The mark of turbulent mind
/ is upon the face, but should you meet
! those he despises or would annihilate,
i they look CHEEKY and sunny as if he
! had no existence. This operation of
nature was doubtless designed to teach
| man the folly of being ugly or mean;
! and how slow some of them are in learn
ing the lesson. He who learns early that
the best sort of revenge is not to be
/ like him who did the injury has put
himself in the way of peace and prog
ress. The mind that is subject to tur-
buIence is a plague to it's possessor.
The folly of making ones self uncom-
Portable is too apparent to be discussa--
BILE. 1t should be remembered that to
forget wrong is the best revenge.
do not know how you feel about
automobiles. Those who haven't them
are complaining because of the un-
earthly character of some of the horns.
the odor they trail behind and the
peril which forces them to dodge them,
and those who have automobiles are
angered by the accidents on bad roads,
the restrictive laws, the pursuing de-
tective, the license fees insurance pre-
miums and the collectors generally.
In view of all this it is not so easy to
tell who has the best time-the auto
mobile owner, the jOy-rider, or the i'm
perilled citizens who have to dodge
for their lives. Sometimes / think it
is easier lodging the automobiles than
it is lodging the detectives and col
lectors. If we just look at ourselves
right Wen ind that we are all dodgers
of one character or another, and L
have come to the conclusion that
lodging the automobile is less hun1il-
iating than some other lodging man
is subjected to.
The Marquis de ChasteIIeux in his
travels in America, because Ameri-
cans failed to classify birds and trees
and called the jay bluebird. the
cardinal the red bird and every water
bird from the teal to the canard des
clois. a duck, said Americans were
far from successful in enriching their
native language and while criticising
our SlOth or our mistakes, he said, he
hunted on mountainsideS covered
with woods as old creation not
seeming to realize that no woods were
older than the average life of the trees
comprising them, and that creation
preceded the appearance of trees by
many ages. Now the French who gave
birds their specific names, named, our
turkey, which entered Europe through
the Mediterranean trade and was
"coq uInde, and the English
thought it came from Turkey and gave
it that name. and for convenience of
trade Americans called it turkey, and
now the bird parades for what it is
isn't when we know what 1t is Men
of all ages have been human and the
errors of humanity come down to us
in all sorts of forms.
1t is the tiny things which produce
beauty effects in nature not the mass
i've. The vastness of the sea, or the
sky, or the mountains is apt to fill us
s,r1f ton &c
the little house on the hillside, the
flowers by the brookside, the bird
swaying on a twig, the tracery of leaf
shadows on the tree trunk, shadows IN
the water, ferns and brakes in the
corner beside an old wall or fence, a
thin crescent moon with Venus close
to it in the rosy afterglow at night, an
old gate, vine entwined, q 1eafy bower,
a boiling spring encompassed by dali
sizes. the mudbanks of a creek with
an old, decayed tree trunk across it
and a duck upon the water, old birds
and young with a nest in a wealth of
foliage, opaline clouds upon cerulean
blue sky, a mother bird patiently
tea ching her young to fly, which
form prettW pictures for everyday
folks. The eye and the heart do not
have to take in much to find joy in
the manifestations of nature which
are the manifestations of God.
There is no doubt that Gods invita-
ton to man through nature is TO look
up. The upward look is the unmolest-
ed path into space-the inspiring look.
OF course, people living on the plains
see many miles-ten hours travel I'M
der the best conditions; on the coast
the revolving lights thirty miles away
are seen at night; in a hill country like
New England the outward look is only
a. few miles. To speak under any cir
cunlstances of q distant view of Ma
Mia 1900 miles away would furnish
strong evidence of lunacy, but we see
the man in the moon who is about
19 times the distance from US to the
Philippines, and look up at the
ippine Islands. and we look up at the
sun which is 372 times as far off as
the moon and we can even see Arc
turus, the great sun around which
this whole planetary system swings
once in 10000 years, moving at the
rate of fifteen miles a second. To look
up inelIigently is to see the wonders
of the universe.
The other day little girl left d
trolley car in apparent hurry and ran
around the front of it at extreme peril
to reach her destination. The car was
on a down grade. but the careful mo-
torman had learned to wait to see
what the passenger was going to do,