Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS

l uppers have too many wants and are l excessive in their self -indulgencies. | Economy is only a synonym for self denial. No one ever saved money who | did not practice it. Self denial at first seems to be a good deal like pun | ishment but when the result is visi- ible it becomes achievement and af- fordS delight. Take systematic saving The tight box that takes the nickel for every other soda, for every other | cigar, for every other entertainment,
 or the dime for every other cream, or l every other self treat of candy, at the close of the year is apt to show up d l great many dollars-dollars to bank. or dollars to buy a suit of clothes, or | dollars to pay a long-overdue bill to | make good ones reputation for thrift, | and maybe for honesty. One of these 1 little boxes is just a revelation of ones
 self to ones self-it bespeaks to the | user increasing self-control, which
 means self-respect, which l means manhood, increasing. finances, 1 which means ease and freedom if 1t 1 just leads one from the condition of a
 borrower to that of a lender.
 1 Some people appear to be welded 1 to perversity. They are not in accord l with law and order. have no regard
 for the proprieties and seem to know nothing of the little amenities which 1 long service usually invites. Their i friends and families call them trials,
 and the world calls them something NOISG Hey are JuSL NlCJlDlS llSiO
 are no two things that Victimize men, | women and children more than sell | fShnesS and. immature conclusions | They lead to self delusion and many | disturbing iIlusionS-they lead to ex- | cesses of various kinds and to chronic | disorder of the mind and misconduct l Of every character and degree Noth- | ing but our faith can make us whole, hence, lack of it produces counter eff fects Few of these people are as bad | as they seem to be to us. They create their own unhappiness, and that is why we should guard against any disturbing effects they may have upon the pleasure of living They have their lives to live and some of them stray far from the paths of peace. Interference is not what they need, but light, and there is nothing better than the light of love to touch them.
 The graceful rudbeckia-one of the little sunflowes-swaying in the wind always pieases me, although ten years acquaintance with it has revealed to me that it's root-sDreading habits make it nuisance, if not a real pest Prem three plants bought ten years ago I have no doubt that, to keep within bounds. have destroyed 10000 plants. To keep it within limits bushel of roots have to be taken up and thrown away every spring It is full as prolific as the white daisy, and it is first cousin to all the flowers
  lidus. Its height is one objection to it, but by cutting back the main stem in July it can be kept down-its bug giness is another objection to it, for 1t is covered with red plant lice which seem to be immune from attacks of the syrphid f1ies-the natural enemies of the aphides-and 1t takes constant spraying to clear the lice from the stalks. A few hundred of them wave around the edges of the garden and l must confess I like to see them.
 It is sign of fall when you see birds migrating south, in a sense. On August 5th a flock of small birds of considerable size passed south over Norwich, which seemed to me an in- dication that they had closed their season and actually farewelled. Birds do not go south or come north be- cause of approaching cold, as is pop ularly supposed, but because thair breeding season is over-their work is done. The immigration of birds is very imperfectly understood-eartlTs feathered wanderers cannot reveal to man why they have a,bodes thousands of miles apart-why the swallows of Great Britain come to spend part of the year in Africa, why the swal- lows that skim the lakes of Connecti- cut should part of the year skim the lakes of Brazil. Some birds move north and south by zOnes for instance, the Labrador robin winters in New IdHu-tn0 N0W EnSldnQ room Win ters in New Jersey The cedar wings and other birds come north in Febru- ary-the orioles come in May and the humming- birds from the tropics later for four months they come-for four months they go. This procession of birds is one of natures wonders.
 bunch of kochia swayine in the August sunlight is a sight to please an artist. tIs flmy foliage and it's danc- ing Sh96OXUG-ifS emerald and shaded greens-make it a thing of beauty, so full of artistic play as to excite the fancy, that it is difficult to decide which kOchia is prettiest, in it's dress of August greens, or in it's dress of September crimson. Its flowers appear to add nothing to it's attract iveness, but they do scatter seeds so lavishly that where kochia has been once installed it is permanently To- eated- It has no photospores to open and close like the chameleons to mys- tify and amaze us by it's ability to take on initiative coIors, but it has a way of passing from it's cool green beauty-from it's fern-like graceful ness to a burning bush' which makes it a fayorite for various garden uses, and under delft hands it is trained small, taking on the same globed or oval form. giving them in the row, a symmetrical appearance which is al- ways attractive and hence it is fancied for border as well as a decorative plant.
 A goidfinch has just flown across the half-acre with his cheerful music ally whistled notes and that wavy flight of his. and Il asked myself why it flies in curves and his whole tribe flies in curves like the long rollers of the ocean. This is what our aviators call gliding" This is not wholly peculiar to the goldfinch race any more than the bee line of the humming-bird is solely pe- culfar to him. Some birds go in flight as straight as if shot out of a gun and some move with the labored eff fort of an oarsman. The ducks, you may have noticed have an oar-like flight, while the hawks and gulls and swallows sail in curves through the air. gracefully and with indolent ease What a clumsy flier the robin is com pared with the wing-action of the blue bird, who in turn belongs to the fIut- ter winged tribes Experienced bird students and insect students too oft en identify genuses by their charact- eristic manner of flight when they