Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-10-22
THE MAN WHO TALKS

1t does not seem as If the loss of
present time was the loss of all time,
but II is Now is another name for
oppcftunity and the man who acts
now doesn't wait for opportunity to
happen along. he is bounding along the
road of achievement as il he expected
to meet opportunity on the way, and
he usually does. The only way to get
there in these twentieth century days
is to keep agoing. 1t was in chivalric
age that opportunity was supposed to
wait upon genius--in these days genius
commands opportunity without cere-
mony and keeps plunging ahead. OPP
portunity doesn't knock at the door
once, any more, but just Waltzes along
with the industrious and strives to the
point where it will count most. The
advantage is to him who does, not
for him who waits. Do, and keep doing.
is good motto.
The new woman so glibly talked
about will be the old woman by and
by. We graciously pretend to recog-
nize her as new product, although we
know that every age has recognized
sweet sixteen as the new woman ever
since language took a new form. Young
womanhood is always new and con-
stant-the bright side of the shield of
life. Old wornanhood is dignifed and
gracious and to be reverencad for what
it has added to the worlds assets-it is
the mother of the new woman and the
young manhood upon which the nation
puts its dependence and sets it's heart.
The new woman and tha old woman
just balance on the ftIlcrum of life
the world could not do without the one
or the other although in its exuber-
ance it cheers louder for the first.
Ny sunflowers invite daily focks of
sparrows and they banquet thare upon
the oily, hearty seeds and tWitter about
the affairs of today. for they do not
take cognizance of tomorrow, but live
by compulsion in the eternal now.
Neither frost nor fate is a menace to
them as man intarprets their life. for
they have no mentality. 1t is popularity
believed that they think not of the
morrow, although they move in their
migrations as if by an almanac of their
own. steer to their destination, by the
air lines as accurately as the navigator
with his quadrant and compass finds
his home port, save food against the
days Of dearth and want, and do other
things which 1t does not seem as if
mindless creatures would attend TO or
could accomplish. But we cannot dis
pute with the great scholars Of the
world about these minor matters, for
life is not long enough. We just notice
the Godgiven evidence and conclude
that men who are mortally thought to
DG wise may De IdE ITpI1 II.
After the frost and the freeze there
stands in the garden one solitary hol-
lyhock as pert and promising, as green
and full of buds as the departed gen.
Grafton Of common hol1yhocks were in
July. This cannot be Il common holly
hock, so uncommon is it's performance.
and the fact that it was hedged about
by dahlias and was somewhat pro-
tected by fruit trees may not be the
reason 1T stays with us, for its leaves
are not heart shaped, but more like
large maple leaves and it may be the
French Althea known as Narbonne--a
late summer blooming variety which
grows wild in the woods of France and
Spain 1t must be admitted that it's
chance of making flowers and perfect
ing seed is not promising in this lati-
tude. With week of warm weather,
it may show flowers, or it may perish
in a night should Jack Frost come
roaring out of the northwest but Just
at present in it's solitude it is an object
of beauty in even its foweriess condi-
ton.