Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-05
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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| back to a great truth which has been
| somewhat lost sight of. 1t is not the
| beauty or form of the words that
awakens divine interest but the con-
| is said that calls forth saving grace,
| but how it is said. This is good
| thing to bear in mind because in serl-
| Gus matters we become too perfume
| tory are too much like a trained dog
| and too little like the feeling. think
ing crea ture made in Gods own im-
age.
children as well as she thinks every
| other mother should bring up hers,
! there would be great Improvement
in the conduct of the rising genera
ton. There is really just that differ
ence between the way children are
trained and ought to be. We can see
the lack of training in the children
of others better than we can the need
of it in the children of our own home.
Somehow our eyes seem trained to
recognize the faults of others rather
than their virtues. There may be
generation of women sometime, some
where, who will be able to do this.
We have a great deal to say about
the smile that doesn't come off, just
as if it was the smile of smiles, but it
isn't There are a great many kinds
of smiles but most of them are super
fetal like the we put on when
the photographer says to US, Come,
please look pleasant, now" The smile
that doesn't come off might be called
the concrete smile, but the smile that
aneelically lights up dear old face
and impresses our heart with gen
uine feeling of love, is the smile of
force-the smile that conquers. That
is the smile that is heavenly and the
only one which can exist in the world
and not become contaminated
r.
so bad since it takes one out of a
dilemma without doing others any
harm. 1t takes a smart person to be
a success in this role. A young wo-
man who had invited her callers to
have a glass of lemonade each found
when she went to make 1T that she
| had but one lemon. She made three
glasses for the callers. and then filled
four other glasses with water into
which she dropped a liberal piece of
deceptive rind-the callers had the
real thing and the family had pre-
tence. There Is something akin to di-
plonlacy to get into a scrape like that
and to get out of it without being
obliged to divulge the true condition
of things.
We have had close winter, but we
have no reason to complain-we do
not have real comprehension of what
this winter has been elsewhere. a
friend located about 100 miles from
Yesterday l attended an auction,
drove over snowdrifts over three feet
deep. and around others that were
eight and ten feet. The snow lies ev-
erywhere from one to three feet deep
ON open field and in the woods. Yes
terday morning the mercury was about
8 degrees below; this morning about
20 degrees below. We've had at least
five others as cold this Compared
with this it doesn't seem If we'd
had a real winter here in southern
Connecticut and we are not yearning
for one like it. The specimen we have
had is sufficient.
dollar may be "your only FRIEND"
and it may be your worst enemy. AS
a meeter of ones necessities il is often
blessed-as a panderer to ones vices
1t is just as rfghteously damned. If
you deny that money is the root of all
evil, you cannot dispute that it is a
promoter of most of it. Money is a
bone of contention and the man who
has sacrificed everything else to amass
1T often discovers that his family is
ready to do anything to wrest it from
him. The man who is poor in spirit
sees the day when even a fortune has
ceased to be interesting. Any kind of
a disreputable thing can be bought
with money from a drunk to a title,
but virtue or wisdom or peace can
not be SO obtained. Where money is
handled as divine trust it works for
the eXaltation of mankind, but a
contentious and furnishes half the
business in the courts.
The best education for a younq per-
son to enter life with is the knowledge
that bad temper is a Disagreement
a destroyer of many opportunities. The
level head has the high tempered in
d1Fidual beaten at every turn. what
ever his attachments. IT is the quick
tempered who commit crimes in a
minute which they cannot condone in
a lifetime. It is the level headed who
curb rashness at every turn in the
walks of life. The men of greatest
power are men of self command-the
weakest those who have fits of temper
which both inca pacitate and shame
them. Some people take pride in their
ugliness, never knowing that they have
never emerged from the savage state.
Those who would do no injustice can
not afford TO indulge in temper-it
is the most expensive thing ever.
The winter birds have quite a little
fellow feeling. 1t is not strange to see
several varieties feeding together with
out quarreiing, and when there is a
quarrel the English sparrow does not
come off best In the warmer season
the English sparrow does browbeat
some nOncombative birds like the mar
tens, but in winter a single goldfnch
when in a combative mood will put a
dozen of them to flight 1t is not I'M
common to see a flock of sparrows and
streets singular story is told of a
pigeon and an English sparrow who
fed together in the street, the pigeon
breaking the piece of bread he had
and tossing crumbs to the sparrow;
and when they had finished their re-
past they flew away together just as
if a coTnradeship had sprung up be
tween them. Kindness has made
strange companions ever since the
world begun. I
The prudent woman has much on
her mind-nuch of Importance and
much uainl portant- Not long ago q
lady tainted in a department store and
was taken by the girl clerks to a toilet (
room to recover. To facilitate matters
the clerk in attendance took down the
wonaan's hair, and when she began to
pull the hairpins the wire coils so
light and popular in these days
sprung upon the floor carrying hair |
pins some distance from where the
woman lay When she came too and .
sat up she began TO look about for I
her head fxings, and as the hairpins
were returned to her she counted them !
When they were thought to be all in
hand she looked up in surprise, say
ing: What only fifty of 'em! Why |