Norwich bulletin., 1910-11-19
THE MAN WHO TALKS

said: Half our diseases are in our
minds and the other half are in our
houses That which tho human mind
| tears it invites; and wherever the sun
is shut out disease creepS in. Sunshine
in the mind and in the house is a
bar to depression, gloom, dampness,
mould, fungi of all sorts, and the bac-
| terra laJlen atmosphere which shade
and poor ventilation is sure to pro-
duce. There is a great deal of preach
ing of health--it is much better and
more profitable to practice it. Do not
think YOU have inherited the diseases
of your parents, for if you have it is
not an inheritance that is worth
thinking about. 1t is splendid thing
| to forget The mind that is pure and
the house that Is clean make for
health and for pleasure every day in
the year.
The world acts upon the principle
that one good kick should follow an
other, and this is why it SO relentlessly
gives it to the fellow who is down,
and remains silent concerning the chap
! on top. We do not have to go far
| from home to find the fellow Who is
being hard hit. If one slanderous
tongue gets loose about a person it
seems to be a signal for all other
tongues of that particular type to ut
ter everything scandalous about him
that they ever have heard The man
| who is down is the man to thump-to
lay QUITO flatten. This doesn't
make matters so much worse for the
unfortunate. but it discloses how
meanness abides its time, and how
| much more prevalent it is than we
thought.
1t may be just as we'll that but few
/ people realize what water famine
means. Most people would be less
careless in the use of potable water if
Thav tar, of oil
| in upon southern New England with
the brooks and springs and reservoirs
far below normal and last winter it
was difficult to find water for the stock
on the nearby farms in this vicinity,
and now the winter of 1910 and IL
, threatens to come on with no marked
/ Improvement in the water supply,
| there having been a shortage for the
year of a foot and a sixth on the level
in most parts of New England. The
anxious communities who are lower
than ever in their water supply are
many and to assure the needy com
munities of water in the future many
| millions must be spent To have a
I water famine is to be at the mercy of
filth diseases and eonhagrations-eon-
tagion and death would reign. What
I might happen in a time of such
deprivation is simply unthinl1able- To
be on short water rations would be
temporary distress for all classes.
| A Rhode Island minister prayed for
rain of a recent Sunday-askeG the
Lord TO send refreshing rain that
would clothe the parched earth with
! VerduF6. This would have been an
! endersabLe petition in the spring
months. but net in late autumn. This
! thoughrless performance called out
sharp criticism and one listener was
! of the opinion that the frost would
! make short work of the verdure should
| the prayer De answered. OF course,
! there is no reason to expect such an
! in-conceived and iil-fitting petition
will be answered-there is no wisdom
| in asking God to set up conflict with
I His natural laws which represent di-
vine wisdom and power. This is what
! represents sounding brass and a
/! tinkling cymbal' in q religious appeal
1t simply illustrates how habit will
| through Incidence drive out sense.
| Prayers that are out of harmony with
| wisdom could not be wisely answered.
The question has never been settled
/ whether man is Woman'S superior of
not, and is not likely to be: but a
| Few members of both sexes are ever
| ready to take the initiative in such a
discussion, and the result is often hui
InorOus as well as pointed. One gal
( liant was challenged by a spinster on
! this point not long ago, and the reply
: must nave Been perfectly SATISFACTORY
/ to the opposite sex, for he replied: No
/ indeedi Where is there man who
! would be able to so about with his
| arms and chest barred TO the winter
I! winds, to say nothing of wearing
/! shoes that cover only his heels and
| toes, and stockings too guaSs to ward
| off the searching fall breezes? One
! day of that sort OF thing in this eli
| mate would send the strongest man to
| the hospital" 1t is not strange that
/ such observing fellows are obliged to
| confess that they lack the power to
and come off without apparent harm.
! But this doesn't settle it!
| The memory of good dinner will
| linger with a man longer than the
| memory of good advice; and, yet, good
advice taken seriously and cherished
! as an asset is worth more to d man
/ than many good dinners. In fact, it
may when made practical be the means
( of putting him IL the way of good din
] ners ali the time. 1t is strange that
man undertakes so many good things
and 0VerYalues SO many temporary
! plea sures: In ILLUSTRATION OF the con-
! celt Of the average man it has been
/ said that il permitted he would afwa Us
select a halo three sizes too big TO
/ fit him. His estimate of his own des-
! erts makes other people smile. This
+ toad philosophy originated in the pud-
! die where every toad thought ne Was
/ the biggest toad in the pool Man
may sometime, somewhere. reach d
| condition where he will be accepted al
his own estimate, but not in this vale
/ Of tears
I 1t is hard to say who is least well
/ come, the person who is full of troubles
/ or the person full of jokes. The man
/ of misery and the man of gaiety are
| both too much for the easy going con
sentative citizen who has few troubles
| of his own and no fancy for a joke
| smith. Men are not looking for pain
| in this world-they prefer peace; and
/ peace is not to be picked up around
/ every corner or to be had for the ask
! ing. Peace resembles good luck in this,
I that it seems to like to surprise those
! who are not looking for it. Some pee-
/ pie appear to enjoy their troubles just
| as others confess that they enjoy poor
! health Most people on this mundane
sphere enjoy being excused from both
of them. The joy of living consists of
I forgetting niseries and elrerishing mer-
/ cies al their full value.
7 1t is q fact chat the UNIV riAten law
has had more written about it than
I any other law to which public atten-
/ ton is called and about the only res-
/ son that ii is called the unwfitten
! law perhaps, is because it is d law
| of vengeance unendersa bic by God or
man. 1t is the source of all fauds and
7 has never proven satisfactory In It's re-
7 suits although Ira fla