Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-25

Please believe me when 1 say that L do not often read nor even look at xhe so-called comic supplements
 hey do pct hit my funnybone. Not
 4hs least little bit Instead of seem
 Ing funny to me they impress me as
 being eirhar silly repulsfve. But
 good sometimes comes out Of Gali1ee, md the other day, in lifting one Of khese comic supplements" out of the
 bundle in order to drop~at on the floor,
 any eye was caught by a single sen Renca in quaint type. which tempted
 1ns tc read the other three or four
 sentences con5oined with it They
 wore as follows The true sport Is
 Uea&1aEz2a In every game that is play
 01- Rs takes his licking with a smile;
 doesn't blame the other side; doesn't
 throw bottles at the umpire He just
 plays as well as he can; lifts his prize.
 or swallows his medicine"
 -Jsrnsnyl cid man." says to myself.
 sf CRts really being a sport, why
 my rurai idea of a sport" had been
 chap in rather loud" clothes, almost
 always wearing jerky little cap. usu-
 ely chewing efther a straw or cigar
 cite. addicted to -,hxehballs'' and rather
 proud of being known as fan, more
 expert at poker than at crTbbage, and
 knowing a good deal more about horse
 pedfgrses and records than about
 9e6nf1zon I've quoted has set me
 thinking about the other side of him.
 RerhADs 4cs a little ideaHzed Even
 so n's c good Ideal to have in view 8zd ssxn sE I hardly want to say Chat
 E,s t1e highest possible ideal. But 1ts e mighty sight higher than the
 ectuslity <zztch many lives realize.
 There's q lot Of us who would be about fer hundred per cent better men and wcroeu If we had attained to even that Heal
 For instance: "He takes his licking with smile; doesn't blame the other s5daS doesn't throw bottles at the unn- p4re- Yesterday was "peddling day" with me and I had opportunity to meet | several dozen of my fellow creeturs- 4 good many were fellow farmers The Roce met the bluer I got Had to; couldn't hekp 1t, absorbed 1t from them. l you know Of course it's been hard Gpr1ng for us ali. up here. The weather | hzz been cap-icious and unkind; the 1 reads have been and are very bad; | xnple crops are backward; and the 1 persistent da1y rains have made 1t ! 6=poss5bie to give them the cultivation 1 Kher Eorefy need There's been very f1t<2e bfae sky visible thus far in May end Ane- But the blueness in the az Efsh us. and thick enough to cut with m axe IL has soaked into the souls of my neighbors- We are all of us getting licking" And we are not growing and scowling and bowling. We are blaming everybody and every thing. and If We aren't throwing bot ties at the umpire it's beca use we can't | rec him or haven't any bottles
 All she talk ! heard yesterday was | keTsd to the pitch of discontent or ] dezp45E. Every man began by asking me about my crops But he really Et6c't care a picayune about them His | Inquiry WAS simply a peg upon which | he could hang woeful tale of his own | Eelpfeseness- It was too cold and wet l for his corn It was too wet and cold | for his potatoes His rye was lodging | end kis ozts hadn't half come up. The | Fruit blossoms had all been blighted | 6T late frcSts and his best piece of | -nsw seeding had been washed out | by the rresfets- Hnars< TapIey7- Mark was convinced | that the only merit in being jolly was | to be when the conditions were most |
 agfn him" He was always ''connfn' | cut strong in the Jolly Tapiey line | when things were most cross grained i end AAs as zociates were most distress fui- But there isn't a Jolly Tapley in |
 my neishoorhood, if I may judge by | accept the definition I've taken as | Eort of text is there a real sport" | anywhere near by. They weren't any Of them taking their licking with a | smile
 1 own up that it's a rather hard l khfsss to do- But, bless you. all life is | fzz~d h spots Sometimes rf1e spots | seem to cover the most of it's visible | area too don't know single thing | Enzt'S actually easy to do-a single | really useful and worthy thing, l mean All the work of the world | . zainst obstacles Only those who | can hire outsiders or bulIyrag compan- Eo1s into doing their share avoid the | raspings and nanglings of life. And | -F b say the least of it. It is a cowardIy | evasion Of the common burden-bear- Ing IT Is the habit of shirks and | sneakS-not of manly and womanly l honor No one of us can with decen- CT dodge lne's hardnesses. Just be- rGuSe we find thing hard to do is no r>sson- 10 excuse even, for not doing | l. attempting it. The hard job of | being jolly under un-jollX conditions Is no exception
 Here we farmers are in the midst ,f 2 battle with the untoWzrd season. We are being batted over the head and r<zecked across the sl1ins in an ex- reTuesy unpleasant manner. And it hurts- no use denying that; it hurts L<kewise. I suppose 1t hurts when the | sport draws diamond to his four hush Of spades or when the horse he has be- on comes in distanced or when tile nire he ties up to is goose egged by scrub nine from Podunk. But, N he is Q real sport" hs pays up and looks p7easant-' If he can't lift a prize he can and does swallow his caedicine-" Just at present the a-gri- -czeuraI prizes being passed round in uy particular reighborhood are neft11- .- numerous nor valuable while the medicine bottle is on every shelf Filled Kt1h mighty bad-tasting medicine, too.
 We'll, what are we going to do about s7 If h5wling and squealing would ,rznE more prizes or improve the taste If the medicine, there might be some seuse in bowling and squealing. But hey won't It doesn't do penny's worth more good to snivel than to mile It helps matters no more to ! rroan than to grin. Our shedding of many tears won't clear up the weeping l sk1es- Our compladTdngs won't put rrovrth into the ground, nor f-pulP' into he fnfrequent sunshine. But, unpleas- mt es it ali is, we can somewhat ease ID things around the edges by deter making the best of the-bad oA Even a dreny in the swamp re- 1eveg by c little the b1ackness of a !axk night It does absolutely no good 1.