Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
THE MAN WHO TALKS

noe does not go SO fast as the man
who owns a motor boat, but he may
be surer of reaching his destination.
Speed and peril are always more or
less closely allied; and it makes no
difference whether the rule is applied
to fast boats or fast human beings,
the results age about the same. 1t is
natural to applaud those who get there
regardless of speed, but If they get
disaster instead We charitably refer
to them as the victims OF fooliShnesS.
There are lots of people in this world
who are aware that they got applause
by the skin of their teeth You may
not have noticed that merit goes slow
or that strong foundations are not the
work of an hour
1t has been discovered that feet tell
tales as well as hands, and that one
of the best places to read feet is in a
restaurant, for when folks are seated
and feeding they do not seem to know
what to do with their feet An OBJ
server states that nine in every ten
will sit with their feet turned outward
and on their toes with the SoleS in
full view. What they reveal cannot
be told in one small paragraph: but
shoes of a foppishly dressed young
man showed his bare foot through the
sole, while just above the top of his
genteel low-cut. shoes hole was no.
ticeable in his stocking Now, what
is this? Simply a hint to those who
dine in restaurants to look out what
their feet are disclosing while they
are taking their meals.
Durinq the month of April, Arcturus,
the great sun about which our sun
and its entire galaxy of planets has it's
orbit. making the journey once in 49,
600 years. will be one of the brightest
stars in the east, and it is calculated
to be about 10000 light years away
when at it's farthest point from US;
and Hght-year represents as many
los,
multiplied by $4,000. We haven't
figured the distance, and do not mean
to; but if the sun is over $4,000 times
the size of the earth, and Arcturus is
over $4,000 times the size OF our sun,
how large do you suppose the great
central sun is that magnetically holds
all stellar systems in place and IN
harmony? The wonders of the heav-
ems are past finding out and their glory
is incomprehensible.
William writes me that when his
great-grandfather went to school he
used to read out of the Franklin prim-
err. which was illustrated with coarse
wood-cuts. A worried looking man
in nightcap and pajamas is looking
down on an adjoining roof upon which
two cats are caterwau11ng, while a
full moon rolls across the sky of 177S,
or Whereabouts; and beneath it is this
reading lesson: us this a cat and
kit? oh, yes; It is. a cit and kit;
Oh, yes; I can hear the cat and the
kit. The cat is the dam of the kit.
Dam the cat and the kit" Now.
isn't this using swear words without
swearing, too? The old school book
makers used to regard this sort of
thing as being humorous, and IL was
People are awful careless how they
pay compliments. It may be a well in
tended remark to say that a kid looks
like his father, but he may always be
set down as good natured who can lis
ten to that and not break into a ut of
bad temper. How does he know how
mis- father looked; and If he looks like
his father how can he look like kid?
Do not you think there is something
offensive in the remark, anyway? A
nice little kid cannot look like a. nice
parent and be natural We should not
say things because they sound good,
but because they are good.
There is no doubt that dress is an
index of character, but lots of folks
never appear to find it out. girl who
dresses in the morning so that she
looks like anything but a belle does not
think that her younger evening ap-
pearance is not sufficient to carry her
through The same thing NAV be said
of a young man. It is general average
of appearance which counts, not the
occasional makeup. IL you were going
to guess the age of some women as
they look in the morning you would
have to divide the age they looked up
to by two and then subtract ten from
the remainder and you would hit it
about right. A woman's youthful look
is not wholly natural.
Life is a conundrum all of us like to
keep guessing and never like to give
up. We may say that life isn't worth
living, but we would not if we knew
we should surely die if we said it. We
are queer; and If some of us don't get
4Rf w
it, we shall not get much We act as
though we ought to get out cream
when we are contributing parings. We
expect a great deal more of life than
we think life ought to expect of us;
and we don't mind our equifibriurns
any better than we do our p's and as.
Lift makes us tired, but few of US
really tire of life, although many of US
think that we do.
The size of the servant girl prob
lem depends upon the character of the
mistress. Some mistresses become a
sort of second mother to servants; and
some become tyrants in petticoats, with
all sorts Of varieties between Such
nistresses as think that a servant
hasn't any rights or privileges they
are bound to respect are always making
trouble for themselves 1t seems
strange that some folks feel bound to
treat their animals better than they do
hired help; and hired help naturally re-
sent being treated no better than a
dog 1t is not a sign of high birth to
treat humble folks with disrespect.
Shoddy plays the tyrant because its
part is so unnatural that it doesn't
know how to act it.
When a boy is getting out of the
Juvenile period he shows it by saving
the pennies he has always spent for
candy to get enough to buy a baseball,
bat and mitt. He is leaving TIE way
of whimpers and sweets for the more
strenuous way of life. He is for put
ting strength into his muscles, instead
of confectioner'r paste into mis- mouth.
His tadpole days are behind him and
he sees the home run looming up in
front 1t is a manly ambition which
possesses the soul of boy and takes
him from babyhood and sets him in
the way to meet an umpire. 1t is the
opening uD of play atnd the beginning
of trouble-this is just what life is as
played along different lines.
Someone has said: Invite some men
to take a drink and they measure out
five fingers just to keep their hand
in. This is clothed joke, but it
really is the mask of a hog. Some
men cannot stand generosity any bet
Ter than some others can stand rros-