Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-07-15
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Do not be guilty of foo1ing yourself
| with quiet assurances as to what you
are going to do. You are going to do
just the same as you have been doing
| unless you do the other thing at once.
| There is no point at which the human
| mind quavers as it does when II Is
| presenting character to itself While
the mind recognizes good character
| and realizes that is not what it is
master of, it will say: I'm going to
| reform next year;'>but it is only the
mind which says: Il am going to re-
form now" that accomplishes anything
The intent to reform gets into ones
consciousness now and then and mani
tests itself, and he is tolerant but to-
| tally inert in that direction. [ mis-
| trust that some centenarlanS have
died with some of these half hearted
promises still haunting them; but they
| We're infirm at the start, and years
have made no difference to them spir-
| itualIy or mentally. for they have de-
voted themselves mostly to physic al
| enjoymentS and gained no mastery,
| over mind which is essential to the
development of we'll balanced and
| triumphant life. Lots of people are
| doing this today. 1t is halting habit
which it is well to break away from.
1t used to shock me to hear men
4 speak of "the game of politics" but it
| no longer shocks me to hear that word
used in connection with anything man
| may find to engage himself with The
| man who talks to me about the game
| of life now has a patient and espect-
! full listener. L do not feel SO sure
| that those who have the game sense
most developed do not succeed best ia
all they undertake. In the game Of
whist. we are told by a writer that it
| is necessary at times to break the
| rules to gain a triumph and in real
| life this method appears to work well
| in many cases We are instructed to
tell the truth, but the truth teller
| must have common sense and be able
| TO use it as the whist player uses
| cardsense, or he finds truth telling is
| Improbable. The man of truth must
know when wisdom requires that the
| whole truth be told, and when only
| half of it should be uttered; and TO
recognize the point at which absolute
| silence is best. Everyone must con-
1 fesS q man must have judgment But
/ if life is a game it must be played
| on honor to be satisfactory to man
| of sound principles
| Have you ever thought that the
| kitchen-m echanic has mental imitators
| and that the connections of the mind
if got together with the art of the
| designer really make fine practical
| recipes? Take this one for instance:
| Gold Cake-Opulent thoughts: gener-
Gus judgments; bounteous loving kind
| ness; a blessing on every incoming
| and outgoing coin. FIaver with rich
4 imagination and stir through it a steady
/ purpose" This does not read exactly
| like the recipes We see in The Social
Corner of The Bulletin, but it may
sWeeten life and be quite as practical.
| Here is another: "A Summer Salad
Daisies wet with dew; meadow grasses
| in motion; bob link jingles, gurgles
and trills. Cover with blue-Sky and
garnisk with sunrise eloudlets." May
| be this is joke; but you see the point.
| And here is another: Mayonnaise for
| Blue Monday Salad-Cut up some live
l ly capers. add to them sauce made
| of the milk of human kindness, thick
ened with peace oil and spiced to taste.
When using this always serve some
| fresh peals of laughter with the salad.
| If YOU find it impossible to get the
fresh paals, use some you have sun
4 dried for emergencies These are not
| original, but the output of Goodhue-r.
Perhaps you have seen pansies
| growing from a wall in serene de-
/ light, surviving winter after winter
| with cold feet in bit of earth hardly
| sufficient to give them nourishment,
| showing pretty blooms summer after
| summer just as if they and Nature
were getting on spiendidly together if
the place of lodgment and thrift did
appear To be a, little odd and cramped.
4
| last week. / have CHANGED to see a
| mullen growing in queer place; and
| in A way 1 never supposed before
| mufietin would grow. How Nts seed
| found its way to the rotten seam of
| the plank facing of a wharf and found
| food and support to balloon itself over
1 the water is a matter of inquiry still;
! but it thriVeS there, showing that it
1 can adapt itself to strange conditions
| of life; and that the moist atmosphere
| above the water suits it just as well
| as the dry air of gravelly banks where
/ it is often found in communities, some
| times SO vigorous that it throws up
| branching spikes and in it's form re-
| minds one of the branching, or caudel-
| abra cacti of the Mexican desert.
| Strange place for a mullen that: and
| the prospect is that most of its pro-
| geny will be drowned.
| "A good name may be better than
| riches" but there are too many people
| in the world who have neither; and
| who show no desire to get that of
which good behavior is guaranty.
| There are plenty of human beings who
| appear to be no more able to rid them
selves of the trickery which dishoners
| them than a dog has to rid himself of
| fieas; and since no one else can they
| are in a bad way, for their down-hill
| principles are always making hill
| work for them. And these fellows can
talk about square deal just as glib1y
| and impressively as any other man.
! although the only Golden Rule they
| recognize is DO him quick or he'll
| do you'll" They plot to get on in life
they plan to live q thousand dol
| dar rate on a five hundred dollar sal
| airy. The discontinue of other folks
never troubles them since they know
| of no life without it. They seldom ask
| for pity. for only real substantial
| things meet their wants. Every man
| is a sneak to a sneak just as every
man in Boston is drunk to the drunk
| ard. We make our own mind mirrors
! and then see life reflected there too
! often as it is not. The capability Of
producing true mind mirror is better
| than wealth.
! like to see the great, or honey
banGed sphynx in the garden, if he
| does appear to be enchanted by the
| hot stones of the west wall and the
! shiny wire of the galvanized wire
| fence, for lie is not seen on the flow
| ers there, but appears to enjoy the
| heat and is found gay and lively dur
| ing June and July in the hottest spot
! in thes neighborhood. EuGamus Tttyrus
| isn't pretty in form or color; but he
! is so stout and homely and suspicious
| that he excites ones curiosity and is
| popularity regarded as a winged bug
! rather than true butterfly. 1t is to
/ ho fn iS