Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-01
THE MAN WHO TALKS

| much as d physical condition ou and I have seen prematurely old pet l sons who at 30 looked as wrinkled and 1 forlorn as others al 70: and we have 1 known men of 70 who were as active i and well-preserved as men of 50; and | men of hundred who were more | erect intellectual and active than l others at 45. It is the age of the heart l that tells upon the form and face of man. and it is the power of the mind 1 which makes men of four score show naught of age except it's wisdom. Jer- l ro!d wrote: How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look. We have seen men who Time has thus beautified, although they are rare. It l is well to take no thought of time, but to lend the mind to those sentiments which Richter says makes gray hairs silver over the evening of life as the rays of the moon. give charming touch to the shades of evening"
 It does a man good to get out and
 mix in these conflicts in tha garden
 where the survival of the fittest does
 not seem to be the rule. We all have reason to know chickweed whsn We see
 it, that self reliant little pest which asks no odds of the winds or the in seets in the multiplication of it's seeds which is quietly pollenizeS itself anu then hustlas to smother the seedlings in the f1owerbed: and if it is not up- rooted in the flower it will reappear three times as numerous as it was before The poppies. the catchfy and the johnny jump-up seem to appreci- ate a rescuing friend: and once rid Cf the crowd they hasten to gather strength and size and to present their flowers. The chickweed has a way of walking all over a little patch f sround roofing it's joints as it goes along. as a pumpkin vine will do talk
 ing new hold so as to defy the weak
 lings it would overcome and smother. The man with the hoe has to get into these natural competitions for place and life to save his pets. and to make himself master of the garden.
 If every business proposition did not look much like success on paper there would not be so many people led into unprofitable enterprises. Ths: brokers are busy today making letters which appeal to people with money and if they see the success fancy has
 painted in words good and strong they are on the way to getting stung. Perhaps you have not observed how pretty the things are which sting. The bumblebee in velvet and gold might pc mistaken for friend if we did not know he had a stilleto for very mortal who interferes with him. The yellow jacket wears attractive clothes. The man who tells us in sweetened words how we can double our pile in a month or a
 
 pile in the way he recommends to us. He seems to be sacrificing golden op
 portunities when he is only fishing for suckers. Look out for the proposition which presents to the mind too much enjoyable color-which awakens too much confidence-which seems to be a way of making money easy. Money never flies toward an easy guy.
 The butterflies do not skip the gar
 II. T. Ora visitor shows up. The swallowtails and the shippers and the graptas. and representatives of other tribes are there, fitting about by day and by night: but we were surprised the other day to see lit on the damp garden soil MiIberti's butterfly, Vanessa Milberti This is the second time he has called in fifteen years. He has a broad or
 anee red band covering both wings, and two bright orange red spots on the front of the foreWings: and to the casual observer he looks like relative of the Red Admiral Cynthia Atlantis. although he belongs to a diff ferent family. This butterfly is com mon in northern New England, but is rarely seen in these parts. Once only in fifteen years has the great swallow tail Papilio Cresphontes called and tasted the phlox; but we should not be surprised to see him again at any time. He does not fly farther north than Connecticut. and he would be regarded rare catch by any local juvenile butterfly hunter. He ranges west as far IS Michigan and as far southward as Western Virginia.
 If we understood ourselves better we should have very much less trouble; and be less liable to blame the inno- cent, a thing at times we are all very likely to dO Many a workman Suf- fering from disordered stomach planes the boss for things his physi- cal condition gets him into. If one is made irritable by physical conditions which are the result of his own ex- cesses, why should he blame the boss just as soon as there is friction? You may not have taken notice of the fact but a gang of men often regard the boss the same as a lot of ball players regard the umpire, and they esteem him more as one to blame for every thing that happens adverse to them than to praise for any good thing he may do. There are a lot of things in life that cannot be well explained. anG this is one of them. The man who keeps his stomach right and his eyes open is the one who has less trouble and fewer complaints than the rest; and the one who succeeds.
 It is surprising how many men there are who harbor the conceit that most every woman he meets would feel proud to have him for a husband. They do not realize that women as a rule appreciate most men who know least about. their own merits or virtues. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat ones self says Baily. All sin is easy after tha l." The man who realizes that it is safer to suspect himself than any one else stands on pretty good ground. The woman who thinks model husband is the one who will conduct himself just as she thinks he should would be a very good mate for the sort of man which inspired this para graph. But, then, it takes all kinds of men to make a world: and since man has been de- fined as q reasoning rather than a req s0nable being, and no serious objec- ticn has been made to it, il is self evident that there are more model men than perfect ones-models repre- senting something which should be 2Tea ter.
 We agree with the statement that no man has a right to expect his wife to be good cook unless he is that kind of a proVider. There are women of genius who can give their table a good name from very lean larder: but they are the exception and not the rule. It is the woman with q good provider back of her that can prepare,