Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-21
THE MAN WHO TALKS

It is felt among the leaders of the ] workingman in the large industrial centers that it is time to give the ris- ing generation a better conception ol labor, a juster view of the relation o1 | the apprentice boy to his business an6 his employer. A dislike to work. is not l always the road to the penitentiary but it is the true way of making the conditions of life harder; and yet, il cannot be denied that fdleness is ar open door to crime. The boys in | aprons and shirt sleeves should be 1 above killing time, and enthusiastic in the pursuit of the knowledge which will make of them skilled and profit able workmen. A boy who wastes the time of his employer is never in the 1 preferred claSs-he is always given l idleness as his reward when business is dull. The boy who doesn't take pride
 in his business and study to become | proficient in it is making the mistake which will keep him in the back row l at low wages all his life.
 1 The art of making a good impression rests upon one's ability to keep his mouth shut and to deport himself as | naturally as if he were at home. Those l who talk and who pose to make a good impression are the ones who 0fteneSt | fail. It is an easy thing to say toe much or to say the wrong thing, unless you have money in abundance or dis
 
 a certain class who will never tell you what fool you are but they will fiat ter you with compliments and if they indulge in any asides will whisper them to one another when you are not there. Do not think this is a queer old world of ours for it is just as good as any world God ever made; but there are a lot of mighty queer people in it. and 1t isn't strange we get confused sometimes. Great minds do not flow Alx- -t- E<~- ever; they do not stagnate--they are ever living springs. The impressions we make will be all right if we do not try to part their hair in the middle There will al~ays be servant girl problem-so the mistreSses say, be- cause the servant girls are so queer 1; and so the servants say because their mistresses have such strange notions of their social relation to them. The following may seem to you to be a joke, but it isn't: First lady: s1 always try to treat my maid as if she were a member of the family!" Second lady: Gracious, how do you get her to put up with It Now any good sensible girl wouldn't put up with it. The ser want girls relation to the household is purely business relation, and they desire to be used with consideration, to be given fair working hours, to be given as many privileges as shop girl, and to be bossed as little as pos sible. The boss who says the least is the one who usually gets most help from lis working force. There's too much foolishness and friction in the servant girl problem. There is no so- cial problem in it; and as to being used like one of the. fanily-that is just what a wise servant has no desire for.
 No ono can tell why the average man would rather lose $25 betting on a horse race than to have to pay a g poll tax. He will sit down and fix up saddles" with the policy man in a sure game to lose money, but he doesn't care to enter upon familiar terms with the tax collector anyhow. He doesn't regard him as an enemy, . but somehow he doesn't seem to be- long in his ciass--he cannot figure out that it is possible for him to be con- genial company. Man loves to take a chance better than he likes to go up against his prejudices. He will ask what he gets for tax money; but he will not permit anyone to ask him what he gets on a wager. That's diff ferent. Man will mortgage his house to buy an automobile and sometimes go to jail rather than pay a just tax. It's just his way of looking at things
 An Australian woman is said to have given the following toast to man" "A man may be a failure in business, a wreck in constitution, not much to boast of as a beauty, nothing as a wit less than nothing as a legislator for weman's rights, and not very brilliant as a member of the press; but in our own father we overlook his shortcom- ings and cover his peecadillces with the divine mantle of charity. As our fathers they are inexpressibly grand: e Inn ej a n dw tr< A<. 1orv< +a parade them as our paragons. In the language of the poet, We'll lie for 'en. We'll cry for 'em And if we could we'd fly for 'em; we'd do anything but die for 'en." We confess that she strikes us as being a woman of fine percep- ton and of fluent expression. It is pleasanter doubtless to be toasted by her than to be roasted after her fash ion.
 The test of pie*y is not confined to persons regard for or conduct on Sun day, since there are six other days in the week. The piety which stands the daily trials of business life is the real thing whether it ever sat in a pew OF not. We mortals might think better if we tried. Tolerance where goodness and white necktDes assemble looks bet ter than intolerance; but I have seen men who were apparently honest try ing to learn the truth by fighting free dom in thinking; and men who thought they really were walking with God when they were only webbing before men. The man who has most faith in his fellowmen is usually nearest to his Heavenly Father The people who think they wear halos are never able to find them when they look in the glass. It is funny that a crooked man can imagine that he looks straight: but a straight man knows that l1o cannot appear to be crooked.
 Neatness, accuracy and wiIiinqness are referred to as the three graces of the business world; but they are just as good for the shop, the factory, or the home. They tell for thrift, har- mony and progress-pull together for success in every direction like three horses ill Roman chariot They cre- ate an atWosphere in which peace is with will. They are just as useful in the possession of the mind, only there they sit as purity. righteousness and affability, and keep a clean slate Where they preside they make one feel that it is good to be alive. They not only serve one well as long as he lives, but become 8 memorial of him for quality in individuality which does not easily fade away.
 often think the best gift Of God to man is a good mother-the woman whose love cannot be made cold by waywardness or by neglect. She does have many anxious moments and heartaches because her counsels are ignored and her devotion does not seem to be appreciated; and I fear some mothers die without ever reaIiz- t1 ;~.