Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS

 ever. may say SO: but the doctor 1 doesn't take his own medicine; the
 lawyer seldom sues in court in a case r of his own: the confectioner never l of, or an sstrologist telling his own 1 candy: and some tailors buy their clothes ready made Whoever heard I of surgeons cutting his own leg | offs or an astrologest telling his own fortune? The spiritualist mediums never tell us what comfort they find | parted, but essay to comfort
 say to them but cannot get a license to say to us. And you do not think this is a funny old world? Well, 1t may be that the peo- pie in it furnish all the humor, ,-the clown never enjoys his own jokes and the men who tell funny stories sell dom laugh at them. When we get the habit of noticing what some people don't do it ought to be a hint to us what not to do. but it isn't. It would be better for us if we could interpret and perceive how funny every day life is.
 1t is difficult to make a man in hard luck believe that the best remedy for 1t Is hard work. It is ten chances to one that the hard-luck story teller never took to hard work, anyway. Hard luck seldom overtakes man who has
 
 has never done any one in this world good to have too much time on his hands If hard work ever killed a man 1t has always escaped mention in his obituary. Hard work is not popular, and the average man is usually look ing for a soft snap instead. This pre- scription for the cure of hard luck is no more likely to be taken than the average doctors dose of ticdolereaux, although we feel able to recommend it l. N1a<z man isn't praying for hard work, any more than the average rogue is pray ing for justice. A moments thought satisfies one this is what neither one of them want.
 It was William Cullen Bryant who wrote: '"rhe stormy March has come at last, with wind and cloud and | changing skies. I hear the rushing of | the blast, that through the snowy val | ley flies" This isn't always true of March, for the month is often mel low and balmy. It gives us the first l spring haze, the pussy willows and l the first flowers, and in no month | does the trill of the song sparrow sound pleasanter or more welcome to l the ear. What if the winds do blow, l so long as the crocuses look up to the sun and the bluebirds warble in the 1 trees. If Old Boreas has taken March to himself as time to dry up spring | mud, he no doubt gave rise to the proverb that "a peck of March dust | is worth a kings ransom" And it is l the March winds that blow the dead
 leaves away to give place to the green. l It is also said: "As the rains of March so are the rains of June. !" which shows that not only March winds and April showers bring forth
 May flowers, but both are interwoven
 with the output of June.
 l 1 Man does not half appreciate the 1 importance and value of pure water in 1 it's relation to health and strength. It | is the opinion of not few that sky .water is better for all uses than any other kind of water; and that the pro- i tecting umbrella is just a disease of I civilization" They claim that there is I quality in heavens downpour not to 1 be found in sea-water or lake water, | or any other water; that it contains | "ozone, and air, and x-ingredientsi and n-rays, and all sorts of blessed, subtle.
 and mysterious delights;'' that it does | a man more good than harm to be wet down in it. and that after the within him laughs and blooms, and the
 dust is all washed from off his mind, | that he is in mood to sing as he l works and to forgive all men their
 trespasses against him. This may be l a mere rhapsody, of course, but it
 reads very much like an experience. | To tell which it is-try it.
 1t is not strange that man feels l like doing those he has been done by. There is such an amount of human | nature in us that the nicer principles l often get a setback. There is nc | doubt that the Golden Rule would work better; but man is so cOnSti- | tuted that hesdoeS not like to be out | of fashion, and he really is too much <>f 4r. 111 lf fr<ar
 others. Man can profess as no other creature can, and he doesn't appear to | be distressed by not living up to his i! pretences. If he is challenged for his { failures he usually calls attention to the fact that no one else lives up to
 theirs. The few who have learned not | to retaliate do not hesitate to say that they have found peace of mind and | something the rest have missed; but l they speak usually to deaf ears or | froward mipds. It is really strange
 that man shows more loyalty to nat
 ural impulses than to the higher in-
 spiration which prompts his soul. The TyroIean caps the girls have
 been wearing the past winter have been very comfortable; but they are l finding some trouble in abandoning
 them this spring. Several who have gone back to the hat with brim have caught cold. and been under the | weather in consequence. This style
 of headgear appears to be as hard to shake as bad habit, and the young | women are declaring that when once
 they get rid of it, nothing approaching l it will ever again be adopted by them
 They have been so very warm thai | they have enjoyed them, and this is l why they are so difficult to lay aside 1 early in the season. Whoever tries ii
 gets cold in the head, and is indeed fortunate if they keep out of the doc l tors hands. It costs as much to shake 1 the Tyrolean cap as two new hats are
 worth. This makes it a deception and
 snare to be ever after avoided.
 Tho man whose every day talk is | soft is not likely to become popular
 with the girls. This sort of talk is like confectionery-it should be of the | incest flavor and be infrequently dis 1 tributed. An amusing story is being 1 told of a young woman whom such g chap imposed himself upon in a neigh | boring city, and as a clerk in a public building she was obliged to politely l escort him from room to room. He
 annoyed her so by his attentions ani
 sweet compliments that she finally turned him into an empty room anG l turned the key and then went bacl I to her desk. She did not care how hs got out: but an hour afterward she saw him sneak into the office in which
 she was employed and quietly pick uI
 his grip and noise1essly slip out with
 out saying good by When the youns
 man who released him found out how he came there he was too pleased tt T.