Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23

usually laughs when it feels like 1t and laughs alright. To laugh too much is a serious fault; and not to laugh at all is to be set down as an old cur mudgeon; but 8 good laugh has been decreed to be sunshine in the house. A smile is a. facial ripple that is cas- fly worn out--a, wrinkle that needs massa ging if it becomes set. It al
 ways looks well, however, when fore
 casting the approach of hearty good natured laughter. The most utterly lost of all days" says Chamfort, lis that in which you have not laughed
 1t is good thing that the world generally is too polite to tell us what it thinks of us. When the human race learned to suppress thoughts that were irritating, it took a turn which immensely increased peace. Man can only learn from himself how thoughts ar held, instead of being let loose VoItaire became convined that ''one great use of words was to hide our thougths,' and the world has accept ed his conviction as a proVerb It would be better if we all strove to re- member the declaration of Bovee; Language was given us that we might say pleasant things to one an
 other.'' A real conviction of this sort contributes to the quietness of lige and the comfort of mankind. There is not much evidence that man cher ishes language much from this stand point. Was there ever a, more charm ing motto than this? How beautifully such a thought fits the home: and how it would work to make it more like center for the mind than this? It is the fulcrum for the lever which would change human life for the better make it what it should be.
 That brevity is the soul of wit has been long recognized: and it is also the soul of a political address, or of a sermon, and a promoter of business. It was Luther who said: The fewer the words the better the prayer" The prevailing habit is to talk too much. The world is all the time getting too long sermons, too long speeches, too long stories and too long prayers. There is nothing prompts one to brev- ity more than realization Of the val ue of time. likeness and conceit are , always wasters of time and of words. l If we could all understand that time | cannot be killed without injuring eternity there would be less time wasted. To be able to talk without l affictions. Good sense never flows in 1 large volume, but oozes out of the mind like honey from honey comb. Voluhility is one of the worst habits of ignorance and scholarship. To speak 1 to the point always lends a charm to [ expressed a living truth when he said ] "Brevity is che best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an l orator.
 l It is surprising how many people 1 live without work because of the lib
 erality of folks who always count upon getting something for nothing. Mill lions are made by doing these people | and they become totally blind to the fclly of their ways, and are willing vic l tims of every dupe who has schem | to deceive them into the belief tha, they are getting premiums they dc
 not pay for. Since the premium mak- 1 CTS become millionaires there is sub stantial evidence that there are hand some profits in the deal for every body but the buyers. This deception in trade is what a certain class of buyers are constantly inviting, and it would SCOT 1 disappear if the game was not insist ed upon by the persons who do not | know how to play 1t The man who
 knows how to give away goods ant make bigger dividends than his hones | neighbor who sells them for a legiti- mate per cent. of advance is more O 1 q genius than rogua-for he thrive: by doing the people who essay to dt { him. He is the smartest man in ths business, but not the worst. The wors 1 man is the buyer who makes deception
 necessary and who is too dull to avel become conscious that he makes him
 self a constant victim. There ar.
 thousands of this type.
 1t seems to me as if what they d.
 not know worries people most Man i
 a suspicious animal, and he is some what noted for trying to guess a
 what he cannot find out. Some mel
 think this is a fault peculiar exclusive
 ly te the other sex: but that is be
 cause their powers of observation ar,
 either warped by prejudice or dwarf
 ed by conceit. And suspicion Is usual
 ly crooked and regarded as poisol