Norwich bulletin., 1911-05-13
THE MAN WHO TALKS

e IL Is. passing strange that good. fellow Is usually bad example; and the truly rood are never spoken Of by their friends in the same endearingl way. The good fellow banks more up- on his small vices than upon his yir-s make any pretence that he is good. He knows that he is a high roller and freely chats of his feelings the morninE after. He is a good mixer and usually a free -hearted profiigate. He is good, perhaps, because he can keep an even keel where most of those who follow him cannot.He is light hearted and gay and the life of the company he keeps. Often he has a way of spending anybody's money as conscience do not disturb him; and the fascination of a wild life seem to be his delight. No one can tell why the world calls him a good fellow: but IL may be for the same reason that 1t sometimes calls better men yellow dogs. If we try to get into the why's and wherefores of this life we certainly shall get confused
 fhsre arc few people who having no distinctive qualities themselves just proceed to ape some other per- SOx WkfQbQ 0CCeAfATlCIIlcS R1cdSt tiICfIi, and this may be we'll enough if the mannerisms initiated are of good quality and put good cheer into life; but there are men who initiate grouches and intellectual snobs and make. themselves very disagreeahle to people whom they do not feel bound to respect, CT even treat with common courtesy. Of course, true gentle man treats everybody with common courtesy. because discourtesy to the commonest person is a mark of ill., breeding in the person guilty of it. Those who seek to appear to be un- common to attract attention te them selves easily feat into snobbery and every other kind of human foolishness. Pride becomes a weakness where it is ever manifesting itself. no matter what the cause of 1t. The person who is elated because he conversed or dined with a "big buzz and talks about it. is nearer becoming a clown than he thinks. To be one's self in honesty. honor and sobriety. Is enough for any person.
 A near philosopher says the time to eat is wher you are hungry and the time to smile is when you feel like it. To some readers this might appear to be a. ridiculous sentence, although it contains q clear truth. There are lots of people who eat when they are not hungry iron, force of habit, because the time to eat has come: and it is a keen person who recognizes the differ ence between hunger and appetite. Hunger is natural. and an appetite stomach-the craving for food-some people feel, is a manifestation of ap- petite, not of hunger. Plenty of men are slaves to appetite; but who ever heard of man being slave to hunger? The fact is our regular hab- of ine xx-Io n foo sry or not, is what makes invalids of many of us. The workman has no difficulty in recognizing hunger, but gentlemen of leisure and sedentary habits are often fooled by appetite which is excited by the clock. And kindred. gre not the smile natural, but a poor counterfeit of it.
 There are only two words in the English language which contain all the vewels in their proper order, al- tain them out of the regular order and if asked to state these two ex- traordinary words most any of us would have to give up, although they are words in every day use. How many people say something is facetious without recognizing that such a dis tihetive word has passed their lips; and of course, we are told that ab- stemiousness in various directions is to be commended; and we do not real ike that the other exceptional word has been presented to us But then. thers are lots of other things we dt not notice. We look at the calendar every day and have to be told that the day of the week the year opens on is the day of the week that it closes, ex- cept in leap years; and how many think you are aware that no century can hARfn np WAdnAado0 day. Our eyes are not more than half as wide open as i've think.
 Those whe are rich and enjoy a bountiful board are to be more pitied than envied for they never know the hunger or the pleasure which attends the plain flyers on feast days. The best all the time cannot relish the changes of food like the man who is neither rich or excessive feeder Where high living is the rule dis ordered stomach is usually the result 1t ls not the dinner-pail brigade who suner n1ost from dyspepsia, for labor gives the finest relish to any feast, while. the idle and dainty are always complaining of the quality of their food and the state of their stomach. The best things of life are the fruit of labor; a good appetite, refreshing
 
 ing of contentment. God was careful to see that the best things could not be bought with money; but that indi- vidual conduct wrested from life it's best rewards. The rich 1oafer has no pieasanter face upon him in the morn ing than the rowing tramp; and neither have the heart-shine of the men who work hard and live honorably.
 The appearance of the Baltimore oriois in our neighIborhood a week earlier than usual this year is pleas ant One day the last week in April we thought we heard his familiar voice; but it was the fifth of May that we were made confident of his presence by his lively sofsx as he disported him self in a nearby cherry tree This is a bird who returns to his old nest and breeding place in the spring and his peculiarities and color have given him more popular names than any other bird we are familiar with. for to some he is the fire bird. to others the hang bird, because of the way in which he hangs his nest, and to still more the l golden robin because of the rich vel l low of his plumass contrasted with deep black. His shriIl and distinctive | notes too, call attention to him. Sen | timentally he has been written up as "a gleanI of supshine'' and "a flash of 1 hre-' The two most brilliantly pIu-