Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-25
THE MAN WHO I ALks

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 There are lots of people who think that style will serve them instead of Rrainsi and there are q few walks of life where 1t will serve them az well If not better. But style was never a substitute for brains for the simple reason that it's inarticulateness Is its Ionly merit. We all know that. clean- liness and dressiness and grace of form are all desirable adjuncts to stlc- cess; but these are only incidental to head and heart It is a fact that tl1e man with a taste for ideas does not have an ambition to keep creases in | his pantaloons, or his hair parted in the middle, that person does whose mind is given wholly to style. A man l of brains can afford to have his trous- CTS bag at the knees, while the man of style only, cannot. There is no req son why any one should be a foe to style; but it should be borne in mind that brains commands where style Trying to get something for nothing is an ignoble pursuit; but there are 1 so many people at it, and it gives them such supreme pleasure ito. think they are succeeding, that the willy merch- I ants to induce trade are always tell I ing what they give free in order to increase irl business and they succeed bocause the ardent person of this type doesn't stop to figure out the fact that all business success depends on what | is made, not what is given away. These people who give away things 1 declare large dividends at the end of r the year, not because they gave things away, but because they made sufficient profits to cover the full cost of every business transaction, to pay all ex- penses and to have a satisfactory. profit left. Business is not in giving
 things away. but in selling things at a paving advance. Duping in trade ! is due to this foolish desire to do the | other fellow and this weakness really 1 helps the other fellow do us.
 Have you ever thought how consid- crate persons keep things to them not be annoyed by-them2 How many good people there are who hide up l the trials and perplexities Of life from I those they hold in warm regard so l they may not be annoyed, as they are, with them and those they screen i from fretfu1 circumstances never | know it, and never have cause to- be l thankful for 1t, although it would awaken in their breast the keenest l feeling of gratitude. Where there are | family dissensions these dear souls at I odds,- for what they do not really know, are kindly doing this very thing | for one another; and if they realized the good things being done in consid l eration of their feelings, how condi- | tions would change. It is 9 blessed | thought that i've shall know each | other better by yNand by
 1 1t doesn't cost anything to Speak pleasant word; and it does not come amisss to form pleasant habits. There | is the habit of saying Good morning" l to members of the family, and to 1 those we meet. It is pleasant greet | ing, and may be the means of over- | coming a state of mind in another. I must say like the stranger I meet i upon the street who looks toward me | with a. smile and says cheerily, Good | morning. Some folks think it is not much of an address-a meaningless sort of q salutation; but since it means | good will and good wish there Is l enough in 1t to please me, and make l me appreciate the spirit it represents | It may be very bad morning with 1 you, and it may not be made so very much better by the saIutation; yet. | even then, a well-wisher is a good ] in Good morning when it is said l right.
 l It is difficult for people to see that l circumstances are the fruit of thought and they find it difficult to understand I l in his heart so is fe." It is apparent l enough that the cultivation of good | thoughts leads to wise action, and the l opposite leads to evil things. It does not take a philosopher to realize this; and he is dull, indeed, who thinks badly and develops for himself unto | ward circumstances. It has been we'll said that he who has conquered weakness, and has put aside selfish | thoughts, belongs neither to the op-
 
 One of the greatest, if not the. greatest command ever given to man is this: Know thyself." And it is the man who gives his mind to the requirement of this knowledge who comes to know | most of God. This is a good thing for any one to practice a little upon. Of all the birds of March the song 1 sparrow is the bird for me. This soh- tary little fellow in the shruhbery of a southerly trending valley, looks out upon the snow banks and ctaeerleSsness of nature and pipes away. not for what is, but for what is to be. He is the sweet singing herald of the approach ing flowers and birds, the minstrel cheeriIy singing of the fragrances and cheer and concerts of the approach ing warm season. I feel like repeat ing: Blithe little bird to the shrub bery clinging, my heart echoes softly the song you are singing, it tells me of better days, but not of bet ter songs, for a trill that gives cheer when things are for lorn must ever be cherished as the song of songs.'' And what a little homely sprite this merry singer is when one gets sight of him. He just exemplifies the saying that the incest things are done up in the smallest parcels.
 It is true "March flowers make no summer bowers;r but there is hard mess about them which both mystifies and delights mankind. How think you did they acquire the endurance which enables them to defy frosts-to awake and greet the sun when all the rest of 1 F1ora's hosts are fast asleep? There were the snowfiakes in the border showing their pretty faces on the 9th of March: and they are still lingering l there: and the crocuses and narcisss are showing above ground These flowers for ages have hobnobbed with the frost and snow and bravely sus- taned themselves where others would have perished They haven ever bat tied on the frontier where there is al- ways peril. They and the frost line are eternally facing one another, and man cannot tell the req son why. Isn't it strange that when Flora swings her
 magic wand the flowers against the ! snow-line first awake?
 We talk about making friends; but I forbearance and little acts of kindness of md ~7cxfiv 1ea