Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

This September appears to have distinct character all it's own; but as the phenomena of nature repeats itself
 it may readily be accepted as an un-
 revised copy of something the world
 has seen before. September is the first month of fall when the nights grow
 lCnger and colder: and of its winds an
 old rhyme tells us: "The south wind
 trings wet weather, the north wind
 wet and cold together: the west wind always brings us rain; and the east
 wind blows it back again, which shows it has always been pretty wet month. There should be very good
 W eather follow such a cold and dis
 appointing opening of the month, ana
 if the three weeks of delightful days
 do not follow this blighting, early frost
 tke weather will prove an exception to
 the rule. It looks now as if the ele-
 D1ents had started a crusade to steal a little glory from October, since the
 day of Tariegated foliage has been
 hastened and the landscape beauty
 Ilich is often all October's own has teen cast into Septembers lap by Jack
 Frost. Let us hope it may be &
 month OF bracing days and restful nights.
 Those who are in the habit of bam
 ing the Lord for their affiictions would
 do well to indulge in a little self ex- animation. The Almighty has better Fusiness than specially afhicting his
 children: and those who live i'll obedi-
 ence to the laws of their being main
 tain good health and live many years.
 Temperance is a magic word when
 taken in it's breadth and orderlineSS
 Jeremy Taylor best expressed it's worth
 and power when he said: Temperance
 is reasons girdle, and passions bride, the strength of the soul, and the foun-
 dation of virtue" It contributes to
 health and assures comfort and peace
 in this life. In it's fullness, Theodore
 Parker says, Temperance is corporeal
 piety: it is the preservation of divine order in the body" The maintenance of divine order in the body is to free
 it of all disease and to keep it in the state which is mans by divine decree. Our Heavenly Father does not make us sick. and those who are obedlent to his laws live long and pleasuraoly' I hose who strive to obey the com nand Know thyself will come into a I.nowledge of the law and further their own well-being. Too many people ma it convenient to blame the Almighty for the effects of their own misdeeds The world is generally impressed that the songs of birds and their tWit- terings are the means of communlca- 1 tion with one another, conclusion which is doubtless true: but birds have an eve for color just as dogs have a
  dogs think, compare, remember and reason from smells, as is shown by l their ability to investigate stranger ! detect an enemy that has passed before i fr the path or to follow the footsteps ] of their master or mistress with thelr 1 useful scent-interpreting noses. Thai birds have power to rem amber colors and are prompted. warned and com l forted by them. there can be no doubt l The color of the dish a canary first 1 pathes in prompts him to decline tG l bathe in a dish of another color: anC l the color of his trainers clothes iden- | tifies for him the trainer who he vii l rot obey if garbed differently It if 1 told of iackdaws in the field that they | few from man who wore the coat O l a slayer: but showed confidence 1T l him and came near when he wen | afield with his own clothes and colors l on So in their own life the plumagt l of other birds may be a warning or z l sign of friendliness to them. There i: I broad field for study along thes. | lines. l What is there in hearty laugh Perhaps there is more than one reall, l thinks there is. There is a great va ! rietv of laughter. Some kinds 0 1 laughter seem to open the very dool 1 of the heart which yields to iollity while other laughter expresses vacan l cy of mind, or total lack of feeling, O an absence of all sincerity. The char | acter of the laugh discloses to tn l keen observer the quality of tn 1 laueher: It has been well said: Tn l laughter costs too much which i I pnrchas sed by the sacrificeof decency. 1 It is of real importance to know Nhel l to laugh. and where to laugh, and hoy
 to laugh. And yet, the merry hear