Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-06-29
The MAN WHO TAKLS

If the college graduates essay is
often considered a theme for a Joke,
the graduate himself is no joke, wheth-
er he takes himself seriously or not.
This scholar In embryo must be sea-
soned into a man, and the question is
how he will stand the process. Though
more learned than his less schooled
contemporary, he is less hardy and
skilled in various ways; aIHi not So
well equipped to meet the buffetings OF
competition. He has to learn there
are few fancy prices for labor in the
worlds markets, and that there are
few professions that are not crowded
Experience will teach him it is no
pleasanter starving while waiting for
clients, or call, than it Is while hunt
ing for any other employment The
world has no open arms for him, and
his first advent is likely to be met
with bitter disappointmen-s. Most
everybody has them; and it is in this
school man making is going on as well
as money making. He should make
the better man because he has the
equipment for it; and if he realizes
that money making is not the highest
aim of life he is likely to attain full,
undwarfed manhood.
Many man fools himself on the
matter of his personal independence.
Those who study nature soon become
aware that interdependence is the nat
ural relation of the mineral, vegetable
and animal Kingdoms neither can eX-
list without the other. In all the walks
of life, mans value is estimated ac-
cording to his relation to his fellows,
or his vocation, unless he is q genius;
and geniuses are far from being com
mon. Those who venture to assert
their independence find that 1t is not
the way to the best mortal conditions.
/ find if thousands of minds had not
been occupied studying the heavens
and the earth, and millions Of hands
had not been employed in facilitating
life ON this globe of ours, / should not
know what l know or be enjoying the
freedom and comforts of today. What
| preceding generations have wrought is
what makes this the greatest genera
ton of all time We are interdepen-
dent and have been greatly blessed
| by the heroism and industry of those
who have lived before us.
A few people, only, have eyes for
young birds In fact, too many have
! to confess to not knowing one bird
| from another. l have seen one pair
of young robins this year. The robins
are nOticeably fewer than ever, not
| because New England cats and bird
! hunting boys are killing them, but be-
| cause fewer return each spring from
| the south where they are unprotected
and slaughtered by pot hunters by
| thousands. Recently l saw a solitary
young grosbeak on a neighboring
| piazza in great danger of being a VIC
| tim of cats. This dapper little fellow
with bright colored down beneath his
| wings, could fly quite bit; and inter
| ested children kindly watched and
! guarded it all day. I was glad to
learn that it was safe in neighborhood
shrubbery at $50 p. m, some IL
| hours after | saw it, The old birds
were still uttering their notes of anx-
| iett; but as they have not been heard
since it is probable that the young one
| gained strength and confidence and
made good his escape.
The night is always mysterious, fol
7 darkness haunts the human soul anC
istillness awakes 1t to differen
| thoughts. He who knows the nigh
| sounds knows which of Gods creature.
are making the night weird or hideou!
to those who know less. He know
the winds that sough and whistle, AM
the trees upon which they break witt
a noise like the sea breaking upon tn
single Of the beach, of which it re
minds him. Even Heaven and Co
seem farther away than ever to on
who does not know God is in all an
all in him. Those who cannot compre
bend the glory of the heavens expec
! tn H., II,
to see robbers spring forth from tn
shadows to do them harm. The shad
ew of cloud sweeping across tn
landscape seems like an enemy instea
Of thing Of beauty. Night gather
vigor for the daylight rests wear
world, and when truly viewed is both
benediction and a blessing.
A song sparrows' fidelity to he
brood has surprised me. A neighbo
who loves birds bought a lot of pea
brush and when it was delivered
was found that there was a song spar
rows nest in it containing five eggs
The bush was separated and placed i
a pile of earth where it was CAREFUL
protected from prowling cats. TIL
mother bird had followed the nest, an
when it was established took posses
siop and continued to set on the eggs
In course of time the appearance Q
two young birds showed that thre
eggs had been spoiled by the interior
ence with the maternal duties of tn
mother. She is in the garden bringin
up her young; and in her daily pur
suit Of insects she is doing a servic
which is appreciated. She permits tn
inspection of her nest by her protec
tor, but always manifests shyness
her approach to the nest with food fo
her young. When the young birds ar
fedged she is likely to seek a ne7
home in the isolated shrubbery of tn
fields.
It is not so long ago that Darwi
surprised the world by saying plant
had eyes and could see; and now An
drew Wilson claims they have nerve
and feeling. He calls attention to tn
fact that when fly touches the lea
of the sundew it seizes him, but whe
rain falls on the leaves the leaf tenta
cles do not move. The jar Of a car
rage will make the leaves of the sen
sitive plant droop, but when it ha
become used to the motion they wi
not droop any more than when water
ed. When eIneTiZed the sensitiV
plants will not droop at touch. bl
seem to be unconscious, like any an
| mai which has been etherized Tn
daisies close their petals when til
wind blows, and open them to sun
shine. The ability of plants to recoe
nize q difference in contact has to