Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-19
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The angel becomes inured to the ways of the people It makes no diff ference whether he is a book agent or a life insurance agent, or light ming rod agent, or ain agent for magic oil, he doesn't expect to find that the
 Welcome on the door mat was plac- cd thereon for him. He usually knows the full value of patience and polite
 ness, and also that catching suckers is a mans sport, or else a bald-headed agent could never succeed in selling hair restorer to clear sighted people. A successful agent for anything com mands my admiration. He has to be nine-tenths gall and keep sweet all the time. If he ever damns his luck it is
 in the quiet apartment of a 25 cent lodging house. He is masked man who demands our money and too often gets it. He has the skill to make you
 believe you need things you have no use for. and to make you pay twice as
 much for them as the nearest store
 keeper asks. He's bird, if you do not
 believe he will wing his way to para
 disc.
 There is no royal road to learning;
 and there is no class highway to gen.
 tlemaniiness. There appears to be
 many kinds of gentlemen, but there
 are really only two-the born gentle
 man and the trained gentleman, the
 one who cannot help being gentle, and the one who can be gentle by restraint:
 Although certain classes of men feel
 they are gentlemen, and others often
 proclaim themselves to be gentlemen
 with considerable pride and gusto, the 4rua ia rqfhar a rare bird,
 Steele wrote: Men of courage, men of
 sense and men of letters are frequent;
 but a true gentleman is what one sell
 dom sees" Perhaps Samuel Smiles
 has given as good definition of gentleman as ever was penned He
 says: His qualities depend not upon
 fashion or manners. but upon moral
 worth; not on personal possessions,
 but on personal qualities. The true
 gentleman. you see. comes very near
 saintliness.
 1t is fault to place too much re. liance upon heredity. It is true, of course, that disease has seemed to run in families generation after genera tion; and perhaps those who look upon such things as a divine scourge are not to blame, because there is always more or less mystery about the cause or ana continuance of disease; but when you come to think rationally you will see there is no reason why you should
 have the same affiiction your parents suffered from unless you follow exact ly the same habits or oceupadion, or
 maintain the same conditions ana re- main ignorant of the fact that you are master of your soul and captain or yollr fate. Two prolific sources of dis ! stant forebodings. Keep clean and keep a cheerful, health promoting mind. Pure air is free and there is no danger of getting an excessive amount. There are occupational diseases, and they aI-
 fiet thosa who follow them. An un- healthy business is a good thing to
 abandon. Do not think you are destin-
 cd for ill-health, for good health IS your inheritance.
 Have you ever asked yourself who are the truly royal in life? Royalty is an empty title to any person or common traits. Perhaps you have new. CT traced the path of beauty to ina the truly royal. I have turned the eye of a searcher that way, and found for myself not only the answer, but the truly royal parsonage: and she did not ] wear a crown or sit upon a throne. There were threescore and ten years behind her. and sorrow and affi1ctlon had not spared her, yet all the adversi- | ties of life had never put an express sion of sadness on her face. The spirit of good nature and Sindliness reigned
 supreme, hope gleamed from her eyes, l her heart beamed with good cheer, her words carried love and inspiration to all. Here is supremacy, said l; this, | indeed, Is true royalty.
 Few real dahiia fancisrs take to i freak dahlias, and they only get into commerce because the people fancy them for their variety of play. They | symbolize inconsistency and strife-their colors are at war with one another and are so equally matched they cannot eliminate the weaker color as some l dahlias do. In red and white flowers | the red eventually will overcome the
 white and continue the red, or self color, thus establishing peace in their lives. I have a California show dahlia which reminds one of Peacock and Frank Smith, white plays so on the l tips of its maroon petals; and, then, | like the Maid of Kent, it makes deep red flowers and white flowers with
 deep red at the base of its petals. It | gives no sign of orderly behavior, but | just makes it's irregularities it's charm.
 So far as color goes, 1t is always hav- | ing a rough house. It is in horticul- l tural parlance, rogue; but l take | to it as a mother does te wayward I son.
 When you come to look at the indi- vidual of the race he looks pretty well; | but when you see him from the point
 of view of his indulgences in the mass you get the naked truth-nine tailors cannot improve the appearance of the | man in the mass. He spends $200,000, = | 900 year for intoxicating liquors, or enough money to meet the expenses of | the government, and also enough to
 support the schools. churches and na- i wy and army combined; he drops l S1, 200, 000,000 a year for tobacco, and
 in the face of this information you are not surprised that away goes an- | nually $80,000,0 900 for patent medicines
 Man spends twice as much for auto mobiles as he does for religion. Wo- man indulges liberally, for we find the chewing gum bill is $15.000, 900; soft i $100,000,0 900; jewelry, $S0, ,000, 900; tea and coffee, s100, 1000, 900; and millinery
 costs less than half what is paid for confectionery. Our indulgence bill is 1 $5, 100, 100000 a year, which is more than enough to support the British empire.
 The goldfinohes are daily visitors tc
 the dahlia patch for food; and they
 have a merry time on the Stella sun l flower stems, swaying in the breeze They are in their winter plumage, and because they have been silent for some
 three dollars to any other candidates one to win his election, is the one whs , will serve the peoples interest best.