Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-20
Willimantic.
WHY cRusoE HAS BEEN SILENT.

Dear Editor and Social Corner Friends There is generally a reason for everything, so in the first place l want to give you my reason for stay ing away from the Social Corner for quite 8 period.
 l once knew prosperous farmer who when asked about his crops, re- piled: I am all the time fighting. Why, there is a bug and a worm for every thing we grow, and this year the blow jiggers have my garden on their backs It is because of this bug and worm and blow jigger that the writer has been more than busy, and of course unable to find time to do any corre- spondence. I do, however, take time 1 to read The Bulletin every day, and find the Social Corner one of it's in- teresting features.
 Speaking of crops, etc, reminds me that while the farmers are complain ing that Hungarian oats are not show ing up in their usual good form this season, the wild oats, crop, as in past years, will from present indications produce a bountiful harvest. Serious 1 ly, however, we do not believe the wild oats business is as popular or as allur- 1 ing as it was quarter of a century or so back
 The only fortunate sewers of wild oats are those who die quickly after the crop is in God pity those who are forced to undergo a long, lingering | harvest time! If you will stop to think of it, there is no more reason in 1 the world why young man should l SOW wild oats than that his sister | should; and 1 predict this is one of the things equal suffrage will accom- i plish. It will place men and women, | in more ways than one, too, on an equal footing. There will not be one moral law and standard for the women ! to live up to and another for men. If, however, there is a man on earth 1 who can advance any valid reason why a hcentious booze fighter should be recognized in good society when a 1 woman who falls is kicked out by the 1 roadside, l would invite him to hold
 up his right hand and tell the Social 1 Corner all about it.
 Sowing wild oats, we are told. is a very pleasant pastime It really isn' t ! work at all, as you might say, and the
 beauty of it is a man does not require any previous experience as a farmer. to
 engage in the business. In fact the
 crop does not seem to appeal to the
 farmer at all; but it is especially at-
 tractlVe to young men who are the
 owners of rich, careless. fathers, also
 foolish and indulgent mothers.
 In Chicago and Baltimore, not long
 ago. big and little politicians were
 sowing wild oats. What else? There
 were few patriots not many among
 the turmolls, but the wild oats fellows
 Tar outnumbered them-some with biz
 badges and some wearing little badges
 and they spilled much violent language
 and hurled many hot invectives eact
 at the other and the other at each
 While friends were being turned into
 enemies and enemies were beconoine more bitter and violent in their hatred
 A man lay dying down in a little Mis-
 souri town who during his lifetime ha(
 been a prominent actor iii many simi.
 lar scenes. As his friends, at his re.
 quest, read to him the newspaper ac.
 counts of the great CD events, ht
 turned his head wearily and said: . It doesn't pay, boys: it doesn't pay r Life is too 5hort to be filled with fight Ing and bitterness. When you conn :, to where 1 am now you will realiz . that 1t is better to be a quiet citizen
 plant flowers and be at peace with you
 fellowmen than to be a proninen ] man, cultivate thistles and live in dis t cord"
 ? Suffragettes, beware of the toil th ] snares and pitfalls that are sure f 3 come into active political strife. may not all appear among yourselves {; 1t will appear in the home. anon q those who should be nearest and dear
 est Keep plugging, Sister. Do nc n become discouraged because your Iittl = world does not acclaim you a hero. be
 cause it does not cover your breast wit
 jewels or run your picture on th f front page of the morning edition. Tn t newspapers in which the names (
 prominent women frequently appea
 are sold to the ragman. soaked to pull }, the ink washed off and then go bac :. ii to paper again-dust to dust, etc. Men don't like women fighters. bl
 man vas born for that purpose, nC y | wholly, but that is one of his func B. tions. Woman admires men fighters h and it's natural and right they shoul It This reminds me woman down i Il Kalamazoo said:
 in 'gThe man who appeals to me, nut