Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS

There are a lot of things other peo- pie do for enjoyment that l can see no pleasure in, and they appear to find what they are in search of too. I sometimes ask myself what enjoy ment is anyway. It seems to me as if many enjoyments were illusions, and the real thing rather obscure. You have known folks who enjoyed
 things which did them harmI have enjoyed such things myself. What
 kind of enjoyment is it that ends in
 gloom or distress2 Landon declared restraint is the golden rule of en- joyment," and that seems on the face of 1t to be true: and none of us enjoy restraint The highest enjoyment is in the thought of things which afford security and protection and which ad- vance our spiritual and physical well
 being. For instance, the enjoyment of poor health may be safely regarded
 as an illusion; as also may be joy-rid- ing and taking "the-oh- be- joyful" Ii Is not surprising that Blair came to the conclusion that "only medrocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man." What do you suppose gave rise to the question "Is life worth liVing?" It must be lived any way, for 1t is one of the things thrust upon us; and have noticed those who live correct ly usually think it is worth living. while those who violate the laws of their being always express a doubt
 about it, if they do not positively af- firm that it is not. What is life? The practical man says, life is what we
 make it.. The joker says: What life Is depends upon the liver" and in the last analysis this is no joke. A1ll is, a little gleam of time between two
 eternities;" life is the childhood of immortality" The pietist tells us, l life is a constant want and should be a constant prayer" and Oliver Wendall Holmes tells us ''to most men | life is like backgammon, half skill and i half luck" which smacks of real truth. 1 Life is every mans job and it holds for him what he can get out of it. | There are no blanks-Everyone gets
 out what he puts in. The 30 cent life
 never wins thirty dollar halo.
 A correspondent inquiries If the man who talks can tell him about the
 keeps up its incessant af1rmations and
 contradictions" The Katy-did is
 no more nor less than a green tree grasshopper, that has no voice. He
 belongs to the fiddlers among insects.
 and produces his distinctive Katy did" and Katy didn't" with his leg
 and wing, just as a fiddler with his
 bow and fiddle string will make the
 violin say "peek-a- boo." and various
 other things. If there is another in | sect in the world that makes an in 1 respectable sound l have not heard of it. It is an interesting sound to some people, and only a nerve-racking
 sound to others. It has been said that six weeks from the date of the first
 Katy-did is heard the first killing frost
 will appear. AS a herald of the frost the Katy did Is a fake. It has also
 been said if you listen at the foot of
 the tree in which he is located he will
 cease his noise," but this Is not SO he will stop for a little while if the tree is struck with a sledge-hammer. He is a distinct relative of the double
 drummer, the cicad, makes shrill
 buzzing noise in mid summer, and first
 cousin of the 17year locust.
 How we do cast about us to find safe
 investments of our surplus change!
 There is more than one kind of in
 vestment, just as there is more than
 one kind of wealth. What are the | true Ndlu6S Ol lll6 SIdIuS
 health then knowledge, then self
 mastery, then contentment This
 makes money fifth in the list, and il
 belongs there because it cannot buy
 the first four. Good health represents
 good order in life; knowledge is like
 self f-mastery, and attainment and con- tentment is the dividend of these three ; factors. It makes no difference how
 much money you have if you are dis
 contented-you are poor beside tht
 man who only has faith and hope and peace. The man who takes stocl in himself and keeps his character a par can never be poor. Money make!
 the mare go, but 1t doesn't make tht
 man! To possess a rich mind and ;
 noble spirit is indeed to be rich.
 , Too many people think that higl living is an aim in life, when simpl
 living passed it at the distance pol
 centuries ago. Some one said. "Tel = me what you eat and 1 will tell yol l what you are!" He doubtless coult l tell you whether you were sensible O
 foolish-temperate or intemperate-
 and this might foreshadow all tn
 rest. It is the high seasoned, mike diets which have made the American e race of dyspeptics, and which stil l. holds the life of a generation down t - forty years. What you eat will no
 only reveal what you are, but it fore
 shadows what you are likely to be. A
 overfed, clogged system drives ou health and produces an invalid Mos f lnvalids are the victims of injudiciou h and incorporate living; and they wi Il not thank you for making the way t
 health plain to them. Man does nc
 enjoy being sick. but a great man : things he enjoys in life breed sickness f 1t is not strange that man comes II believe in luck. There are many thing II in life which tend to confirm him
 the opinion that luck is against hin
 When things are done by rule, result o are not always the same. What spell = success this year may spell failur y next. Most any one of mind and mem d ory knows the truth of this. Ther
 appears to be an element of uncer
 tainty about almost everything ma engages in. Belief in luck is not a attributable to ignorance, or lack ( = skill. The man who had been diggin n for oil on his farm for a year wa h not to blame for thinking when hi y neighbor dug for water and struck o
 1t was a streak of good luck. When y hurricane does great damaged to m s neighbours property and skips min "a why shouldn't I think so far as m " interests are concerned that it was U piece of good luck? Nature teacht e us there is something to chance!
 Have you ever asked yourself ho g often you stand for principle and ho d often you follow a blind lead? W ,e are all of us good deal like a draw ;e glass of beer-two-t thirds froth. II important matters, Bill, too often dot things because Jim is going to, or r,
 refuses to do them because Hen is tn;
 way. We are swerved by most any d thing but principle-we all dodge asl r. ing ourselves why we are doing thinl ,d as men and citizens. The aanti i-su ,- fragette voter cannot tell why he .4 willing an illfterate should checkma IL him at the ballot box and unwilliI
 his college graduated wife should ha'
 voice in government. There are 10