Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-21
THE MAN WHO TALKS

y I eye was not true to visien-that 1t was the seat of false conceptions. 1 The fact is the eyes are the tattlers IT the human heart. The wicked eye 1 has to have bad heart behind it. It
 Twas Lavater who declared the daring eye tells downright truths and down. right lies. It is all in your eye in I a true. not a false sense. Man is Said 1 to have two eyes and one tongue thar l he may see twice as much as he should
 ever speak of. Franklin said the eyes of the master will do more work than both his hands" There is the the lJye | lit eye, the piercing eye the wantnn 1 eye, and the eye whose expression is
 more beautiful than words.
 The world judges you and I by our conduct not by our professions. Tae world does not care what we pretend | for it is more interested in what We do. What we think we are rather 1 slow to make known. We keep to ourselves things which 1t were better to say. and say things which better have perished in the mind. This is largely due to the fact that we do not habitually foster our honest convlc- tions, but give voice to that which is popular, and perhaps, compensatins. The man who sells his vote is not tine only victim of bribery. for man may l sacrifice his best sense to be in the swinm, OF may lose his individuality for the sake of personal prefermnt. We stand by what is popu lar better than we stand by what is the truth; and in our pretences -ose the pearl of great price.
 It was Tryon Edwards who warned l his readers between two evils choose
 neither: between two goods choose both.' Take all that is coming your l way that is good. and let the rest be added to. the jetsam and doatsam of l life Let the thorns and the splinters float away on the tide of time. Dis cultivate: there is an advantage in knowing when to grasp and when to 1 let go-what to hold and what to drop. | It has been said: Discretion is the
 salt and fancy the. danger of life; the one preserves and the other sweet l ems it.' The reason sweetness gets
 out of life. is because you fancy the 1 worst instead of the best. There is l wisdom in choice and also mastery. 1 It is up to Us to grasp that whicl 1 blesseS and to let go that which in 1 jures. True manhood rests upon our l strength as free choosers.
 Keep on the right side of yourself. l Do not think your lot in life is the worst ever, for if you do, it isn't. The l most effective lying Is done by ones self to ones self. This is the way to 1 the most depressing Encouragement. l Too many people have beaten them selves by false imagining. Who knows whose lot is hardest? You and I do not I have known people who thought their life was the worst eyer-studdcd with more misfortunes than a prina donna's necklace is with jewels-and I knew their lives were a real picnic compared to the lives of some of their neighbors. Do not get too keen sighted for your own path, and to blind to see your neighbors. If you must deceive yourself resolve at least to be a cheerful liar. Do not make @
 grouchy idiot of yourself.
 As we walk along the streets and hear the passing remarks we are not impressed that language is the dress of thought but rather that It IS the vehicle of folly. Even, if language was given to us that we might say pleasant things of one another, or to each other, | it might be used much less voluEly | without loss to man. Some writer has l to conceal than to express thought. ! At all events there is no denying that 1 a mans language discloses his near ness as well as his mentality-that it l is a revelation of quality as well as requirement. The man who says l.e
 is a gentleman must prove 1t by his conduct as we'll as his words; and it Is indeed sad to hear man who thinks he is a gentleman talking as no gentle
 man should To know what thoughts to put into words constitutes judgment and tact, and to these ends we should
 strive.
 The robins take quite a fancy to
 the strawberry bed and daily watch its
 ripening fruit I cannot tell why they
 puncture a berry, but never eat one
 up-they spoil more than they con-
 sume Perhaps they jab at some tiny
 insect which they fancy the flavor of
 more than the flavor of the fruit. I
 confess they are entitled to their sha-'e
 of the good things of earth, as well az
 myself. I try to frighten them away,
 but their courage and persistence
 makes one smile. They will come and
 peck the berries when I am not more
 than ten feet away; and they seem to
 sense that I would rather lose all my
 berries than my robins. We are nut
 ual friends and there is going to be no
 trouble between us I like to hear
 their song before 4 o'clock in the
 morning, and also when the sun is
 hanging picture in the west at even
 ing for all mankind to admire.
 if we realized that meanneSs has to
 take more than half it's own poison we
 should be slow to cherish and to mani
 fest it. No one ever gets any real sat-
 isfaction out of hate or revenge, for
 they are both the agents of trouble.
 Our verbal measure of others is about as good a measure as the other fellow can get of us. An evil spirit harms most the one who entertains it. No
 one is skil1ful enough to so explain a, mean act that it will appear to be ra-
 tiona1, however talented he may be. Goodness shines and needs neither ex- planation or defense. When the mind takes on the mood to explain it needs a muzzle-let the other person ex- plain and you'll get a revelation. The sin of talking too much is at the bot tom of half our woes. Be still, and you will learn the truth.
 Do not feel too satisfied with your self. You may be wonderful success, you may be a distinguished scholar, you may have been told you are a banana peel fall and break your neck.
 You are not so great you can feel se- cure against the small perils of ex- istence. One famous steep1e- Charley who had done a hundred steeples in his time, fell from a chair and was fatally injured. philosopher may drown while a fool swims ashore. None of us become so great we may not become a victim on short notice. Few men are equal to every exigency; but they who avert disaster are tenn satisfied with ones self is to invite the feebleness of conceit. and that has wrecked many a worthy and aspiring soul.
 STORIES OF PLACES.
 One of the wonders of the Guatemala