Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-25
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The man who does not shine in so-
 ciety looks like the real thing at home
 The man who shines in society often
 becomes an old dude before his time
 and has no reputation at home worth
 mentioning. In this world what a man
 looks like is of less consequence than
 what he actually is. We are all aware
 that a man may look unutterable
 things, and that woman may look a
 part shes is wholly incapable of play
 ing. The man who is making a sur-
 plus is the fellow who Is making the
 world move: and those who do not
 are making the deficits. There is
 many man who shines who has no
 luster of his own any more than the
 moon. In the mineral world the cheap
 est material shines, hence the shine
 of itself is the least of values. Some
 times mans wife thinks he is g. bril-
 liant if he does not shine anywhere
 away from home. It is better to be able to shin than to shine for that
 is the sure way of getting to the top
 where shining prospects are always in sight.
 Everyone of sense should endorse
 the sentiment that "it is a thousand
 times better to remove disease breed
 ing conditions than to invent cures.
 The physician of the past has dealt
 too much with effects and neglected causes. What has been done in the way of making Cuba and the Isthmus
 of Panama free from contagious dis eases is principally due to the removal
 of disease breading flth--to the es-
 tablishment of the very best sanitary
 conditions. In the cities of the coun-
 try today not half enough attention
 is given to keeping nuisances abated and the atmosphere free from pol1u-
 ton. The health boards and commit
 tees everywhere tackle the contagion
 and create a great state of excitement instead of giving sharp attention to
 the slovenliness and disease breeding
 habits of the people. Now that the leading physicians are preaching pre-
 ventative remedies, it is to be hoped
 preventative measures will not be wholly neglected. It is awkward to
 work down from the surface.
 1t takes a smart woman to make
 other people think the man she mar
 ried is a saint because she thinks so.
 Love will praise a villain when he has
 reached the point where he is ashamed to say a word in his own defense. Saints in trousers are so scarce it is
 strange so many women think they have one for a mate. If there are any saints on earth they are not the kind We expect to meet in heaven. Perhaps the self elected saint is not a man until he has been dead a cen own conceit that he does not count. The church does not venture to saint mnu until he has been dead a cen tury or more. Most great earthly characters have their blemishes-they have all been human. There are a ] lot of good husbands who deserve the praise their wives give them; but there ] is no doubt great many of them prefer silent admiration because 1t is often less embarrassing. Fulsome praise is always likely to be misfits There was a time, not so many years | in the past, when most everybody drunk, as. in these days most every body smokes: and 1t seemed to be in the blood of the respectable to occa- sionally get the worse for liquor. That day has passed, whatever may be said l about the greater consumption of alco- holic liquors per capita today thar ever before in the history of the coun- | try. Fun may be made of the prohibi- tionist after a half century of opposi- ton to the traffic, because no better l results can be shown. All being true that is satisfactorily said about the greater use of intoxicating liquors l there is still one marked gain in con \ ditions, for it is no longer respectable to tipple regularly; and some of tht | ministers do not get the worse fo1 \ liquor, as they used tc do when they 1 perance workers have completely changed public opinion, and made i ] odfous to indulge in the ttppIing whicf leads to occasional drunkenness. That is 8 victory to their credit.
 The woman who marries the fast young man finds out soon that he is 2 slow proYider, and that the well pro- vided larder needs more than a sport I tO sustain jf Good drpSSArS and good | dancers and good takers never yet have been able to nrodIIce the satisfaction