Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-26
THE MAN WHO TALKS

THE MAN WHO TALKS l One good reason whyswe should keep
 our conversation as sweet as possible
 is that, should we have to eat our
 words, they may be as palatable as
 possible. If there is anything in the
 world we cannot afford to be careless
 about it is talk. Talk keeps many
 people poor. and they cannot tell for
 the life of them why they do not sue
 ceed in wha. they undertake well
 as others. We are not apt to think
 those who talk least are forging ahead
 fastest How many spendthrifts there
 are with their tongues. There are
 people who talk so fast an echo can
 not get fair play where they are. There is French proverb which says:
 There are praying men as well as
 praying asses which makes it appar-
 ent that French women are very su-
 perior. or else Frenchmen are chival-
 rousIy considerate of them. It is just
 as necessary to think before you speak
 as to look before you leap, but mortal
 man cannot seem to get this precau-
 tionary habit.
 In this world we find the big fam
 fly in the hovel and the small family
 in the palace. It does not seem just right, but since it seems to be in ac
 cord with an unwritten law there can not be anything so very regrettable about it. It is only where titles and honors are hereditary that can trace greatness back to solid comfort and sometimes on these lines the men tally weak are labelled great. God doesn't endow men with power-He makes them earn it. It is the man born in the valley who climbs to the mountain top-the man who has little to look back to who seems to have tn fnv +n st,-lxy fn,- Ease doesn't promote action-it in
 vites to drowsiness. The spirit of genius like the spirit of love. had a lowlv demonstration. Be up and do- ing" is the novels mandate, and when life reaches the palace ambition seems to have been spent This is why from shirtsleeVes to shirtsleeves is only three generations.
 Some people ache to give some other person their opinion of him. not be- cause of the weight of their opinion but because they are quite sure it will be nettling-they desire to dis comfort him. They are usually un- ion is often of more value to person than a good one; or, that swapping opinions is less profitable than ex- changing jackknives for buttons. We are in danger of putting our own measure into a poor opinion instead of the measure of the one we dislike, and our chickens come home to roost. If you have a poor opinion of anyone it is good thing to keep secret, or to forget. I have seen fellows who didn't care a snap for my opinion and perhaps you have seen such fellows, too! Do not try to give anything to a person who cannot appreciate it. If you do not say too much in this world you will not have too much to take back.
 # Oliver Wendell Holmes were alive
 today he might feel that it was neces- sary to revise his statement that fash ion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse" We must all be aware that old fashions are grOteSque, and in this age new fashions make it difficult for the car toonist to caricature the styles, since humor- exciting lines. The only art there appears to be in dress now is the art of getting the costumer to trust us for our clothes. The fashions of one generation always create smiles for the next generation. The afops of the present always enjoy laughing at the fools CD of the past, never dream ing they will soon be in the class to be laughed at. I hear you say. To be out of style is to be laughed at all the time" This, however, depends upon the size of ones bank account. The man who can cash in is seldom kicked out.
 We renard the Chinese as heather, illiteracy in America is much greater than in China. These heather have @ prOVerb, Going to law is los ing a COW for the sake of a cat and there are plenty of Americans of ex- perience who can endorse it, and many lawyers of sense and probity who will admit it, for they do not make cases, but merely conduct them Men, like 6rAJ1 al go to great lengths to get satisfaction, and Valiantly anathematize the cost. If men could arouse the ardor and the generosity for good which ugliness en- genderS the average pay of clergyment would be more than $500 a year. and there would not be 5,000,000 people in America with five in the family sub 5isting upon an average of $400 a year. This is why civilization is said to be very thinly veneered-We cannot seem to shed the temperament of the say age and take on the godliness which we profess so much to admire.
 Shakespeare says: Women are the books, the arts. the academies. that show, contain and nourish all the ]f Shakespeare speak of dogs first, md then women. And the men who 'evere woman because she was last It the cross and first at the tomb,'' openly confess they cannot trust her to -ote upon issues which imperil her comfort and her home and her chil- lren every day of her life. Victor Hugo says: NO one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. and a free peo- ole deny to her what the savages do tot deny to their squaws. t4The society If women is the element of good man. lers.'' said Goethe. and some solici- ous husbands fear they would corrupt he polling places instead of improve hem It has been said ''Woman's mistakes are due to her reasoning rom the heart,'' but it strikes us man would make fewer mistakes if he req toned in the same way.
 Do you realize that we want to hear LII that's a-going. and that half of it s gossip and idle rumor not worth re- i beating. Of course. We are told that ! we should only indulge in profitable | ak discuss great subjects with our .quals or superiors. I do not think 1 his is good advice. for it is apparent ] we all could not do it if we wanted to. l
 believe Herbert Spencer used to- dis l uss matters of great importance with ! 5arlyle and these talks closed with a | laring match and were finally given l ID. Then he tried Tyndal and after a | iscussion of two days and two nights 1 without sleep he broke away from him [ n order not to be talked to death |