Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-14

that, by saving the ice cream cost, there would be something to spend for the gifts which they yearned to buy, to be sent as their little contrtbutlon-
 The older children made the plan known to the matron. Every one or the homeless parentleSS-or worse little waifs. begged to be deprived or the ice cream treat for a number or weeks and to have the money thus saved used in their name to purchase comforts for the sad little Belgian children! Was ever a more praise worthy sacrifice? And when their re- quest was granted, they were delight ed in the preparation of their wee package, which was duly forwarded to the U. $. s. Jason. at New York.
 Evil as the terrible war is, it has had the benefieent effect Of breaking down all lines of provinciahsrn, nare rowness and making of the entire world one great family, albeit one suf- fering and in anguish over the vastest and most disastrous family quarrel ever known.
 No longer is each mind filIc1 with the limited typography of home, neigh borhood, street, ward. city or even state.
 Each feels himself a part of the great wide world, each has in his mental eye the map of the universe.
 recall reading in The Bulletin some
 
 chants Week, 0 plea, in his customary eloquent and elegant language, by the | Rev. Samuel Fl. Howe, D. D.. of Park | Congregational church, for this wider vision, this broad view of the nation as the place of which we are an ac- tive integral unit; of the world. to which we belong as participants in { it's stir and interests, not as mere outsiders, viewing men, women and affairs as might a, spectator a drama | L -s..N. I.- |. . s.-Ls A> 1N ] concern. It is safe to say that the good pastor of Park church had not | the remotest idea then that his wish for his fellow citizens 'o9 no mean city, would be so soon granted, and i said citizens So soon awakened, as he | had wished, to realization that they are not provincial. not bounded by any narrow horizon, but are in truth actors in vital drama which has the entire world for it's stage.
 For there is scarce one of us, no l matter how humble our station. who l has not been touched, in one way or | another, by the world-war.
 Friends have left us to join the col ors. relatives of our own or of our ] neighbors are on the firing line, per | hapS have fallen in battle, possibly are in hospitals across the sea, maim- 1 ed, shattered; we mourn with those in | fraternitieS, in church or business or | social circles who have lost friends, | or whose friends have lost their all | in the pillage and wreckage of inVad- | ing armies.
 | We are affected in the closest way as regards trade, business conditions | our salaries Or incomes, perhaps, Those on whom we have depended 1 may be out of work, or find themselves | in new and unexpectedly strengthened | circumstances, as the result of the strangely upset state of the market, the cessation of exportation, or of inn ports, as the case may be. | Suddenly it has been forced on our consciousness that the world is but one great body. of which our own land | is one of the members: and the ache 1 and unrest and irritation, far from be- ing local, pervades and frets and an noys and embarrasses every nerve and sinew and bone and tendon and artery Of the whole great entity.
 But in this very fact of nearness | and narrowness lies the salutory interest which in city and town and | village has so suddenly and so strong 1y sprung up in others, remote from l our borders, sbut, we realize, our kin, who are more grieYously affected than are we ourselves .= Hence the wonderfully spontaneous and human impulse to help, the rush of gifts to cargo the Christmas ship, the knitting and sewing for the
 wounded in the hospitals, the kindly desire to do something to make some
 body forget suffering and privations!
 We have prated long. and often about
 the Brotherhood of Man and the Fa- therhood of God; perhaps this terrible
 war was just the lesson we needed to put substance back of our cant phrase
 to vivify our words. .--.-. --
 This "touch of nature" is shown
 quaintIy and amusingIy, in a film
 which has had great vogue in the
 movies. During a terrible storm which has
 swept down trees and poles and has
 put all telephones out of commission
 the robber-hero breaks into the coun-
 try home of a young widow, whose
 only child. a son, has been stricken
 suddenly with what the mother fears
 is diphtheria. The butler and maids
 away at a dance on another estate
 us the willy burglar had informed