Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-19
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

DfOD4I IlI06 GO A6GR 0IAtA y04 eA Ol AA need of a suggestion. "A desire. tol talk of one's self should be checked because it isn't of sufficient general interest and doesn't sound well to any one but yourself. The habit Of talk sng about your troubles has nothing to commend it, but 1t is suf7cient to1 condemn you as weak at a point where persons are usually strong, hence si- lence under such circumstances IS oI great merit. There is danger in the temptation to talk too freely of frienc-admiration will bear no ex- ploitaAion. Look out for your What I-said's'' and "What-I- dids," or you will establish the great big l and lt- tie you relations to others. Beingi silent along these lines speaks loud CT for your good sense or good Judg- ment than any words you can possibly utter or are likely to.
 We are all inventors; and invent ing comes just as easy as skating, swimming or any other accomplish up entirely from the inventions filed in the patent office, not one in a hun dred of the serviceable inventions are made anything of. Most inventions are made for immediate use since they
 consist of excuses and the use of language to conceal thought. Ben FrankIin's opinion was that he who makes excuses is not good for any
 thing else,'' but most married men who carry theip wives letters in their pocket a month before mailing them know life makes excuses almost as necessary as prayers. The way
 bright boys and girls in their juven- nilty distinguish themselves is by inventing excuses which do not exact ly fit, while grown people show their dullness by doing the same thing. We have all done more or less inventing, hence we readily recognize how true this is. Some things invented in words are good enough to be patented, as we'll as copy lighted
 1t may be true that where ignorance
 is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," but it
 must be special brand of ignorance
 which adds to our pleasure instead of our discomfort. Ignorance is no re- specter of persons and represents no
 single class. You may have noticed
 that physicians and professional men of all classes lack the knowledge of the laws which prolong life, and die before their time. No class of men can be learned in all things-few are wise concerning the essentials of life. It has been said ''EIe who Is not aware of his ignorance will be misled by his knowledge;'' also that "to be ignorant of ones ignorance is the malady of ignorance" The Lord through one of His prophets is credited with having. said: My people perish for lack of l knowled~e." The knowledge they lacked was knowledge of Him and a
 knowledge of themselves. These are I the knowledges in which abide saving grace and lasting happiness. Ignor- ance invites disease and death-it is | the root of most of our misfortunes.
 One Of the curious things in life is | the frequency with which the fellow | who dared to sass his mother marries a NxTI, rTyi11 faI- toll ana the situation never fails to arouse l in many a feeling of gratitude that the | boy has a wife who can make him l either respectful or silent. The boy who sasses his mother is usually one 1 who was not taken in hand early l enough, or disciplined in the way he | should have been: or who has a father | who is a bad example. The man who sasses his wife is usually the one who | dares not make himself offensive to 1 anyone else-who keeps his good man. l ners for company and his agreeable l talk for the world at large. There would be too many of this kind if l there wasn't but one in the world; and | yet they are commoner than gypsies | are today. The man who is too re- l fined to sass anyone is he who lends l strength to our faith that the super 1 man is a possibility and on the way. 1 His good services to his fellow men
 cannot be oVerestimated.
 Fret and Worry are twin children or the imagination which caricatures life by Apicturing a thousand and one things that are not 50, and then be- coming fearful of them instead of it. self. The imagination that is devoted to creating rainbows has the irnagina-
 ton that lends itself to the .produc- tion Of spooke beaten to death. It is a duty we owe ourselves to look out for our images. We may picture peace and purity and perfection with the mind, CT home, heaven ahd hap pinesS; or we may conjure up a host of things to bring to our own career
 disorder and ruin. Mans capacity for wisdom or foolishness has been made about equal; his quality is shown by the use he makes of it. We all seem to be richly endowed, but we do not
 grasp the treasures of life-the friv- olities delude and ensnare us. It is
 important we should know ourselves and that we should turn to good ust every talent God has endowed US with We are too tolerant of the regulator.
 who think it their duty to look aftel
 our health and our morals and oul giving and our going, etc. We art 1 compelled to be immuned by the doc. 1 tors from disease and by law from various other things. We cannot ex pectorate on the sidewalks. go to SC, . go without interference. We are tolC
 what we must do by law and wha
 we should do by the piICers. Indiana chaperones the dancers of the tang, 1 and a woman censor sees the dancer do not get so close together a visit
 ing card cannot be put Between them
 and Wisconsin just jerks the tang dancers up and fines 'emi By heck
 Forty-five minutes at table and n retiring of the women for the men t : smoke and tell stories, is recen
 edict by Kaiser Wilhelm. The peopl
 are burdened with twice the law tha is necessary and ten times as man, conservators as they need.
 Have you ever thought of our good
 will as an assett? If you have 70 without doubt discovered that it quite worthy being considered
 : hunlbug. There was g. time when th s good will of a business was considere
 as being worth money, was estimai
 ed in dollars and cents, but in tn . more practical age hard money is nc
 laid down for things which cannot |
 seen. The shrewd business man [ > longer buys the good will, but leave
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