Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-02
THE MAN WHO TALKS

IT, as seekers or knOWlSQB0, Wo | searched for the beneficial things as | as we do for the things | about our nelghbcfs it were better we | should not know, we should all be l more efficient and masterly. We are | all rather expert collecting and re- menberfng things 1t were better to forget and there is a tendency as things are repeated to make them worse instead of better. You remem- Der the man who stole five sheep. lied from his native place to be free Of the odium Of the offense, and when by repetition it had become fifty, he de- cided the best place to live down an Gossip usually pretends to know. five times as much as it Gees-thinks she is Argus-eyed when really she Is blind. If we only knew how often our neigh bor prayed as we claim to know how often he curses his wife, it would be possessed the sensational qualities Of falsehood we should learn it oftener.
 It tests a mans judgment to know when to speak. Speech Is cheap stun compared to the silence which has been defined as the eloquence of dis cretion. If we were punished for our verbal blunders, as we are for our other mistakes we should be more careful of our speech. It is matter of record that five words cost Zach ariah forty weeks of silence We be- lieve one famous general won celebrity by holding his tongue in ten lam guages," which Is a most mortifyinS fact to those who cannot hold their tongue in one language! Silence was recognized by Zeno as the most de- sirable virtue because it enabled him to hear of other mems imperfeetlons and to conceal his own. It has been pointed out that the ant excels as preacher because it Says nothing. To be silent when maligned brings your assailant to shame. He may be an- other, but it does no good for you to tell him so. What we do not say never cenfronts us or covers us with confusion.
 Look out what you carry with you when you are hunting for work. The kind of a front, you put up Is of real importance-a winning manner Is al- ways an asset, It is necessary to look efficient as well as to think it. A man who has ability to sell should be careful not to have the air of a tramp selling shoestrings. There is nothing haphazard in life } about achievement A few things can be done by plunging, or on huke, but most progress is based upon sold preparation. If you expect to be the
 
 in mind it is worth something to have good designs. To hunt a job with ex- I trene caution is to be more than half doomed at the start. To doubt your | self is to carry an expression which 1 Is likely to make others doubt you. Every body cannot look cheerful and l smile in hard luck, but it is a clever way out. Do not venture to become a locomotive engineer if you are only qualified to drive an ice-cart Cheek | is not efficiency.
 A near philosopher tells us "The | man whose only claim to sanctity is | his cheek" The long face is an af- 1 fectation not virtue. Infants arC not born with lcng faces. The IndiaT children do not know how to smile
 because their parents visual eff | ffciency is not equal to the task O bleaching them. These wocden-faceC I people who live in an atmosphere O
 awe because of their morbid thought
 have a conception of their Heavenl. | father as a being with a. face like stone image. The idea that Got i laughs would horrify them, but wit 1 messing what a burlesque men mak
 of life, it would not surprise us if h, did. We cannot image a being ca pablo of grief who is not capable o
 glee. Doesn't the smile of a chilC seem like a gleam of Heaven? H.
 who laughs too much gets in poo repute; but he who laughs ,jollily get
 into the hearts of his friends. No on
 has right to a long face. but an un dertaker. and he needs professions face. So long as "a laugh continue
 to be worth a hundred groans in an.
 market" it has the long face dis
 counted. ..-.. .-.., We all carry pretty good load c
 good intentions, and most of us won
 der what becomes of them. We los
 most of them somewhere on the waI not because the prompter erred, bu
 because he. exceeded our standard How much more interesting our col
 lection of ~concreted yesterdays woul be when we look them over if tn
 good intentions were mirrowed there
 in as we like to see ourselves mirrow ed in a. silyered glass. Our good in tentions are very much like the fair rings we see beneath the trees on a we 5 October morning. pretty in form, bI , too ephemeral to last. If we kee we'll in mind what we haven't don we feel less free to boast about whf : we have done. When our perform 5 ances and our intentions are, place t side by side we are surprised that s much of us at last goes to the buri g place. Perhaps when the Saviol  he had these good intentions in min
 A good intention is as worthy of beir
 honored as a. good promise. and son
 | folks honor neither, hence they soc 8 find themselves in dishonor.
 What is to-intoxication7. It is z
 int3xication for which the individu n is not directly responsible; and it V being recognized as the source of di ! ease which manifests itself in mal
 forms. Metchinkof says because
 the work of the colon bacteria ms does not live out half his days; tn = instead of dying at seventy m;
 should live to be 40 ;and that the
 is no such thing as a natural deat ,e These microscopic plants-MetchinlSt n calls them intestinal flora bril
 about chemical changes in our
 advised diets which result in poiso
 ing the blood and in slowly undermi III ing the health, being responsible f L. physical ailments which includes t
 loss of memory and decrepitude, whi
 we attribute to. age; hence you s le we must look sharply after our inte l. tinal flora although very few peoI III are aware they possess any. Wh
 hacilli of buttermilk were found
 tinal flora although very few peoJ |. be ininnical to colon bacteria a ie that their presence in the colon chec IS ed their mischief MafhinlSaff. raoo,