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Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
Sunday Morning Talk
THE GOLDEN MEAN.

We owe the happy expression to the Latin poet Horace. It is an echo of the motto of that other classic sage: ~Do nothing too much" It bids us avoid excess ride no hobby to death, stay on the sensible side of extremes, It asks us to have an eye for proportion.
 One wishes lovely woman could adopt the golden mean in the matter of fashions. Why should 30,000, 900 women dress after some extreme mode at the dictate of a little coterie of tyrants in Paris or New York l? Why should every skirt be "hobbIe" when that is the edict or as wide and haring as gunny sacks when breadth is ordered? Why should our wives and daughters hasten to don hats as large as bushel baskets or as small as mere postage stamps when the orders go out? There is no good reason No custom should be pressed to an ab- surdity. Allowing for a decent re- gard for harmless convention, wise people will not go beyond seemly limits.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
NORWICH A VACATION CENTER

CWrtten Specially For The Bulletin9.
 Tn A window of one of the big
 department stores the other day there was what looked like a gigantic spi- der's web, formed of telephine wires radiating all over Eastern Connecti- cut from a center which was Norwich. Its design of course, was to demon strate that every avenue Of trade, like all roads to Rome. leads to Norwich. Now Norwich is not only a splendid thading center, but it is also 8 first class vacation center
 For those who have automobiles
 that fact has been already demonstrat- ed. Those who prefer their own
 homes after night falls. and wso con- in a hotel, have learned what pleas ant trips they can make during a
 summer day, yet be back in town for the night.
 But those who are not in the Auto mobile Register may have just as pleasant outings as the others, by simply talSin gadvantage of the won- derfui opportunities offered to Nor
 wich dwelIers by our superior train and trolley systems.
 Those who must or would iinik an
 outing to single day, have but to devote little thought to planning. to secure pleasant, healthfui, enter taining and restful trips, and this, too,
 for very modest expenditures.
 To those who have. say two or three
 days so to spend, there are the ad- vantages of excellent inns, hotels or
 boarding houses in towns and at beach, es or lakes easily reached. where prices are reasonable enough to suit even the slimmest purse.
 A little experimenting will prove how well and how proftably day can be spent by starting from here anr | at no unreasonably early hour eith- CT.
 Trains or trolieys leaving about g
 o'clock will take one into scores ot
 enticing places for a summer says
 rest and recreation.
 For example, starting toward the
 north, branching off at Taftville, there
 are all the delights of country ol water to be obtained by visits to . score of entertaining places. Suppose one sets out toa as far al | possible toward the state line. Com ing down from the big cotton mills d | North rosvenordale-which have tn, 1 record of never having a stop or strike since they were opened abou war times, there is the ride past tn $300.000 Tourtelotte Memorial Higi
 school to beautiful Thompson, with it
 quaint street, it's elegant villas, the olt
 inn where swings the sign looked up | on by travellers in stage coach days
 There Is the privilege of riding. O
 if one is a good hiker, of strelline
 through the $4,000,00 Ream estate,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

history as a good legislature by any strstch of the imagination And that ts the history of the legislature of 1e1s.-Bridgeport Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

soldiers in the world. They looked, in fact, as hard and uncomDromisinE a set of rufiians as could be found any where in the area of the war. Hard as nails, they were calm of eye, sun ming themselves after a week of care fui killing, as though the ppnishment mess
 T walked up and down between the rows. trying to readjust my men 1ery Company. Here was wealthy young gentleman from the city sitting in his shirt with his legs bared to the midday breeze, thoroughly sewing a his finger and swore softly. Next to him was @ famous Cambridge scholar, wearing eyeglasses and trousers Ills grey shirt was spread out In the sun shine and he regarded it somewhat morosely.
 aAThe silence was very striking. l had passed other battalions-not from | the trenches-in billets nearby, and | the cheerful chatter of the men could be heard on all sides Here the stiu- l ness was only broken by the sound | of bagpipes from the next village and the final pre-luncheon delivery of German shells. Aeroplanes. with the | tr1-coiored bu1ls-eye of the Allies painted on the underside Of their wings, were humming overhead, with | E-IAA4g oAtA pA1CA GN CH-A6 8A - | roses in their wake, but the Honorable Artillerymen shut all thoughts oi war out of their minds for the moment and soaked in the sunshine. When the H. A. C. took over the | portion of trenches assigned them the enemy was engaged in improving hii defences amid certain ruins Sandbags
 were brought up at night and utilized as a breatwork against the shattered | walls Then came a profuston oi machine guns.
 The force of enemy infantry wal really very small, but the enem, l counted as usual on machine gun de- fences as being more efhcacious thar
 rifemen. In a way they are right
 Machine guns cannot bolt when troop | attack.
 During the week the Germans be
 came bolder in their movements be hind their defences. The H. A. c
 bided their time, and at the right mo
 ments they brought down groups O
 workers who dared show themselve
 out of cover.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

A joy-ietter is a modern invention designed to cheer up the invalid and it does it. Every one cannot write joy letter, but those who can should devote a little of their time and men tai energy in making pleasing word pictures for the shut-ins. A good book is an inspiring companion, but 1t cannot make the magnetic impression written message does. The joy letter is an unexpected caller, and if it finds the invalid in an unreceptive mood, it can wait for the mood to change. Those who have an invalid friend, or a house-bound acquaint- ance, can discover the value of this in- vention by writing words of cheer for them. A great many thus surprised have said "a~ joy-letter is better than medicine" It Is always a good letter to the invalid. Little joy-ietters ire quently, are better than long joy-let- ters occasionally. Do not have too much to say. but say well what you have in mind. The kindheartedness which prompts the writing of such a letter is of itself healing balm, Just try it.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

If an employe of a business house attended to all his business matters punctually and faithfully. even bril- hantly, and yet at the end of a bus
 mess day made 1t practice to put his hand into the till and help him self to @ little change. his employer would not keep him long. nor toler- ate his pilfering on the score of his good work. Similarly, the action of the Connecticut legislature in creating a useless sinecure in the statute re- vision commission merely for the purpose of putting fat slice of the states money in the hands of few legislative leaders. robbed both the legislature and the leaders of any credit that otherwise might accrue to them. A legislature is elected to pass good legislation. That Is its bust ness. It is elected for that and paid for it as well. If 1t has passed good legislation it has only fulfilled the trust which was imposed upon 1t If 1t has passed some good legislation and some bad legislation and has wound up by a performance rankly odoriferous. it cannot go down into
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

The sooner the American people re- alize the infinite possibilities of nickels and dimes the sooner more of them will become millionaires. Un- doubtedly Henry Ford owes a good part of his recent $48,O00, 900 dividend to 5itney rides at five cents per, and if the tits" continue to increase as they have in the past few months, counting in an occasional smash-up, he may sell Ford cars enough to double it. Then again. there is the mammoth Woolworth building in New York city, built from the proceeds of five and-ten-cent stores. Verify, many a Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Everybody up on their toes. The name of a new dance is to be an nounced immediately. Just one more dance wouldn't ordinarily create much of a furore, but this Is to be the new dance of the International Association of Dancing Masters This organtza- ton has just nows decided that most of the so-called modern dances are vulgar and barbarous and decrees that they must be abolished. As happy medium there is promised a cross between the modern steps and the old fashioned two-step and waltz. We can hardly wait to see.-Waterbury American.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

No person Of experience expects liquor to be banished from the face of the earth by edict But why con- fine such criticisms to liquor prohi- bitory laws? We have stringent laws against murder, theft, automobile recklessness. and thousands of things not desired by the social body. yet the courts are kept constantly busy trying those who have violated the prohibitions. To be logical and con- sistent the critics should declare all laws useless because they do not en- ,tirely stop crime. Laws however good differ from the best automobiles they are not self-starters. They must be enforced, and even then can not completely correct the evil fn- herent in the human makeup. Get ting a recognized evil outlawed is in any case substantial gain.-Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

wonder if we are born with a prejudice against all tribes but our own? How easy it seems to be to cast a slur upon members of any tribe or society except the one with which we are associated. And when think that The that is possessed with prejudice is possessed with a devil'' it seems to me as if most of us are in bad company most of the time. Preju- dice has been called the child of ig- norance and the reason of fools; a crooked point of view and a creator of violence. It is the greatest obsta- cle to progress. There is nothing that stays prejudice like knowledge and association. Some prejudices are so subtle that we are not conscious of them although they are easily recog- nized by others. They can get into the mind easier than they can be got out of it. It is doubtful if any of us are entirely free from them; and yet it is claimed that an old prejudice Is better than new conceit. It is among the impossibilities of life to be absolutely free from both.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
Avoid Friction In Occupied Districts.

Avoid Friction In Occupied Districts.
 One of the first considerations of the British army officials is the avoid ance of all friction with the inhabi- tants of the occupied districts of France and the maintenance of most cordial relations with the French soldiers. A principal factor in keeping on good terms with the allied army has been the steadfast insistence on the courtesies of discipline.
 Military etiquette, for example. de- mands that when a party of British officers are saluted by British pri- vate, only the senior officer ack- nowledges the salute. When. however the salute is given by a French pri- vate, the acknowledgement is made by all the officers. "The idea is," staff oh1cer explained that by this act oi courtesy we daily show to the French consciousness that if we are their al lies, we are also guests In their coun- try. And where the officers give tht lead, the men are quick to follow"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
Younasters Follow War.

The remarkable extent to which even youngsters are following the po- Htical and war developments, are in- dicated by the answers of a echool- full of nine-year-old girls in Berlin to the question, What would you do if you were the King of Italy?" The question was submitted when Italy was apparently undecided whether to enter the war or not
 Forty-two girls answered, and with out exception, they said that the King of Italy would not declare war. The reason. they said disingenuously, was because Italy was in the triple alli- ance. Individually the answers ranged from If were King of Italy would not declare war because enough blood has been spilled al ready to "I would not go into the war because I could not get any more than I can get by staying out"
 The children indllged their fancy to the extent of imagining automobile and carriage rides which they would take if they were King, but each sucl ride eliminated in proclamation against war.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

One of the United States consular officers writes home, ~The American exporter should be reminded that the chief fact in which the inquirer is in- terested Is the price. and this infor- nation is most difficult to secure from an American house. Elaborate cata- logs are furnished which omit all reference to price, and it requires cor respondence and time to elicit definite information on this point Mall order houses are an exception and their trade is favored on this account" Every advertiser should regard an ap- peal in printers ink as he would a salesman. No salesman can do busf- ness who is not able to state prices It is foolish to advertise that you have something to sell without mentioning the price, just as foolish as it is tc expect a man to say: 'T'll take that, without asking about the cost. Mighty little sells at sight" these days Waterbury Republican. While this is biting sarcasm, nc doubt there is need for changes a the Middlesex county house, for 1t fl
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

Half the indictment against cer- tain forms of amusement would be quashed if people could be content to enjoy them in moderation. Whether one plays ring toss or auction bridge one should not let the game get the better of him.To become dance-crazy, as thousands both young and old seem to have done, is to set right minded people against a possible source of harmless recreation. Decent drama is source of pleasure. but to spend, as some people do, about three evenings week, besides countless hard earned dollars, at the playhouse is a silly and wasteful business. So easy it is for seemly recreation to descend to vi- cious extravaganza.
 Many of our faults are but poten- tial virtues pushed to an extreme A proper self esteem, for instance, is a laudable trait of character. It rallies ones powers and keeps one from dis couragement. But too great self es- teem means conceit, and that is not admirable. Shrewdness and enter prise are qualities to be cultivated
 but when the shrewd, enterprising man goes so far as to verge on deceit and cruelty we cease to admire him. The calm man, conquering his worries. may become the lazy and shiftless man; just as a proper forethought may
 turn to corroding care. Vices may spring from our very virtues unless we are on our guard
 Let us beware then. of that spirit
 of exaggeration and disproportion that takes a right thing and makes it
 sess property is one of the common est human passions. A legitimate de- sire it is, but one that may pass very easily into that expressing love of
 money that is the root of all kinds of evil. Three-fourths of the people who striverfor wealth at all strive for it to the exclusion of the finer values of life | The lust for money, as consuming as
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

The inquiry is made: Should a doc tor tell the truth ?" Whats the use? What is a doctors honest opinion compared to the look of assurance and wisdom he can put on in the sick room, and the colored decoctions he can leave in a glass for us? What would be the use of demanding the truth from the doctor when we whiten with anger if the preacher dare tell it to us. It is better for an invalid to be hypnotized than it is to have the frigid truth sprayed upon him it is better for his health and we have no fear that any doctor will deny this If the truth is what tactful physi- elan keeps us from knowing and this lack of knowledge does us most good His words of hope and brown bread pills have saved many patient where his honest opinion might have proved to be fatal The doctors pre- scription answers every purpose with out his opinion. We do not want people telling us the truth for it makes them offensive.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

Do you suppose life would be worth living were we compelled to live ac- cording to the advice we pass out to others? We have been advised that it is well enough to listen to advice from a friend a thousand times, but to seek 1t only once. The only man qualified to give good advice with unction Is the man who has reaped the consequences of error. We are naturally so suspicious of advice that good observers declare man gives ad- vice by the bushel and takes it by the grain. Most people seeking your advice are fishing for praise Some people air their opinions, but most people do not think advice needs air ing, but pass it out stale and frowsy. We all seem to realize that 1t is safe to lend our ear to the adviser. but that 1t Is not necessary to lend him any, thing else. The habit of directing often needs for its support large experience in error.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

What is a good marriage? A good catch" or a promising set of circum-
 stances, rarely proves to be! Those looking for happiness in marriage often calculate upon material possessions or prospects rather than upon good health. purpose. The mercenary marriage oftenest leads to the divorce court. Those who marry because of a real fondness for one another and with a resolution to pull together and to be true in diversity as well as prosper
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

What surprises the chronic invalid Is how different life looks to him sick from what it did when he called him self we'll The average well man hasn't time to make the acquaintance of his constant companion, the spiritual man:
 but the sick man feels that it is neces-
 sary to get grip on the part of him which doesn't perish with the physical.
 We cannot all be as conscious of the fact that there is a natural body and
 there is a spiritual body" as Paul was when he proclaimed this truth to the
 Corinthians. We love to sing about sweet fields beyond the swelling flood stand drest in living green" but we
 have not a good mental photograph of
 it because we do not sense that both 1 matter and spirit are substance and l have form. The spirit is the life, and as it has borne Sthe image of the earthly, so also Is it equipped to bear
 the image of the heavenly. The inva- | lids hope abides in his faith in the l divine promise: If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask | what ye will. and it shall be done unto you"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

All around us people are being swept off their feet by the passion for wealth. the rage for pleasure, the insidious force of some growing habit How many "modrate drinkers" to cite one example, remain moderate" for any length of time?
 The world. like fire Is a good serv- ant but a bad master. In the noble phrase of the Apostle. we are to .use this world as not abusing it's To abuse it is to find sure suffering and defeat from what might yield joy and peace. When the world and the ex- perfences of 1t are savor of death instead of life to any of the sons of men it is because they have abused their opportunities. The good lord never meant it to be so. Wherefore, keep a whip hand on any appetite no matter how innocent it may seem. Do nothing too much.
 THE -RARSoN.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10
THE MAN WHO TALKS

What good does 1t do to tell nervous persons they should hold up. relax, sit in silence and invite a calmer cond- uon?. A nervous person is aDnormal and to certain extent fires sponslple. They are persons who cannot do what they should, and they are compelled to take a rest in bed by experts before a cure is attenpted. The condition or their system and the character ot their surroundings must be changed before of life, Persons not extremely nervous have been known to call a halt upon themselves, and to have overcome the high-pressure tendency. It IS always easy to eensure and to blame the blameless; and there is too much of 1t ter. Nervous people can't stop talking. can't take s rest, but must Keep a-going till they drep." And a good
 many of them do. It is nonsense to talk sense to the senseless.
 We all belong somewhere, and most of us think we are busy finding our own place. but we are not; we are only looking for the place that will give us the largest return for the least en- our place, just as if the glorihed here were to be the glorified hereafter. It is more than likely every man was designed to fit in somewhere. God doesn't make the misfits, that work IS left entirely to man, and we have to admit he Is an artist at it. You may think you have found your place, but entertain a we'll established doubt whether I have found mine. l have known horse jockeys to become preachers, but the horses knew they were men out of place. Religious car penters could lay out their work with the golden rule, but no one ever catches them doing it. Don't you think it will be evidence men have found their places when they stand together at Christian brethren and have perma- nent peace because divine harmony has triumphed?
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actIy the days of the year, 365, are so well built up with cottages, hotels. etc, that is, those which are sizeable enough to hold any sort of a building that there is always an opportunity,for a good lunch somewhere, and the fish erman finds this his paradise.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

Continuing by trolley or train, there is beautiful Pine Orchard with it's un- rivaled golf course. Branford, where every Norwich visitor takes pride in the memorial library the gift of the late T. B. Blackstone, and finally the ride into New Haven, with so many possibilities of passing a pleasant day, inspecting the college grounds and buildings, the splendid library, taking trolley ride to the many fine beach, es, or in a dozen ways, as individual tastes suggest.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-10

There are stages and automobiles and jitneys and troIIeys to take any traveller who has the price to a dozen interesting places, either on this or the other side of the Rhode Island line. It is an interesting study to ride through the busy mill villages, our doors.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-07-30
pEpSONAL MENTION
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FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1915.

H. ]. Nau was in town Saturday
from Ferdinand.
A. ]. Hoffman was in the city
Wednesday from Greencreek.
See the new Big Twin 3 speed
Ipdian motorcycle at Hoene Hdw.
Lewiston defeated the Vollmer
ball team Sunday by a score of 7
to 2.
All of the th1esher men are busy
these days getting their machines
ready for the approaching harvest.
w. B. Watson was in town yes
terday from the Winona country and
stated he did not have more than
an acre of grain down in his entire
crop of more than 500 acres and
considers himself very fortunate.
Beatrice Winner returned We'd
nesday evening from visit with
'elatives in Spokane and was ac-
companied home by her cousin,
Elizabeth Winner, of Wallace, who
will visit here for few weeks.
The Idaho Undertaking Co. wi |
open line of caskets and under
takers supplies in Cottonwood in
the near future. In the meantime
my services can be had by phoning
me at Grsngeville. E. S. Han
cock, Licensed Embalmer, Mgr.
F. J. Pfannebecker was in the
city Tuesday from near Winona
and stated that his brother and
children left Sunday for San Fran
cisco enroute to their home in
Iowa. They were greatly pleased
with their first visit to Idaho and
promised to make frequent visits
to this land of enchantment in
years to come.