Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS


Keep gfeeful and dance on your i
trcubles-don' let your troubles dance |
to meet trouble half way, but It isn't. |
Trouble, II possible, must be put down, |
and IL tt cannot be put down It may be
shunted one side. Some one has
said: Man Is born to trouble and
II this La 90, IL trouble La divineIy de-
signed as one of mans necessities.
we may as well conclude that most of
it 10 healthy exercise. Trouble is at
the head of the faculty Of the school
OF experience and many people wear
the ounces cap because they do not
exercise In ii with vigor II you
tfHnidly take hold Of nettle you get
stung. but IL you grasp 1t with vigor
and Jerk it up by the roots the net
man does things that tells for or
against him. Don't let trouble make
you sour Keep sweet and you can
always smile.
IL In doubtless true, faguratively
speaking, that Many a woman has
worn her mind to a FRAGILE by chang
ins it so often" 1t may be true that
"a wise man changes his mind-a
fool never does" but this does not al
ter the first affirmation. Stiffness
10 represented by quicksands and firm
ness by rock. Purpose is marked
by steadiness not by a weather vane.
The mind that doesn't hold true is ex-
actly like cable which cannot stand
the test. The human mind has been
defined as the most elastic thing on
earth; but If 1t Is stretched too thin
its resilfency may be lost. BY divine
decree the mind grows narrow as the
soul grows corrupt-only righteous
ness can give 1t breadth. The mind
out Of control is like water-wheel
running to no purpose. 1t may be the
E1ind Is the measure Of the man, but
1t Is also true that man discloses the
quality Of the mind. A mind worn
90 O fragile Is not a mind that can
Su6due misery and entertain pleasure.
We all have to confess that a man
owes himself something. We can
cheat ourselves as readily as we can
cheat our creditors. Many a man has
| cheated himself out of his dues and
been in the ditch all his life because
he was blind to his inherited power to
| help himself. We owe 1t to ourselves
to be Industrious and ambitious and
| clearly and civil. These are four great
factors in the way Of progress, and
| they are Also the concrete foundation
| Of self-respect and self-reliance. To
cheat ourselves makes us bankrupt.
We cannot pay our debts to others if
| we are negligent of the duties we owe
| ourselves. Hard luck is the imp pro-
L
| The man who is telling hard luck
stories is man who hasn't met his
| indebtedness to himself. Perhaps he
didn't know he owed himself anything,
but had he been wide-awake he would
have found that out. Pay thyself what
thou owest and thou wilt be true to
other creditors.
Perhaps you have never thought Of
| love as a hard hitter. 1t knocks the
senses out Of a man and makes him
blind at one blow. If this had not
said: There Is no fool like an old
fool" Those who do not believe in
| love at first sight do not get knocked
out so early in life. Loves young
dream has been a theme for poets, al
though it has often made a nightmare
OF life. Perhaps the reason the AL
mighty made our first love and our last
love seh-love was to avert for US the
/ consequences of the other kind. Love
has been said to be like the measles
al the worse when it comes on late in
life. and an old mans love is usually
clowns performance. Humble love is
depicted as the doorl1eeper of heaven,
but 1t doesn't cut much ice in society
1t is divine to be able to love those
who in1ure US, but we usually hate
The accents of love are said to be the
| language of Paradise, and this may
put US in the infant class there.
1t is recognized today that the self
sustaining nation is unconQuerable
/ Abraham Lincoln struck the keynote
when he said all he knew about pro-
lection was that when we bought
, goods abroad they got the money and
. we get the goods-when we buy goods
made in America we have both the
money and the goods. This is what
| h0 fYado -
communal government; and if you
have both the money and the goods
| comr7una1ly you are twice as strong
. as though you only had half. This is
The one idea 1t will pay US to GRASP
and make practicable just as far as
; possible. 1t will make US independent
, instead Of dependent-it will make us
etreng-it will make US respected BY
powers which now only tolerate us fol
what they can get out of US. Home
markets for all home trade is the right
slogan.
The man who can make a head wind
take him to port as well as a fail
wind is master on the seas, and the
man who can face i'll conditions and
succeed is the master on land. There
Is nothing commonplace about sue
cess-there must always be efficienc,
back of 1t: and efficiencq represents
skill and frequently genius. This is
rough but sensible suggestion: Git
all that's coming to you in life, bu
: dodge all you can that's coming at you
Don't sozzle! Don't whimperi Dom
doubt! Forge ahead with a knowl
] edge Of what you want and a wei
= thought out plan to get it. Too man,
people are merely drifting; and thost
who have drifted long are either IL
! an eddy or waterlogged. Success com
pels one to get into the swim and stat
in. There's no doing as you pleas,
3 in the tide of life, for you are com.
PEELED to do what any eXigency ma.
require, or else you are liable to be
| come fot-son or any other kind of
= discreditable son. The only way tt
a win Is to work.
The wide awake physician recog
. nizes that wrong-thinking produces
and prolongs disease: but few of then
are ready to recognize that right
: | thinking will make an end of disease
| This is what a physician has to sa.
upon this subject: 'Tt Is wrong think
4 ing that induces habits. The create
. part Of disease Is the product of ba'
7 habits; consequently 1t Is REASONABLE
to infer that disease is the direct pro
duct OF wrong thinking. But this
a long way from the assumption tina
y by thinking alone one can Danish dis