Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-22
DO NOT WHIMPER OVER POOR LUCK
 FIND JOY IN YOUR BLESSINGS

Cvrirten Specially For The BulletinD
 A great old book is that Robinson Crusoe." Perhaps you may have thought of it solely as a boys book and not for grOwn-up men and wo- men. We'll, I don't know about the women (does anybodyD, but Robin son is a mighty good companion for any grown-up he-critter. He had mon's luck and a mans pluck and a mans job. and he worried through 1t s-umhIiugiy and bullheadedly, but in away. t made ? real man oTf him. who had been. in his eaT}v e a sort of needless ne'er-do-WeeL
 think have said something of this sort before. And also perhaps I may have mentioned his famous sum- ming up of the good and evil in his gascavay life on a lonely island in an uutravelled sea. Never mind. There food for reflection in it more than once
 Those Of you who are familiar with inc book may recall what a shifting Ezwut of emotions Robinson went --r1rsn in his island existence, When lac was first washed up on the land and had got the salt water out of him q" was almost crazy n his joy over his d,IiEeranre. T believe it is i'm uu.stn-a -o express, to the life. what the e.sr0rfcs and transports of the e0Hl arc. when ii is so saved, as may say. out of the very grave" That was rHa .tTH- no-e. Then. directly aft 0~. came the revUIsiOn. He was z--'-l" hungry helpless. He had nOth- ing but knife and a pipe. Meth a- gtr see any prospect before me n"- rl0- of Dsr.shing with hunger. or h0.-r Eavorrod by wild beasts" This ..-rHw mo into terrible agOries of mind tlar for a while, I ran about --.- a mailman"
 Co ft wa-t or for several years. He slept .u tree and later dug out a cave as protection against possible wild naas-= Then he found that the worst Ine~- wore on the island were -~- and rrat they were EOOd to eat md -.-- milk. He had to become a hunter ar first. Then. lacking fur .-u~a ha ha~ama @ carpenter and made r. Without clothes or cloth -1 make rreu of he turned tanner and tanned skins. and tailor to make h~e=rNos ont of them. He knew nOth- ing Cf farming but had to make him aa.f @ farmer 10 raise his rice and barley. -aUd SO on and so on, year after year.
 Of course, he was blue and discon- sol ate-at times. At last. however, it 1lTn- 0E10- sound Inca TT- ra sort -f chap after all that he would draw RID inc state of his affairs in --rift-- mainly ito deliver my -nnurHrs from daily boring upon them, .ut -THcrfug my mind"
 So re set them down impartiaIIv, "i--e Eeh-ar and creditor the good 1-0iwe- oriI "rhe comforts I enjoyed ---l-e- tho ui=erios I suffered" and .r-0 cast Uu the balance, quite in a ..-L-6oaplrg way. Tou'H find if. if
 .- hove the same edition I have, -ri~-e. hr- D. Appleton Tt New York +D B. r0 0aHe 57. right opposite the "rr which 7eDfcr= him cutting q notch f~ lfz calendar post so that he could fell Sundays from wee'1-days.
 r'- hadn't anv trouble in finding and .r.-i-- down six mtserias. Very real r-.s -na- were, too: nothing imagin- .-~ rhort them.
 rra rar .r~t az little trouble in fnd- ira c-r and +0+ttug down. opposite .'aw a'- h1=a-ines each and every "-- 0a which 0u-wotrhed and outvOted
 a corresponding evil
 On -7ro whole he found by Compar- 5--. resting up adding and sub- ...ur iH the orthodox way that he r.- rather lucky fellow, after all '|Ea-=-D0U he remarked: 'Tet this g'--7 a= direction from the ex- r.r.rEno of inc most miserable of con- '.-f-uz iT. this world. that we may .'---ve frd in + something to com t--. ourselves from"
 pfi-z old Rckinson!
 L' he'd been a farmer this thunderous -.~I-i'0wu Tair-d~enChed summer of r.rf ! bet he'd have been able to get some comfort out Of #. as truly as a= did on his lonely island in the gulf of the great River Orinoko
 And I've got some neighbors that I wish [ could induce 10 read his book and copy his cEamplei
 Only yesterday 1 came up against ore farmer who was blue as indigo Took a- that corn: never'II amount to 7othi~' won't be worth cuttin' even 5c~ fodder"
 Vet just across the road his field