Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-19

increasing the amount of air decreases
the amount of fuel and tells markedly
for economy of fuel. This is a good
thing to know when the trend Of the
price of gasoline is steadily upward.
| think pity the person who in
herits a, large fortune more than 1 envy
him. There is such a thing as being
suddenly embarrassed by even having
what is considered good thing sud
denly thrust upon you. How to use
and enjoy money is as much of an
accomplishment as to know how to get
along in comfort with only COMPARE
lively little of 1t. It brings cares and
responsibilities and worries which the
inexperienced know nothing about, and
which Go not increase their comforts
in proportion to the increase of their
fears. They may lose it as suddenly
as they got it. Money is a good thing
to have if one knows how to spend it
like a prince instead of boarding it
like a miser. In this, as in most other
things, the middle or conservative
course is best. But we all feel glad
when aged, deserving people come
suddenly into a state of af1uence and
security.
No chain is stronger than the weak
est link: no institution is better than
the institutOr; no government can be
more honest than the men who COM
the people who constitute it. The weak
link is menace and q blight any
where; and the weak link is to be dis
covered everywhere. The will of the
few cannot overcome the lack of force
or foresight in the many. Some of our
weaknesses are hereditary and some
are the result of our training and false
conceptions Of life. Most of us are
staunch for self and weak in the quail
ties eff heart and mind which are the
- 4 u,
the love, dignity and faith of the Sa-
ViOT; most play the part Of q Judas
or q Peter. How we lack frmneSS
which combined with virtue would
make all the affairs of life right.
Some people seem to exhaust their
ingenuity in eEaggeTating little things
things too little to worry about until
they have been nurseG and enlarged
to the proper size to be alarming. 1t
is a good habit when q little trifle at
tracts your attention to let it remain
small. It may be netting, but it can
no, make q fool Of YOU There are
patients in all the insane retreats in
the country who destroyed their ra-
tiOnality by sacrificing their self-cOn-
troll to fears born Of the ina ginatiOn
and rlagniffed by the mind DO not
think of what may be and get nervous
about iJ-think Of what. is, and get
busy to make It right, if it IS wrong
DO not bear in mind things which bet
| ter be forgotten; do not fOre5ee re-
suits from the beginning which can
only be brought about by your own CO.
operation. Work for good and the
overturning of evil effects.
GLOW nice 'twould be if knowledge
grew writes q rhynlstcr, on bushes
as the berries do We doubt it. The
nice things of earth are not made
pE R-ft77iE~fT1al7- A.
ture seems to say: Things worth
having are worth striving for" There
is knowledge growing en- bushes, but
it takes patient toll to acquire it. 1t
IS not lodged upon them like berries
to be gathered, but Ike the crystalline
character of the rocks, il has to be
found out Nature produces knowledge
in million forms, and it has to be
interpreted and tested and put into
words before it is ready for general
requirement. Seek and ye shall find"
is a divine ediCt. # idIeness was a
blessing instead Of curse, nature
would thus encourage laziness. Ma
ture challenges man to study, and she
rewards him abundantly for his work.
It is natural for the soul of the
commonest man to yearn to
do something great. The
dream Of the soldier fighting in
Europe today is of a better world for
men 10 i've IN. AS the austrian SOL
der wrote his sister: Il do not want
to die, but I am willing to if by giving
my life the world is to be made bet
ter and the people happier:" and a
wounded Irish soldier wrote home to
his people: I do not want to be killed:
not q little Bit. But, bless you, one
cannot be bothered giving this a
thought. The killing of individuals
such S me is so tiny a matter! My
God. it's the future of humanity;
countless millions; all the laughing
little Riddles. and the slim strafght
young girls, and the sweet women and
the men that are to come. It's all
humanity we are fighting for, whether
| life is to be clean and decent or a
BOche nightmare! You can't describe
it, but I wouldn't like to be out of it
for long It's he'll and heaven-and the
devil and the world. and, thank God,
we are on the side of the angels"
Isn't this a. soldier boy to be proud of,
with his heaVen-inspired thought and
spirit OF self-saCrifice?
Have you ever thought if you do not
want to be driven in this world you
must learn to drive yourself There is
no escaping the drive. You must
| know, or be the deliver for someone
who directs because he does know.
| Do not he q square peg driven into a
| round hole. The place in life cannot
! adapt itself to you, but you may adapt
yourself to any place it may become
! your lot to fill. Put your heart into
J your work, not into the gloom of idle
! fOrebodings. You have heard where
! there's q will there's a way but re-
! member where there is no will there
| is Oftenest cOulpulsion. There is no
| immunity from our own mistakes, and
| the best Of us make many; but by
! honOring the best thai is in US we
may get the best out of life that is in
| it for US. Try for the mastery and
| then you cannot blame yourself for not
! having attained it.
Where man loses his Grip is by being
untrue to his best self. He becomes
| disloyaI to the promptings Of his heart
! and by degrees throttles his own con-
science. The very worst trifing in
this world is the triAing with self
| the most depIoral3le loss, the loss OF
| loyalty to the prompting of conscience,
| the price of which is the loss of self
! respect, As a self-registering subject
you are making q record il win not be
| pleas ant to face. AS you begin to lose
| faith in yourself you lose faith in
| others, and the changes which are
| taking place in your world by your own
| direct order is something regrettabIe.
| Before you are hardly aware Of it your
| light has become darkness and your