Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS

to often or sleeps too little, or fails to exercise, or works too much, or gets the wrong combination of food he can not keep well. This keeping in health is not so much a matter of thought as matter of habit. When we know what we enjoy as a. df6t, and what agrees with us, life is no longer sus- pended between the deck and mast head, but it is just plain sailing. We have to know how to favor ourselves, and be resolUte enough to practice the self denial necessary to keep free from dyspepsia, or melanCllOIiaa which are vexatiOus evidences of self abuse. Life lived in any old way does not preserve health or sustain merry heart. Eat the things that are good and know that they will do you good. Do not fear they will disagree with you unless you are bent upon making trouble for yourself. The price of health Is temperate living, acting and thinking.
 Most of us laugh at new thought, but there is nothing amusing in the fact that nine-tenths of us need to adopt a new and better way of think ing. We can protect the mind from being harrassed by bad company. Any thought which arOuses doubt, suspicion or fear is an enemy to our peace of mind. The person who thinks he is i'll is on the way to inyalidism, and the person who Cherishes faith in his power to recover is on the way to re- covery. Our negative thoughts should be against thoughts which fret and worry uS-Our positive thoughts for the promotion of all that Sustains, comforts or pleases us. The victims of imaginary troubles are victims of bad personal or thought habits No person can think crooked and be straight. The sea cucumber cannot tear himself to pieces with greater ease than human soul can. Excited by fear the sec cucumber can Tend his body and spread his entTails abroad; and excited by fear human being may become a maniac. Thinking of Opul enCe may not bring you wealth. but it will keep you cheerfully hoping for what thoughts of poverty cannot.
 "God naaniFests himself in different degrees through different things" said Heinrich Eiene, ''but all things partalle of divinity" The laws which control the garden are Gods laws, so are the laws which control 10th your physical and spiritual welIbeing. EIbert Hub bard wrote; "IL is 9 worse disgrace to be sick than to be ir the penitentiary To be in the Penitentiary is evidence you have broken man-made laWs-tO be sick is evidence you have broken the laws of God" All things created by God through the operation Of law must be to some extent divine. Per EGps this is the reason most of LIS be Iieve that there is a divine spark in every human soul, whatever it's degre- datiCn: and have faith that because of this, so long as there is life, there is chance for redemption. We are too blind to the fact that God is life, and that without Him and his divine GeCrees there would be no life. This is why He is All in All; and we are assured He abids in us and we abide in Him. To become conscious of His divine OperH Cns for our benefit and pleasure is to more fully realize His nearness and presence.
 Aunt Dorcas used to say: Hate hours lead either to the 7cnitentiary or matrimony,' and doubtless Aunt DCrcas knew. She only refers to the climaGes, but she must have been aware late hours lead 10 many minor contributoTy habits which lend energy to the trend. Bad companions, stinlu- latLng drinks, COrrupting conversations, etc. Somehow man cannot always tell whether he is on the road to the penItCntaTy or matrimOny until he gets there; and maybe it would have been just as well if some of those who ended in m2trimOny had switched off and taken a few years in the peniten- tiary instead. But Aunt D0rcas could not tell why a bald headed man, other --A1--e52 H%1li6 CAttLk %14l get L4dtIlGI three times where the other fellow cannot get married once. The woman who got married after 13 years of cOurtship said time worked wonders and never mentioned late hours. If the hours had been late she might not have had 10 wait so long. But late hours are usually popular with the men, and are likely to be regardless of Aunt porcas's warning.
 often wish the operators in the central exchange knew better how to say: The line is busy" The simple fact is nettling to person who has important business to transact, or who has hurry call for a doctor. Some or the operators say; "The line is busy with Q tone of gIee which in tensifies ones vexatiOn. There is no doubt telephOnic experience teaches us to be calm and to be patient, for we cannot hurry if we would because card parties and clothes and everything but manners and religious duties have to be discussed, not only for the five min utes allowed, but for twenty more of lovers swapping their code over the wire for business calls, doctor calls or regulation? New love gurgleS like a brook and shows a. tendency to run on forever. The line is busy" can never be anything less than a halt Q dcIay Q setback, and if it could be said with the same care that we deliver grief creating messages it would be less pro- VolJng. There may be Q time when there will be gossip lines and business lines in telephony, and. hence the senseless delays of today be avoided.
 Mrs. Blaine in her letters says: "I do not think Carnegie's from shirtsIeeves to shlrtsleeVes in three generations need be true" Training and economy 1t is true might prevent it; but the rise from Pbb to flood tide and thrice to ebb again, in 9 century has become so constant that MT. Carnegie's saving is permanently preserved as worthy a place among the proverbs Somehow people bred to enjoy wealth have no faculty for anassing 1t. A fortune distributed is always a fortune re- duced. The wants of 8 humored child are usually five times as many as the wants of the fortune winner. We do not have so much to say about the journey from shirts1eeves to shirt sleeves as many people imagine we dc. Many of our best and some of our worst habits are the effect of 0ur| training or enVironment-We have had little to do or say about them To be- come the victim of sympathy or in diligence is about as hazardous as be- coming the victim of smallpox. Man is likely to think he knows it all before