Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Clothes do not make the man, but I they have done a great deal toward ctviliZing him. Good clothes hide physical blenlshes. but they cannot hide a bad character. There is one thing certain, the man who essays to get his living by his wits usually rec ognizes the necessity for dressing we'll Most williams have to assume the | manners and dress of gentlemen to 1 succeed. To underestimate the value l of good clothes in the walks of life is | almost equal to failing to recognize | that Q good address a1Iays suspicion Good clothes cannot take the place Of good training or good Judgement, but
 they have pull for personal favor, l and are a good and legitimate adver- | tisement. Ragged or dirty clothing
 excite pity and disgust, too. and the one often nearly balances the other. | Becoming clothes do not necessarily l make man look like fashion plate, but they never fail to give him an ap- pearance of thrift which is never less than commendation.
 | A great many people who think they l are doing good work in the world ev- cry day are injuring their fellowmen. | Those men whose megrims are their | capital stock and who labor to pro | duce action by exciting fear in any
 direction are a pestiferous lot, whether l they wear a white necktie or carry
 red flag. Most fears proceed from l morbid imagination or suspicion not | well founded. It is mot the fear of l God which delivers us from the fear of men, but the consciousness that we
 are in accord with divine law and in harmony with Him. Fear incapaci- l tates inan--love increases his strength.
 It was Napoleon who said: He who l fears being conquered is already sure of defeat Fear is negative to | achievement, and the fostarer of das-
 tardly deeds, We should guard against | error and against OUT enemies, but to fear them is to be handicapped and invites disaster. To yield to fear is | to be robbed of sanity.
 | There are theorists today who tell us | if we do not radiate it is because we 1 have not yet found this bright cen 1 ter. This looks to me more like lan- guage than it does like sense; but it may look different to you. We are not all born with radiant centers, for if we were we should depend less upon 1 brass buttons and rhine-stones to rad l fate for us. We are not all, born with power to develop equal physical pow l CT or mental capacity. It is differen- | tiation in all kinds of life which gives 1 variety and keeps something new de- velopng from the old. Now and then | there is an individual perhaps who 1 can take hold of his own hootstraps | and jar the cnsmic atmosphere but it
 
 | know such a person. The world is made up mostly of folks who do not l care whether they have radiant cen l ters or not SC long as the flow of | prosperity comes near enough to them | to afford them a comfortable place in l the eddy. Advice of this kind only 1 gets their goat, fer it cannot possibly ! hold their attention.
 | It isn't such a mark Of virtue to l know how bad your neishbors are; and it is just as well to be aware that i your neishbors are welI-informed how 1 you walk in darkness instead of light. | One common attainment is the know i ing of our neighbours faults better | than we know our own. It doesn't | dawn upon us that it were better to l know more of our own ShOrtcOmingS | and less of our neighbours, If we real l ized how it sounds when we talk about | other folks don't you think we should praise them more for their good quaH- l ties and say less about their faults i Isn't it queer that scandal-mongering l people really believe they, can be what | they be and be pious at the same | time? Some people dc not seem to | realize that bad ha abits and good pro
 fessicns do not yoke up we'll together 1 IL is well we Go not fully sense how l frequently the blind lead the blind in l the affairs of life. Man has been l tumbling down the centuries for a i million years and ho is what he is. It is good thing to have courage to say things in your own way It | is a bad habit to be an iInitator, or l to be held by rules devoid of elasticity | in any direction. It is just as neces- sary to have freedom of expression as l it is to have freedom of action; and we must be just 51s careful not to abuse | this freedom. Very few people are ever subject to criticism because they l talk too little. Of course the man | who talks too much sense is always 1 preaching, and the person who talks l too much nonsense is a fool In con- Versation, you see, it is well to keep 1 the midle of he road and go slow Too many women want to look like EAunt Maria, and too many men like to 1 express themselves as the parson does.
 There is nothing like being sensibly
 and everlastingly yourself, net as an
 offensive positiyist but as an individ- ual whos demands the respect he ac-
 cords to others. It is real good habit not to give an opinion until it
 is asked for, then it is likely to be respected
 Did you ever think that many of the
 seed pods in the garden are little in
 habited worlds; or that an ordinary
 bean may be the cradle of half a | hol loxr