Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-22
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 great many things in this world would be less troublesome if no att tempt was made to explain or defend them. Foolish remarks and mean acts are never remedied by a multipli- cation of words. The real. why and wherefore of some things are past finding out: and no substitutes. will suffice. Among the most painful mis- takes of all our lives in this yerbosaty when silence is. better. Foolish and mean acts will fade away in time which can never be explained away. The person who calls for apologies has dcne a thousand things he should have apologized for and wouldn't some people think this is a curious world when only the creatures upon it are curious. Too many people are too easily offended and too free to ailege an offense has been committed when such thing was never thought or. We need to clew up our tempers and to be dun to the little things which cause trouble. ~
 We sp-smokers do not know much about the soIace or quality Of tobacco. small vices and mankind as a whole appears to think none of us should do without at least one small vice. l am inclined to think vices of any kind are unnecessary, although I may be icousining one or two myself. w are ali mighty blind to our own little vices. Non smokers decline to con ! tribute to the tobacco fund for the boys over in France. I should, had 1 not read a smokers statement of the comfort a smoke brought to the suffering wounded men. The opposi- ton is fercest against the cigarettes, \ and a tobacco user desires to know why. He claims the smoker of eight black cigars a day uses as much to- This smoker using a pipe smoked two | bacco as the smoker Of 80 cigarettes ~A kot@A n do AT cigars; but 29- cigarettes day. satis- | fled him, or the equal of two cigars. This is worthy of investigation. We ! should mt les our prejudices interfere with kindnesses.
 I Since men admire pluck it surprises l me that more Of them do not become more interested in our winter birds, l CTS and beauty classified as finches- 1 the gold-fincfes, sparroWs, smoky hued snowbirds-not to mention the jays. nuthatcfes, grosbeaks and wood storms and the deprivations of the winter months. With all their skill in selecting shelter from the cold. and ! fierce winter winds many of them be- c.rne victims and hundreds perish. The winter birds do not get their daily bread, but are compelled to take long lasts. They are not like God s l dormant creatures that go without food or drink for months in each year of their iiveso but they Are equipped | with a courage and endurance which
 keeps them from being annihtlated by
 the merciless performances of Nature s l triumvirate - Jupiter .Piuvius, Old Boreas and Jack Frost. l Our soldier boys have called our hearts across the seaJ but only the l man who has been at the front can | fully Dense how their hearts come | 1-o n1x xI>N Skar duty and daily peril raises an altar to l home in the heart of a man and f1e daily thinks of it as the devout think \ of paradise, and yearns for the love tions which he guiltily remembers he did not fully appreciate. There is a halo of sweet memories about the 1 word home in the heart of every s0l- l thoughts more sublime. If we could 3see what busy hands prompted by floyal and admiring hearts are doing for the soldiers. in this country, if we l could behold the gifts now on the way I to them in His name, we should be ! amazed; and we should understand better how love responds to love and produces an atmosphere akin to heaven on earth. A just cause mails | the American soldier with courage, and his courage is our protection.
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 Tears may hinder sorrow from be- coming despair; but they may also ex- I haust the patience of the most con siderate of friends and destroy the tears than 'graeefuI tears that stream fer others @Woes.' There are sloppy Hears from those who cultivate a weeping habit. The grief that is in- 1 consolable lis more imaginary than real when the weeper weeps herself blind. There is no doubt great af- I flictions put shadows in our minds nc bright thought can overcome. It is
 doubtless true that the bitterest tears and deeds undohe:-@ The way. to check weeping is to think more of the bless IiEEs we have. enjoyed and less of our
 misfortunes and afnietions. Thought with the aid of these can fill our eyes with tears any moment. Gratitude commands a tear equal to smile
 but of short duratieH; and Grief tears | that. burn; but Love can sooth them
 To weep unreasonably and wreckleesly of itself becomes sim.
 l The poet who wrote, Childhood shows the man, as dawn shows the
 day. must have been man of ex- cepttona1 perception. A wiser man
 declared children have more, need ot
 models than of critics" and this is what the world sadly lacks for them
 l The good advice children are bcrr heirs to they too often see violated b1
 their own parents. Some people treai
 children as if they were: created tc
 find fault with; and the children re-
 l taliate by becoming their tormenters
 \ bad child is, usually child who has
 not been shown how to properly direct
 tits energies, or, been gently led into
 1 quiet and improving manners ~ sSad
 habits, Poiiteness is due to a child a.
 we'll as from it, We expect more from
 Ia child than we give it, and are
 iamazed by what it lacks. wholly .un.
 tconseious of the fruits of our oHr
 negligence. The child is too often 2
 txictim of impotence and ignorance
 God not only gave them to perpetuats the race, but to show to us the charm 1of pure innocence and trust.
 "Oae snust be ocor.r, wrote fyeorx,