Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-17
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 nothing of our drinl1ink habits. If
 Coranaro could live more than half a century upon 12 ounces or 1000 a
 day: and Edison do IS hours of hard
 work a day on Is ounces, why should
 the average man be consuming two
 and three times these amounts?' Old
 Diogenes didn't have to carry a Ian
 tern in his day to find that As
 houses well stored with provisions are
 likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those who eet much are full of dis
 eases.'' It was Shakespeare who ex-
 claimed: T am a great eater of beef;
 and I believe that does harm to my
 witt" The bliss of eating is. about all
 the bliss some people find in .s this
 world; and all who eat twice as much
 as they need are wastrels as real
 ly as the Molly's who feed the gar
 bage cans. Why not. hang the card
 upon the garbage can that shows no
 waste.
 In John Runyan's time there were
 men who were saints abroad and
 devils at home, just as there are in
 our time. The men who smile to
 hide their villainy are just as true to
 type as the crocodile, and they doubt
 less date from the stone age.7~. How
 much easier it is to pretend than real
 ly to be; and how much more stylish
 it Is to direct than to do. You do
 not have to be very keen-eyed to op-
 serve that there is often more merit
 
 in doing it ones self. If not-one tried
 to seem to be what they are not, in this world what a great time Honesty, md Honor and Hope would have. The
 virtues are multiplied and strength ened by, practice, but man has never been known to impair his health in this way. Perceiving what is right man proceeds to look it rather than do it. We are all. great at seeking the. line of least resistance we rath- CT slide than push, we rather profess than practice: The man who is one thing abroad and another at home, is not as scarce as we may imagine!
 About. the worst fault that any person may be afflicted with is the coneeit that he is so1.nearly perfect that he is booked for, a halo or a crown. There is a proverb that "he will be immortal who 1iveth till he be stoned by one without a fault" It is often proven to LIS. that our. neigh borS and our enemies know our faults better than we know them ourselves. It is no easy task to smother faults with virtues, and yet this has been made your stunt and mine. He is a pro- gressive man. who. knows his own faults better. than he knows, the faults of his neighbors. Somehow, where ignorance is bliss, we decline long. to tarry. The next man sell dom proves himself to be what we thought he was and very often it is highly to his credit that he isn't There are faults of the head and faults of the heart; the first punish able here,- and the latter hereafter. Those who are eagle-eyed for the faults of others magnify their great est fault.
 ~ There are a great variety of ,opfn- ions as to what con stituteS true friend ship. It must be conceded the true friend is not the one who throws a man down. but the one who picks him up. A faithful and true friend has been described s "a living treasEreS- 'sthe true image of the Deity.'' True friends are not jared by one another s mistakes, for in adversitX they stick the closer. It has been well said: NO friendship that was begun for an end haps it is true that it is easier to die 1 for friend than to find a friend that is worth dying for. False friends fol- lew prosperity with the same con i stancy that a shadow in sunshine fol- ] lows man. Our own Washington told us friendship is 2. plant of slow growth, and must undergo and with 1 stand the shocks of adv versity before it is entitled to the nane.''-s
 Perhaps you do not believe birds perform feats in something like the same spirit quicl1-witted and agile men do. The habits of birds are not as fixed or uniform as most people i
 
 tiative and venture to test themselves 1 on the wing as. exigencies orssfood 1 prompts them Quite recently>'I saw a chickadees fly to a sunf1ower. .bal@ i ance himself beneath the ;seeapoa as a hunning bird holds himself before a l flower, and exhibit sufficient energy i to peck at it five times before he flew l away for rest upon a neighboring:l bough. He did not succeed zirfS his ] purpose, but he disclosed a remark ] able amount of strength and skill. 1 Last week saw a goldfnch upon be- l holding ephemera, or day flies, some l eight or ten feet from his perching 1 place, dart for them like a fyohScher, l check himself in mid-air, dart at his i quarry, turn about on wing and re | turn to his perch. Beth~of these feats l surprised me, as did also a nuthatch | running upon the ground with a lot l of sparrows hunting for weed seeds. 1 The ways of the birds are wonderful. |
 1t is amazing how Germany strives i to make everything work for her sue cess. Admiral Von Tirpitz says she l must rely upon the ruthless work of l her submarines, so many of which go | to sea and never go back; but Herr | David. leading German socialist, de- clareS. The German armies must 1 continue to fight vigorously, whilst the German, socialists stimulate paci- ism among Ciermanys enemies. The | German cries for peace are the product.
 
 hope to win the victory by art which l she has failed to win by arms. Doubt l less, they are sincere ehbugh, but they l are in spirit the tender of a victor in- 1 stead of the vanquished. Germany l knows this war is not to be won by l arms, and success by attrition is what l she cannot expect with confidence. The i war is far from it's end; but the sn- l tente have faith that three to five ] years more of strife will compel the ! central empire to internationally sur | render to the nations which stand for | better governmental methods.
 Most men who are great have play ed the part, not looked it. It is~real- iy strange how disappointing great | men are in their looks We have i never seen a great man who looked l his part. Very, few of them wel. weIl-dressed or weH-groomed. It is 1 seldom a hero looks his part; or is | conscious of the fact that he merits |