Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-06
THE MAN WHO TALKS


be told by the hat it wears for it
cannot. saw Henry Ward Beecher
OIL ce with a hat on which would have
Jared hard in rummage sale 1t SEEM
ed to be SO worthless; and l recollect
celebrated gambler who never wore
hat long enough to get the shine OF.
Reecher's best was not in his wear
ing apparel; but the gamblers best
had to be. But good head always
buys its own hats however long it
may wear them. The good head may
be long, or round, or bald or shaggy,
but it isn't fiat on top and shouldn't
bulge too much to the rear. There is
no change of style in heads-a good
head has been good head in contour
and appearance ever since the stars
sang together.
You cannot tell what the year 1917
will be to a man by the resolutions
he has made. A good resolution is
nothing but hot air until it has been
concerted into habit although it puts
up a very pleasing front and is cap
able of tickling a fool nearly to death.
The popular saying that hell is paved
with good intentions covers the good
resolution habit. Most men of so have
made good resolutions enough to
reach from Norwich to Newark, N. j.,
and are more surprised by the eX-
tent of them than by the effect. The
average January good resolution has
a weak and wavering life of about
three months; it might have lived
had it been carefully nursed; but it
was sadly neglected and in six months
it is deceased but not deplored. The
good resolution has no lowering pow
er; its energy only seems to have
been guaged for o day, and if it is not
cherished after that it only fingers
until forgotten. Do not inquire after
the good resolutions of your friends
for if they are effective visible results
will not long be lacking.
No one has ever been able to show
the wisdom of living like a wretch in
order to die rich. There is no virtue
whatever in riches for that is vested
wholly in the use man makes of
good and evil and it has swept more
men to the devil than any other
agent; and it has done more to en-
tighten men and to free them than
lar to man depends upon where it is
put Emerson says a dollar goes on
increasing in value with all the genius
and all of the virtue of the world. A
collar in a university is worth more
than a dollar in Jail; in a temperate,
schooled, low abiding community than
in some sink of crime where dice,
knives and arsenic are in constant
who does good deeds with his money
stamps the image of God upon it, and
makes it pass current for the mer-
chandise of heaven.
IF you look about you the truth that
wishers and wonders are poor traes-
men and poor housei1eepers will be-
come apparent 1t is the doors who
excite the gratefulness and admira-
ton of the world. The things we
think we'll do and the things we hope
tc do and the things we never do |
are just three-in-one travesty-
they do not even fill dream because |
there is no filling in them. Half our
lives are made empty by the ifs and |
the ands and the perhapses of Iazi- |
ness Have you ever noticed how
weak 81 guess sol" looks when it is !
right up against Il will ?'' The world |
and all that therein is does not belong |
to any, but the energetic You can't |
strike fire with an elastic band or !
cart snow with wooden horse What |
Lam going dos name is Mr.. Blow |
hard, and what-I-have-done's name is !
A Achievement. As Sterling says: Toll |
feel, think hope; you will be sure to |
dream enough before you die without |
for it,"
What must have been the life of
primitive man when daylight and |
darkness were his only measure of !
time. He had no weeks, months or /
years, no Christmas trees OF New
Years resolutions. He had work and |
nothing of; and was subject to tyran- 1
Eies and prosecutions such as has |
fallen no other creatures and no |
other ages. He knew nothing of sci
ence literature art but was CROP |
ing his way to higher and better con-
dftions. He could not look back from |
the apex of the year and had a vague |
of what they were
pukhing forward to, but it seems as
though Onward" was the first label |
ever attached to the spirit of life
which surged forward from the start.
Natures onward is the thing which
made mans Eureka a possibility.
In this age the art of selecting a
ia ther-in-law is not secondary to the
selection of a wife, or the capture of
a husband Making prospects certain
from the start requires sharp cam
paigning and skillfuI plotting Get
ting right into the game of life is
no mean occupation No
one has a better chance of becoming
a victim than the boy or girl with
popular ways of getting a fortune is
marrying it; and it is so much easier
tc let some one else make it The
known ferceness of competition for
fortunes does not make the young
man whose good. character and efici-
epcy are his whole capital stock very
popular as a catch" for we all real
ize it is a long. long way to Tiper-
ary- The father-in-law is usually on
guard against designing individuals,
but how often he fails in checking the
matrimonial buncosteerers.
] wonder if drudgery really is the
gray angel of success. 1t may be to |
some; but many a successful person
Will have to confess that he never has !
had a glimpse of an angel of that col |
Or. Industry and economy are the |
true companions of Success, and he is
never found strolling alone Success
always represents a combination; it
IS usually the fruit of fellowship. |
Drudgery has no right to be elevated |
to the realm of the angels since it is
as poor relation to work |
He who regards himself as a drudge
anywhere is twice burdened and read
lily discouraged. Pleasing phrases do
not always ring true. Doubtless !
drudgery is gray for it certainly ranks
os the great great grand father of fail
ure. The world does not need any
gray angels since it is abundantly
blessed with gray days. Where sue |
cess seems to crown drIIdgery If hos |