Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-26
THE MAN WHO TALKS
In BnuIish hieh-b brow says the wo-

An English high-brow says the wo- men. of England could save twenty millions week without any very great effort. This may be true, but if the women can do this, the men ought to be- able without any livery grea. ef- fort to save at least, five times as I much, or. hundred million because they earn and handle at least ten times as much money. The. liquor drinkers and the tobacco users of America could as classes save two hundred million week and not reduce the consumption more than one-hajf. This habit of telling what the women can and should do comes from the other male habit of casting the heaviest burden of econ cny upon those who are least able to bear it. Who in any warning country | is making greater sacrifices than the I women or greater personal effort?
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 1 Do you suppose one-haif of us know | what sefishness is7 There is no doubt we all think we can define it; 1 and many Of the narrcwest definitions are likely to be accepted and eompii- I mented. It is not for working for ! the good of himself or his family that
 a man should be chased as selfish; but because he totally neglects to pro- mote the we'll being of his neighbor. ] Those deyited to We-Us-&-Co., never ] get a taste of the joy which flows | into the hearts of those who never 1 lose the desire to share their good l with others. He who worships self l has no time to worship God; he wilo l lives for self alone has no passport to l the New Jerusalem. It would be | well if we could all pray for our selves as did an eminent divine: | ArH 70 I man, myself" Only when we have conquered self have we slain selfish
 ness.
 I The latest business hope is to live to see the day when an early break fast may be taken in New York and pl a late dinner in London. There is .l no doubt the youth of today VII live l to enjoy swift passage across the Alt lantic. The feats the airplanes are [ BOW performing leaves no question
 that after the war mails and light T merchandise will be brought across Il the Atlantic. in a couple of days in- ,I stead of a couple of weeks, as at I present. Machines which make 1ao miles an hour would have no diff
 culty in making the trip in two days allowing time for an interval of rest
 There are wonderful times ahead; and ? let us hope that the. flying machine may in future be devoted to nohlez ; uses than burning towns. destroyina ,l life and assailing hospitals and kill \ ing Sisters of Mercy. : l How many opinions, there are about
 novel reading. Some good folks thinl ! sin, and that the perusal of them il } of itself wickedness. It is in a de. 5 gree wickedness to slothfuliy reat any book. even the Bible It is { waste of time, and if the mind is no : stored with the gems of tnutl therein, it is not a strengthening o the intellect or the broadening of tn } perception, but an evidence that mind t power is atrophied. The average so t Eciety novel represents a constipation 8 of ideas and a fux of the sickeninl a carouflange of life. But there i . still some good in such books, fo
 where there is a laugh or a smile : there is room for hope. An eminen f us as wholesome a moral as the pull t pit" The trouble is not with book. . 1 but with mind which finds delight i - uncleanness instead of saving truti A We may as well come to realiz . ftfat we all belong to Uncle Sam l. Army and recognize that obedience IT time of stress is a virtue, and ths eI discipline, is as necessary to all fc is f the highest efficiency as 1t is to tn .- soldier at the front. 'F Of course. v q all have our opinions. and son.F ( . us have opposite opinions; but tines '. are better nursed in silence than eS 'A pFssseds tIn war times no soldier Fl free to say what he thinks" sas Il General Sir Ian Hanailten:", after tt d war. TO one cares what a soldie e thinks!' It was an ancient tyrant wf te witnessing the execution of an CT Ia ponent said: 'fIe had a right to thin ,a as he pleased-iWhen he gave utter ance to his thoughts he was fool. It is masterftil to know when to kee
 still! What makes a fool of a perso at oftener than his 2 opinions? Son tSi people become so, enamored i'd their opinions that they come to rt re sard them as superior to the trut t, Only when :oura2 opinions have bs come convictions do they, gather fore .-.---- -!+--44- ;.'l... sr' " The nsn- observer Of birds is n
 aware that we are within a: few weel
 of the arrival Of the advance guard i
 the birds from the south I I1a,
 known the cedar birds to appear !: is fiocks on Feb. 82d in a mild Winte' ce and they seldom vary two weeks Q. the date of arrival; afid about the tin
 the first migrants arrive the. big vii
 l ter birds, the owls and the hawks, a laying their eggs and preparing A hatch their young, which are full ey hedged before the other birds beg m to build their nests. How birds g
 the habit of following F1ora's fore
 F, tn r,1rr 4,,rH he a mystery, but some of the seabir' d. fly annually from Newfoundland
 he Cape Horn and back, and the lit
 finches, wfens and humming birds i
 from Central America to Y Wrang, ... Island in the Arctic ocean hundreds nS miles beyond the coast of Alaska al sh back every year. Na@@2 &j' hei # ---.---------- A-+.-+
 ". Do you realize, that from our selfis
 ness most of our trials spring? :. T do more of the hog there is in us, the le ng room there Is for the manhood G he designed. Most of us i'll our min nr with punk instea .dof ideas, and tho
 are punkiest who discover their 9,
 marvellous talents ior genius instead
 letting others find them out; and tn all they are in danger of becoming Y. lot tin1s of adulation if they permit the, ,ly selves to become fond of praise, T ny great virtues all lie in the direction humility and simplicity and thence
 should allow ourselves to drift. 0
 Tam ness counts most effectively res the mass. It is like snowflake or b. drop of water by itself. Itafs well an. get chesty for health purposes. but :. rht no other. The greatest man if wise ar never unaware of how little he req
 amounts to in the affairs of life.
 Don't grunble. It has never D; will a premium and never willH If con Lil- I tions do not suit, work t6 discover lsy way to make them better. We