Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

An English educator has decided | that truth is presented to children be- fore they are ready to receive it. That | mental growth is represented by | stages: From to T is the age of | imagination, when the child lived in a | world of his own. From to Il was | the age of self-assertion and activity 1 troublesome age. From Il to IA was | the age of loyalty, cooperation, friend ship, hooliganism and games" And l he might have classified the time from 1 IA to 19 as the age of conceit-the | age when the boy thinks he knows more than the. man. For ourselves we do not accept this sort of 2 class l ifieatien. From tt r is the ifiipres- sionable age, which began to respond to sight or perception. before the child could utter an intelligible sound. What ordinary children are capable of before they are 5 is wonderful They have appeared upon the stage as minics before that age and shown their abil- | ity to grasp and initiate the gait and
 physical peculiarities of parents and grandparents. They develop resent ment, envy and jealousy before they grasp the idea of creeping as a mode 1 of locomotion as means of learning | to walk. A child is, Eever too young to | learn of things beneficial; but is ai- ways too young to be menaced by bugabeos. Awakening interest in things early opens a sense which may | be exectively appealed to, to promote
 truth and goodness.
 For eighteen years Bird Lore has
 taken a bird census of the species present in Connecticut at Christmas l time; and while it is far from being perfect it sheds considerable light
 upon winter bird life i'll this state. l The reports from rine towns in Con
 nectieut show. the presence of 35 spe- 1 cies and 3,940. individuals. The star lings in number exceed all other win ter birds, reaching total of 1,496; while the crows numbered onlye S27 and the tree sparrows totalled S91. l The most numerous water bird seen
 was the seaup, which totalled in two fiocks 700; the bluejays wers seen in larger numbers than the juncos, chick
 adees or goldfnehes, which stood re- lspectively at 51-34-5S, while the jays | numbered 73. The song sparrows ex- ceeded in number the chickadees by
 two, with 96 birds to their credit It is to be seen that if nine towns show up nearly 4,000 birds that the total bird population in winter must ap- fproach in the 16S towns 1E5,o0o
 Not only are we hearing of the
 bravery of the men lover there," but
 of the intelligence tactfulness and
 bravery of the horse-the strong and
 lovely artillery horses of Flanders. We
 are authoritative1y told that never
 will horse forget any place where
 previously he had been wounded. When, for instance he is taking ammunition . up to a battery he will shiver and } tremble and hurry past at a gallop any exposed spot or dangerous crossroads |. where; perhaps months before, he stop ped 8 bit of shrapnel. Very quick are they 10 spot 9 near approaching shell; ! and on an exposed road on their way lup they duck their heads and drop or tkeir knees. and even lie down, when l they See their drivers arc taking cover to avoid a dangerously close one" { "A gunner tells an interesting I story of shell shock in his gun team
 how they were shelterins. under 2 1 wall when the shell exr3leded aulons
 them. but miraculously capea tn
 harmed. Never again wen'a this gnr Eteam approach that wall without sh7k- ling and quivering and falling down t Ior hear the sound et aJnear approach ;, ing, shell without vsflawiag these sam, $ Esympton1s as a soldier might. Thes. T Thorses had to be, evacuated to a veter V mary hospital well behind the line
 and out of the range of shell and honal
 till time brought forsetfuiness art
 they could be sent up again.'' = Gas-and not only the wave gas bu z the shell gas also--has in the pas t played havoc with the horses, and the,
 1 tu1Tf ff0V- :,
 f So intelligent are tf.ey that they ar o said to acquiesce quite readily whe,
 their gas masks are put on and dange
 threatens" The horse shows courage
 fear, thought and action for self-pro T lection, memory an6 shock confusion e or nerve injury, and the world denie t them of the credit they deserve fo IT these near-human qualities. Divin e mind lends itself to all creatures.
 el It is not any worse for the blue ia
 to steal the eggs of ether birds tha
 1t is for men to steal the eggs of al
 birds. la the making of indictments
 ind man is a crook for he irdicfs otf e CTS for offences less heiHeus than hi ,s own. The fact that all creatures i
 nature kill and appropriate, propert 7 to sustain life doesn't make them seer worse to me than man whc in thes is respects exceed them both in rapa J. etousness and cruelty. It is by alvin 'n decree that life has to live upon Tiff,
 and that life is only made continuou
 by seizures and the destruction ( ls life. The birds and the beasts an ,- mankind are all compelled to appre ,o priate and execute, and when it come ~ to waste of life. the killing for f,l
 instead of from necessity, man is tI
 Inf l. the woods, the hawks. the owls, tf as shrikes, the jays. etc. 7do to live iu. ne what man does. and how senseless
 we blame them
 toi How do you suppose the biri vel spread the news in days of stre. x- when their feeding places are snov
 bound, the brooks closed, and thu
 fbathe in the snow as some isrt
 cleanse themselves in sand, qrent "a their thirst by eating snow and near KS starye while in search of nonrisiaYnen an The starlings haunting the pear tre
 gave us notice recently we were n doing our duty, but when we east O r. food for them a great flock gather, s- and some of them were panting fro ia weakness and some of them actual at wobbled on their feet. one rolling u A' On it's side. as it took It's first foo
 They are coming daily now, and she
 no signs of weakness. Mixed see ed were put out for the seed loving btrt | ra @f