Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-02
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

per cent. more coarse breads and tnlr ty per cent. less fine; and sixty per cent, less sweets. is convincing thous- ands of people that life is just GLO- l RTOUS, who used to be douhtful under 1 the old regime whether life was hard l ly worth living. It is a trial to the 1 6onrmand although a manifest bless l ing. Most of us were never more phy- | sically or mentally fit. We do more l work with less fatigue, and what used to be regarded as the burden of age is discovered to have been the protests 1 of an overhurdened stomach! Friends 1 meet us and say: Never saw you looking better! What are you doing for yourself?" Just IIooveriZjng" is the reply, Building ourselves up while licking the kaiser!" We grow strong CT and he weakens. Young America always has in store fer us little surpriseg-evidences "the child is father Of the manp He is first joy and then student, and we do not always know who is his teach CT. It is not so long ago that an in- fant of less than four, the darling boy Of one of our officials, having been surprised by something which had taken place voiced his astonishrnent after this fashion: For the love ot Mike, How did that happen?'' It
 
 caught that, as it would have been | had he come down with the measles, | where he got them. This reminds me l of a little episode ;n another Ameri- can home where the language of the fatherland is rigidly maintained, and | the small children are taught to speaH ] their racial language in the family. | little girl of the family who had been
 to American schools less than year I GIT hnP costed her as usual when she came fin from school, with this: "Aw. Why don't you talk United States ," The parents were so pleased with the child's Americanism that they told Of
 it.
 l Do not find pleasure in having some 1 one pat you on the back, pat your self upon the back. If you can
 not get along without encouragement,
 self encouragement is the best, be- cause it is self dependence which is a great and dependable quality of chara cter. The reason so many peo- ] pie become discouraged in fife is be- cause they expect something thoy do not deserve, or want something they have no qualification for. He who 1 does work acceptabiy reeds no praise, tcr all he does praises him. Doing lit tie things well is the schooling which prepares a person to meet any exfgen- cy, and to do something great Of course, hot air artists get in the public eye but their name IS Ephemera-they
 are short lived The thing which
 counts in this life is harl work and
 hard headed thought. Strive to be the
 real thing, not a counterfeit.
 often wonder how many birds find
 food and comfort in my yard during
 f r round because 1 encourage them to come. and athey must number thou sands of visits during the year; and l they nest in the tree boxes put out , for them I am satisfied that the birds are very much smarter than the cats so few of them are caught. The young i robin is the victim of our domestic |, cats, because unlike other young birds ,, it ventures out when too weak to fly and were it not for the alarming cries
 of the old birds, the little hiding } birds would oftener escape. There art t several cats on the place and I do not [ believe they have averaged two bird: I year for 20 years. There are nov scores of birds in the yard feedins , every day, and the cats have caugh no birds since June. 1 watch then often trying to surprise an old robiI I or sparrow, but the birds are too war! e to be captured. Men and boys xii I more native birds than do all thei V other enemies. A bird is seldom of !, its guard.
 n To young man, or a young woman o 1 the habit of reading is a good habit
 l because properly done it is the way 0 1 intelligence, the way of self improve ment and self entertainment, an' . really one way of redemption. Tn nf tn i- h q winter season; and the number o D books read is of very much less i'm
 portance than the thoroughness o |, their perusal. Hugh Miller, who ham Il mered gospel out of the red sandstone F said: Upper and lower classes mus Q be as long as the world lasts; an 1t there is only one way in which jeal = ousy of them can be well directed: D Q not let them get ahead of you in in
 telligence!"~ Of all the worlds stone
 cutters he became the greatest becaus
 of his desire for knowledge, and hi
 mastery of a few books. People wh e read, as others play cards, simply fo :, a change of entertainment, discus authors and their characters in a ligh
 gossipy way, which is more fashion y able than purposeful. Knowing wh e you read and what you read will mak
 you distinguished.
 The third week in October the Jun n cos appeared in flocks as foragers r. suburban gardens. Earlier than usus
 by at least ten days, indicating coole L. weather at the north than usua l., These little clay -colored birds up { !, about 1S45 were known merely a
 snowbirds, or snow sparrows, bU
 some smart Alec had them named Jur le cos because they. were seed -eaters, 2 InNJ l. fitted the bird better and was tE
 name by which they had always bee n known by the people. The chickade is a snowbird, too, and the one vii < bird which has sufficient trust in ma '' to come and eat from his hand and 1
 light upon him to be fed. He is sue ie a roIlicking little fellow that soneor " has called him the little acrobat of u III winter woods. I must confess that le fancy him as my winter, favorite F
 is less of hobo than the Juncos ar s+ does not come to the back door for ~ handout in winter only when the fielt o1 and the trees are covered with sno Se and ice, while the Sparrows will con Of every day to the feeding tray if reg;
 larly set out.
 " Germany, who has violated h. m treaty obligations, trampled upon la h. and heSitated at no outrage-who h; al scoffed at sympathy and pity ar
 kindness as evidences of weakness, o, now trying to excitAin others she h;
 subjected to the most savage Urea as ment the Christian consideration f se kerself which she has secuted, al ng charged the world she has outrag,
 with not possessing. Recognizing h en own weakness she has dethroned Mig if and is appealing to Right for 2rote ,s ton as though she had not by n VI lack of honor and humanity closed u aA heart of the whole civilized Mor