Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-17
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Think of a father cursing his son or | a mother calling her daughter "a worthless jade!" Harsh words said | by parents to children have wrecked l them for life. The words of impa- tience cut like knife. Impatience i is loss of self control, or in other |
 words reign of insanity which every human soul has power to prevent The power. Of impatience for evil is
 almost beyond comprehension. Jer-
 emy Taylor pictured it thus: "Im-
 patience turns an ague into a fever,
 a fever to plague, fear into despair, anger into rage. loss into madness
 and sorrow to .anlaZement." In the
 family patience is good example
 and impatience bad one. The Chi
 nese mind from observation wrought
 this proverb Patience is power;
 with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk
 If you were never interested enough : in flowers to grow seedlings you are still unaware of the wonder and joy of new creations in horticulture The
 joy of newly marked flower which
 may be attained every year is worth
 working for; and the excitement
 which follows the production of 8 ) new type is simply intoxicating. have grown mere than a thousand seeding dahiias in the past twenty
 years and have found much pleasure
 in the novel and pleasing results.
 The other day lady boarded a troll ley car in which 1 was riding with
 magnificent cactus dahlia in her hand, the biggest, waxiest petalled,
 cleaning, golden -hued cactus dahlia ever saw. It seemed to be a veri-
 table 'Kohinur" or Star of the
 table Kohinor or Star of the
 south" or Great Mogul" among dahlias as these stones are ranked among diamonds. l could not help
 when he saw first burst upon his sight from a seed such a floral won
 der-sucn a miracle of beauty. The jspirit of transmutation which put such grace and beauty into the flower of } a new plant must be similar in power , to genius in man.
 had the pleasure and the honor . of being up among the green nleun- ] tains of Eastern New York, popularly
 known as the Berkshires," with The , Farmer in July. and we had a won derfully good time. I 60 no know which is the most entrancing sight,
 the golden bordered green hills in the : early morning or the glory of the sun upon the hills later as the day = advances? Did you ever see a l thunder shower a-forming?" in , quired "The Farmer" of me late one
 afternoon. Such a phenomenon Of
 nature l assured him 1 had never witnessed. He pointed out above a mountain to the Eastward a black | cloud of moderate size which was | taking on size and depth of color. = Every irop of mist" said he "cen- : tains one or more electrons and when : the cloud has drawn to itself q su-
 perabundance of positive or nega-
 tive electrons it will immediately pro-
 eeed to equa1ize its forces and will }. announce it's character. Well this 2 dense black cloud began to spread 1. itself over miles of snace perhaps, ' which to us only seemed to be acres,
 and when to the eye it looked as } broad as g hundred acre field a peal e of thunder left 10 doubt that it was
 born; and about 10 correct it's errors; e then away it went into the Connecti-
 cut river valley on it's wet and fiery entourage. It was indeed a sight e worth seeing.
 .r A writer recently called attention n to the fact that clever peonle are al ' ways worth their money," It is s clever who are not. This is because l. they haven't a clear vision of what s. cleYerneSs really is. To really be l. clever a person must be quick Of un ;s derstandipg. must be like the man Ia who carried the message to Garcia 70 Cleverness is. the quality which is p the foundation Of success. It is ex- E pressed in adaptability, the power te
 meet and overcome eGgencies oi F. crises. Clever people are not com >e mon-they are superior, for they have 3r to be equal to all demands put upor ,e them hence they are worth all i Df costs to command their services "A You may have heard some one say ~ "Pd as soon be called a fool IS tt 'n be called clever" This is really { = fools conception of the meaning O ld the word. CleVerness is really akin tt g. genius, and if you are clever you art le always worth the salary paid you
 It is necessary to be a good mike 7e to fully enjoy life and we should talk a. the thrills as they come and pay a. :, little heed as possible to the shocks y The violations of the conVentionalitie :" and various other things neither agre
 with ouI tastes nor command our com
 mendation, but we are not compelle'
 to express our condemnation, whicl ,,+ of itself might be of little impor
 tance to others and no satisfaction t ID us. It is a mistake to fail to recog ee nize that we differ greatly in ou
 opinions upon ethical as well as poll ve ical and religious subjects, and tha n- none of us have commissions as regu ,,u ldt0rs. We are not obliged to tolerat any thing wicked or vile or vulgar lls but there is such resiliency to huma al, life that it is self correcting in man he respects, and will do so without in
 reference or direction from any on
 The Lam -holier- than thou -attitud lsi usually does more harm than gooC he Good intent is often a disturber of tn da peace and subject to fiisresneet
 'ts If through the trials of this war W e. are thoroughly taught self denial
 will be & blessing to all of our peo
 pie. It is one Of the most essentif II Christian qualities; and if practice ile would make our blessings more abur
 dant. He is indeed a brave soldie K who battles his own faults to preserv to- hts virtues. Those who think the
 are getting something for nothing i ,ce life are failure, for we get in lii <, what we earn as we earn it. fol IF every duty brings it's peculiar deligh 'al every denial it's appropriate comper
 sation and every thought its recon de pense' What we do is of more re- var value to us than what we posses ,gs Money cannot even ward off povert
 since if we, are spiritually poor VI ,n- have missed the riches which nal n secure the soul. There was never H greater truth spoken than this fro 1c- Confucius: "He who wishes to secu
 the good of others has already s' arc cured his own"
 OH Seif-inepection we are told is ti en- best cure for self esteem. Dissati
 faction with self esteem Dissati ,ri- sciousness we need repairs. and is be inspiring factor in self-improvemer
 It is of more importance to us