Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-04
HOW TO SAW WOOD.

Dear Social Corner Friends: 1n-these days, when all want to talk at once, we see few who are content to say nothing and saw wood.''
 We have been keenly watching a thrifty Italian and his three sons hard at work saving large tree which was recently cut down in their back yard To be sure, most of their saw ing was done on the Sabbath, which to some would seem an unpardonable sin. Upon this I will not comment. It is of the strictly to business" way in which they worked that amused me. Think I can safely say the father spoke less than two dozen words in all the different times we watched him. The sons talked and laughed together some, but taken as a whole they proved about the best examples have seen for saying nothing and saving wood
 The wood is now all split and stored in their cellar and the mother did her bit, too, with the axe.
 Was it not Gladstone who said saw ] ing wood was the healthiest of exer- cises? So if we have the wood and need the exercise we ought to be thankful we are able to "say nothing and saw wood"
 Back to the thrifty Italian family: One day I asked the little girl if her mother went to the movies. There is a good lesson in the reply she gave. "Oh, no! She says if she went once 1 she might want to go too much. My 1 brother tells her all he sees when he | goes"
 ] There is, a word the Farmer in his | Talks to Farmers uses we seldom heal nowadays, and that word is "Gump- tion." If we use our ears and eyes we may discover a few who lack this great asset-'Gumption
 1 I was using my ears the other day
 as I had no one to talk to, and what
 heard may set you to pondering as i
 did me. Two women were discussins the case of newly wed couple. 'F
 saw by the paper Roy has been ac cepted. How does Gladys (meanins
 his. wife) take it? Will he go soon 9
 The reply was: Yes, he is going
 tomorrow, and Gladys acts like { spoiled baby. She wouldn't even speal to me when I was there the othe evening. She had just received tn news and went all to pieces. Of course
 I'm sorry for her; but I believe sh
 doesn't even try to make the best o
 things. She is only one of many wh
 have not yet awoke to the fact tha ] their suffering is no worse than tha
 of many others. If this war accom- lplishes nothing more, it will at leas show up the selfish individual to goo ; advantage.
 Recently I heard of two women liv , ing alone who had succeeded in hoard , ing 150 pounds of sugar. Their dig nity would undoubtedly be somewha , patriotic. Piggish is the best wor | tn aronIIr t0 c11oI1 Dd Tine Little Spinster's pen picture ( the photoplay Les Miserables wa l good I saw William Farnum in it an s story of a life of great suffering. 3 Every time 1 visit the movies I SC t things I don't like which are probabl
 the things someone else likes. s The rail-splitting president kne : what he was talking about when y said: You can please all the peep
 some of the time, some of the peep = all the time, but not all the people a s the time"
 t Hillside has learned lesson "
 should none of us miss: How to ove1 d come jolts. We get a good many ( y this journey, don't we, Sister Hil
 side?
 The editors little "echo" helped yt
 to come again, if I read alright b,
 tween the lines of your good lette
 Social Corner jolts never seem half 9. bruising as those we encounter ou '- side, if we can only feel the jolt is f l. the good of The Corner. is That "rebellious spirit" you spes ]. of is slumbering in most of us. VI L. may have to put up a hard fight l. keep it down q know I do som
 times), but after all it is only by ha. k fighting we may hope to banish the fc
 Best wishes to all.
 10 DREA MFR