Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-29
THE MAN WHO TALKS

not been observing musical mice put the common house mouse. who would be tame and friendly like the squirrels if we would tolerate him. We all know the whistling language of the guinea pig. but we are rys st of us ignorant of the birdlike twitIerings of mice with young. Some of their tintr ings are so clear and sweet that have been to the window looking for bird wit ha new note. If took quite While and close observation to learn that a nest of mice were capable of making as many musical sounds as a nest oL fedslings with their parents: and am sure they made more distinct sounds than Darwin's dog, to whose credit he placed forty five. The talk of mice. everyday mice, though mostly soft and low. is agreeably musical, ana noW and then they give g note Ike a sparrow's call! k
 Since some people claim. that voices have color, what do you suppose the color of your voice is? have long been convinced that the human volce is capable of producing more sounds than the violin; and that in it from crudeness to refinement is a long dis tance Some human voices are as raucous as the yell of a blue jay, and some are as soft and musical as the
 
 voice of the lark The voice that. is s.steel- gray like the thin edge of a scimitar, without a pink tone in it, /" must be rather cutting; while the voice which is fred mixed with purple" rep resenting t'violets. and .wine,". must be rather intoxicating. Perhaps it is the green, color in our voices which make us appear fresh, or a yellow streak in the voice of the man who is always talking of $-s honesty, which. makes 1s regard him as a rogue. Too many of US are too easily an- moved The doctors tell us it is nerves but they would be just as near the | truth if they told us it was non sense I wonder what most of them wou1ds dc l if, like Peter Sehlemihl, they. should l lose their shawod! How do you sup pose any of us would feelrif we did not see shadow tagging us by day sor two shadows. one before and. one behind | produced by the electric lights ai night? Don't yeu think even the. eartf enjoys it's shadow more because it ob- scures the moon, than from any othel 1 cause, except the fact that it can per form such a feat 250,0e0 miles away and how should we feel if sherlest it eYou may have noticed, everybody get weary if kept too long in the shadow
 
 | compared with the shadow of 8 eloudet
 mind? There are shadows we -coulC lose their shadows How do you sup | sadly miss. t t | An optimist must be the person whi thinks that three blades of grass an,
 yard of blue sky are enough for hap
 pinessi" It makes some difference though, whether these are seen earl
 in October or late in March, or wha
 is coming after. But this, is only on
 way of looking at it; for one shoul
 be happy to think he has eyes to SC
 and brains to interpret the, meaning , and there is in the fact ofe is aliy
 and well enough to even observe il
 reason for giadness of heart. There
 more in three blades of grass and
 yard of blue sky"- than most of u realize, for there is food for though ! of the Creator and His works, and ma and his relation to sthem- The aferag man takes too many things as, a mat ter of course; and he regards too man } things as being common which ar , among the most wonderful.
 We are told that ''the naughty al 7 always the victims of their own ras . conclusions" and this can as truly | II said of the selfish, or the irrationa
 The laws of cause and effect act upo all of us every day. You have notice ? iperhaps, that the hog grunts wit : comfort and grows fat and at last ge' : the knife. The human hog may not gi I the knife, but. he is denied by an ur :. written law the joys and comfor :, which reward those who have bros Il interest in the affairs of life. and al moved ibyaloye and sympathy for the 0 fellow men. Man can violate with in = punity the laws man has made, b1 i there, is no lodging the effect of vii f lating any of the laws God has mad
 It is just as necessary we should stut
 the laws of our being as the Ten Con y mandments, and the knowledge 0 these laws will be just ITS profitable. n How appetite beguiles man! Fro c being our servant. how easily appeti e becomes master and man its slay
 There are ten times as many gou S mands as drunkards, and overeati1 'e makes more invaiids than overdrinlxil does drunkards. America is a land - dyspeptics because it is a land e plenty and excessive indulgence Ter d peranc6 puts restraint upon appeti 2 in every direction also upon spec l. and action: The intemperate fill t x, hospitals and the jails. and intempe y anee is responsible for the larger pa v of invalidisrn It is not the good thin IL we dream of that disturb us and T VI quire us to call the doctor, but t l. good things which come into the di
 ing room and become a part of t
 family" The banquet table is too (
 ten the table of death Too many De
 pie eat when they are not hungry. a a invite misery the physician cam le easily cure. Long life is to those "
 live tenperately in all things. 9f
 America first!" Is the, sIoaan.s a it our country first, is the sentiment I'd man in all civilized countries on ear
 whatever the compact or the preten
 The first interest. of all people is fl
 Tor themselves and their interests. W ig can imagine John Bull or any of f t. contending nations being in favor
 the promotion of Americanisr. whi
 IS in disfavor with every governrne m which denies the sovereignty of m ,g and the rule of democracy It takes
 extraorqlnerE power of perception
 see that internatienaiism does not
 any way strengthen Americanisnn re promote a larger freedom in the wo III for mankind The American flag a . American principles cause no tn
 except of suspicion and fear amo l- the ruling classes of Europe and th ed would delight te know that which th or aiiese Is true, that democracy is
 failure. @;t4
 What do you suppose our great ar responsibility is as individuals? Tn or IS nothing that effects us. more SC
 ously than what wes think! If 0e never give expression to our thouei
 they may ruin us. There are thong which elevate and Which depress o, he and the thoughts we iridulge in u on bring us great influence and pow ho or an equal amount of@disrespect a
 the poorhosfse. Threugh the action
 the mind you or can think oursei to out Of harmony Into. discord in e. hour; Or out of peace ,te condition