Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-21
THE MAN WHO TALKS.

It seems to be as necessary that man should play as that he should work or worship. This $ a play world to man first, and this primary habit is as es- sential to his well-being as any "a tional habit of life. It furnishes the stepping stones to every kind of amusement, and it is, apparent to the thoughtful that good anlusements keep the people from many kinds of vice., In his amuSementS man is far from being judicious as he is in most everything else; but amusement is like sunshine to the weary. It is not so long ago the church believed all amusements to be of the devil. but since he is the father of no good thing this exclusive honor has been denied to. him. Many amuse- ments edify as well as entertain the | observing.
 Have you thought of the Thus far | and no farthers' in nature-man can 1 fly few thousand feet into the air, 1 he can drill few hundred feet into the
 earth, he can dive between one and | two hundred feet into the water. In strength his endurance is the measure | of his health and ability. Weakness both checks him and impairs fim-to overlo is to be undone. The laws of l nature hold him as rigidly to his I sphere as they do to theirs the ant or
 the bee. Excess is the natural check 1 upon us. Exertion is mans life pre- 1 server. When We outdo discretion we 1 become patients for the physicians and l a burden to ourselves. Too much light | too much food. too much. noise. too much work, too much play impair us | Some people are always asking to be excused. but if they realized how little
 responsibility there is in excuses they
 would make them much less common. sl r., l of hypocrisy. For hundreds of years faults have been. made to appear worse, as Shakespeare says, by the excuses made for them. Ben Franklin used to say ::He who is good at n1ak- ing excuses is usually good for nothing else" This is one of, the bad habits
 perpetuated by. good. society, and an excellent thing to avoid. Excuses are the outcome of intent oftener than of l necessity.
 The moral leper we hear often de- cried, but he is saint compared to 1 the man who pretends to serve God in order to cheat his fellown1en. The hypocrite is engaged in a confidence game which beats himself the. worst; and he belongs to those who are saints l when abroad and devils at home. He
 is never as invisible to his felloWmen
 as he thinks he, is. in the church or
 outside of it. These, Dr. Jekylls and Mir. Hydes may frequently beat men, but they cannot beat the devil. In the
 world they are Princes. of. Selhshness
 but in the end they are stokers for His
 Satanic Majesty They know them
 selves, and the meanness of their oc- cupation, but they seldom whimper until they are caught
 Do you know it takes a dahiia three years and a peony five years to estab- l hsh their character and become de-
 pendable as a commercial product
 The color question in dahlias is often
 settled by a fierce conflict as to which |, color shall predominate. and not unti the color has held for three years is il regarded as dependable. The dahfs : makes a flower the first year, but the 5 peony does not make a flower unti ) the third and not infrequently il ) comes single for two years and on tht f fifth becomes permanently double. Int conflict of color is not so manifest il the peony as in the dahlia, nor are the 3 plants so likely to rogue and destro!
 their identity,
 : The other day I saw an Englisl ] sparrow with a snow white throa { which exceeded in expanse and beaut! n the throat of the passenger white . throated sparrows who nest and breet
 lnelE 1d1 EOItH O1 us. IL IS HUH = ing strange to see English sparrow e marked with white. but the cause 0 = all this white marking cannot be du 6 to atavism, whatever else may be it F cause and it is too common to be re = garded as an albino trend. It is doubt o less due to cross breeding, or the i'm | purity of the species: and since the
 inhabit the same territory as tn . white throated sparrow it would no o be strange if they cross-bred wit if them. The white spots on the Englis o sparrow are not accidental
 n Perhaps the reason we do not un :. derstand Nature is because we do no V know the needs of earth, or the need . of ourselves, and have no way, c 6 finding them out. It was Pascal wh d discovered Nature initiates herself. 0 grain thrown into good ground bring l. forth fruit: a principle thrown int e a good mind brings forth fruit. Every o thing is created and conducted by tn . same Master-the root. the branch, tn = fruits-the principles the conse .! !quences." Nature is never invitin et to the dolt, but she is to the schofa n who finds her inexhaustible and a j. much of puzzle as "the age of Ann. e Her cycles are really too long and hu is man life too short for man to get I, grip upon her symbolisms and mani '4 festations of power.
 if had nothing to trail after m
 but my ancestral distinction I shoul
 feel poor. indeed. Our life is nc
 measured by the life of our ancestor. It but by the life of ourselves If the -e have honored us by their worth, it i
 up to us to show that we are worth
 of them. It is more important to b .s an ancestor than to have an ancestor ., just at it is more worth while to b
 T good for something than to be goo
 by profession. Those who have mer
 it of their own do not have to borro7 'e merit of the dead. We must shin r. because of our ovse1 virtues, not be 10 cause of the character of those wh
 preceded us. The descendants O
 Shakespeare still live, but they ar s- so humble they are not readily found le and in their humility may be found l. heavenly character.
 Do you know there, is, as much diff
 ference between a will and a wish a d there is between strength and weak II ness? The will is the builder r. character, and the winner. of success .s It is the starch of naniiness, tn o. generator of energy. It iseso closel
 related to ambition, that ambitio " would amount to nothing without i os You cannot be any more or any bel d ter than your will makes you. Tn ce from Longfellow is good new thousl
 or Christian science: "To will whs
 God wills is the only science that giv.