Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-03

, ly, in the fact that the same thing may, be perfectly clean when it is where it belongs, and yet have all the symp- toms and effects of dirt when it gets where it does not belong.
 It has often been said that a weed is simply a plant out of place. We farmers fight weeds as the neat house. wife fights dirt. Clover and timothy are weeds in my onion bed. And wild onions are weeds in my moving land.
 strange such a difference should
 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedle- dee'',
 round it. All we can do is to call the clover weed and pull it out from among the onions. or call the onions weeds and pull them out from among the clover.
 Similarly sand may be the whitest and ''cleanest" sand that ever mortar maker used in his bod. But it's dirt when mixed .sTith, sugaE
 ], The soH rsaykhe inS:tself as clean as cana be, but It's dirt when it is snae ared over a clean able cloth-or gathers under ones finger-T ai1s.
 sincerely wanted to believe my customers kindly defense of dirty hands. yesterday: I've Iea-'y spent a sicion Like all other fae:ners. I have to use my hands for sforks and shcvels and trowels and hoes and oth- CT things every day. have to stick them into all sorts ssof places and handle all sorts of substances. If | could only feel that the stains and smears and grime which attach to them in, course of, time were not really dirty" it would be a very great re- lief
 7ut, somehow, in spite of my best cndea vors. I can't quite get to that. Certa inly, she was right in saying that the earth of the s5il fs. not filthy. In itself. it is just as clean as anything else in nature. But it doesn't seem clean when it makes a black deposit under my fnGer-nails er .5smears the backs of ,fny hands sors~grimes itself infe thes ca i1gttg E sgaslss 1z gf the palms clea p:-.it- isspst. sl9a1lea FfA the skindly attepapts Of all the. piceamorssilem ia the world won't make Tt clean. It's just like sand in the sugar. Both are who mixes them together gets a Dutch blessing from his customers When soil is, in the place where it be- lonsss growing cucumbers. and corn and cabbage, it isn't dirty in any true sense But when it's on a mans hands ar a. woman's hest ta ble- Cloth. :. it's a different thing. It's out of place When plant is. out of place it is a weed When matter is out iof place it becomes dire--or something so near it 9~ to be scarcely distinguisha ble.
 We shall have to- keep on calling, it dirt and let it 90 at that
 But We farmers simply have to work and get. more or less. of it on our hands and our clothes. What then Must we be ashamed of our hands and -cie' hes for tha F mason ?s..-
 Tho other night, during a speAch ahout the war and his part in it. 2 dis t5"GII'she eh- cfFe'-. .Xhoa shoars five ehran- r-' v-e,'~d1 f-i IFS batlrs -And who hac 'n" rieht t0 wear. nv r-a ndals ,l-,1 ?. i''fo1% a@'e~S hi- h-east s de steppeI 7-7 t'.' rfa [, on to interieet he rer7 ril= ''-'. T lias'-'- cr1~ca to take off .-v Why" ea'd he. sfhere was one 4inoa -h"fsl ] hadn't a chance to take off my hoor~ nr change my undershirt for 1'cre han two weeks. I used to think t1GN I must have my bath every -'7o~nine. Ofhe- soldiers were just a.s bad off as I But our general health was never better"
 All of which he said with a smile while the audience stirred somewhat Hneasily- You and don't want to have tO go two weeks without a chance to take" our boots off or have a wash-up. I don't believe he really wants to again. But the dirt which We accumulate at our tasks isn't aft CT all. as foul and as defIing as FlaHd.Ts trench mud
 Anyway, no matter how unpleasant t may be to the look Or to the feel it is honest dirt. honestly acquired.
 So long a S hay must be eatfereii nd harned so long the farmer is likely TO get hayseed in his hair He can usually brush it out. when he gn.s through the job. So long as the ru- man races living must be won out A V A