Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-27
THE MAN WHO TALKS

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 I wonder why it would, not be just as well to talk of the plant-like quail | tiesvof man., as the human qualities of | plants? Because plants eat, drink and sleep, smell, taste and feel hunt, fight | and kill each other, their qualities are simply animal qualities, and when it comes to drawing the line between the lowest plant and animal life scientists | have been balked-they cannot for sure tell which is which. It is known that orchids sense peril, never locate upon trees below the flood line, and transfer themselves to a stronger limb when their weight weakens the one on which they first located It is con- tended by the leading scientists that some plants have eyes. Mans divis- ions of Gods creatures are still crude,
 We all know it is very impolite thing to ask lady her age, hence in this day of woman suffrage the court has ruled that it will be satisfied if oath be made that she is over 21 years of age In order to avoid this squeam- iShneSS in relation to a natural fact why not adopt the custom of the an cient Greek women who when wed annulled the years back of them and commenced to figure life from their wedding day, hence their nuptial in- fancy did not end until ten years wed, and their nuptial youth when twenty. In this way a woman of 50 or more might be called a middle aged woman. But here's the rub: They would not become of voting age until they were actually 40 or more.
 Some folks join so many civic so- cieties that they become known as "jiners,, just as a certain class of people who are conspiring to get into society in which they are not wanted are popularly marked as climbers; and most of them do not know that the
 more one combines the less he is of an individual, and the more a collective unit. engaged in building up the few at the expense of the many. It is nice to be a force if you are not reduced to mere cog in the wheel. Of course, the cog is a part of the machinery, so is the gudgeon grease, but it is well to be where one may shine instead of where one may grind. Too many ties make an end of freedom.
 At last, through photography we have been shown a picture of the sun which was 93 million miles away; and instead Of being a ball of fire it seems l to be a very respectable if seamy i globe, capable of queer antics. When
 last observed there was seen project | Ing from it column thirty thousand 1 miles wide, and 2S0 seconds high, or ! eighteen million, six hundred thous- l and miles high. This glowing globe
 as it appears to us, is eight hundred l thousand miles in diameter; but in
 size, it is, to Ai'cturus, the great sun around which it takes it's course once | in forty thousand years, it is relatively 1 as much bigger than the sun as the sun is larger than the earth, with a diameter of 25 12 million miles There are big things overhead.
 How do You suppose some people look twenty years younger than other!
 at the same age? It is not becaust l they have had more trials in life. bu
 it is doubtless true that they hay, fl worried less. There is a. great dea
 of useless fretting in life over matter
 of little consequence. It is said tha
 neither the man nor the woman eve Il grows old who has a child in thei heart. The heart is a good place t,
 keep song instead of a thorn I
 makes no difference if the snow o 1 age never melts since the glow of
 glad heart can give it a gleam tha
 would make it become an angel Ol,
 age at its. worst is sorry sight, e
 it behooves us to so live that ther will be a smile left at the end -insteai
 of a grimace. No man is older tha1 T he feels, it is said. but many a ma is older than he looks.
 When we teach man what love is h
 will become conscious that it is DOS sible for him to love the Lord with al his heart and his neighhor as himsel It is strange, but true, that it is muc t easier to tell what love isn't tha
 what 1t is. Love is not laIlagaggine
 and yet as we see it demonstrate sometimes, it might be risky to den that it is insanity. First of all lov , is service-it gives itself and is nc : bought. It grows out of a conscious ? ness of the loved one,s worth, an 3 ones own feelings of esteem. Trl1 Il love never runs smooth it is said an h although, it begins often in friendshi al it never ends in that way. It is some . thing which cannot for long sail un
 i mutually true it is the crown of hu 3 man bliss.
 One thing the Prince of Wales sai was one reason he was glad he wa ? back in London was, that he didn q have to pretend he was dry. wbic a was equivalent to saving he could li1 : honestly there, which he could not ( F on this side of the Atlantic. We car . not charge him with falsehood. ar ' we should not think of insinuatir e that he was alone. There is too muc = pretense in the life of all nation e which if eliminated would greatly In e prove human life. Any law whic # creates state of false pretense is d questionable value as a moral fore q while it's restrictive value is open = criticism. Prohibition is a natural r 10 action from the loose way in whit
 our saloon system was run. Let
 hope that the demoralizing saloon sy
 tenn will never be resumed.
 Ie You hear some people talking of u to big four in Washington. just as thu
 talked of the big four in Paris durir
 the war. Let us hope that our b Id four recognize that they are servan al of the people, not their masters! I 0 is a weak statesman who thinks hir
 self greater than the people who ma
 him their representative The big fo th will have to be careful how they II h the power that has been delegated
 them, or they will soon be lost amor
 the unmentionables. Rule or Ruin
 the last resolve of tyrant and sn fool; and it is the signal they are se longer fit to rule. Abuse of power l. what has cost the world 200 biIlio
 in money and ten million lives! A,
 history repeats itself!
 h. Do you realize that nine-eenths at our troubles are of our own makir e. Many people are poor all throu
 their lives not because they did II
 earn enough, but because they did I o save enough. We have known mi en year in have an e9fsta tstsVet ct so useI sooo ne $20,o0o; and we have known profe
 sional men with no bad personal ha