Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS

dSSuCy TUT upIlII OI .D6uiSHlGQ pcOpIcS IS | the missionary enterprise, and our oldest | modern missionary society was founded 1 little over a century ago. This beau | tiful spirit to bring sunshine and joy into l the lives of the little folks living in con | gested city quarters is seen in the fresh l air mission in which the New York | Tribune is so deeply interested. About 60 | children are. said to have been placed in | Norwich homes. There is no finer illus | tration of practical Christianity than giv- | ing "a cup of cold water, in the name of a disciple,'' to one of these little ones. The fragile life of many a child-rnostly foreign born-has been saved by this noble work And it is doing much to offset the prejudice against us for our sins and omissions in other directions.
 Have you ever noticed that literary people even those who are clever enough to write great books, are very often mean spirited and selfish? They are very chary of the praise they give to one another, being outclassed in this respect only by aspiring prima donnas. Mary Russell Mitford-wfo certainly did not belong to this class-had this to say: q do not know one single poet who cares for any mans poetry but his own. In general they read no books except such as may be necessary to their own writings" The absolute ignorance in which Wordsworth lived of all modern works is proverbial, and his utter contempt of the rising Dickens reveals the quality of his spirit. Carlyle, who undoubtedly stands in the front rank of historians. was very grouchy when talking of the excellence of other historians. He sneered at every American writer save Emerson and few agnostics. Great fame and great person. alty do not always go together.
 Even our own Emerson, who was a truly great man, was in some respects narrow minded. For instance, in Rep resentative Men" he says '"The human mind would perhaps be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost-Say, in England, all but Shakespeare, Milton and Bacon, through the profounder study drawn to those wonderful minds When the Sage of Concord wrote those words | Scott, Thackery, Ruskin, Irving, Dickins, | Tennyson and Carlyle had gained fmn1or- | tality by their writings. Emerson says | his rule was never read any but famed 1 books Is this fair to new authors? How can a book become famed until it is read? | If people had never read any works but 1 Shakespeare Milton and Bacon, what | would have become of Emerson? We are | told that Emerson once inquired of for 1 mer president of Yale how many students | the college had Being informed that the
 
 | he remarked that probably a half dozen were worth educating" Let us thank ] God that college men can lead useful lives 1 if they are not identified with the finical | Bostonesque, suDerfine culture business. There are tliscou-a gements that are De- | culiar to hot weather, and as the latter l has come, we cannot escape the former. l One of the things that hardly anybody | escapes in July and August is that tired 1 feeling" which makes our daily toll irk- some. It probably does not show the ex- 1 istence of organic disease but is Natures way of telling us to let up for while | till the tired faculties get rested. In l other words, she tells us to take vaca- 1 tion. The preacher gets discouraged be- cause so many of his flock are spending | the week end at the seashore, and he speaks to vast Sahara of empty pews The doctor is upset because so many of his patients are getting well by substitut- i ing sea bathing for medicine. All profes- sional men and shopkeepers are in the same boat, but let us not feel that the l existing order of things is eternally | smashed by hot weather. September is a l great restorer.
 | Is that house of yours insured? If not, why not? The pathetic incident that hap ! pened in town adjacent to Norwich
 
 | ually somewhere: A workingman while | away from home and family was shocked to learn that the flames had made him I penniless. How hard it will be for that I man to get another start in life. He must 1 support himself, wife and several little 1 ones, before he can begin to build again | and with no insurance money as starter 1 what long. discouraging and apparently l hopeless task it is going to be Why 5o1, 7. I outlay of a few paltry dollars easily saved | (especially in this era of large wages) l each year such a tragic calamity can be | wholly averted? To believe, as some do that insuring property is distrusting the Il Creator is the creed of fanaticfsrn If , you haven't insured your proyerty, do it | now
 Wien you pack up your kit for the
 much needed vacation trip, what will it contain? The tennis racket, golf sticks, fishing tackle, possibly baseball bat Now that is very good. But is it a com plete outfit? Do you propoes to invigor- ate the body only? That mind of yours l has done you good service during the last
 twelve months, and aren't you going to . stimulate that also? Add to your luggage , just a few choice books such as Thoreau's
 Walden, A Yankee in Canada, Irving's
 Sketch Book and Walton's Complete An
 gler. Simply get your mental muscle UT
 to the level of your biceps AS you want to do with your muscles just the things
 that you have not been doing in your
 daily toll, so let the mind work along the
 unusual lines of thought. Rest is not SC.
 cured so much by cornpleet inaction as by
 changing the channels of operation. Just another thing, go to church Sunday morn ing, for this may be complete change Help ytlle poor, discouraged preacher in his
 small seaside church. This I just wl1is
 per in your ear.
 8 Seldom has history presented such pa = thetic human reversal as in the case o1
 ex-Empress Eugenie, whose death wa:
 recorded last month. The most "brillian a queen" and "handsonaest woman in Flu , rope" of the n1id-Victorian period has lat
 terly been called the most tragic crea
 ture in the world" She herself said tha
 ten centuries separated her from the gIo . rious days of youth. How suddenly wa
 the tinsel glitter of her imperial Parisia, si life plotted out Empire, husband, son
 home and reputation blighted in an 1T,
 credibly short time. and she was alIowe,
 as a fugitive to live in England becaus ? Victoria had a big heart.
 : But Eugenies life teaches us a grea lesson and that is where one is endowe
 with great talents and uses them he is ab
 to live long and be very influential. Eu B gerlie's 94 years were very active. Sh ? was profoundly versed in the politics Q y Europe, and kept up her interest to tn
 very last When the great war brok
 out we find her pale, rheumatic, lant '. bent over and nearly blind-this one : "handsomest woman in Europe" eivtI '' the use of her English palace for hospj